The best Android smartphone gets better
The Moto X was the top smartphone of 2014, this also year's version gets a significant upgrade.
Buying the "Moto X Pure Edition" can get you a smartphone which has a giant 5.7-inch screen and terrific software. The price is wonderful for a top-of-the-line phone.
And Motorola said hello has solved the most glaring difficulties with last year's Moto X: It says the newest one has an incredible camera along with a battery that will charge fast and get you through all day every day. (With just a short while to play around together with the device, CNNMoney didn't are able to test out those claims.)
Like its predecessors, the Moto X Pure Edition are going to be extremely customizable.
You can design one yourself online, choosing many color combinations, leather as well as wood grain.
The software programs are customizable too.
The new Moto X essentially runs Android as Google designed it with just some tweaks which make your phone more personal. For example, you are able to tell it to go to you when you are home, vibrate in the office and silence itself during meetings. It'll recite texts to you when you are driving and provide you notifications immediately if you wave your hand in the screen. And you are able to launch the digital camera or flashlight using a quick shake.
Great hardware and software are nice, but the majority high-end smartphones today have very quickly processors and awesome features.
What makes Motorola's new phone stick out is the price. It compares equally or favorably in hardware specifications together with the Apple (AAPL, Tech30) iPhone 6 Plus, the Samsung Galaxy S6, the LG G4, the OnePlus 2 along with other top-of-the-line phones.
Yet the entry-level 16 GB Moto X Pure Edition will sell for $399. That's about $350 lower than the iPhone 6 Plus, $250 below the iPhone 6, $150 lower than the Galaxy S6 and $100 below the LG G4 (the Galaxy S6 and G4 start at 32 GB). Only the OnePlus 2, which will cost you $329, beats it on price.
"We're attempting to be a measure ahead of the competition in offering affordable," Jeff Miller, Motorola's North American sales chief, said in a interview. "People do not like to be taken good thing about."
Like the OnePlus 2, the Moto X will only be offered off-contract, meaning you may not be able to get a subsidized phone from a carrier. But it works on some of the four nationwide cellphone companies, which means you may use the same exact phone on Sprint (S), T-Mobile (TMUS), AT&T (T, Tech30) or Verizon's (VZ, Tech30) networks.
Motorola says going contract-free is usually a gamble it expects to repay. Customers will notice, one example is, that software updates are available in more quickly simply because they don't have to experience a carrier first.
"We're confident this is the newest wave of the future," Miller said. "It are going to be so much faster."
The Moto X Pure Edition will launch in September. It are going to be sold online on Amazon (AMZN, Tech30), Motorola.com and also at Best Buy (BBY) stores.
Also on Tuesday, Motorola announced how the lower-end Moto G phone, which starts at $180, proceeded to go on sale.
The best Android smartphone gets better
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