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Moto X phone specifications
- cryptoz 13y agoDoes anyone see a full spec list? What sensors does it have? The page linked seems to only list some features. Edit: "People are skydiving out of space ships." [Citation needed]! What ship has gone to space and also let someone skydive?!
- minimaxir 13y agohttp://www.redbullstratos.com http://www.redbullstratos.com Old news, I know. :P
- cryptoz 13y agoHm. I am disappointed Google refers to those helium balloons as "space ships". They're atmospheric balloons, not space ships, and there's a really big difference. Okay, I'll calm down. Back on topic, I'm still looking for the specs...
- dcope 13y agoI'm curious if this page was even supposed to go live. There are _2_ references to 16 MB / 32 MB and also a "That's what she said" blurb. Ouch.
- jack-r-abbit 13y agoThe MB thing appears to be fixed. I don't see it. Just GB. "TWSS" is still a pretty popular (but pretty over used) thing. So I don't really see the issue there.
- philsnow 13y agoMotorola is not a "hip" or "young" brand. IMHO they should try easing into a new self-image a little more slowly. This seems a bit Ballmer-esque ("GIVE IT UP FOR ME!" / the dance monkey boy video).
- jack-r-abbit 13y agoReally? I thought their whole "Hello, Moto" campaign was along these lines. Not sure how "hip" or "young" it was... or this one for that matter. But I know lots of "unhip, unyoung" people that still drop a TWSS almost daily.
- dcope 13y agoYep, appears they've fixed that and removed the TWSS line.
- borlak 13y agoAlso Android 4.2.2
- minimaxir 13y agoStorage 16 GB standard, 32 GB version available online. 2 years 50GB storage free on Google Drive Wait, so you get more free cloud storage than what the phone actually supports? Interesting.
- mathgorges 13y agoI may be wrong, but I was under the impression that the Google Drive mobile app didn't store anything locally.
- ajross 13y agoIt caches locally, but it's not like dropbox and doesn't simply mirror your online data.
- hayksaakian 13y agoOddly, (or not?) the images were blocked by AdBlock, leaving me really confused. ----- Very similar specs to my current http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_Nexus minor improvements in battery, and camera
- secure 13y agoI wonder why it says Android 4.2.2 instead of Android 4.3
- sologoub 13y agoThought the same thing... guess no Nexus experience here.
- JTon 13y agoI'm pretty sure it actually is shipping with 4.2.2. Only nexus devices get the latest and greatest OS so soon to its release
- wmf 13y agoDidn't Google say they're operating Moto as a walled-off separate company so that it would have no advantage over other phone vendors?
- outside1234 13y agoMotorola is still alive?
- skaevola 13y agoBought by Google.
- supermesh 13y ago16 or 32 MB - I'm thinking this is an error. http://imgur.com/dKRihDu http://imgur.com/dKRihDu
- sk5t 13y agoThis introduction for Moto X is really, really trying way too hard to be cool in both the copy and design. It comes off almost as badly as the Samsung ad mocking the uncool parents and nerds in line for iPhones. Particularly cringeworthy: * "Your socks, your watch, your bike say so much about you" * "Play Goldilocks and choose the right size for you: 16 or 32 MB" Was Goldilocks really the best pick here--isn't this the male pitch, badger hair shaving brush, tortoise shell glasses and all? Didn't Goldilocks have three choices? * "you'll never miss those OMG-that-was-sick-did-you-see-that moments" Sick copy brah. * "Moto X responds to your voice, no touching necessary. (That's what she said.)" This doesn't even make sense as a joke.
- ajross 13y agoThat Samsung ad has been wildly successful and has been running for a very long time. It only comes across "badly" to existing iOS nuts. I won't speak to the marketing copy here. I agree it certainly doesn't move me, but then I'm (and no doubt you're) hardly in the target demographic either.
- yareally 13y agoI've never been overly fond of Samsung or Moto ads and I'm a long time Android User, Android App Developer and also mod the ASOP for fun and customization. Then again, I'm probably not their target audience either since I won't go for anything not a Nexus device and dislike preachy advertising for any brand.
- gilrain 13y agoAlso, "feminine mystique" and "wear it well, kemosabe" are both guaranteed to ruffle all the wrong feathers for many people, including me. I'm really surprised some of this copy made it out of a mock-up.
- mladenkovacevic 13y agowow that is actually their marketing copy... An actual "that's what she said joke", holy shit. I once wrote about Apple was losing their way in terms of their marketing writing, but it seems their competition is not even close to catching up. As a lowly marketer it strikes me as unfair/frustrating that there are people out there getting paid triple what I get paid writing unconvincing drivel that treats the customer as a dumb internet meme.
- psbp 13y agoWow, for all the hype, this phone is incredibly mediocre.
