Motorola makes electronic equipment.
Motorola ( [ ˌmoʊtəˈroʊlə ] ) was an American multinational telecommunications company founded on September 25 , 1928 , based in Schaumburg , Illinois . Motorola designed and sold wireless network equipment such as cellular transmission base stations and signal amplifiers . The first phone to use the newest version of Google 's open source OS , Android 2.0 , was released on November 2 , 2009 as the Motorola Droid ( the GSM version launched a month later , in Europe , as the Motorola Milestone ) . Telecommunication . 20th and 21st century technologies for long-distance communication usually involve electrical and electromagnetic technologies , such as telegraph , telephone , and teleprinter , networks , radio , microwave transmission , fiber optics , and communications satellites .