Google just announced that it intends to purchase Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion.
Motorola Mobility, which is one of the two halves Motorola broke into in January 2011, makes a ton of quality gadgets like smartphones, tablets, navigation systems, and accessories.
Google will soon own it all, assuming the deal is approved by US and European governments.
Here are all the amazing gadgets leading up to the big deal.
The original Motorola Droid was a game-changer
When Motorola launched the Droid in October 2009, a new breed of smartphones was born. The phone launched just a month after Google and Verizon cut a deal to work on Android phones together.
The "Droid Does" marketing campaign Motorola launched finally gave the public a sense of what Google's Android operating system was capable of. The phone won TIME's "Gadget of the Year" award in 2009.
The Droid has since seen two more iterations, the Droid 2 and Droid 3, which have also been very successful.
DROID X was the first smartphone behemoth
The Motorola Droid X is a huge seller for Verizon and Motorola.
When it launched in July of 2010, it was one of the first real gargantuan-phones with 4+ inch screens. It also had the power to back it up: a 1Ghz processor and 512 MB of RAM.
In May of this year, Motorola released the dual-core sequel to the Droid X, the Droid X2.
The Motorola XOOM was the first Honeycomb tablet
The Motorola XOOM launched in February 2011 as the flagship Android tablet device running Google's brand new Honeycomb 3.0 operating system.
Even though Honeycomb gave a pretty poor showing out of the gates (due to bugginess and lackluster selection of apps), the XOOM hardware was pretty impressive, and paved the way for Android tablets of the future.
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