Design firm behind Motorola wallpapers may have leaked Moto X (2016)

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Stephen MacLeod lives in Toronto and loves photography. He heads his design firm, onwhite, and has clients ranging in eccentricity from Blue Moon to Gillette and even Motorola.What did he do for the Lenovo subsidiary? He bespoke some wallpapers for the company’s Moto phones, layering colorful glass sculptures to create rich, high contrast, abstract designs. And with good work comes a good portfolio to show off to prospective clients.But our leader clipping, as pointed out by Evan ...

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That rumored 4.6-inch Moto X 2016? It’s most likely a Lenovo Moto M

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Android device manufacturers sure enjoy their alphabet soups. Samsung’s “streamlined” product portfolio goes from A to C to E, J, O(n) and even Z if you also count Tizen models, while Sony has recently circled back from Z to X, reportedly considering dropping C, E or M series pretty soon.Then there’s Motorola, or rather Lenovo, which inherited the Moto E, G and X families from Google, and after a couple of years of struggles, financial losses and ...

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GFXbench revives hopes of a Moto X 2016

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If you aren’t feeling the modernity of modularity with the Moto Z, Lenovo may actually be cooking up a revision of a phone many have left for dead.A Geekbench log has come in for the “Motorola XT1650” which sports plenty of the same front-edge specifications that both the Moto Z and the Moto Z Force have: a Snapdragon 820 with 5.5-inch quad HD screens and 4GB of RAM, perhaps maybe ...

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“Moto X is alive and well” statement doesn’t look forward

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One of Evan Blass’s sources previously tipped him off to a change of brand in Motorola’s main line of smartphones: instead of Moto X, the next product in the line would be Moto Z. That’s instead of and not in addition to.Motorola press representatives have been tackling questions about the Moto X brand and someone got back to Android Police with the following:Moto X is alive and well. In fact, Moto X ...

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Blass: Moto X becoming Moto Z

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When a company’s brand, based on a alphanumeric character, becomes too old, it can replace it with another one. After all, there are 35 other options to choose from.So, as the Moto X moniker comes out of its third product cycle, we’re learning from VentureBeat’s Evan Blass that this year’s flagship smartphones from Lenovo subsidiary Motorola may primarily be branded as the “Moto Z”.In relation to ...

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Return of ShatterShield in another Moto X leak

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We’re not sure if this is the cherry on top of a new phone or something different, yet not far off. Whatever it is, Moto has sure had a fast-flowing news cycle in the past 24 hours.HellomotoHK is back at it again, flashing some Motorola confidential property in front of some corrugated metal. A real front panel of a Moto device — you’ll want to see the Moto logomark just above the fingerprint sensor that’s

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Blass specs out two Moto X 2016 phones with more evidence they’re Project Tango fruits

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Looks like “modular” is in fact the buzzword of the year.At least, we can see a continuation of the trend if we trust VentureBeat‘s Evan Blass with some more information about this year’s Moto X (or Moto Xs?). This follows on from the renders we saw of the devices along with a potential DROID Turbo 3 from HellomotoHK earlier.“A person who was briefed on the plans” said ...

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Lenovo slates Project Tango phone, mystery Motorola launch for June 9

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While we’re likely only a week or so away from the Moto G4 and G4 Plus formal debut in India, parent company Lenovo is already looking forward to at least an additional pair of “major product announcements” scheduled for June 9 in San Francisco.Exactly one month from today, the second annual Lenovo ...

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Everything comes together with this DROID Turbo 3 / Moto X 2016 leak

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Fasten your seatbelts — this X-wing has taken off.HellomotoHK has put up three new renders — possibly polished enough for the media — of what may be this year’s Moto X and this year’s major DROID phone exclusive to Verizon, likely to be the DROID Turbo 3.

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Motorola slates mystery event for May 17 in India, Moto G4 or new Moto E incoming

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While we can’t be sure it has anything to do with that recent wave of “structural” changes and executive reshuffles, or even more recent warranty controversies, Motorola is clearly behind its traditional product release schedule.There hasn’t been a single Moto-branded device unveiled thus far in 2016, despite the second-gen Moto E ...

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Moto X by Lenovo may have been benchmarked

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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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“Say Hello to fingerprint” in supposed Moto X 2016 leak

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The leak reactors are back up again and we suspect that it’s prime season to start yelling continuously about the 2016 Moto X, whatever the heck it will be called — so help us god.If you have doubts about the heat pipe that’s supposedly in this thing or the

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In-development Moto hardware offers possible early look at this year’s lineup

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What’s next for the Lenovo-owned Motorola brand – or, should we say, Moto brand? Last month, we heard Lenovo’s CEO talking briefly about plans for a high-profile new Moto smartphone (or maybe even phones), due for launch sometime this July. And while that probably means a new Moto X, and likely another Moto G, what can we look forward to from the phones themselves? We were promised “more innovative, more attractive” designs, but

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Lenovo CEO promises “innovative,” “attractive” Moto phone for July

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Earlier this month, in the middle of CES, panic swept over long-time Motorola phone fans: was Lenovo killing off the Motorola brand as we knew it? Calmer minds quickly prevailed, and the shape of story subtly shifted: sure, we wouldn’t be seeing “Motorola” splashed prominently across future handsets, but we hadn’t been for some time anyway, and the retention of the “Moto” brand, even if in the form of “Moto by Lenovo” would help upcoming models keep some connection to the past. Still, ...

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

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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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