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The Moto X Style is Motorola"s brand new flagship smartphone and replaces the 2014 edition of the Moto X. We"ve had a chance to try the new model before launch, and we took it out to capture a range of sample shots in varying light conditions.

In the camera department, the new model has received a complete overhaul and now comes with a Sony IMX 230 1/2.3-inch 21MP BSI CMOS sensor and a fast F2.0 lens. A dual-LED flash is on board as well. There"s also a new imaging software feature, the user-activated night mode, which uses increased sensitivity to better expose very dark scenes and freeze motion and reduce the risk of image blur in low light. However, image size is reduced to 5MP. Images can be viewed and composed on a 5.7-inch quad-HD screen.

The two images below were taken in bright sunlight and as you can see with its 21MP image sensor the Moto X Style is capable of capturing impressive fine detail. Images are sharp but not over-sharpened. Some noise is visible in the blue sky but despite the high levels of detail and therefore presumably low levels of noise reduction, it is overall very well under control. Sharpness is generally good across the frame but our test unit shows some softness toward the top right corner.

The next two images were taken indoors which made the camera increase ISO to 80 and 250 respectively. White balance and color are very good under the partially artificial light. The ISO 80 shot still shows excellent detail. Some noise is creeping in in the mid-tones but is very well under control. The same is true for the ISO 250 image on the right that shows very good edge definition and decent detail for the light level it was taken in.

For the night shot below on the left the Moto X Style camera increases ISO to 500. There is some noticeable noise in the mid-tones but noise reduction and detail retention are very well balanced and there"s a lot of detail in the brighter parts of this image. The auto white balance system is dealing very well with the different light sources as well. Shadow noise is getting stronger in the shot on the right but again, there"s still a good amount of detail for a low light image.

The left image below was taken in pretty low light at dusk. Fine detail is clearly starting to suffer in these conditions but edge definition, exposure and color are all very good. ISO 2000 is as high as the camera will go in standard mode. As you would expect the image doesn"t look great when viewed at 100% but is perfectly usable at web resolution or small printing sizes. In very low light it can also make sense to opt for the night mode which we have a closer look at further down the page.

Night mode increases ISO to achieve faster shutter speeds and reduce the risk of image blur. When the standard mode gets to its maximum ISO 2000 sensitivity you can also achieve a brighter exposure in night mode which can go up further to ISO 2500. On the downside, image size is reduced to 5MP. For the night shot below standard mode used ISO 640 and a shutter speed of 1/24 sec. Night mode achieved a faster 1/24 sec by upping the ISO to 1000.

Panorama mode seems unchanged from previous Motorola models. It produces panoramas with very good stitching but the images are much smaller with less detail than some of the panorama functions on competing high-end models.

We did not have too much time with the new Motorola Moto X Style but we like what we have seen so far. Image detail in bright light is impressive, and in lower light a well-balanced approach to noise reduction means that a lot of detail is preserved while noise isn"t getting too intrusive until the very highest sensitivity levels. We"re looking forward to doing some more intense testing and putting the Moto X Style through our full review process soon.

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Of the three smartphones Motorola has recently launched, the Moto X Style (or Moto X Pure Edition for those in the United States) is the device with the best hardware. It"s the true flagship successor to last year"s Moto X, and with a price tag starting at $399 unlocked and off-contract, Motorola is positioning this device very strongly in a market crowded with high-end handsets.

The Moto X Style isn"t a small device, packing a 5.7-inch 1440p display on the front. Motorola has taken a leaf out of LG"s book in opting for Qualcomm"s Snapdragon 808 SoC over the hotter and more power consuming Snapdragon 810, alongside 3 GB of RAM and a 3,000 mAh battery. The same Moto features from the previous-gen model also return, including Moto Display and always-on voice commands.

The handset is very similar in size to Samsung"s Galaxy Note 5 (...) however, the Style doesn"t feel like a thick phone in your hands due to the curved body; it"s a more ergonomic and easier to hold design than the Note 5.

Motorola has also been putting a lot of effort into their camera offering, which has been a low point of their previous smartphones. The Moto X Style features a big 21-megapixel sensor coupled with an f/2.0 lens, 4K video recording and new camera software, which promises to be a much better shooter than in the 2014 Moto X.

With the aforementioned 5.7-inch display on the front of the Moto X Style, the handset is significantly larger than last year"s 5.2-inch Moto X. Increasing the size of the Moto X is an odd choice, especially considering most consumers currently prefer a handset in the 4.7- to 5.2-inch size range, but Motorola seems to be hoping their less powerful Moto X Play is just as good an option for those wanting a smaller device.

