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☆ Tech's Divorced Dad Energy: Silicon Valley Is Letting Down Customers
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-06 | by ( Ed Zitron | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +15 min

Big Tech companies became less known for one particular product. Instead, Big Tech became obsessed with a series of half-baked boondoggles that seemed revolutionary, yet in practice, were either not reliable enough to be trusted or simply not that useful. Big Tech has become sullen, entitled, and lazy, believing that nobody else could snatch away its precious customers. Related storiesEven when tech companies aren't trying to shove AI down our throats, they fall into a similar trap. AdvertisementWhen the public eventually walks out, I don't believe Big Tech is even capable of making the adjustments necessary to win them back.

Persons: Smart, surly, Apple, Meta, Tesla, Elon Musk, Musk, —, Goldman Sachs, Jim Covello, Sundar Pichai, it's, Tech's, Satya Nadella Organizations: Google, Microsoft, Apple, Big Tech, Siri, Amazon, Meta, Tech, Facebook, cryptocurrency, Porsche, Microsoft Windows Locations: America

☆ Looking beyond the AI hype? Nvidia bull loves this 'under-the-radar' tech stock
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-20 | by ( Isabella Lok | In Isabellalokys | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Artificial intelligence has been the subject of many recent conversations about investing in tech, with Nvidia, Alphabet and Microsoft grabbing headlines. Masters named telecommunications company Motorola Solutions , a company he says is "a very beautiful, solid, public safety-focused business." The rest of the businesses includes its video security and building command center units. He added that the company's video security and command center businesses are also gaining more traction in the market. Put that all together and you have a "very, very strong, high quality compounding business," Masters said.

Persons: Masters, CNBC's, Motorola's, You've Organizations: Nvidia, Microsoft, Trent Masters, Alphinity Investment Management, Masters, Motorola Solutions, MSI, Motorola, Land Mobile, CNBC, New York Stock Exchange

☆ Here's what tech giants are betting on next — from robot dogs to smartphones you can wear on your wrist
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-01 | by ( Arjun Kharpal | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Arjun Kharpal | CNBCThe Mobile World Congress, the world's largest mobile show, is a place where device makers show off some of their latest innovations. Arjun Kharpal | CNBCTecno showed off an augmented reality glasses product with a video game controller attached. Arjun Kharpal | CNBCXiaomi has spent years talking up its smartphones' camera capabilities. Arjun Kharpal | CNBCChinese firm Tecno showed off a robot dog. Arjun Kharpal | CNBC

Persons: Arjun Kharpal, It's, There's, Oppo Oppo, Kharpal, CNBC Tecno, CNBC Xiaomi, German Shepherd, Tecno Organizations: Mobile, CNBC, Congress, Motorola, China's Lenovo, CNBC Lenovo, Samsung Galaxy, Samsung, CNBC Samsung Locations: Barcelona, Spain, Korean, German

☆ As AI takes hold of your smartphone, the end of the app era could be in sight
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-28 | by ( Hugh Langley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Smartphone makers flooded Mobile World Congress to show off new AI features. More AI tools are moving on to devices, which would make them faster and cheaper to run. Now, as the industry looks to capitalize on the AI boom and galvanize a stagnating mobile market, phone makers want the AI tools to run locally on the phone itself. The company attended MWC to tout how it's helping phone makers such as Samsung and Honor run more AI tools on their phones. Samsung was also there, previewing some of the AI tools it's begun to roll out on its phones, including a nifty live-translation feature.

Persons: —, chipmakers, it's, Morgan Stanley, Francisco Cheng, Hugh Langley, Cheng, Siri, Francisco Jeronimo, Jeronimo Organizations: Congress, Service, Mobile, Companies, Qualcomm, Samsung, Hugh Langley Qualcomm, MWC, Google, Motorola, IDC, Insider, Deutsche Telekom, Brain.ai Locations: Barcelona

