Motorola - Mobile Phone Manufacturer

Probably nobody would have guessed in what tremendous dimensions the idea to emerging into business of information technology of the brothers Paul V. and Joseph E. Galvin would develop. They laid the foundation for the future.

They started by manufacturing TV sets with the help of ordinary machineries. Only the unwieldy name, Galvin Manufacturing Corporation, became an obstacle. The name was definetivly no reason for people to buy products of this brand.

In 1947 after positioning their first car-radio successfully on the market they renamed the company.

Inspired by exactly this car radio they took the "motor" of Motorcar and the word "ola" what means wave.
Motorola was finally born.

In the following years the company became one of the most successful of innovative communication pioneers.
When the space probe Mariner IV in 1964 sent first pictures of Mars to Earth technology from Motorola was envolved and even the famous words of Neil Armstrong in 1969 have been transferred with technology of this American brand.

In the next two decades Motorola focussed on the development departments for telecommunications.
In 1983 they introduced the first mobile phone, DynaTac 8000x.
The Motorola International 3200 that was developed in 1992 had very little in common with today's phones.
Due to it's distinctive shape it was called "bone", had the size of a clay brick, and was full of batteries.

In the mid-1990s Motorola was able to develop a phone with a foldable display. This was a great innovation at the highly competitive market that became the future trademark of this company.

Today Motorola is considered as a booster of innovation in the information industry: in 1999 the world's first tri-band mobile phone, in 2000 the first GPRS - Phone, in 2002 the first rotating front cover and the first UMTS - mobile phone. The willingness to invest in the technical sector resulted in more and more success.