Google to sell Motorola Mobility to Lenovo for $2.91 billion

[enik]

Re: Would you still buy a Moto X post Motorola/Lenovo Deal?

Well their pipeline is secure through 2015 so you won't see any major shifts for the next few years

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[vzwuser76]

Re: Google to sell Motorola Mobility to Lenovo for around $3 billion.

Nitpick: there are rare earth deposits in the US, there just isn't much active mining because it's so much cheaper to buy it from China, where wages are low and environmental protections are minimal.

When China started to restrict the international supply of some of those materials, mining companies in Arizona or something started to develop their resources.

Nitpick: there is almost nothing that 100% made in the USA. And just like with oil, the US tries not to use their own resources unless absolutely necessary, otherwise their resources would be used up and then they'd be at the supplier's mercy.

My point was, with the then current situation, Moto was at least trying to generate jobs in the US.

Out of all the companies in the mobile industry, Apple would be in the strongest position to manufacture their devices in the US. They have the largest cash pile to make it happen, but they don't, that would hurt their bottom line. At some political function the President asked Jobs what it would take to have Apples products built in the US. Jobs responded it would never happen, because their isn't enough workers to handle the load and the American people weren't smart enough to handle the work. First, with the enormous amount of people out of work, we don't have enough to handle that? And second, did Jobs honestly believe that the workers at Foxconn were college educated? There was a scandal during one of the production runs that Foxconn was employing Highschool age students who should've been in school. Either way, factory assembly work can be learned. It's repetitive, and usually single purposed. By that I mean one person does one thing, the next does another, and so on. I'd bet if you compared the percentage of defects from Apple products manufactured at Foxconn to the perfecntage of defects of Moto Xs produced in Fort Worth, there wouldn't be that much of a difference. At least Moto is trying to give something back, when was the last time you heard of Apple doing anything like that?

 

[Tom in Bristol]

Re: Would you still buy a Moto X post Motorola/Lenovo Deal?

The necessary regulatory agencies haven't even begun the approval process yet in either country...doubt if the pending sale of Motorola will hold up any possible updates for at least a year.

 

[lanzfernandez]

Re: Would you still buy a Moto X post Motorola/Lenovo Deal?

no.... not anymore!

 

[Haalcyon]

Re: Would you still buy a Moto X post Motorola/Lenovo Deal?

I wouldn't have got one before and definitely won't now unless the successor improves in materials quality greatly. That plastic around the display/bezel does't work for me at all.


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[VDub2174]

Re: Keep or Return for Nexus 5: What's the future?

I disagree. The iPhone takes better pics in low light, but in good or even decent lighting the S4 does better and more MP makes for better resolution when blowing them up. HDR on the S4 is a lot better than on the iPhone too, and I shoot in HDR for most shots

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What's up with your sig? You really think Moto is gonna go under because of this takeover?

 

[Cozume]

Re: Would you still buy a Moto X post Motorola/Lenovo Deal?

yes, and I would buy a Moto X2 since it has already been designed. After that, I am waiting to see what happens.

 

[Cozume]

Re: Keep or Return for Nexus 5: What's the future?

What's up with your sig? You really think Moto is gonna go under because of this takeover?

I think what will happen is that Lenovo will try to make a go of it with the Motorola brand in the Americas and if they can start to turn a profit in a reasonable amount of time, Lenovo will keep the brand.

However, how you go from losing $1B a year to making a profit in a reasonable amount of time is the huge issue. It would be hard to do even with Google's name and associated good will in the android community. Part of the appeal of the Moto X for a lot of us was the made/assembled in the USA thing. I said part, not all of course, because if the phone sucked, I wouldn't care where it was made.

 

[dmark44]

Re: Would you still buy a Moto X post Motorola/Lenovo Deal?

I wouldn't have got one before and definitely won't now unless the successor improves in materials quality greatly. That plastic around the display/bezel does't work for me at all.


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I completely understand your sentiment, material choices and more "premium" materials are important to many consumers. Some materials may appear more luxurious but that doesn't make other materials poor quality. I disagree that other materials like aluminum and glass improves "materials quality greatly".

The plastic bezel on this phone is durable, solid, light weight. Also nicks and surface scratches will be less visible than say on aluminum. This isn't the cheap silver plastic manufacturers put on generic impulse buy electronics. I think it's a solid design choice for this type of device.

As beautiful as the HTC One is out of the box, if you carried that and a Moto X around case-less for a year, I know which one I expect to age better.

I personally dismissed the iPhone 4/4s because I hated the glass back. Why would I want the whole phone to be as fragile as the screen? I carry my phone with me every day, I don't put it on display on my mantle.

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[fernandez21]

Re: Would you still buy a Moto X post Motorola/Lenovo Deal?

I completely understand your sentiment, material choices and more "premium" materials are important to many consumers. Some materials will appear more luxurious to someone. Though I disagree that other materials like aluminum and glass improves "materials quality greatly".