☆ From expanding screens to see-through displays: How tech giants are trying to jazz up their gadgets
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-28 | by ( Arjun Kharpal | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Motorola's "adaptive display concept" was on display at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. See-through screens, phones that wrap around your wrist and expandable displays — these are all concept tech that gadget makers showed off this week, in a bid to stand out from competitors in a cut-throat hardware market. At the world's largest mobile trade show, the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, some of the biggest companies in the world showed off some unusual screen technology. "As a result we are seeing a proliferation of weird and wonderful new designs such as wrist worn phones, rollable screens, virtual 3D displays and more." Here's some of the screen tech on display at MWC:

Persons: Ben Wood Organizations: Mobile, MWC, Apple, Samsung, CCS Insight, CNBC Locations: Barcelona

☆ Motorola shows off a concept smartphone that can wrap around your wrist
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-27 | by ( Arjun Kharpal | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Motorola's "adapative display concept" smartphone can wrap around a user's wrist. Arjun Kharpal | CNBCBARCELONA, Spain — Motorola thinks we may be wearing our phones on our wrist in future. But Motorola is keen to show the progress of display technology to stand out in the crowded smartphone market. During a demonstration, a Motorola representative showed how the phone could bend in various ways to wrap around a wrist or stand up on a table. The mechanism that allows the phone to bend was desecribed by the Motorola representative as similar to the way the human spine works.

Persons: Arjun Kharpal Organizations: CNBC, Motorola, Lenovo, Mobile Locations: CNBC BARCELONA, Spain, Barcelona

☆ Lenovo bets its Motorola smartphone brand will be the third-biggest globally in 3 years
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-19 | by ( Arjun Kharpal | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

In this article 992-HK Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNTA Motorola Razr Flip Smartphone kept at dispay at the launch event of the new Motorola Flip Smartphones, Motorola Razr 40 and Motorola Razr 40 Ultra, in New Delhi, India. Kabir Jhangiani | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesDAVOS, Switzerland — Motorola will likely be the third-biggest smartphone player in the world in three years, according to a top executive at Chinese tech firm Lenovo , the owner of the brand. In 2020, Lenovo rebooted the iconic Motorola Razr as a foldable smartphone. Motorola and Lenovo combined had around a 4% market share in the third quarter 2023, making it the eighth-largest player globally, according to Counterpoint Research. The executive said Motorola is looking to grow "stably" in the markets it is in until it reaches 10% market share in those places which will uplift its market share globally.

Persons: Kabir Jhangiani, Matthew Zielinski, Zielinski Organizations: HK, Motorola, Nurphoto, Getty, Lenovo, Google, Samsung, Apple, CNBC, Economic, Research Locations: dispay, New Delhi, India, DAVOS, Switzerland, Davos, U.S, America

☆ Stocks to buy for the next leg of the bull market, according to a money manager who helps run $1 trillion
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-19 | by ( Yun Li | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

The S & P 500 just notched a record high to declare its bull market status, but according to one money manager who helps oversee more than $1 trillion, there are a few names investors could focus on for the next leg of the cycle. "We're concerned about U.S. consumers, who are burdened by record levels of credit card debt at elevated interest rates." .SPX 1Y mountain S & P 500 The S & P 500 , which hit an all-time intraday peak on Friday, roared back at the end of 2023, notching a 24% gain for the year. Infrastructure stocks Malik believes that global infrastructure companies benefit from inelastic demand for the necessary services they provide, and are thus insulated from most recession risks. "Both dividend growth and global infrastructure stocks have historically weathered down markets relatively well," Malik said.

Persons: Saira Malik, Malik, that's, Linde Organizations: Investors, Fed, CNBC Pro, Motorola Solutions, Deutsche Bank, Motorola, CMS Energy Locations: Jackson, Michigan

☆ Motorola wants you to wear its new flexible smartphone around your wrist like a slap bracelet. See how the concept works.
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-25 | by ( Sarah Jackson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Motorola unveiled a concept for a smartphone you can wear on your wrist like a big slap bracelet. The "adaptive display" concept can also be folded multiple ways to stand upright, like a standard phone. It's not the first bendy phone; Motorola flaunted another foldable phone as recently as 2016. Motorola showed off its new concept for a smartphone that you can wear like a slap bracelet on your wrist at the annual Lenovo Tech World event held this week. Lenovo, which owns Motorola, had another concept for a phone you could wrap around your wrist at its Tech World event in 2016.

