The only news Motorola has made in the past few months relate to the rumors about the upcoming Moto X. The first phone being manufactured by Motorola in close partnership with its parent company Google is being eagerly awaited by many Android enthusiasts who are looking to reward themselves with a new smartphone this season. Motorola couldn't have found a better date than 4th July, USA's Independence Day, to start promoting its made in USA phone. The first print ad for the Moto X ran on NYT, WSJ and Washington Post on 3rd July i.e. today.
The "Designed By You. Assembled in USA" tagline confirms two rumors:
The "Designed By You. Assembled in USA" tagline confirms two rumors:
- There will be some sort of customizability option available to the end user. It might allow the user to choose from a plethora of colors or to choose how much RAM they want in their phone, but no official words are out about what the users will actually get to customize. We are sure there will be lots of permutations and combinations that will be kept in mind in order to make mass production of those customized handsets possible.
- The phone's manufacturing and assembling process will take place in USA itself. It will be the first phone in history to be manufactured, designed, engineered and assembled at a mass scale in USA itself.
According to a leak, this might be what the Moto X might look like
Another rumor that has been doing the rounds suggest that Motorola will be pricing this phone very competitively, probable in the same price bracket as LG Nexus 4. We wonder whether any of that pricing strategies would benefit us Indians as Nexus 4, which was priced at USD 350 in the Play Store reached India with an upped price tag of INR 27,000 (about USD 490, as 1 USD was about INR 55 at the time of the launch of the handset).
Still, if you have been holding your next smartphone purchase waiting for the release of the Moto X, it would be wise to wait a bit more. What are your views about the upcoming with Google device.
