Oriented product lines, including its mobile phone business and its cable modems and set-top boxes for digital cable and satellite television services, while Motorola Solutions retained the company’s enterprise-oriented product lines.
The company primarily manufactures smartphones and other mobile devices running the Android operating system developed by Google; in August 2011, only several months after the split, Google acquired Motorola Mobility for US$12.5 billion. Google’s stated intent for the purchase was to gain control of Motorola Mobility’s portfolio of patents, so it could adequately protect other Android vendors from lawsuits. The deal closed in May 2012, after which it also sold its cable modem and set-top box business to Arris Group. Under Google ownership, Motorola Mobility increased its focus on the entry-level smartphone market, introduced one of the first Android Wear smartwatches, and also began development on Project Ara, a platform for modular smartphones with interchangeable components.
Google’s ownership of the company would be short-lived, as it announced in January 2014 that it would sell most of Motorola Mobility to Chinese technology Lenovo for$2.91 billion. The sale, which excluded all but 2000 of Motorola’s patents and ATAP, it’s team-based division who worked on Ara, was completed on October 30, 2014.[2] Lenovo disclosed an intent to use Motorola Mobility as a way to expand into the United States smartphone market.
In January 2016, following the August 2015 merger of Lenovo’s existing smartphone business with Motorola Mobility, it was announced that the company would begin to phase out "Motorola" as a public-facing brand, replacing it with the "Moto" brand used on most of its recent devices, and Lenovo’s "Vibe" brand. However, Motorola later clarified that the brand will continue to be used, but marketing will focus on its "Moto" and "Vibe" brands, whereas the Motorola full brand name will appear on packaging and its brand licensees. In November 2016, it was announced that Lenovo would stop releasing smartphones under its own name and the Vibe brand, and that all future smartphones would only carry the "Moto" brand and the Motorola logo.The Moto G4’s hardware design was refreshed, featuring a "water repellent nano-coating", and a camera protrusion. However, unlike the Moto G3, the previous generation, the Moto G4 Plus does not feature IPX7 certification.[3] The device is available in black and white-color versions, with different rear cover and accent colors available for custom order via MotoMaker. The G4 includes a 5.5-inch 1080p display, an octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 617 system-on-chip, and 2/3 GB of RAM. The Moto G4 includes either 16 or 32 GB of internal storage. There is also a dedicated memory storage slot to expanded memory up to 128 GB via MicroSDXC. The device also comes with Moto Actions which supports and responds to motions and gestures. It has a 13-megapixel rear-facing camera, and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera, and an FM radio receiver.[4] The Moto G4 also supports 802.11n Wi-Fi connectivity. The device ships with Android 6.0 "Marshmallow".[5] It features’Turbopower’ charging that gives up to six hours of battery life after just 15 minutes of charging.[6]