Moto X by Lenovo may have been benchmarked

April 20 was a working day for someone who had a “Motorola XT1650.” And the only smoke that came up was the cooking that the Snapdragon 820 did.Yep, some Motorola phone may have been tested on Geekbench and it’s put up some decent scores for the chipset running the test (single-core score around 2,300 and multi-core around 5,300). This is the first such major benchmark reading we’ve reported on for the device that’s expected to become the

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Motorola, not Lenovo, is third-most preferred smartphone brand in US

As if the title didn’t hook enough bait, people aren’t buying the phones we’re looking at.Kantar Worldpanel posted a comprehensive review of some of the major trends going on in the smartphone markets these days — specifically, the US, EU’s biggest five economies and urbanized China. We’ll zoom in first to the brand preference figures.Of course, Apple and Samsung rule the board in some way. The EU5 have Samsung square on top at 37 percent while Apple is at 29 percent. China’s top three come in descending order to

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And by the way, the Moto G and E aren’t guaranteed fingerprint sensors

An interview with Lenovo SVP Chen Xudong has been strung out and splayed apart over and over again as bloggers translating the transcript have been left drawing some troubling conclusions. One of those conclusions was that the company would be dropping the Moto E and Moto G, Motorola Mobility’s best-selling phone of all-time, from future production.However, Chen only said that the Moto G will continue to face challenges in high-priced markets. ...

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Don’t panic, the Moto G and E are alive and well, with Lenovo focused on moving them forward

That’s what happens when you use Google Translate on an ample Chinese language interview, and try to read between the lines of the raw end result. You get major misunderstandings, like the one that caused uproar among cash-strapped Android enthusiasts following alleged comments from a Lenovo exec concerning the possible retirement of the uber-successful Moto G and Moto E ...

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Lenovo SVP dishes on what to expect from Moto by Lenovo in 2016

We’re well into year number two of Lenovo ownership of Motorola and the parent company has cleaned house with its mobile operations. With all research, design and production moved to Chicago and branding changed up, the task at hand now comes down to making good phones and selling them.Lenovo senior vice president Chen Xudong’s ...

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CES 2016 on fleek | Pocketnow Weekly 182

Vice City. Full of fattening foods, business propositions of the nether regions, fewer grand theft auto charges than you’d think would be there and — for one week out of the whole year — tech here, tech there and tech everywhere. I don’t know how Pocketnow’s largest ground crew survived through all of it, but they did. And they’re here to tell the tale.(Recorded) LIVE from CES 2016, this is episode 182 of the Pocketnow Weekly! Check out the high-quality audio version of our podcast right here or on your podcasting feeds starting today at 11:00am Eastern or ...

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