POPSCI: "The new Moto X smartphone, Motorola's first start-to-finish project after its acquisition by Google last year, is here.
"Motorola's Moto X Must Be Game-Changing -- Or Else," writes Tim Stenovec, threateningly, at the Huffington Post. "With Moto X, Google Android is about to have its iPhone moment," writes Kevin Tofel at GigaOm. Christina Warren at Mashable asks if the Moto X can "revive Motorola's brand." Motorola is the fourth-biggest phone manufacturer in the U.S.; they've been around for 85 years and have twice in the last ten years completely changed the landscape of mobile phones (the RAZR, in 2004, and the original Droid, in 2009), which is more than most companies can say. They're owned by Google, a company with seemingly endless coffers. They're doing fine, guys.
This is all ridiculous. Not everything has to be revolutionary. Sometimes it's best to just step back, in both hardware and software, and do what feels right. It's an approach that's actually much harder than, say, Samsung's (which is a throw-everything-at-the-wall strategy); Motorola says they actually figured out the idea average volume of a phone's physical size. That takes time! But the end result is something that feels right not something that shouts at you."
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.