Personally I don"t mind the larger size of the Moto X Style, and the screen real estate it provides. The handset is very similar in size to Samsung"s Galaxy Note 5, although the curved body of the Style results in a phone that"s thicker than Samsung"s offering, at just over 11mm at its thickest point. However, the Style doesn"t feel like a particularly thick phone in your hands due to the curved body, and because it"s a more ergonomic and easier to hold design than the Note 5.

The Style is a decent handset from a visual perspective, with a plain, smooth Gorilla Glass 3 panel on the front protecting the display and providing a good amount of "swooshability". The edges are constructed from metal, which gives the device a premium touch and added durability, while the back panel is available in a variety of materials.

The Moto X Style unit we tested came with a black rubberized plastic back panel with a horizontal corrugated pattern, which helps make the phone so easy to grip. It doesn"t really give the handset the same slick premium look as the HTC One M9, Galaxy Note 5 or iPhone 6s Plus, but I still quite like the Style"s overall look and feel with this type of back panel applied.

Several other style and material options are available through the Moto Maker, which gives you the ability to customize the Style before you order the device. The real wood and genuine Saffiano leather options for the back panel make the Style look more unique, and you can choose from many color highlights for the camera surround and front facing speakers, allowing you to produce a truly personalized device.

It should be noted, though, that once you choose a particular option through Moto Maker, you cannot swap out any aspect of the design for a different option (without enormous difficulty). The back panel is not removable, for example, so if you choose the leather option you"ll won"t be able to swap it out for a wood back down the track.

Around the edges of the Moto X Style you"ll find a micro-USB 2.0 port on the bottom, between two polycarbonate strips allowing the wireless radios to "breathe" through the metal rim. On the top is a 3.5mm audio jack and a removable tray containing both a nano-SIM slot and microSD card slot. On the right side are both the power button and volume rocker, the latter of which is slightly too close to the power button for my liking, leading to some accidental presses on occasion.

On the front Motorola has provided the Style with dual front facing speakers, which provide great stereo audio when watching videos, playing games and listening to music. The quality of the speakers aren"t quite as good as I"ve heard from the HTC One line, but I"m glad Motorola has realized the benefit of placing the speakers on the front rather than the sides or back.

The front is mostly dominated by the 5.7-inch IPS TFT LCD with its 2560 x 1440 (1440p) resolution, providing a pixel density of 515 pixels per inch. The screen occupies an impressive 76% of the device"s front profile, which is almost identical to the similar-sized 5.7-inch Galaxy Note 5, thanks to slim bezels to the left and right of the display.

The quality of this display is very good, exhibiting balanced color output that"s neither too oversaturated nor too washed out. This LCD isn"t quite as good as Samsung"s AMOLED that they"ve used in the Galaxy Note 5, but in many ways the Moto X Style"s display holds its own, such as in color temperature and viewing angles.

The choice to go with a 1440p display over 1080p is still contentious even a year after the first 1140p phones were released, as the added pixel density doesn"t make a significant difference while affecting power consumption and performance. The Style"s LCD is undoubtedly crisp, delivering an awesome viewing experience, and at 5.7-inches there are some slight differences in quality between this display and a similar sized 1080p panel that make the extra resolution somewhat worth it.

In terms of brightness, the Moto X Style is relatively easy to view outdoors thanks to a high maximum brightness level, and automatic brightness does a good job of managing luminance indoors. Early 1440p displays suffered in the brightness department compared to their 1080p counterparts, but these issues have been resolved in second generation panels.

And of course, with 5.7-inches of screen real estate, the Moto X Style is an excellent media consumption device, especially thanks to the front facing stereo speakers that make gaming and watching videos great. The device itself isn"t too difficult to hold and operate with its large display, and Motorola has (like Samsung with the Note 5) struck a great balance between phone size and display real estate.

There are going to be some people with small hands who have difficulty using the Moto X Style due to its large size, so for those people it"s probably better opting for something smaller. However I don"t have the hugest hands going around, and I had no problems adapting to the size of the Style after a weeks" use or thereabouts.

Even with the display-related quirk, the Moto X Pure Edition manages to deliver an exceptional software experience. The phone follows Motorola"s now-familiar method of sticking with Google"s clean and clutter-free Android Lollipop (5.1.1) user interface, with no arbitrary visual modifications and only a small handful of excellent features added into the mix.

Beyond the aforementioned Moto Display system, highlights include Moto Voice -- an expanded version of Google"s Android voice control system that lets you set your own custom launch phrase for waking your phone -- and a new pivot-and-twist gesture that allows you to use the voice command system discreetly by speaking directly into the phone (as though you were making a call) and then hearing responses in the earpiece instead of through the loudspeaker. There"s also a handy system for having your phone automatically detect when you"re driving and then switch itself into a fully hands-free voice-controlled state -- something all smartphones should provide.

The common thread with all of Motorola"s feature additions is that they"re clever, genuinely useful and completely unobtrusive. They make your phone a little bit smarter without getting in the way or venturing into silly gimmick territory, as many other manufacturers" efforts tend to do.