- taopao 13y agohttp://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2013/08/inside-story-of-moto-x/ http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2013/08/inside-story-of-moto-...
- revelation 13y agoMotorola X8 Mobile Computing System Wow, please no. Google, just relieve them from their pain already.
- Sven7 13y agoHey wait a second...I am quite intrigued by that "always on" speech core and that NLP core. Google has some great speech recognition tech(possibly the best). This is one area where they can really leave the rest of the pack behind, looking like cave men.
- duaneb 13y agoYes, this looks like a great little device but for the part about convincing me to buy it.
- yread 13y agoApparently one of the scripts isn't loading so the images (which are referenced only through data-stretch attribute) http://demandware.edgesuite.net/aahb_prd/on/demandware.static/Sites-Motorola_US-Site/Sites-Motorola_US-Library/en_US/v1375382790154/meet-moto-x/hero-moto-x-01.jpg http://demandware.edgesuite.net/aahb_prd/on/demandware.stati... to hero-moto-x-08.jpg EDIT: looks like they are using this jquery plugin https://github.com/danmillar/jquery-anystretch https://github.com/danmillar/jquery-anystretch
- ajross 13y agoIt's being reported that the bootloader is locked: http://www.droid-life.com/2013/08/01/moto-x-bootloader-is-locked/ http://www.droid-life.com/2013/08/01/moto-x-bootloader-is-lo... So that's that. I was waiting for this reveal before deciding on a new phone purchase, but that's not remotely acceptable for me. Looks like a GS4 Google Edition is in my future instead.
- MrKurtz 13y agoEvidently there will be a Google Edition of the Moto X as well: http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/1/4579278/google-play-edition-moto-x-announced-coming-soon http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/1/4579278/google-play-edition...
- mtgx 13y agoI think his point was that it should've been a "Google Edition" phone to begin with, and I agree. Every Motorola phone should be a "Nexus" phone (from low-end to high-end). But this phone still feels 90 percent Motorola, rather than 90 percent Google. Hopefully by next year they'll learn from all the criticism they're getting right now, and make a true Google phone. The Nexus 7 seems like a much better product/value than Moto X, and that felt very much like a "Google device".
- zanny 13y agoGoogle has acquired quite a few properties that haven't well integrated into their ecosystem. I still am baffled youtube doesn't use Google+ comments or +1 ratings.
- gilrain 13y agoHow bizarre that Google would push for and sell in their store unlocked versions of the Samsung and HTC phones, but not release the Moto phone unlocked to begin with. Like, why does their own phone need a Google Edition? Hilarious. Maybe the companies aren't integrated enough for that, yet? You'd think Google would be more of a mind with its own company than with the competition, though!
- Fuzzwah 13y agoThe upside of this website is that it is immediately obvious that I am not the target market for this phone.
- dmix 13y agoCan it swap batteries? I plan to continue sticking with Samsung Galaxy (3/4) for this reason alone. The UX benefit of never having to plug the phone into charge and just quickly swapping batteries when it dies (or on the road) is amazing.
- philsnow 13y agoHow do you charge the SG3/4 spare battery ?
- dmix 13y agoI've got one of these chargers: http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-Battery-Charger-2100mAh-Included/dp/B0089VO7QU/ http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-Battery-Charger-2100mAh-Includ... + bought an extra battery (for a total of 3 batteries for ~$30).
- philsnow 13y agothat looks pretty sweet; I was just complaining the other day about the lack of a robust accessories market for non-iOS devices, because a given retail store can devote three feet of shelf space to iOS cases/chargers/whatever and cover ~30% of people who have a mobile device, whereas if they have three feet of android accessories, it probably covers much less of the market. (though people who have samsung devices, given the market penetration that samsung has, are probably in better shape than others in this respect)
- eob 13y agoWhy "OK Google Now" instead of just "OK Google"? That seems like too much sub branding, which is something I usually associate with Microsoft (every Microsoft product is called Microsoft+SomethingElse). They certainly want the prefix to all voice commands to be a low incidence sequence of phonemes for any language so that you don't get spurious activations and drain battery and/or accidentally execute a command, but I would think "OK Google" is a rare enough phrase that it would suffice. A five syllable "wake up" command just seems excessive.
- midko 13y agoIndeed. Another possible option is rebranding Now to something personal and unique, as is Siri
- lotso 13y agoIn The Verge article [1], they mention that it had to be a unique phrase. I could see "OK Google" causing to many false activations. [1] http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/1/4578890/this-is-the-moto-x http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/1/4578890/this-is-the-moto-x
- Shooti 13y agoWhat's even stranger is that "OK Google" is the hotword for the Chrome Voice search thing they recently launched at IO. Retconning "Google Now" into a voice assistant is weird because at IO they were saying how they wanted Google itself be the assistant, by modelling it after the Star Trek computer. Also what happens when the actual, predictive Google Now comes out for Chrome?
