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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When Motorola announced the new Moto X Pure Edition (the Moto X Style outside the US) late last month, it didn’t get very specific about when sales might start. While it noted that the “Moto X Style will be available in countries across Europe, Latin America and North America starting in September,” that still left a window of several weeks, and for as anxious as Motorola fans have been to get their hands on the phone, that’s more uncertainty that we’d like. Today Motorola finally ...
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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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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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Motorola’s highly anticipated smartphones were finally revealed last week, but it wasn’t quite what we expected. Yes, we did get the Moto X and the Moto G, but it didn’t stop there. Motorola decided to give us, not two, but three smartphones, breaking up the Moto X family into the Moto X Play and the Moto X Style. It’s enough to make you say, “wait, what?” when you take a gander at these two phones. Because after that gander, you start to see something a little distressing.I won’t rehash the specifications for you; you can read about those
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Hop on over to Motorola’s website and you can already engage with the company’s Moto Maker tool to start customizing a new Moto G – well, so long as you’re not demanding the not-currently-available 16GB/2GB option. But while the third-gen Moto G has found a home with the Moto Maker, Motorola’s new flagship Moto X has yet to ...
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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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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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For those of you keeping track, until a few weeks ago my daily driver was the Motorola-made Nexus 6. For the time being I’ve switched to the LG G4 with the Qi wireless charging hack Michael Fisher told you about. What you may not know is that I almost didn’t purchase my Nexus 6 – at the time I felt it was simply “too big”. At the time, the next runner up was the Moto X. I went with the Nexus, and after a week I was convinced that I’d made the right choice.But
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Motorola’s back with a new Moto X – two of them, in fact – and the higher-end Moto X Style (coming to the US as the Moto X Pure Edition) breaks new ground as it pushes the Moto X squarely up into the phablet space. It’s big, it’s heavy, and it’s packed to the brim with the latest hardware. We had the opportunity to go hands-on with this new Moto X at today’s launch event, and brought along one of last year’s models to see how the two compare.There’s far more ...
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Motorola has spent the last few years trying to re-invent itself and has succeeded for the most part. In that “most part” we include the fact the company has managed to delight most of us in the tech media to adopt a Moto X as our daily driver, thanks to its user experience and uniqueness. What’s not included in that “most part” is success in sales, as no matter who parents the company, Motorola hasn’t succeeded at regaining its glory RAZR days. We’ve followed tons of rumors regarding a refresh to the
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Yes, the Moto X is out, and there are two versions of it: the Moto X Style, and the Moto X Play. You can check out their full specifications here. You’ll also be glad to know that both of these Moto X variants are configurable via Motorola’s own Moto Maker (and ...
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For you international Motorola users it’s the Moto X Style; here in the States it’s Moto X Pure Edition. But no matter how you label it, this 5.7-incher is the new king of the Motorola smartphone family.While Motorola didn’t reinvent the wheel with the new Moto X, it did make some smart choices about refining the phone’s design, offer new customization options, and giving the handset the sort of premium hardware it will need to compete against both the current crop of Android flagships, as well as all the new devices we’re going to see launch over the next few ...
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It’s a new day and there’s a new device (or two or three) to cover, this time from Motorola. You might’ve heard some fantastical bargain driving from the press releases today, akin to the OnePlus 2’s cover charge. Both the Moto X Style and the Moto X Play are coming below the 400 USD threshold. The Moto G is hovering ...
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We already knew that today would be a day doubly full of Motorola goodness, expecting both a new Moto X and new Moto G, but Motorola has gone ahead and doubled that double, bringing us not one, but two new Moto X smartphones.On one hand we have the indisputably flagship-level Moto X Style, arriving in the US as the Moto X Pure Edition. Packing a phablet-sized display and some very respectable silicon, the handset establishes a new top spot for the Moto X family. But just what sort of hardware comes together to make up a phone like this? Come with us as we take a look at a full spec rundown ...
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