The nightmare is over for US Moto X Pure Edition owners awaiting Android Nougat

So what if the Moto X Pure Edition runs "pure" Android? The 2015 phone still waited more than a year to get its official 7.0 Nougat update.

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The Moto X Pure Edition goes like hotcakes on Best Buy

Michael Fisher is just getting his hands off of our review for the Motorola Moto X Pure Edition (check back for our text edition), a smartphone that’s already had some tribulations in the carrier department. Fortunately, those have been solved and we’re onto focusing on consumer reception. It was just yesterday that Best Buy ...

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Lenovo “Lemon X” a last gasp before Motorola-ization?

In the face of Lenovo’s and subsidiary Motorola’s major cuts in workforce and a redoubling of the latter’s brand on the mobile division’s output, this development came without warning. Yet, we’ve come to start relying on leakers who have begun building their credibility with us. Then again, a leak is a leak, so we should all be taking the grain of salt we’ve been ...

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Moto X Play coming to the US as the Verizon DROID Maxx 2, Droid Turbo 2 tipped

When Motorola announced the Moto X Play on July 28 (together with the Style/Pure), many were disappointed that the manufacturer revealed no plans to make the Moto X Play available in the US. As the phone is making its way to retailers (and lucky early owners’ hands), there was a

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The gift of the Nexii | Pocketnow Weekly 160

Update (8 Aug, 2:00pm Eastern): “Make them laugh, make them cry, make them wait.” – Charles DickensThe latter ain’t the case this week. Enjoy.Sometimes the news comes not in a solid column from a single direction, but as a scattershot shower-spray from every corner of the space. Today’s podcast reflects just such a week in mobile technology, with tech news as far-flung and varied as the menu items on an appetizer mixer from Applebee’s.All that (plus a larger-than-normal helping of your listener mail) is waiting for your ears on episode 160 of your ...

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Motorola has lost its way with the new Moto X models

It wasn’t that long ago when Motorola was bought and later spun off from Google. Motorola is now held by Lenovo. Thankfully for us, much of what Motorola was before the Google acquisition has survived. Motorola’s biggest strength has arguably been it’s great hardware – and its direct-to-the-customer ability to customize those phones – to an extent. However, in 2015, that’s all changed – and the 2015 Moto X makes it look like Motorola that we used to know may have lost its way.In recent years, Motorola highlighted three phones: The Moto E, Moto ...

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Flagship-killing phablets and Windows to a new world | Pocketnow Weekly 159

Update: The podcast has been updated with audio from our Motorola event editorial roundtable. Enjoy!The flagship killer might’ve just gotten killed by a killer flagship! A new phablet might make former phablets obsolete! Windows Update just updated its last Windows! And your gaming tablet’s so hot it’s about to catch fire?! You can’t get much … hotter than that. Amirite?The news of the week in mobile technology is up next, from OnePlus to Windows to Motorola and beyond –plus your listener mail– on episode 159 of the Pocketnow Weekly! So say your ...

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Did all the Moto G and Moto X leaks build the hype, or just ruin your surprise?

We all love new devices. Smartphones are the very heart of sites like Pocketnow, and product launches just mean more smartphones for us to experience. Just the other day, Motorola unveiled its 2015 Moto G and Moto X lineup, and we’re already spending time with the Moto G, and eagerly awaiting the inevitable flood of Moto X review units to come. But before we got our hands on the new Moto series, before Motorola had the ...

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