So, you have your Moto Z or Moto Z Force. You have your $125 Moto Mods Developer Kit. And now you’re about to start your solder iron.But if you are not this theoretical person that has all this stuff and are wondering what the heck you’d get into in developing your own Moto Mod, Lenovo has booted up a proper site for you.The site is simply developer.motorola.com and it has resources on what ...
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Lenovo-owned Motorola has dropped its monthly update schedule for its smartphones, favoring a “most efficient” one.When it launched its Moto Z line of handsets last month, a company spokesperson did promise security patches from Android Security Bulletins. Phones ...
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EDIT: Minor corrections were made to our battery stats.We’re aiming to knock out two birds with one stone in this review as these two phones are more alike than they are different. A small handful of hardware options separate the two, but otherwise we get a pretty clear idea of where the manufacturer wants to take the future of its smartphone business.These two devices come from a fully entwined Motorola and Lenovo partnership, bringing both company’s cultures to the forefront. Moto delivering excellent consumer choices and business grade construction, alongside Lenovo’s influence ...
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We’re trying something a little different with our real camera review for this release. Motorola dropped two very similar phones. The Moto Z and Moto Z Force are more alike than they might be different, but one area that separates the two is camera performance. Though the external camera housing is exactly the same form factor to interact with Moto Mods, the actual sensors are different resolutions.The Moto Z delivers a 13MP sensor, paired with laser assisted auto focus, optical image stabilization, a dual LED flash, and an f/1.8 aperture. The Moto Z Force expands the resolution to ...
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We have a slathering of Moto Z coverage for you right now, but a lot more ahead as well.In the meantime, we thought you should know that Verizon is now opening up pre-orders for the Moto Z Droid Edition and the Moto Z Force Droid Edition on its website.The Moto Z Droid will work out to $26 per month on a two-year payment plan ($624 ...
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They say old habits die hard, and not even new ownership has been able to tweak the terms of the long-standing, infuriating partnership between Motorola and Verizon. Yet again, we’ll see one, nay, two exciting fresh Motos launched on America’s largest wireless service provider before any other carrier or retailer around the world.Adding insult to injury, it looks like the Lenovo-coordinated Moto Z Force will remain a Big Red exclusive for good, while the slimmer, slightly lower-end Moto Z is set to go on ...
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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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Lenovo and Google seem to be showing off the fact that they’re pretty tight partners these days. The PHAB2 Pro is doing the Tango, the Moto Z supposedly shines strong as another prime line of Android phones ...
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Update: More specs are from a Verizon press release which is sourced below.Update 2: CNET is reporting that the Moto Z does not have a headphone jack. Lenovo is said to box in a USB-C adapter. The exclusion of the port is likely thanks to that 5.2mm thickness on the device.Lenovo has made its largest impression on Motorola’s brand of smartphones since it acquired the Chicago-based manufacturer in 2014. It has officially shed its
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It doesn’t look like Google’s Project Ara initiative for developing a truly modular smartphone where you can remove and swap all the key components with minimal effort and no specialized tools will yield a fully functional, mass-manufactured product anytime soon.But you can settle for the next best modular thing, namely the LG G5 and its “Friends”, or the
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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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