Moto G4 and G4 Plus now available with a legion of Moto Maker options

There are a number of deals to be had already on “standard” Motorola Moto G4 and G4 Plus variants across a few trusted third-party US retailers, but if you’re willing to pay a little extra and make the phones your own, today’s the day you can start ordering customized models straight from the ...

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Moto G4 goes unlocked in US with Moto G4 Plus on July 12

After taking the Moto X Pure Edition to the unlocked market last year, Motorola has decided to open up the fourth-generation Moto G to not just the United States’ GSM networks, but to its CDMA ones, too.The Moto G⁴ and Moto G⁴ Plus are both up for pre-orders right now at the Motorola ...

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Moto Maker and North American availability for Moto G4 detailed

Motorola celebrated the birth of its Moto G⁴ triplets in India today and we seem to still be in baby shower mode.Profiles of the Moto G⁴ models have officially gone up on Motorola’s website, but there’s a telling comparison chart at the bottom of the Moto G family page. Both the standard Moto G⁴ and the Moto G⁴ Style have different eight back coloring options that can be chosen through Moto Maker. It’s down from the 10 the

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Moto X Pure Edition price slinks on down to $299.99 for Mother’s Day

$399.99. $349.99. Now $299.99.Lenovo’s Motorola has been fighting against some real anger for allegedly failing to properly serve its own warranties. On the flipside, we’re all shaking like prairie dogs for the next Moto X to debut. All of this tied back to

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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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Why the Moto X Pure Edition is the most giftable smartphone of 2015

In the spirit of holiday commercialism, let us remind you of our holiday shopping guide. Okay, also that we’ve been out two weeks since Black Friday and that we are another two from Christmas. Whether or not you view that glass as half-full or half-empty, if you do have a mobile tech shopping list you feel like riddling with check marks, you still have time to grab a smartphone for one of your best first degrees of separation.Yep, that’s what I call friends & family.So, why ...

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Verizon might let you play with Moto Maker for Droid Turbo 2

There are big reveals about what Motorola’s plans are in releasing this long-awaited iteration of the Verizon-exclusive Droid series. We’ve previously speculated on how the Moto X Play might end up being a sister device to this latest beast-level phone. Then we heard word of this “shatterproof” display. What’s really behind this boastful claim? Well, it turns out that it’s actually something ...

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Moto X Play gets ready to land internationally

All too often, US smartphone users find themselves getting access to devices and services no one else has – or at least, getting them before everyone else. So maybe there was a bit of karma in Motorola’s announcement of its latest Moto X smartphones, where for a change of pace it almost seemed like the US was getting the short end of the stick: while other nations will get their hands on the Moto X Play with its extra-large ...

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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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Moto Maker option preview for new Moto X Style/Pure leaks

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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Motorola design is the secret to its success

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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All the new Moto phones pick up Moto Maker custom options

For a series of phones that leaked as heavily as they did, the new Motorola Androids still managed to deliver one decent surprise, as the new Moto X turned out to be two phones: the Moto X Style and the Moto X Play. With the addition of the new Moto G, the three handsets offer shoppers a nice spectrum of performance and feature options, across a range of price points. And this year, Motorola’s welcoming its new family of Moto phones with a special treat, allowing users to customize all three in the Moto Maker.It used to be that if you wanted the best customization choices for your ...

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Would the Moto X be as big as it is without Moto Maker?

The Moto X is one of the most universally liked smartphones in the tech space. It’s affordable, the software is close to stock with some compelling added features, and it’s the most customizable phone money can buy (at least, until Project Ara hits the market). You can choose your own backing and accent colors, add a message to the boot screen, engrave your name or favorite phrase onto the back, and even train it to ...

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Motorola to expand Moto Maker services to India

Lenovo’s Motorola continues to compete in a rough smartphone market with the same products it was acquired with. As such it seems that Lenovo’s strategy has been focused on expanding Motorola products outside the US, even if the whole point of the acquisition was based on gaining more US mindshare. Moto Maker has been one of the crucial differentiating factor for Motorola products to date, and it seems to be ready for another expansion.Motorola India has been teasing of the launch of Moto Maker in India. Motorola teases that we should learn more today, and given the ...

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