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It's Moto X Style and Moto X Play that's now official by Motorola from NYC



After the announcement of the latest Moto G from the American multinational manufacturer, we now have them introducing two new smartphones to the world, first on to be their 2015 flagship based model and another being the company's fairly high-end handset with some best in class specs from the Motorola standards for the Moto centric folks, all making it's way from the event held by the manufacturer in New York City, United States, late yesterday.

The latest phone from them are named as Motorola Moto X Style and Moto X Play, respectively, and for the Stateside residents there will exclusively be a Moto X Pure Edition, which is basically the Moto X Style for now, that will offer you folks with some beautifully crafted design and powerful performance with it's high-end internals, delivering stock Android experience and complete carrier freedom, as the devices will be shipped directly from Motorola, unlocked, that should work on all major networks around US. The Moto X Style is said to be available in the countryside market, starting this September, of 2015.

As of the brand new Moto X Play which was launched alongside, the phone is set for the customers outside the United States, which is mentioned to make it's arrival to the store shelves of Canadian, Latin American and European regions, beginning next month. Motorola's Moto X Play is the phone you should watch out for, if your seeking for a part of significant battery performance and water-repellent design, this can be your perfect match. The phone also boasts about superior and uppermost cameras, that can take stunning photographs and also the FHD screen displays crystal clear and sharp images & videos.

Both the recently developed handsets are customizable through their own moto maker, that will bring you a smartphone which perfectly matches your style, with personalized colors, accents, name or short messages engraving, and even alternative to upgrade for more storage. The Moto X Play can be added with swappable Motorola Shells or Motorola Flip Shells of individual selections. Now, specially for the the Moto X Style or Moto X Pure Edition, you can choose from your favorite hues, metallic accent colors, as well as select between premium materials for back, from genuine Saffiano leathers from Horween, which is one of the finest US leather companies, also there are options of real wood with a smooth and unique grains.

Motorola Moto X Style / Moto Pure Edition

The Moto X Style smartphone/phablet will come out of the box with a 5.7-inches Quad High Definition TFT LCD screen of 1440 x 2560 resolution display, marked at 520 pixels-per-inch, protected with Corning Gorilla Glass 2. The processor is powered by a 1.8GHz running Hexa-Core Qualcomm MSM8992 Snapdragon 808 CPU and Adreno 418 GPU with Natural Language Processor, and Contextual Computing Processor. The device attributes water protection with water repellent nano-coating. There are front facing stereo speakers with Smartboost for fine audio.

The phone features three gigabytes of DDR3 Random Access Memory, and packs in couple of versions, one in 32 gigabytes and another in 64 gigabytes options, both can be further expanded through a microSD card slot up to 128 gigabytes. The rear camera on the Moto X Style is of 21 megapixels, 4x digital zoom, f/2.0 aperture rate, phase detect auto-focus (PDAF), closed loop processing, dual Color Correlated Temperature (CCT) flash, quick launch instant on, tap anywhere to capture, burst mode, night mode, auto HDR, panorama, drag to focus & exposure, video stabilization, capable of capturing FHD 1080p videos at 60fps and 4K UHD videos at 30fps, slow motion video recording and video HDR in both 1080p and 4K. On the front is a five megapixels secondary camera in charge of selfies, with wide-angle lens, aperture f/2.0, 1.4um pixel for better low light conditions. night mode and flash.

The unit supports, LTE Cat.6 (up to 300 Mbps), WCDMA, CDMA, EV-DO, TD-SCDMA and GSM/EDGE networks, Near Field Communication (NFC), WiFi 802.11 a/g/b/n/ac + MIMO, Bluetooth version 4.1 LE and GPS location services. The phone has got a 3,000mAh battery that can hold up to a day with mixed usage and turbo charging, can proffer you 34% or 10 hours of battery life from 15 minutes of charging. The Moto X Style runs over stock version of Android operating system 5.1.1 Lollipop.

Motorola's Moto X Pure Edition of the Moto X Style will be available in the US from the manufacturer itself and also through Best Buy and Amazon for a price beginning at $399, prior to moto maker customizations, while other countries in Europe, Latin America and North America will have the Moto X Style, starting this September. It is written to make it's way to Asia Pacific, including China and India, later this year.

Motorola Moto X Play



For their second entrant to the new Moto X family, the new Moto X Play will be here with a 5.5-inches Full High Definition screen of 1920 x 1080 pixels resolution, at 403 pixels-per-inch, covered by a sheet of robust Corning's Gorilla Glass 3. The SoC is from Qualcomm, this time it's the Octa-Core based Snapdragon 615 CPU, at speeds of 1.7GHz and Adreno 405 GPU at 550 MHz with Natural Language Processor and Contextual Computing Processor. This one is too water repellent and features front-ported speakers.

You get two gigabytes of Random Access Memory (RAM), alike the X Style, we see two versions of the phone from it's storage options, first with 32 GB and second in 64 GB, both expandable via microSD card slots up to 128 GB of internal space. Again we have the previously mentioned camera on the back of 21 megapixels (lacking some features), 4x digital zoom, aperture f/2.0, Color Correlated Temperature (CCT) dual-LED flash lights, quick capture and tap anywhere to capture, FHD 1080p video recording at 30fps, slow motion video, burst mode. night mode, auto HDR, panorama and drag to focus & exposure features. From the selfie department your treated to a 5 MP snapper.

Moto X Play is compatible to networks of GSM/GPRS/EDGE, UMTS/HSPA+ and 4G LTE connectivity, then we get WiFi 802.11 a/g/b/n (dual band capable), Bluetooth version 4.0 LE and GPS mapping. As a highlight to the model, Motorola has equipped the phone with a larger 3,630mAh powered battery with an approximate 48 hours of life. For software we see the very stock and Google's own Android 5.1.1 Lollipop, right on boot.

This newcomer will be available starting next month in various countries, across Europe, Latin America and Canada, as aforementioned, it won't be available in the US, but as promised by the maker, you folks in the States will have more choices later this year, so keep waiting. The device starts it's pricing at $299.

The firm has also sanctioned two new Bluetooth headsets, the Motorola Moto Pulse and Moto Surround, priced each at $59 and $69 respectively, and are already up for sales on their official webpage, from yesterday.

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