It had staged a resurgence by the mid-2000s with the RAZR, but lost market share in the second half of that decade. Also known as the Personal Communication Sector (PCS) prior to 2004, it pioneered the 'mobile phone' with DynaTAC, 'flip phone' with the MicroTAC as well as the 'clam phone' with the StarTAC in the mid-1990s.

Motorola's wireless telephone handset division was a pioneer in cellular telephones. Google sold Motorola Home (the former General Instrument cable businesses) to the Arris Group in December 2012 for US$2.35 billion. These businesses (except for set-top boxes and cable modems) are now part of Motorola Solutions. Its business and government customers consisted mainly of wireless voice and broadband systems (used to build private networks), and, public safety communications systems like Astro and Dimetra. Motorola's home and broadcast network products included set-top boxes, digital video recorders, and network equipment used to enable video broadcasting, computer telephony, and high-definition television. Motorola designed and sold wireless network equipment such as cellular transmission base stations and signal amplifiers. Motorola Mobility was acquired by Lenovo in 2014. Motorola Solutions is generally considered to be the direct successor to Motorola, Inc., as the reorganization was structured with Motorola Mobility being spun off.

After having lost $4.3 billion from 2007 to 2009, the company split into two independent public companies, Motorola Mobility and Motorola Solutions on January 4, 2011. ( / ˌ m oʊ t ə ˈ r oʊ l ə/ ) was an American multinational telecommunications company based in Schaumburg, Illinois, United States.

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