Motorola Mobility Chief refuses to divulge further details, says the Moto X will be launched by October.
Motorola Mobility head Dennis Woodside has confirmed that that the long rumoured ‘X Phone’ will be launched as the Moto X this year. While speaking at the D11 conference being held in California, Woodside said that the Moto X will be launched, at least in the US, by October and unlike the Nexus phones from Google, it will be a widespread launch, which means that there’s a great chance it will be hitting other countries as well, including India.
Woodside further said that the Moto X will be the first phone from Motorola manufactured entirely in the US. While this detail in no way lessens the chance of a global launch, it could very likely mean that the Moto X could be priced on the higher side because of higher production costs in the US. Woodside refused to share more details or even show the Moto X unit that he had in his pocket. He, however, professed his confidence in the phone claiming that it would be constantly aware of what was around the user and what the user was doing. Woodside claimed that the phone could be programmed to immediately turn on the camera once it was taken out of the user’s pocket but it wouldn’t do so if it recognized that the user was driving. Woodside also tried to allay fears of poor battery life because of those features by stating that the Moto X had two processors that would shift the workload in order to preserve the battery.
Woodside also said that the Moto X wouldn’t be the only phone from Motorola’s stable and the company had other phones also in the pipeline. Although he didn’t talk about these devices, we’d assume that they include the three phones whose details were leaked back in March– the Ghost, the Yeti and the Sasquatch. According to those rumours, the Ghost (XT912A) sports a 4-inch 720p display, a quad-core 1.7GHz Snapdragon S4 Pro processor, an Adreno 320 GPU and Android 4.2.1. The other two phones are also expected to run on Android 4.2.1.
The rumoured Motorola Ghost (image courtesy Tihnte.vn)
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