This Is Motorola’s Revolutionary Products
The giant in the technology industry, Google’s, has acquired Motorola’s Mobility with a deal worth U.S. $ 12.5 billion. The agreement is quite astonishing. Because as a young company, Google has succeed to ‘control’ Motorola which is the age has over of 70 years.
Founded by brothers Paul Galvin and Joseph Galvin, Motorola originally named Galvin Manufacturing Corporation, founded in 1928 in Chicago. Initially, the Galvin brothers produce battery eliminator, a power converter that allows battery-powered radio with plug in electric outlet.
The company was then doing a number on the radio revolution. Starting from the radio in the car, can be carried in a backpack, to be grasped hands. Three-quarters of a century, the company then called Motorola is developing a number of revolutionary products, and 17,000 patents.
Here, a number of revolutionary products are manufactured by Motorola:
Handie Talkie
In 1940, Galvin Manufacturing introduced the “Handie Talkie”. This finding is increasingly known as the United States used by the army in World War II.
Previously, the radio must be brought with the help of the Jeep. However, with Handie Talkie, soldiers can communicate by brought radio. Although only be used within one mile, but Handie Talkie become the most widely used during World War II.
Walkie Talkie
You could say that Walkie Talkie is the development of Handie Talkie. This product was originally introduced in 1943, as a portable FM two-way radio. This tool is also used during World War II by the U.S. Army (U.S. Army Signal Corps).
Weighing about 17 pounds, this tool can be carried like a backpack. This tool has a range of up to 20 miles.
The first mobile phone
Motorola introduced the DynaTAC 8000X as the first mobile phone in 1983. DynaTAC successfully steal the show, even the iconic ’80s invention. Moreover, as it appears in the movie “Wall Street”, these phones are increasingly popular and is often associated with Gordon Gekko, the character in the film.
StarTAC
Introduced in 1996, StarTAC be the smallest and lightest mobile phone at the time. StarTAC also has features like a smartphone. Among other things, the Wi-Fi signal with a speed of 12 megabits per second. In addition, StarTAC can also function as a tether (Wi-Fi transmitter to a laptop), with a speed of around 9.6 kilobits per second.
RAZR
Before the skipped by iPhone, RAZR is the best selling phone of all time. Introduced in 2004, which is a RAZR ultra-thin flip phone is sold around 110 million within three years. iPhone itself takes 4 years to sell 110 million units.
Droid
Droid phones that seemed to be answered in producing saturation Motorola flip phone. With the Android operating system and cooperate with Google, the sales droid was competing with the iPhone.
Xoom
Motorola’s collaboration with Google again continued in tablet called Xoom. This is the first tablet that uses the Android operating system version of Honeycomb. However, sales were defeated by competitors, the iPad. Xoom is only sold 440,000 units, while the iPad more than 9 million units in the same period.
