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Rumor: Google to sell Motorola’s handset division to Huawei?

Categories: Android, Huawei, Motorola
By: , IntoMobile
Wednesday, April 11th, 2012 at 1:15 AM
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Roughly 8 months ago, Google announced their intent to purchase Motorla Mobility for $12.5 billion. Since then we’ve been waiting for governments around the world to green light the acquisition, and nearly everyone has signed off on the deal, except for China. Google’s official statement regarding the reasoning behind the purchase of Motorola Mobility has always about one thing: patents. What most people forget to consider is that Motorola Mobility also has roughly 20,000 employees spread out across 90+ countries. What’s Google going to do with them? According to The Wall Street Journal, no one is giving a straight answer to that question. Some say Google is going to try and rebuild Motorola and make them a serious competitor in the smartphone space. Others say Google is going to be as hands off with Motorola as possible so that other Android handset makers don’t feel like Google is playing favorites. The most interesting rumor however is one out of Asia. Sources say the search giant might sell Motorola’s handset unit to Huawei.

Chances are you’ve heard of Lenovo, the world’s second largest PC maker. They’re well on their way to overtake HP. How did they get so big? Back in 2004, IBM sold their PC division to Lenovo, who no one knew at the time. Why do I bother bringing this up? Because Huawei is in the right position to do the exact same thing here. Buy Motorola Mobility, leverage their brand assets, and then quickly become a leader in the smartphone space.

This is all speculation of course, but we seriously hope it happens. Huawei has the talent and the ambition, and Motorola has the experience and the relationships. We can’t think of a better pairing. And let’s be honest with ourselves, the Huawei brand is both hard to pronounce and ugly at the same time. Motorola on the other hand, beautiful.

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Stefan Constantinescu

Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.

  • Aaronxavier77

    “And let’s be honest with ourselves, the Huawei brand is both hard to announce and ugly at the same time. Motorola on the other hand, beautiful.”
    That a pretty negative remark bout Chinese companies. 

    Well the pairing would really make sense for Huawei Device division. Huawei got the money and dominance globally in all other areas. The need at the moment is to establish in the device segment which they have been eyeing for a while now. So maybe worthwhile for them to consider.

    On the other hand success of Apple with both the OS & the device and the margins got out of it we are not sure if Google want to go down that route to come up with a few solid Hardwares to compliment their OS. Even Microsoft after partnership with Nokia still have one of their foot in the hardware development. 

    Well both are speculations, lets wait and watch what happen.

  • http://www.elektronichouse.com/ Elektronichouse Kristy

    Really? wait and watch what happen.