One of the burning questions we all have after hearing this morning's news of Google's $12.5 billion bid for Motorola Mobility is: what does this mean for the next Nexus device?

Will Google leverage its acquisition to build Android phones that look and function exactly how Google wants them to, a move that would postion the company to compete more directly with Apple? Or will it continue to anoint one handset maker as the temporary "king" of Android devices through the same process it uses now?

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