Industry
Howard Geltzer, Who Helped Launch The Sony Walkman, Dies
Howard Geltzer, who, with his wife, led the boutique Geltzer & Company public relations agency that helped launch Sony’s Walkman and other breakthrough consumer...
Motorola
Appliances
2024-2025 Global Top Brands Award Ceremony Launched During CES
Leading manufacturers, traders, and elites in the global consumer electronics industry gather to celebrate the triumphs of the world’s top consumer electronics brands.
Products
Motorola Phones Could Be Banned In The U.S. After Judge Issues Ruling
It's all to do with 5G patents
CTA
CTA Centennial Part 6g (1985-2000): Platform Wars – HDTV (Part 1)
Everyone watching modern TV – 2K standard HDTV, 4K, and 8K – is watching a bona fide miracle
CTA
CTA Centennial Part 5d: A Decade of Disruption – 1984 ‘Phones It In’
While we wouldn't be caught dead without a phone on our person today, we can thank the 80s for our current telecommunication lifestyles
CTA
CTA Centennial Part 4: The Sixties
The fourth in a series of essays exploring and celebrating CTA’s and our industry’s first century of invention, innovation, and entrepreneurship
Products
Smartphones 2024: Can Independent Retailers Get In The Business?
Are foldables still “the next big thing” vendors have hoped they’d be?
Products
Happy 50th Birthday To The Cellphone
Motorola executives made the first cellphone call on April 3, 1973, after a crash six-month development process - but a scheduled celebratory anniversary gala...
Products
Tom’s Guide Report: Motorola Razr 5G
The new Motorola Razr is out now, and cheaper than ever. Here's what you need to know
Products
Consumer Cellular Announces Expanded Partnership With Target
Wireless carrier takes over space previously occupied by Verizon in nearly 1,500 Target store locations
Smartphones/Tablets
The New Moto Razr Is So Futuristic It’s Now Been Delayed
Expected to arrive in the not-too-distant future
Products
7 Mobile Companies That Dominated The Bandwidth In 2018
Placeholder products precede the revolution to come.
Products
Lenovo Looking To Lasso Mid-Tier Mobile Market With Moto G6
Lenovo looking to lasso mid-tier mobile market with Moto G6
Products
Motorola Staging A Smartphone Intervention
The Moto maker asks, "Do you own your phone or does your phone own you?"
news
Motorola Tries To Beat iPhone 8 & Note 8 To The Punch With Z2 Force & Moto Mod Ecosystem
On the heels of last month’s Moto Z2 Play and additional modular add-ons, Motorola today unveiled its new flagship, the Moto Z2 Force Edition,...
news
Verizon’s Droid Franchise A Little Less Exclusive
Verizon’s Droid franchise is losing a little bit of its exclusivity in the U.S. with yesterday’s launch of the latest Motorola-made Droid phones. Verizon...
news
Lenovo Attaching Its Brand To U.S. Smartphones
Lenovo will bring the first smartphones under its own brand to the U.S. to complement sales of Moto-branded phones that it has been offering...
news
Motorola Goes Modular With Moto Z Droids For Verizon
Motorola joined the short list of companies launching or planning smartphones that can be upgraded and customized via optional modules, joining LG’s recently launched...
news
Motorola’s G Series Of Smartphones Has Triplets
Lenovo’s Motorola is expanding its fourth-generation G series of affordably priced Android smartphones to three SKUs from one with the introduction of the Moto...
news
Fitbit Still On Top But Losing Share To Apple
Global wearable-device shipments, including basic wearables and smart watches, rose more than 67 percent in the first quarter to 19.7 million units, with Fitbit...
news
Unlocked Smartphone Market Keeps On Growing
U.S. unlocked smartphone shipments grew 140 percent in the U.S. to a record 14.6 million units in 2015, and sales will grow another 58...
