Lenovo’s decision to purchase the Motorola smartphone division has been more than vindicated with its latest Q32014-15 results, which beat business analyst consensus and showed Motorola shipping more than 10 million units, up 118 percent year-over-year, for US$1.9 billion additional revenue.

Yuanqing Yang, chairman and CEO of Lenovo, said of Motorola and his other new acquisition, the IBM System X assets: “The two newly acquired businesses are achieving great momentum in their first quarter of integration.  They are definitely becoming our growth engines. Motorola is already a global strength: for the first time it sold more than 10 million units in the quarter and it is now re-entering the China market.”

Furthermore, Lenovo emphasises, “unlike many smaller mobile phone players that rely almost completely on a slowing China market, Lenovo now drives about 60 percent of its mobile phone volumes outside China, having entered 67 countries in the last two years.” Plus, “Combining shipments of Motorola and Lenovo-branded devices made Lenovo a truly global player, the third largest vendor of smartphones behind Samsung and Apple and their most credible challenger. Together, the two brands had nearly 6.6 percent market share, up 78 percent year-on-year.”

With the latest iterations of the Moto G and X devices building on the hit status of their predecessors, Lenovo looks well entrenched in the mobile sector, and likely to build out further from here. That’s a whole lotta Moto.

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