Headquarters : Schaumburg, Illinois, United States.
Founder: Paul Galvin and Joseph Galvin.
Type: Telecommunications,public.
Products:Mobile phones ,Embedded systems, Smartphones, Microprocessors, Two-way radios, Networking systems,Satellite phones..
Website : www.motorola.com
Motorola Inc,an American telecommunications Multinational located in Schaumburg,Illinois,is the maker of wireless phones and designer and marketer of cellular transmission base stations and signal amplifiers.Its product profile extends to manufacturing of set top boxes, digital video recorders,equipments for video broadcasting and high definition television..
The company that went public in the year 1947, is listed in the New York Stock Exchange and holds the 65th rank in the Fortune 500 Companies.The present logo of motorola was introduced in the year 1955.
motorola, started functioning in the year 1928,in Chicago,Illinois(USA) as Galvin Manufacturing Corporation with its first product as battery eliminator.The company was renamed as motorola in the year 1930 when founders Paul Galvin and Joseph Galvin started manufacturing car radios.The name motorola originated from the word "Motor" and the suffix "ola" was used because of its heavy usage at the time with different products.
motorola pioneered the radiotelephone or car phones as they were popularly known which were two way radios connected through a landline telephone.With its limitations such as usage of phones in the car itself and the low level frequency,motorola in competition with AT&T started working on improvisation in mobile car phones but engineers at motorola realised the need of phones outside one's car.