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"By now you\u2019ve probably heard that Lenovo is buying Motorola from Google for $2.91 billion. According to Strategy Analytics, the combination, which I\u2019ve decided to call Lenov-orola for now, would have netted third place among global smartphone vendors last year.\r\n\r\nLenovo ended the year in fifth place overall with an estimated 45.5 million shipments and 4.6 percent market share. By Strategy Analytic\u2019s calculations, Lenovo plus Motorola would have captured 6 percent of the market. That\u2019s enough to leapfrog LG (47.6 million shipments) and Huawei (50.4 million shipments) into third place behind only Samsung and Apple.\r\n\r\nHere are the firm\u2019s original 2013 calculations as released earlier this week:\r\n\r\nIf Motorola did achieve just 1.4 percent global market share in 2013, it\u2019s not much of a surprise that Google decided to scuttle it. That would amount to roughly 14 million units for the year.\r\n\r\nStill, it's too early to start congratulating Lenovo. The acquisition needs to go through regulatory approval before it is finalized and Lenovo can collect its third place medal. You can bet that smartphone vendors like Huawei and LG have already taken note, though.\r\n\r\nImage via\u00A0JOE KLAMAR/AFP/Getty Images"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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