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Motorola: From the Archives

June 29, 2012 : BY Motorola

What do a DynaTAC cellular telephone, a photograph of the first Motorola facility in Chicago, and a service manual for a GoldenView television have in common?

They’re all assets in the Motorola Archives!

The Motorola Archives is a dynamic resource of knowledge that cannot be found anywhere else in the company. It is the central storage location for documents, photographs, advertisements, products and memorabilia, and more recently, digital and audiovisual materials as well.

Though it wasn’t established until 1973, the archives has the entire history of Motorola documented, starting with its founding on September 25, 1928. The archives is much more than a nostalgic look at the past. It helps drive Motorola innovation forward.

“This department is more than a closet of a few file folders.  It is a facility that is dedicated to the preservation of a rich, dynamic history that began in 1928.  I am always actively collecting, evaluating, researching and making resourses available to customers around the world, both internally and externally,” explains Lisa Solak, who manages the Motorola Mobility Archives.

Motorola Mobility Heritage Services has its own professional archivist who manages and provides access to archives collections, which start with the company’s establishment in 2011.  While the Motorola, Inc. Legacy Archives Collection documents the years between 1928 and 2010. The Legacy Archives Collection is shared by both companies and continues to acquire key materials created before the separation.

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Motorola : A history of firsts – DynaTAC

April 18, 2012 : BY Motorola

Motorola has a long history of firsts. If you read our recent post about the world’s first commercial portable cellular phone, the Motorola DynaTAC 8000x, you already know this cell phone is remarkable.

Over the 15 years before it went public, the company invested more than US$100 million in cellular technology research and development.

Before it was available for purchase in 1984, a prototype of the same device was used to make cellular telephone calls. On April 3, 1973, Motorola publicly demonstrated a portable cellular telephone and system, just outside of the Hilton New York.

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Motorola Mobility is extremely proud of its long history of innovation. For more than 80 years, we have worked to make it easier for you to talk with people all around the world. From providing radio communications equipment that transmitted the first words from the moon during the Apollo 11 mission, to introducing the world’s first commercial handheld cellular phone, the Motorola DynaTAC, Motorola’s heritage is filled with many achievements. And today we continue that legacy with groundbreaking products including the DROID RAZR MAXX by Motorola, a device with 21 hours of talk time, the longest of any 4G smartphone on the market.

Today, we want to share that heritage with our consumers by launching our Facebook Timeline Page, where we hope you will take some time to see how Motorola has helped create a connected world. And as a bonus, we may have a special reward for you involving one of our most recent accomplishments.

While you take a walk down memory lane with Motorola, enjoy a commercial from our earlier days:

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Happy Halloween from Motorola!

October 31, 2011 : BY Motorola

Send pictures of your boo-tiful costumes and frightfully fun parties! Need some encouragement? Check out the, er, brave attempts below. Let’s see how you fare on the creep-o-meter.

(Photo by Fred Benenson used under a Creative Commons Attribution License.)

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