Motorola X Phone Release Date Set for Aug. 23 on Major US Carriers

By Vincent Funaro, Christian Post Reporter Wednesday, August 07, 2013

The Motorola X Phone release date is set for Aug. 23 on all of the major U.S. carriers.

The new smartphone will be available on AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile and Sprint starting on that date, according to a post from AdAge. Another tip-based report from yesterday confirmed the date for Verizon.

AdAge claims to have received this information from unnamed "people familiar with the matter." The report also highlights that the "design yourself" option will be an AT&T exclusive until early November. The other three will offer this service right before the holidays hit.

The Motorola X Phone release 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.

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.

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.