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联想收购摩托罗拉，挺进美国智能手机市场 In Motorola Purchase, Lenovo Gains Big Footprint in Smartphones联想收购摩托罗拉，挺进美国智能手机市场 TOKYO — Apple and Samsung Electronics dominate the smartphone business, controlling about half of the sales and most of the profits. An ever-changing roster of also-rans has struggled to close the gap. Now one of those challengers, Lenovo, has broken free of the pack and pushed itself into a clear No. 3 position with an agreement to buy Motorola Mobility from Google. 东京——苹果(Apple)和三星电子(Samsung Electronics)目前在智能手机行业占主导地位，它们控制着大约一半的市场份额以及大部分利润。尽管新的参与者不断涌现，但都难以超越这两家公司。如今，作为其中的一名挑战者，联想集团凭借着从谷歌(Google)手中收购摩托罗拉移动公司(Motorola Mobility)的协议力压群雄，无可辩驳地坐上第三把交椅。 Assuming the deal is completed, do Samsung and Apple need to start looking over their shoulders? Not yet, it seems. 那么，如果联想完成交易，三星和苹果是不是该开始担心自己的地位了？似乎还没这个必要。 Motorola sells its flagship phone, the Moto X, in the United States for more than double the price of some Lenovo smartphones in China.在美国，摩托罗拉旗舰手机Moto X无合约版售价399美元，是联想部分智能手机在中国售价的两倍多。 With a combined share of 6.4 percent of smartphone sales in the fourth quarter of 2013, Lenovo and Motorola would still be only a distant third to Samsung, with 29 percent, and Apple, with 17 percent, according to Counterpoint Technology Market Research. Motorola, with barely more than 1 percent of the smartphone market share, is a shadow of the company whose Razr handsets were the must-have devices of the pre-smartphone era. Counterpoint 技术市场研究公司(Counterpoint Technology Market Research)的数据显示，2013年第四季度，联想和摩托罗拉的智能手机合并销量在整个市场的比重为6.4%，距三星和苹果仍然有较大差距。三星和苹果的份额分别是29%和17%。摩托罗拉在智能手机市场的份额仅仅超过1%，早已不复昔日辉煌，而在智能手机出现之前，摩托罗拉的Razr手机几乎是一款必不可少的设备。 No other mobile phone maker has managed to climb back after falling from the heights. And Google piled up millions of dollars in losses from Motorola during a brief ownership that began in 2012. 迄今为止，没有其他手机制造商能从如此巅峰跌落后东山再起。从2012年收购了摩托罗拉以来，在不长的时间里，谷歌承受了摩托罗拉带来的巨额亏损。 But Lenovo executives say the Motorola brand remains valuable. And analysts agree that the dea