Moto X

Moto X::

It’s difficult and perhaps dangerous to make a big deal out of a smartphone these days. Can one phone change an industry? Save a company? Create a market? Perhaps that was true in the days just following the original iPhone, but times have most certainly changed. Smartphones are the norm now. No longer a novelty. Not a luxury. Just what everyone has, in some iterative, similar, necessary form.

The Moto X, a new phone from the Google-owned Motorola is supposed to be a big deal. A new way of thinking about a smartphone. When it becomes available on all four major US carriers at the end of August or early September, for roughly $199 with a two-year contract, this device will be one of the first modern, mass-market consumer electronics to be assembled (though not exactly “made”) in the USA. It’s the first smartphone that you can customize and have hand-built in a variety of configurations and colors. And it’s the first smartphone that is supposed to represent what the new Google-Motorola union is capable of.

The Moto X has a 4.7-inch display and two capacities for internal memory: 16 GB and 32 GB. Its dimensions are 5.1 x 2.6 x 0.4 inches, weighing 4.58 ounces. The new smartphone contains a 1.7 GHz Snapdragon S4 Pro dual-core processor, 2 GB of RAM and Android 4.2.2 as its operating system. The Moto X also has Wi-Fi capability, a 10 MP rear-facing camera and a 2 MP front-facing camera. The mobile awareness and interface, by far, is the most unique capability because it grants the Moto X sentience. Although a sentient smartphone seems intrusive, the Moto X offers considerable convenience and efficiency to users and may become a rival to veteran smartphones like Apple’s iPhone 5 and Samsung’s Galaxy S4.