Financial
Lenovo Profitable Again Despite Falling Sales
Lenovo returned to profitability in its fiscal third quarter following one-time second-quarter restructuring charges and an 8 percent decline in year-over-year revenues. Although revenues...
news
Star Wars Themed Droid Turbo 2 Comes To Verizon
Star Wars fans can buy a limited-edition Droid Turbo 2 by Motorola with custom-made designs inspired by one of five different characters from Star...
news
Samsung Smartphone Sales On Upswing Again
Samsung’s global smartphone shipments rose in the third quarter for the first time in six quarters, but its share slipped slightly in part because...
news
Motorola’s 1st Retail Store Might Not Be Its Last
Smartphone-maker Motorola is opening up its first retail store, joining such tech companies as Apple and Microsoft in operating brick-and-mortar sales outlets. Motorola is...
news
Verizon Refreshes Droid Franchise With Turbo 2, Maxx 2
Verizon refreshed its Droid phone lineup with the launch of the Motorola-made Droid Maxx 2 and Droid Turbo 2, whose screen is promoted as...
CES-2016
New Mobile Devices, Streamer On Way From Google?
New Nexus-branded smartphones, a new Nexus-branded tablet and a new Nexus streaming-media player could be in store from Google on Sept. 29, when it...
Financial
Motorola Smartphone Sales Fall 31%
Hong Kong – Sales of Motorola smartphones fell 31 percent in Lenovo’s fiscal first quarter ending June to 5.9 million units, parent Lenovo reported....
Financial
Lenovo Reports Q4 Motorola Sales Rise
Hong Kong – Motorola smartphone shipments grew 23.6 percent in the fourth quarter ending March 31 to 7.8 million units compared to the year-ago...
CES-2016
History Of The Smart Watch
The smart watch is a concept that harkens back to the era when pagers were a top-selling mass-market consumer electronics product. Here’s a look...
news
Motorola Brings LTE To $149 Unlocked Price
Chicago – Motorola brought its price for an unlocked LTE smartphone down to $149 with the launch of the second-generation Moto E. The phone, which ...
Financial
Lenovo Raises Mobile Share As Motorola Sales Soar
Hong Kong – Motorola’s smartphone shipments jumped 188 percent to more than 10 million in Lenovo’s fiscal third-quarter ending December, boosting Motorola sales to...
CES-2016
Survey: iPhones Grab 50% Share Of Q4 U.S. Phone Sales
Chicago – The strength of Apple’s iPhone launches last September boosted its share of cellphones sold in the U.S. to 50 percent in the...
CES-2016
AT&T Stuffing Stockings With Smart Watches, Phones, Camera
Dallas — AT&T is gearing up for the holiday season with the launch of the Moto 360 and LG G Watch R smart watches,...
Blogs
Phone Vendors Follow Carriers Into Tumultuous Times
Intensified competition among wireless carriers is going hand-in-hand with more intensive competition among smartphone suppliers. Smartphone, tablet and PC maker Lenovo completed its acquisition...
Financial
Lenovo Completes Acquisition Of Motorola
Research Triangle Park, N.C. — Computer, tablet and smartphone maker Lenovo completed its acquisition of Motorola Mobility from Google and will operate Motorola as...
news
Droid Turbo Gets XLTE, 4K Capture, Fast Charging
Basking Ridge, N.J. – Verizon’s next-generation Droid-brand phone, available Oct. 30 through direct and indirect channels, will be the carrier’s first Droid with dual-band...
news
Google Unveils Lollipop Devices, TV Streamer
Mountain View, Calif. – The first phone and tablet with Android 5.0 Lollipop OS will be the Motorola-made Nexus 6 smartphone with 6-inch display...
news
Motorola Unveils Next Letters In Smartphone Alphabet
Chicago — Motorola unveiled its second-generation Moto X and Moto G Android smartphones, increasing the screen size of both models and the processor speed...
Industry
Motorola Makes Management Changes
Chicago — Rick Osterloh, promoted to president/COO of Motorola Mobility earlier this year, is making major management changes. “These changes ensure that our leadership...