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Motorola today filed paperwork with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission indicating that it expects to conclude its sale to Google by Wednesday, May 23. "As the transaction has now received all required regulatory approvals, the companies are moving to close the transaction within two business days," said Motorola. Chinese anti-trust regulators approved the deal over the weekend, though Google had to agree to keep Android open for five years as a condition of winning approval. The deal already has the approval U.S. and European government bodies. Google agreed last August to acquire Motorola for $12.5 billion. Along with Motorola's smartphone and cable box businesses, Google will also acquire some 17,000 patents.

The CEOs and legal counsel of Apple and Samsung plan to meet today in hopes of resolving the on-going patent-related lawsuits between the two companies. Apple is sending CEO Tim Cook and General Counsel Bruce Sewell, while Samsung is sending CEO Choi Gee-sung and Chief Legal Officer Kim Hyun-chong. A judge overseeing several of the lawsuits arranged for the meeting to take place. It is unclear whether or not the talks will lead to a resolution that ends the patents wars. Both companies have filed lawsuits against one another around the globe. Each is seeking to block the imports of the other's products into various countries, including the U.S.

Voyager Mobile, which delayed its planned May 15 launch due to an attack on its web site, has gotten off the ground and is now offering wireless services. Voyager sells access to Sprint's EVDO 3G and WiMax 4G networks and is offering two service plans. The first plan costs $19 per month and includes unlimited talk and text. The second plan costs $39 per month and includes unlimited talk, text, and data. Both plans are pre-paid, but do not include local, state, and federal taxes. The company sells feature phones and Android smartphones ranging from $120 to $550 in price. Some include the Motorola Photon 4G, Samsung Galaxy Epic 4G Touch, Motorola XPRT, and others. Voyager Mobile also offers two USB dongles, a mobile hotspot, and Android-based tablets from HTC and ZTE. The company has a web-based sales footprint in 18 states, and will eventually be available across the U.S. in the coming weeks. Voyager Mobile hopes its products will be available in various nationwide retail locations in the future.

HTC indicated over the weekend that some of the handsets blocked at the U.S. border due to an ITC exclusion order have been admitted into the country after passing an examination. "Some of our products have passed the review and have been delivered to our telecoms operators' clients in the U.S.," HTC said in a statement provided to the Taipei Times. HTC didn't say which handsets were admitted into the U.S. Both the One X and EVO 4G LTE were held up thanks to a patent violation. The delay at the border forced Sprint to postpone the planned May 18 launch of the EVO 4G LTE.

Samsung Galaxy S III will be making its way to all four major carriers in the States. However, T-Mobile’s Galaxy S III has appeared on FCC. The device code number classified its identity, the SGH-T999. The bands sports T-Mobile’s, including their new AWS expansion, unfortunately no LTE.

It’s no surprised for us since T-Mobile’s LTE won’t starts to work until 2013 at the earliest. The good thing out of this is quad-core Exynos processor can be used which similar as the international version of Galaxy S III. No launch date confirmed yet.

[via AndroidCommunity]