MOTOROLA POST-SPLIT

In January 2011 Motorola split into two separate companies, each still using the
word Motorola as part of its name. One company, Motorola Solutions (using a blue
version of the Motorola logo), is based in the Chicago suburb of Schaumburg, Illinois,
and concentrates on police technologies, radios, and commercial needs. The other
company, Motorola Mobility (using a red logo), is based in Chicago (formerly in the
Chicago suburb of Libertyville, Illinois), and is the mobile handset producer. The split
was structured so that Motorola Solutions was the legal successor of the original
Motorola, while Motorola Mobility was the spin-off.

On August 15, 2011, Google announced that it would purchase Motorola Mobility for
about $12.5 billion. On November 17, 2011, Motorola Mobility stockholders voted
overwhelmingly to approve the proposed merger with Google Inc.

On May 22, 2012, Google announced that the acquisition of Motorola Mobility Holdings,
Inc. had closed, with Google acquiring MMI for $40.00 per share in cash.

On October 30, 2014, Google sold off Motorola Mobility to Lenovo. The purchase price
was approximately US $2.91 billion (subject to certain adjustments), including US$1.41
billion paid at close: US $660 million in cash and US$750 million in Lenovo ordinary
shares (subject to a share cap/floor). The remaining US$1.5 billion was paid in the form
of a three-year promissory note.

After the purchase, Google maintained ownership of the vast majority of the Motorola
Mobility patent portfolio, including current patent applications and invention disclosures,
while Lenovo received a license to the portfolio of patents and other intellectual

property. Additionally Lenovo received over 2,000 patent assets, as well as the Motorola
Mobility brand and trademark portfolio.

Motorola Mobility deal by Google

On August 15, 2011, seven months after Motorola Mobility was spun off into an
independent company, Google announced that it would acquire Motorola Mobility for
$12.5 billion, subject to approval from regulators in the United States and Europe.
According to the filing, Google senior vice president Andy Rubin first reached out
to Motorola Mobility in early July 2011 to discuss the purchase by some of Google's
competitors of the patent portfolio of Nortel Networks Corp., and to assess its potential
impact on the Android ecosystem.
Google boosted its offer for Motorola Mobility by 33% in a single day in early August,
even though Motorola wasn't soliciting competing bids. The aggressive bidding by
Google showed that the search engine company was under considerable pressure to
beef up its patent portfolio to protect its promising Android franchise from a growing
number of legal challenges.
According to the filing, Google and Motorola began discussions about Motorola's patent
portfolio in early July, as well as the "intellectual property litigation and the potential
impact of such litigation on the Android ecosystem".
On July 21 and 23, Rubin to discuss strategic options between the two companies,
agreeing to continue to discuss a potential sale. On the morning of August 15, the two
companies entered into a merger agreement at the offered price of $40. On November

17, Motorola Mobility stockholders approved the proposed merger with Google Inc. On
April 17, 2013, ARRIS Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: ARRS) announced that it completed its
acquisition of the Motorola Home business from a subsidiary of Google Inc.

Motorola Mobility (Google) deal by Lenovo

On January 29, 2014, Google announced Lenovo plans to acquire the Motorola Mobility
smart phone business. The purchase price is approximately $2.91 billion (subject to
certain adjustments), including $1.41 billion paid at close: $660 million in cash and $750
million in Lenovo ordinary. The remaining $1.5 billion will be paid in the form of a threeyear promissory note.
Google maintained ownership of the vast majority of the Motorola Mobility patent
portfolio, including active patent applications and invention disclosures. As part of its
ongoing relationship with Google, Lenovo received a license to this rich portfolio of
patents and other intellectual property. Additionally Lenovo received over 2,000 patent
assets, as well as the Motorola Mobility brand and trademark portfolio. On October 30,
2014, Lenovo finalized its purchase of Motorola Mobility from Google .

ENVIRONMENTAL RECORD
The company is also increasing the proportion of recycled materials that used in its
products. For example, the housings for the MOTO W233 Renew and MOTOCUBO A45
Eco mobile phones contain plastic from post-consumer recycled water cooler
bottles. According to the companys information, all of Motorolas newly designed
chargers meet the current Energy Star requirements and exceed the requirements for
standby/no-load modes by at least 67%.

