Even Nokia, the volume leader in cellphone sales worldwide, is positioning itself as a maker of phones geared as much for entertainment as for calling.
In 2004, Jamdat, a maker of mobile phone games that was later acquired by Electronic Arts, created a cellphone game based on Neopets.
Motorola, a maker of mobile phone and other telecommunications equipment based in Schaumburg, Ill., reported a profit of $4 million, in contrast to a loss of $28 million in the period a year earlier.
Mr. Wels, who when not picking locks is an executive at CryptoPhone, a maker of secure phone systems, said he, too, came to lock picking from the hacker scene.
Li's LL Group owns about 2.4% of BYD, a maker of mobile phone batteries that has evolved into one of China's largest non-government-owned carmakers.
Revolar's new boss: Brian Thomas, the former CEO of Fort Collins, CO-based OtterBox, a maker of cell phone cases with reported revenue of $2 billion.
The problem is the other half, Motorola Mobility, a maker of mobile phones and TV set-top boxes.Motorola's mobile-phone business has been struggling since its RAZR handsets fell out of fashion in the late 2000s.
The deal will help Gemplus establish links in the United States, where the smart card is yet to be embraced.Qualcomm, a mobile-phone technology company, said it would buy SnapTrack, a maker of mobile-phone location-equipment, in an all-share deal worth around $1 billion.
This matters, because the web giant pocketed thousands of patents when in 2011 it gobbled up Motorola Mobility, a maker of mobile phones and other devices.
