Google and Motorola's first phone together, the Moto X is now official. Its the first phone in a long time to be fully assembled in the US. The Moto X features a 4.7-inch 720p AMOLED display, with a pixel density of 316 PPI. THe screen has a new type of Gorilla Glass protection, called Magic Glass which curves towards the edges of the phone.
Specifications
Talking about its innards, the Motorola Moto X features the company's new X8 Engine, which is built around a Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro chipset with dual 1.7GHz Krait cores, Adreno 320 GPU and 2GB RAM. The X8 Engine allows for Natural language processing which gives the Moto X to have an always on mic to listen to your commands, and contextual computing which transfers jobs to specific cores when required.
Internal storage can be 16GB or 32GB, but there's no expansion. On the imaging front, the Moto X has a 10MP primary camera with f/2.4 lens, and Clear Pixel technology for better low-light imaging. The phone can shoot full-HD videos at 30FPS. There's also a 2MP front-facing camera that too can record 1080p videos, if you want.
The Moto X is a very petite device if you consider its has a 4.7-inch display with a varying thickness between 5.6 to 10.4mm, and dimensions of 129.3 x 65.3 with a weight of 130 grams. Everything is powered by its 2200mAh battery, which is rated for 13 hours on 3G and about 24 hours of mixed usage.
The phone runs on Android 4.2, and is almost completely stock apart from a few features that Motorola has thrown in. One of them is Active Display, using which only a small portion of the display lights up to show notifications which are actionable.
Customizations
Motorola decided that specs weren't the way to entice the average user, instead they wanted to focus in making a more personal phone. That's where the Moto X comes in. You can choose whether the front panel is black or white, plus you can choose the color and texture of the back panel from 18 options. But that's not all, you can also customize accents which include the camera rim and hardware buttons. You can also customize the back cover with a name or a short message, as well as choose a Google Account to come pre-configured along with a default wallpaper.
Availability
The Moto Z will be available on all five major US carriers AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, Sprint and US Cellular for $200 for the 16GB variant, and $250 for the 32GB variant on a 2-year contract.
