A trailblazer in wireless communications development, Motorola was a market leader in mobile phones in the 2000s thanks to models such as the fashionable RAZR, seen here being promoted by Paris Hilton in 2006. Despite its huge popularity, Motorola was too slow to join the smartphone game, and was quickly overtaken by Blackberry and then Apple.

The company has since become a bit of a hot potato, having been bought and sold by Google, and is now in the hands of Lenovo. Who knows where the company would be had it embraced the billion-dollar appetite for smartphones earlier?

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