Breaking: Google Buys Motorola Mobility For $12.5 Billion

[Zain Adeel]

Google going to UP the GAME with android now.

These next 2 3 years will define where CELL PHONEs will be heading.

Also.. if they wont become tablets or vice versa.

very interesting...

WP7 needs another big update after Mango. But more so new sets to compete with the Android Variety.

iPhone is gonna be out of the game if they dont come up with something new.

[neufuse Veteran]

Why would Google buying them make them any less trust worthy?

This does nothing to Motorola, MOT is not MMI, of which MMI is what google bought

[Zain Adeel]

Why would Google buying them make them any less trust worthy?

exactly..

it will make it better.

Google will address issues faster. And it will result in better sets and better stability and performance of their software on the devices.

[ToneKnee]

This does nothing to Motorola, MOT is not MMI, of which MMI is what google bought

Yeah, good job pointing that out, I forgot about that. Still doesn't make the company any less trust worthy though.

[FMH]

Well I guess I won't be buying any more Motorola products -- a brand I used to trust. :(

Google is your friend. You don't like it when Google makes love to your data?

[Bioran]

Why not? Google didn't buy motorola, they bought the mobile division of motorola, which they where trying to jeteson for years

I thought there were two Motorola's? Motorola Solutions and Motorola Mobility? Aren't they both as "valid" versions of Motorola since it's clearly two companies split? 0.o

[neufuse Veteran]

I thought there were two Motorola's? Motorola Solutions and Motorola Mobility? Aren't they both as "valid" versions of Motorola since it's clearly two companies split? 0.o

the story starts out as "Google buys motorola" which is the main company (MOT) sounds like they bought the whole thing not just MMI

[Teebor]

I was all excited at first what with a lot of Motorola's wireless tech but now I see its just their mobility side I'm not quite so interested.

[Vice]

I wonder if Google will take the Droid brand and run with it. At the moment Google phones are called Nexus so I'm wondering perhaps if Google will just start calling any phone that they make a Droid that runs Android. Similar to how Apple has the iPhone that runs iOS.

I think this is a great move for Google and Motorola and will serve Android very well in the coming years.

[Dane]

Maybe this means their phones will actually get updated, and might be a true android ui.

[DocM]

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-08-15/google-agrees-to-acquisition-of-motorola-mobility-for-about-12-5-billion.html

Google Inc. (GOOG), maker of the Android mobile-phone software, agreed to buy smartphone maker Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. for $12.5 billion in its biggest deal, gaining mobile patents and expanding in the hardware business.

Motorola shareholders will get $40 a share in cash, the companies said in a statement today. That?s 63 percent more than Motorola Mobility?s closing price on the New York Stock Exchange on Aug. 12. Both boards have approved the takeover.

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[Ironman273]

https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1018690-breaking-google-buys-motorola-mobility-for-125-billion/

[DukeEsquire]

This does nothing to Motorola, MOT is not MMI, of which MMI is what google bought

Motorola was split into Motorola Mobility (phones) and Motorola Solutions (equipment provider) in 2008.

They are both independent companies.

[Beyond Godlike]

This could mean exciting things, anything to crush apples face imo...

[Boz]

Regulatory approval is going to be tough.

Not really.. Nortel patent bid was a diversion and a deliberately clever move by Google to do exactly that. To give them ammo with DoJ for this to be approved.

Not only Nortel patents didn't really have a lot of mobile patents to begin with, Google screwed all of them by going after something it really didn't want. The Motorola deal has been in motion most likely before Nortel bid took place.

Larry Page is one mean businessman. Google just kicked all of their asses and got almost 20,000 (17,000+ existing and 3500 new ones waiting for approval) patents that are specifically in mobile industry.

Great take on this:

http://realdanlyons....n-it-applesoft/

[TDQuiksilver]

Maybe this means their phones will actually get updated, and might be a true android ui.

You do understand that often times it's the carrier that delays updates... right?

[Growled Member]

I think this is a great move for Google and Motorola and will serve Android very well in the coming years.

I think so too. Google really pulled one on the entire mobile industry with this one. Google is now a player.

[kenetik]

Wow thats nuts.

[Webbster]

I wonder if Google will take the Droid brand and run with it. At the moment Google phones are called Nexus so I'm wondering perhaps if Google will just start calling any phone that they make a Droid that runs Android. Similar to how Apple has the iPhone that runs iOS.

Verizon is the company who licenced the "Droid" trademark from Lucasfims, not Motorola.

[abecedarian paradoxious]

Any word how this will affect iDen systems?

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