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Campaign Asia reports that gadget maker Lenovo will stop marketing smartphones with its own brand name and adopt the Moto label from here on out.
The company acquired Motorola from Google for $2.91 billion in 2014. It previously announced plans to phase out the 'Motorola' name for handsets at the beginning of this year; the new change comes along with a shake-up of the company's leadership.
It'll be interesting to see how this plays out for the Moto brand. As Android Police noted, there's a risk of diluting the sensible nomenclature that Moto currently uses to differentiate its high-end, mid-range and budget phones; Lenovo makes a wide variety of handsets, including the first one to feature Google's Project Tango AR tech.
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Lenovo is Ditching its Own Brand Name to Make Way for 'Moto'
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by frojack on Sunday November 13 2016, @04:53AM
Perhaps we need a proper law stating that hardware must be maintained indefintely, when the source code is not published.
The problem is the radios. The FCC is not about to turn a programmable over to joe random programmer.
So the route to your law is that the radio chipset must be totally self contained, and not rely on an external binary blob.
Then, you could build the ASOP android version at will, and there would be no need for a locked phone or bootloader.
Personally, I'd settle for an ability to remove any software from the phone not necessary for its operation without requiring a jailbreak or voiding a warranty.
Outlaw non-removable bloatware, and let people remove it and everyone wins.
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