- calinet6 13y agoBetcha it's something inherent to the ability to process the phrase "Google." Probably a usability thing, and a subtle one at that.
- mtgx 13y agoI guess we should be happy they didn't call it "OK Google Voice Search" ?
- rogerchucker 13y agoPeople were mostly anticipating a crazy good battery and an unprecedented low on-contract price. Neither happened - time to move on.
- zmmmmm 13y agoCrazy good battery may yet be in there ... depending on your definition of "crazy".
- rogerchucker 13y agoI often get 24 hours on my iPhone 4S (with a few things turned off). And that's what Moto-X is promising. So I don't define that as "crazy good".
- diakritikal 13y agoIs this a real product launch? This page is horribly broken for me: http://i.imgur.com/npxvDcQ.png http://i.imgur.com/npxvDcQ.png There's a header element further down the page "Feminine mystique", not sure what that has to do with a phone. And then near the bottom there's some cringeworthy copy: "Never ever, ever, like never, miss a shot ... And you'll never miss those OMG-that-was-sick-did-you-see-that moments again either." Like dude, that phone is so sick....what? Is it meant to be a caricature of US youth?
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- nevster 13y agoSame here. A whole lot of blank white space. Had to do a Ctrl-A to find out there was white text on a white background. Same on Chrome, Firefox and IE. I thought perhaps our work network was blocking a stylesheet or something.
- jmomo 13y agoBuy a three year old phone, such as the HTC Desire with a 32GB SD card and you will have more storage than the new Moto X, even twice as much as the 16GB version.
- detecti1914 13y agoI'm sorta disappointed.
- lnanek2 13y agoPretty sad. Guy Kawasaki had everyone super excited about building their own phone and we end up with just color and capacity choices. Plenty of phones with the later, not to mention SD card slots which are far more capable, and nearly everyone can already choose their color just by tossing a case on it. We even have companies selling custom 3D printed color cases with whatever you want on them in far more detail than this allows.
- georgemcbay 13y agoI had low expectations based on the leaks and this thing is still incredibly underwhelming even relative to my drastically reduced expectations. Surprisingly meh across the board, even if the price were in Nexus 4 territory. At $200 on contract it is a sad and unfunny joke. Between this and the fact that Google destroyed Navigation with Android Maps 7.0.2, I'm starting to doubt my next phone will be an Android device at all, which is an idea that would have been unfathomable to me a few months ago.
- skizm 13y agoIs it $200 dollars on contract? I thought it was going to be in the range of $200 dollars off contract.
- cromwellian 13y agoI think if you're buying phones based on # of cores or Ghz, you're basing purchases on the wrong thing. If you want to buy a smartphone based on the fact that it has 4 ARM cores, you are buying on specs, not on actual delivered capability, and those extra cores may very well be eating up more power and more die space for no reason. (I'm not talking about Moto X's low-power DSP cores, I'm talking about having 4 Krait or ARM 15 cores) GPU cores are different because GPU workloads are automatically parallelizable, but then again, you only need as many GPU cores as it takes to drive average workloads at the given pixel density. It makes no sense to include enough GPU to render a game at 250 frames per second. Developers are most likely not going to spend time optimizing a game for a high end GPU like it was some kind of console in a fragmented market like Android. Point is, one should look at these phones from a practical standpoint and ignore the spec sheets. Does it take good pictures? Does it feel fast? Does the screen look good? Does the battery last long? Does it feel good to hold and lightweight? Does it do cool stuff that makes you more productive, etc. If you buy phones on spec alone you may end up with a POS that looks good on paper but is irritating to use. Take the Galaxy S4, sure, on paper and benchmarks (some of which are cheats), it looks great. But how often are those peak rates hit? How much Android software really takes advantage of the full power of the device? How much battery life is sacrificed, or size? You could say that the screen or memory capacity might be objectively better, but again, how much of a price in battery life are you paying for those displays? Also, on customization, consider that Motorola is going to build and ship, to you, a phone in 4 days. Maybe you don't care about any of the color options, but you have to admit, being able to assemble and ship a phone to you with a 4-day turnaround is impressive and is a manufacturing capability that is sure to useful for other things in the future.
- uncoder0 13y agoWho is complaining about the specs? I seriously doubt many people, even in these parts, buy phones based on the number of cores in the cpu or gpu alone. The big problem I see with the Moto X is the price. A mid-range phone should not be 550 off-contract. I was seriously expecting a $299-349 price for this kind of device. Maybe we will see that with the Play edition? I doubt it though.
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- gschiller 13y agoWow... terrible taste with the "Feminine Mystique" reference.