Persons: It's, —, They've Organizations: Motorola, Service, Lenovo Tech, Lenovo, Tech, Moxi, Samsung

☆ People are obsessed with a wild YouTube live stream where testers repeatedly open and close flip smartphones. It's gone on for nearly a week: Samsung's phone still works, but Motorola's is broken.
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-08 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

So he recruited volunteers to open and close the flip smartphones repeatedly on a live stream. People are going wild over an ongoing YouTube live stream where testers repeatedly open and close flip smartphones until they break. There are a couple hundred people watching the live stream no matter what time you tune in." Last year, the YouTuber ran a similar experiment with Samsung's Galaxy Z Flip 3. "I definitely wouldn't do this unless they gave me a new z flip," another person said in the chat.

Persons: Klawiter, we're Organizations: Samsung Locations: Polish

☆ Motorola forecasts upbeat revenue on robust security solutions demand
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-03 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Aug 3 (Reuters) - Motorola Solutions (MSI.N) on Thursday raised its full-year revenue and profit forecasts on robust demand for the telecommunications equipment provider's integrated security solutions. The Chicago-based company now expects full-year revenue in the range of $9.88 billion to $9.90 billion, compared with its previous expectations of $9.73 billion to $9.78 billion. Motorola projected third-quarter adjusted profit in the range of $2.99 to $3.04 per share, compared with estimates of $3 per share. Second-quarter adjusted net income attributable to Motorola solutions stood at $458 million, compared with $354 million a year ago. The U.S. government and home office of the United Kingdom are the largest customers of Motorola Solutions.

Persons: Greg Brown, Jaspreet Singh, Maju Samuel Organizations: Motorola Solutions, Motorola, Thomson Locations: Chicago, U.S, United Kingdom, Bengaluru

☆ Some people are apparently ditching their iPhones for a foldable Razr model. Yes, the kind that was popular 20 years ago.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-03 | by ( Tim Paradis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A Motorola exec said that one in five people buying a model of its foldable phone were iPhone users. Apple is rumored to be making — or at least investigating making — a foldable phone of its own. One in five people purchasing Motorola's Razr phone apparently gave up an iPhone to do so. Yi's comments came ahead of the June 23 release of the Razr Plus phone, which features a larger screen and starts at $999.99. Foldable phones are a blast from the pastAnd for all the retro energy of flip phones, there's no guarantee that younger buyers will embrace them.

Persons: Allison Yi, Yi's, it's, It's, Zers, Stephanie Elliot, Elliot Organizations: Motorola, CNET, Apple, Google, Samsung Locations: America

Motorola announced its new Razr and Razr Plus foldable phones on June 1. Motorola's Razr Plus fixes my biggest issue with clamshell-style foldable phonesThe Razr Plus doesn't have the bottom lip that the previous model had, which makes for a cleaner look. Now, the Razr and Razr Plus have a modern clamshell design, where both halves are identical and flat. Motorola's standard Razr could be the most affordable foldable phone you can buyThe standard Razr also lacks the bottom lip of the previous Razr iteration for a cleaner overall look. Motorola Razr and Razr Plus specs

Persons: Antonio Villas, I'm, Villas, Sage, that's, You'll, That's Organizations: Motorola, Spectrum Mobile, Google, Optimum, Boas, Qualcomm, Samsung Galaxy, Samsung, Motorola hasn't, preorder Locations: 165Hz, 144Hz

☆ The evolution of Motorola phones, from the bag phone to the iconic Razr flip phone that's making a comeback this year
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-05 | by ( Britney Nguyen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: 1 min

Motorola DynaTAC 8000XThe Motorola DynaTAC 8000x MotorolaMotorola's DynaTAC (Dynamic Adaptive Total Area Coverage) line started with the DynaTAC 8000x which launched in 1984. It cost $3,995 when it was released. The Motorola DynaTAC 8000X was a result of a race between Motorola and Bell Labs. Former Motorola vice president Martin Cooper made the first private call from a mobile phone to Joel Engel, his Bell Labs rival. Source: PCMag, mobilecollectors.net, Insider

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