Lawsuits, competition weigh on Motorola

The company shipped 10.5 million mobile devices in the quarter, including 5.3 million smartphones. That's more smartphones, however fewer phones in total, than it shipped in the third quarter. It didn't say how many tablets it had shipped.

License fees for patents

Motorola has chosen to battle some of its adversaries in court in other words than agree to pay a license fees for patents. Many of its competitors, including HTC and Samsung, decided to pay Microsoft for patented technologies it says are used in their Android phones. Motorola is as well fighting Apple in court.

Some experts suspect that Google agreed to purchase Motorola to be able to leverage Motorola's significant patent portfolio against Android attackers.

Nancy Gohring covers mobile phones and cloud computing for The IDG News Service. Follow Nancy on Twitter at @idgnancy. Nancy's e-mail address is Nancy_Gohring@idg.com

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