HISTORY OF MOTOROLA G3
The Motorola Moto G (3rd Gen), also known as Moto G 2015, had its launch event on
28 July 2015.
Since then, there have been many reviews of this device, but there are some things
about the new Moto G that you should know about to help you decide whether this is
the right phone for you.
As with any other phone, whether or not it offers sufficiently good value for money
depends on where you live, because this determines what choices are available in that
market and the prices YOU would be paying as opposed to a reviewer based in a
different country. For example, the 16GB version of the Moto G (3rd Gen) is available
through Moto Maker in United States for around $220, whilst the same device sells for
around $305 in Germany and $320 in United Kingdom. Even within such affluent
countries, you can buy the Moto E (2nd Gen), which was only launched in
February/March 2015.
Also, it is worth noting that most (if not all) reviews till now have been done with review
units (supplied by Motorola) that have been fitted with 16GB of storage and 2GB of
RAM and yet many reviewers keep applauding the $179 starting price for the 8GB

model (with 1GB of RAM), ignoring the fact that the multi-tasking performance of an
Android phone with 1GB of RAM can be quite a bit worse than with 2GB of RAM.
Furthermore, Android Lollipop does not properly support the storage of apps on micro
SD cards, which means that 8GB of storage allows for installation of very few apps.

The rear camera is not exactly the same as the one in the
Nexus
Based on reviews and discussions in user forums that I have come across, it
seems that many people are assuming that the rear camera used in the new
Moto G is identical to the one used in Motorolas 2014 flagship, the Nexus 6.
This is not strictly true since the Nexus 6 camera had the benefit of coming
with an optical image stabilizer to help out with camera shake and/or low
light photography.

There is no NFC support

As was the case with the previous generations of the Moto G, there is no NFC
support. NFC support matters if you want to be able to more easily arrange
pairing between Bluetooth devices (such as a NFC-equipped phone and NFCequipped headphones) by just touching them to each other. Lack of a NFC
chip also makes the new phone unable to support the current Google Wallet
or the upcoming (in Android M) Android Pay mobile payments at NFC-enabled
point-of-sale systems at cafes/restaurants such as Starbucks and at retailers
such as Best Buy and Staples.

There is no magnetometer
The previous generations of the Moto G had a magnetic field sensor and the
dropping of this feature in the new Moto G means no more support for digital
compass and metal detection apps. More importantly, a magnetometer is
useful in navigation apps such as Google Maps since it allows such apps to
auto rotate the maps you are viewing depending on your physical
orientation.

There is no gyroscope
In a phone, both the accelerometer sensor and the gyro sensor track
movement of the phone. Whereas the former measures the linear
acceleration of movement, the latter measures its angular rotational velocity.
Unlike the 2nd generation of the Moto G released in 2014, the new Moto G
does not come with a gyroscope. This means that the Google Camera app is
not able to offer a Photosphere option and VR apps such as Google
Cardboard that consist on the presence of such a sensor will not work
properly.

There is no LED notification light

Unlike in the previous two generations of the Moto G, the new Moto G does
not offer the much-beloved LED notification light. This feature allowed you to

glance at your phone even from across the room and quickly find out from
the flashing LED if something had happened that required your attention.

The phone is water-resistant, and not water-proof

The new Moto G offers an unusual combo of a removable back cover and
IPX7 water resistance. The phone is water-resistant in 1m of water for up to
30 minutes. IPX7 means that you dont need to worry about using the phone
in the presence of rain, snow, or splashes of water, but you should not
attempt to wash it by holding it under a tap, or to take it with you to the
shower or to the swimming pool.

The Micro USB port offers OTG Host support

The USB On-The-Go (OTG) support feature, which was also present in the
previous generations of the Moto G, allows you to use your phone as a PC by
attaching (via a cheap OTG adapter) USB peripherals such as flash drives,
external hard drives, keyboards, and mice.

The micro SD card slot can handle cards larger than 32GB
Motorola's spec sheet and almost all reviewers state that you can expand
storage by using a micro SD card up to 32GB in capacity, but this is incorrect
-- at least, all the 64GB and 128GB micro SD cards I have tried so far seem to
work just fine. You should be able to just insert your memory card into the
phone and ask the phone to format/erase the card from within the Settings
app, but if you have any difficulties with this method.