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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 deal includes oth