Moto X Is Alive!
Motorola’s expected to launch a Moto X series phone in 2017!
Motorola garnered significant attention with their recent modular smartphone, the Moto Z, and people began to speculate that in subsequent flagships from the brand would continue the modular smartphones lineage.
However, Motorola seems to be taking the unexpected route of releasing the Next Big One without these Mods-capabilities and will be resorting to stock features trademark of its earlier flagship models.
But there’s a surprise. With the launch of Moto Z this year and no Moto X series devices for a while now, a lot of folks had surmised that the Moto X series had been culled (permanently). Yet, to the relief of Motorola fans including many at Chip-Monks, Lenovo made it clear that the Moto X series will not be discontinued!
Not only is the X series alive and clicking, there are speculations that a new Moto X device will be released in 2017. To add fuel to the speculations, some leaked images have surfaced, that show a new Moto device as a natural successor to the September 2015-released Moto X Style.
The leaked image posted by Twitter user Evan Blass hints at a design akin to the ongoing Moto G series. Motorola has always tried to distinguish the Moto series basis premium feel and not design. The smartphones therefore look similar from the front but each is different from the other in its own respect.
From the pictures, it is clear that the new smartphone sports a round Moto 360-like dial-camera at the rear which made its debut on the Moto Z, Z Force and Z Play. The new Moto X doesn’t seem to have the connectors for the Moto Mods, however, in terms of design and build, the phone seems to have a metal finish at the back just like the recently launched Moto M.
The new Moto M — Motorola’s first all-metal smartphone — has been launched exclusively on Flipkart in the Indian market. The Moto M comes with a 5.5 inches Full HD Super AMOLED display in two memory and RAM variants in India — a 32 GB + 3 GB model priced at INR 15,999, and the 64 GB + 4 GB version that costs INR 17,999.
The Dual-SIM (Nano-SIM) device runs on Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow and has a 64-bit MediaTek P15 Octa-core processor with a fingerprint sensor at the rear.
In case of the Moto X (2017), we believe it might sport a 5.5 or 5.7 inch screen with a physical home button which will serve as a fingerprint sensor.
No information about any other specs of the device are available as yet, however the smartphone is expected to be made available in Gold and Silver color variants.
Its interesting to know that before this, the new Moto X was also spotted on CCC certification website which pointed out a Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 chipset with 4 GB RAM in this device. The display here was indicated to be a 5.5-inch AMOLED one with shatterproof glass atop.
Going a little back in time, in 2015 Motorola had launched three Moto X variants — Moto X Play, Moto X Style and Moto X Force. To refresh your memory, Moto X Play symbolized durability, Moto X Style offered mid-range flagship specifications and last Moto X Force had the shatterproof glass as its USP combined with specs similar to Moto X Style.
It is still vague as to whether the company plans to revive all three variants or would be interested on focusing only on the new 2017 variant, as with Lenovo becoming the parent company, Moto has changed its product portfolio by introducing multiple variants of a single series.
Motorola has been able to attain quite a lot of success with the Moto X series. The company has been able to offer a fusion of decent specs at competitive prices. It will be interesting to see whether the new Moto X can make a mark in the smartphone market like its predecessor, despite an even more competitive market nowadays.
Originally published at Chip-Monks.
