Motorola X Phone Release Date and Specs Confirmed by Company at Media Event
The Motorola X Phone release date and specs were finally confirmed by the company at a media event in NYC earlier today.
The new device will feature a 4.7-inch screen with a curved back, a 10-megapixel camera, the option of a white or black body, 16GB or internal memory, and no microSD card slot. Google will offer up to 50GB of free Google Drive storage for Moto X owners for the next two years. The device will not run the latest version of Android, but will instead come with Android 4.2.2, JellyBean out of the box.
The smartphone will be available on all four major U.S. carriers including AT&T, Verizon Wireless, Sprint and T-Mobile. It will also launch for U.S. Cellular. National retailers such as Best Buy will carry the device. T-Mobile customers will also be able to purchase it directly through the company at Motorola.com.
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Motorola will allow its customers to customize their Moto X online and can have it built to order from the company's Fort Worth, Texas factory. It has set up a website with an interactive web-based tool called Moto maker that allows people to custom build their smartphone. They will be able to choose from 16 colors for the back of the device along with seven accent colors that will be used to highlight the sides and rim around the back camera. The front of the device comes in just white and black.
Unsurprisingly, the Moto X Phone features the same X8 computing system as the latest models in the Droid line.
Motorola chose to go with a 4.7-inch screen so that users would be able to hold the smartphone in the palm of their hand. It also makes it less bulky than some of the other flagship handsets available on the market such as the Galaxy S4.
The Moto X Phone will go on sale later on this month and will retail for $199 with a new two-year contract.
