Looks like the Moto Z StyleMods got a premature reveal

The Moto Z‘s rumored MotoMods don’t just stop at functionality. As much as you can get a better speaker or an extended battery for your new Motorola/Lenovo device, modular fashion is also going to play a big part in pushing the device to certain consumers. That’s according to a few leaks of the ...

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Early-adopter blues: is it smarter to wait for new phones?

I’m writing this literally minutes after pulling the trigger on a new Moto X purchase. It will be at my doorstep in five days, and it’s exactly the phone I’ve wanted ever since Motorola unveiled the line back in July. So why didn’t I get it earlier? The Moto X has been on sale for months – so long, in fact, that we’ve already published our durability report and an

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Pocketnow Weekly 080: HTC M8 x, Galaxy Note 3 Neo, a $50 Motorola smartphone & a resurgent BlackBerry

 ”Our revels now are ended, Kirk.” That’s a quote from Star Trek VI, paraphrasing a line from Shakespeare’s The Tempest. In the latter instance (minus the “Kirk” bit) it’s a conceit of sorts, an admission that the play is a falsehood – and an observation that so, perhaps, is life. In the former example it’s a wisecrack from a Klingon bent on shooting our favorite captain’s ship out from under him. In both cases, it’s a kind of farewell. And in today’s example, it’s also a goodbye – to the old times. ...

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Pocketnow Weekly 075: 2K screens, iris scanners, and learning to use a Jolla

Just what use would an iris scanner be on a smartphone? When will 2K displays take over the smartphone world (and why should we care)? How exactly does one spell “Magotes,” anyway? If these questions have ever crossed your worried minds -and even if they haven’t- the second-to-last episode of the Pocketnow Weekly’s 2013 season is right up your twisted alley, friend. But even if you’re not interested in such tomfoolery, there’s still plenty here to ping your pong. In this episode we talk headline-grabbing rumors like the Galaxy S 5 and wooden Moto X, yes ...

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Who needs a Moto X? Here’s what a mahogany Nexus 4 looks like (Video)

There was a time when a phone was just a phone. Nowadays we want to customize them. We want to personalize them. We want them in all kinds of different colors. After Motorola started hinting that its Moto X would be available in a wood finish, dbrand got to work. Pocketnow’s Taylor Martin and I both have a few products from dbrand, Inc. which we’ve shown off on Pocketnow Live and talked about on Pocketnow Weekly. On August 19th, 2013, dbrand 

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