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Motorola’s Wireless Technology Through the Years

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When Google bought Motorola mobility last week, it acquired nearly a century of wireless innovation. Technology Review’s got a full rundown of Motorola’s past from radios to smartphones. Here’s a few of our favorite technologies from that list.

https://gizmodo.com/google-is-buying-motorola-5830842

Above is a reproduction of Motorola’s brand car radio model 5T71, first released in 1930. [Technology Review]

In 2009 Motorola revolutionized the market for Android smartphones with its first Droid.

The 1995 Motorola Tango two-way personal messaging pager, which could send and receive text messages and email, anticipated the future of mobile communication.

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