The plastic bezel on this phone is durable, solid, light weight. Also nicks and surface scratches will be less visible than say on aluminum. This isn't the cheap silver plastic manufacturers put on generic impulse buy electronics. I think it's a solid design choice for this type of device.

As beautiful as the HTC One is out of the box, if you carried that and a Moto X around case-less for a year, I know which one I expect to age better.

I personally dismissed the iPhone 4/4s because I hated the glass back. Why would I want the whole phone to be as fragile as the screen? I carry my phone with me every day, I don't put it on display on my mantle.

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It depends on your use case. The iPhone 4 was the only phone I ever carried on a case and that was because of the antenna issue. Other than that I've had plastic phones (HTC one x, galaxy not 2&3, lg og pro, moto x) and metal phones (HTC one, iPhone 4s,5, and 5s) and in every day usage the metal and glass phones hold up better to scratching while the plastic phones hide the scratches and dings better.

If you work in an office or school the metal phones will hold up better but if you work construction type work or are outdoorsy the plastic phones will hide the inevitable scratches and drops better.

I agree though, the plastic frame of the moto x looks and feels MUCH nicer than the fake chrome and leather Samsung uses.

 

[ultravisitor]

Re: Would you still buy a Moto X post Motorola/Lenovo Deal?

I personally dismissed the iPhone 4/4s because I hated the glass back. Why would I want the whole phone to be as fragile as the screen? I carry my phone with me every day, I don't put it on display on my mantle.

I thought it was a terrible design choice for the Nexus 4, as well.

 

[Tysonsaurus]

Re: Would you still buy a Moto X post Motorola/Lenovo Deal?

Does anyone see this going down the same path as palm did?

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[ultravisitor]

Out of curiosity: how many of you who don't want to buy a Motorola in the future because it will no longer be an American company also apply the same thinking towards your clothing? For instance, look at jeans. Do you know where the denim is produced and sewn? American-made clothing is not cheap.

I'm just wondering if the "I'm not giving my money to a Chinese company!" sentiments apply to items other than cell phones.

 

[ultravisitor]

Re: Would you still buy a Moto X post Motorola/Lenovo Deal?

Does anyone see this going down the same path as palm did?

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No. With the acquisition of Motorola Mobility, Lenovo becomes the number three manufacturer of smartphones globally. They're trying to break into the US market.

 

[Cozume]

Re: Google to sell Motorola Mobility to Lenovo for around $3 billion.

Out of curiosity: how many of you who don't want to buy a Motorola in the future because it will no longer be an American company also apply the same thinking towards your clothing? For instance, look at jeans. Do you know where the denim is produced and sewn? American-made clothing is not cheap.

I'm just wondering if the "I'm not giving my money to a Chinese company!" sentiments apply to items other than cell phones.

I don't use my jeans to do my banking or to send my personal/business communications from.

 

[ultravisitor]

I don't use my jeans to do my banking or to send my personal/business communications from.

What difference does that make? Giving money to a Chinese company is giving money to a Chinese company. That seems to be the issue for some people.

Is it a matter of information security? Are the Chinese going to tap into Verizon's network via Motorola phones? I swear, the level of paranoia at this site can be pretty laughable at times.

 

[gorebash]

Re: Would you still buy a Moto X post Motorola/Lenovo Deal?

Yup. Getting my son one for his birthday. It just got KitKat on Rogers. Thats all he will care about. That and he can play all the latest games. Who cares about next year. If it comes down to it i will root it.

 

[Cozume]

Re: Google to sell Motorola Mobility to Lenovo for around $3 billion.

What difference does that make? Giving money to a Chinese company is giving money to a Chinese company. That seems to be the issue for some people.

For me, it is not that really, just that it was nice to have at least one american company to choose from when you bought a cell phone. It makes me sad to see the last one go.

However, I won't buy food products for me, my family or my pets from china and likewise I am not overly thrilled about trusting a chinese company with my mobile communication device data, either.

 

[Johnly]

Re: Would you still buy a Moto X post Motorola/Lenovo Deal?

Passes on the X for various reasons. We will have to see what the next phone from moto something brings. I always remain opened. I am considering another iphone hiatus though.

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[fernandez21]

Re: Google to sell Motorola Mobility to Lenovo for around $3 billion.

Out of curiosity: how many of you who don't want to buy a Motorola in the future because it will no longer be an American company also apply the same thinking towards your clothing? For instance, look at jeans. Do you know where the denim is produced and sewn? American-made clothing is not cheap.

I'm just wondering if the "I'm not giving my money to a Chinese company!" sentiments apply to items other than cell phones.

Its not that I don't want to give money to a Chinese company, it is that everything being equal I would prefer to give my money to an american company. I also find that I prefer american (or western) design and software. But that doesn't mean I will avoid Chinese companies.