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On September 25, 1928, Paul V. Galvin and his brother, Joseph, incorporated Motorola's founding company — Galvin Manufacturing Corporation — in Chicago, Illinois, USA
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Galvin Manufacturing Corporation's first product was a 1928 battery eliminator. This power converter allowed battery-powered radios to run on household electricity. The company's first customer was Sears, Roebuck and Co., which sold battery eliminators to consumers
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- In June 1955 Motorola introduced a new brand logo, the stylized "M" insignia, or "emsignia." A company leader said the two aspiring triangle peaks arching into an abstracted "M" typified the progressive leadership-minded outlook of the company.
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Robert W. Galvin, son of company founder Paul V. Galvin, became president of Motorola, Inc. in 1956
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In 1973 Motorola demonstrated a prototype design for the DynaTAC (Dynamic Adaptive Total Area Coverage) portable radiotelephone, using cellular radio technology.
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Motorola demonstrated the world's first GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) working-prototype cellular system and phones in Hanover, Germany, in 1991
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1946: Car Radiotelephone
On October 2, 1946, Motorola communications equipment carried the first calls on Illinois Bell Telephone Company's new car radiotelephone service in Chicago, Illinois, USA -
Motorola introduced the MING touch screen smart phone in Asia in 2006. It used advanced handwriting software to recognize more than 10,000 handwritten characters of the Chinese alphabet.
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In February 2009, Motorola announced shipment of its one millionth TETRA terminal. The customer receiving this milestone terminal was the Jordan Armed Forces (JAF).
