Google to buy Motorola Mobility in $12.5 billion deal

Don't forget Motorola has $3 billion in cash, so the deal is really $9.5 billion. Should be decent deal if the patents help them protect Android.

@DVDBack23
i thought they only bought mobile division from motorola not whole motorola and thus wont get $3b, or am i missing something?

Google should be the ones trying to get T-Mobile. Then they would be doing something.

Originally posted by oappi:

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@DVDBack23
i thought they only bought mobile division from motorola not whole motorola and thus wont get $3b, or am i missing something?

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@DVDBack23
Oh thanks for clarifying that =)

It is going to be interesting to see how google buying motorola is going to affect rest of the android device manufacturers, like samsung and htc.

If you ask me buying nokia would have been wiser choise. They still have big market share, good brand, it is very cheap and has a lot of patents that would be useful against apple and ms. Not to mention kill windows phone in the process (at the moment wp has 1.6% market share, but nokia going for wp might bring it alive a bit).

Originally posted by oappi:

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@DVDBack23
Oh thanks for clarifying that =)

It is going to be interesting to see how google buying motorola is going to affect rest of the android device manufacturers, like samsung and htc.

If you ask me buying nokia would have been wiser choise. They still have big market share, good brand, it is very cheap and has a lot of patents that would be useful against apple and ms. Not to mention kill windows phone in the process (at the moment wp has 1.6% market share, but nokia going for wp might bring it alive a bit).

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This seems like a good move...Motorola isn't always on the cutting edge, but their phones tend to be made very well (they let HTC and Samsung make the mistakes). I am sure google is tired of having their flagship phones made by HTC; it makes them look bad when the battery dies after 4 hours. If it were not for their crummy UI overlays, they would be the best android devices on the market...and if google owns them, then those should go away.

Originally posted by KillerBug:

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This seems like a good move...Motorola isn't always on the cutting edge, but their phones tend to be made very well (they let HTC and Samsung make the mistakes). I am sure google is tired of having their flagship phones made by HTC; it makes them look bad when the battery dies after 4 hours. If it were not for their crummy UI overlays, they would be the best android devices on the market...and if google owns them, then those should go away.

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I like the smooth way Google do play safe business.
Even with the $2.5 billion break-up fee....I think the deal will go true and it will make Android OS stronger now Google holding almost 25,000 patents same as Microsoft and the double that Apple:

"Defending Android"
http://t.co/cUpCri5

On another hand:
Google could turn into a patent bully and sue its competitors for certain implementations in their operating systems that could allude to Motorola’s patents. If this indeed happens, both Apple and Microsoft should get ready to face some legal challenges over the coming years.

P.S.
Motorola Inc was split this year into two: Motorola Mobility, which got the faster-growing cellphone and TV set-top box businesses; and Motorola Solutions, which sells gear like walkie-talkies to corporate and government clients.

Originally posted by KillerBug:

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This seems like a good move...Motorola isn't always on the cutting edge, but their phones tend to be made very well (they let HTC and Samsung make the mistakes). I am sure google is tired of having their flagship phones made by HTC; it makes them look bad when the battery dies after 4 hours. If it were not for their crummy UI overlays, they would be the best android devices on the market...and if google owns them, then those should go away.

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Originally posted by DVDBack23:

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Originally posted by oappi:

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@DVDBack23
Oh thanks for clarifying that =)

It is going to be interesting to see how google buying motorola is going to affect rest of the android device manufacturers, like samsung and htc.

If you ask me buying nokia would have been wiser choise. They still have big market share, good brand, it is very cheap and has a lot of patents that would be useful against apple and ms. Not to mention kill windows phone in the process (at the moment wp has 1.6% market share, but nokia going for wp might bring it alive a bit).

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No problem. In regards to your Nokia statement, while it of course would have made some sense, it would not have come cheap. Any bid for Nokia (even now) would need to be in the $25 billion range, which makes it not really worth it since Google could probably buy every patent they need for less than that :)

In terms of the bigger picture, I think Google pulled a fast one here on Apple and RIM, who just purchased Nortel's patents for $4.5 billion after Google dropped from the race. Surely, Google did not come up with this Motorola deal in weeks after being spurned? I think they forced Apple, RIM, EMC (whoever else) to pay up while they worked on this deal in the background.

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