Ars Technica: "Motorola is bringing its Droids to all the networks that aren’t Verizon, but the company is concealing them in a different package. The new Moto X is almost functionally identical to the Droids that were announced last week, down to Motorola’s new X8 “mobile system,” camera app tweaks, and contextual awareness.
But the Moto X not only works on more carriers, it comes in a much more appealing body. In fact, Motorola’s focus is almost entirely on the package. The company seems to think it has the internals and functionality down pat enough that it can apply minimal alterations to Android and focus on the appearance. While we can’t quite agree with that premise, the Moto X does look and feel pretty good."
Android Police - When I was at Lenovo's Tech World event yesterday, during a press briefing someone asked what Moto Z meant for Moto X. I heard the answer, but I wasn't entirely clear on exactly what was said and hadn't recorded it (my mistake), so I reached out to Motorola via email last night to ask them to comment on the whole X to Z transition. It turns out that there isn't a transition, so much as just a new member of the family: Moto Z is not replacing Moto X, at least not at this time. Motorola's statement follows.
Motorola has never been very good at keeping a secret, and rumblings of its next-gen phones in the Moto X and Moto G lines have been leaking out to the Internet for several months now. Between a supposed “prototype” image and what look like rendered press shots, no one has been able to completely confirm the design of the upcoming phones, but they certainly look promising. Today the HelloMotoHK Google+ account has posted three new images, two of which seem to show a rendered version of the leaked 2016 Moto X and another that looks like a DROID variant.
Motorola is working on the fourth generation Moto X and a photo of its effort has leaked.
