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As it seems, Motorola will no longer build their own phones.
Instead M's manufacturing sites are sold to Flextronic, which will then manufactur phones to be sold under the Motorola brand - A well established manufacturer, a household name, reduced to being someone else's brand... I've seen that happen during the late 80s and early 90s but I wouldn't have thought that this could happen again, especially not to a rather healthy company like Big Red :ß

To the people who have an genuine Motorola phone in your hands - be happy, you're the last generation to experience that :ß

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As it seems, Motorola will no longer build their own phones.
Instead M's manufacturing sites are sold to Flextronic, which will then manufactur phones to be sold under the Motorola brand - A well established manufacturer, a household name, reduced to being someone else's brand... I've seen that happen during the late 80s and early 90s but I wouldn't have thought that this could happen again, especially not to a rather healthy company like Big Red :ß

To the people who have an genuine Motorola phone in your hands - be happy, you're the last generation to experience that :ß

It's actually not a bad move necessarily. Being an engineer working in the medical industry I'm extremely familiar with how much regulation can hold you up. By splitting manufacturing and design to separate companies you massively reduce the time/paperwork you have to have reviewed without having any reason for a negative impact on product quality.