Lenovo phasing out Motorola brand for smartphones

08 January, 2016
Motorola's phone business will now come under the Lenovo name, meaning it will be merged with Lenovo's phone business.

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  • Eske Rahn
  • 3ii
  • 08 Jan 2016

It could be a smart move. Motorola has a grand history, but it also have an ooze of 'yesterday'.
I guess it is something like 'granddads' phone. A bit of what Nokia and Ericsson also struggled with.

I'm an old guy, so for me Motorola is a positive brand, but could be interesting to hear what youngsters under say 20 think of the brand?

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    • Hkk
    • 08 Jan 2016

    Google back then bought Moto @
    12.5 billion and sold it to Lenovo for 2.91 billion, look at the amount of money to dumped to kill Moto's legacy.

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      • LMFAO
      • t7X
      • 08 Jan 2016

      Yeah it is really a bad move, lenovo will sell less smartphone because of this just like microsoft did when they decided to not to use nokia on lumia.

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        • AnonD-276592
        • vp1
        • 08 Jan 2016

        Who would buy these cheap devices?

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          • LEe
          • 08 Jan 2016

          Bad Move! It is true... Motorola is strong in LATAM

            That would be a very bad move indeed... specially in the Americas where the Motorola brand still strong and replacing it for just Lenovo don't make sense. I could understand the name change in Asia, but i would keep the Motorola brand for the rest of the world.

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              • Ibx
              • 08 Jan 2016

              I don't really like that move...

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                • Sean
                • rRS
                • 08 Jan 2016

                Um wow...I didn't see that coming.