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Originally Posted by FrustratedReader
It's a Motorola badge on a Lenovo phone.
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Wrong, Lenovo owns Motorola but if you read the article you'll see the R&D was done in the US by at least some of the developers of the original Razr.
It's a true successor to the old phones.
The have facilities in California, the midwest, Japan, and elsewhere.
In that, Lenovo is a lot like Apple with R&D and design on tbe US and assembly elsewhere. A true multinational.
(The hinge, for example, is derived from the Yoga tablets, a Japanese design.)
Think about it, they paid billions to Google for Motorola mobility yet Google kept most of the patents so what were they buying? Not just the name, but also the people and corporate expertise. The same as with the IBM computer businesses they bought.
New owners, same company.