Similarly, it"s what missing as much as what"s present that makes the Moto X delightful to use, particularly in this new Pure Edition -- no bloat, no overlapping services and no carrier-added garbage. It"s just an attractive, intuitive and all-around pleasant user experience from the moment you power the phone on.

And while Motorola"s reputation for providing lightning-fast Android upgrades took a major hit with the Lollipop release, the company has renewed its commitment to making speedy rollouts a priority. Motorola says the new Moto X"s completely carrier-independent nature will allow it to avoid extra variables (cough, cough, carriers) that slow the process down.

I do have to mention one unexpected downside: While the phone itself is fast and snappy, system animations are surprisingly jerky at times. I"ve noticed some very apparent and consistent stuttering when opening the app drawer or swiping to Google Now from the home screen as well as when scrolling through cards in the Overview (a.k.a. Recent Apps) list.

It isn"t anything horrifying -- and, as with the display, its importance is relative. If you"re a typical user, you probably won"t even notice what I"m talking about. If you fall more into the techie and/or enthusiast camp, on the other hand, it might drive you crazy. But either way, there"s no reason a phone with this type of hardware and software should be exhibiting that kind of behavior. Both the 2014 Moto X and the first-gen Moto X feel meaningfully smoother in comparison, and that just doesn"t make sense. I"m going to be optimistic and hope this is something Motorola will fix swiftly with an over-the-air update.

Stamina, meanwhile, is generally fine on the Moto X Pure Edition: Most days, I"ve had no trouble making it from morning to night on a single charge, even with as much as three to four hours of screen-on time. The device is by no means bulletproof when it comes to battery life -- I"ve had a couple of close calls, like one day when I streamed a lot of music via Bluetooth and took a lot of pictures and then ended up hitting the red zone a couple hours before bedtime -- but it"s acceptably average and should be sufficient for most people, most of the time.

If you do ever need to top off, Motorola"s Turbo Charge technology makes the process quick and painless. Using the charger included with the phone, I was able to go from 34% to 63% by plugging in for just 15 minutes on my way out one afternoon. The phone will work with any Qualcomm-compatible Quick Charge charger, though it doesn"t support any wireless charging accessories.

That still doesn"t bring it to the level of a consistently outstanding camera like the Galaxy Note 5"s -- especially when it comes to low-light photography, where the Moto X"s lack of optical image stabilization really shows.

But while it may not give you the most versatile shooter you can find in a smartphone, the Moto X Pure Edition is adequately equipped for most on-the-go photography needs -- including tricky tasks like capturing print-worthy photos of perpetually moving babies. And Motorola"s dead-simple camera app, along with the phone"s convenient twist-the-phone-twice-to-activate-anytime gesture, makes the photo-snapping process really easy. As anyone who"s ever scrambled to capture a fleeting moment knows, that means as much as anything when it comes to mobile photography.

(You can see a bunch of photo samples and side-by-side comparisons in my Moto X Pure vs. 2014 Moto X photo gallery and my Moto X Pure vs. Galaxy Note 5 photo gallery, if you want to check things out for yourself.)

Last but not least, the Moto X Pure Edition comes with a choice of 16GB, 32GB or 64GB of internal storage (with each bump up from 16GB adding $50 onto the phone"s price). The device also has a micro SD card slot that lets you add up to 128GB of additional storage.

If it seems like I"ve been overly critical of the Moto X Pure Edition, it"s because I know how amazing this line of smartphones can be -- and, like many other existing Moto X users, I had extremely high expectations coming in.

The truth, though, is that the Moto X Pure Edition is far from being a bad phone; it just isn"t the zero-compromise, polished-to-perfection version of last year"s Moto X that many of us were hoping to see. Instead, it feels like Motorola cut some corners in order to bring costs down this go-round.

But you also have to remember that Motorola is selling this phone for $400 unlocked, which is an insane move that has the potential to seriously shake up the smartphone market. And it"s managing to deliver an unmatched user experience along with a respectably improved camera and tons of other compelling features -- all in a thoughtfully designed and ergonomic form that can be customized to look any way you like. That"s pretty darn impressive.

In a sense, I think we have to reframe the way we view the Moto X. This device isn"t going to give you the absolute best camera or the top-of-the-line display you"ll get in a phone like the Galaxy Note 5. But it is going to give you a superior user experience along with components that, for most people and most typical usage scenarios, are going to be more than good enough.

Pros: Attractive and ergonomic design; can be custom-built with a variety of colors and leather and wood options; large, spacious display; good dual front-facing speakers; clean and intuitive UI with useful extra features and no needless bloat; respectable stamina; accelerated Turbo Charge for quick top-offs; good camera; has micro SD card slot; single universal model works interchangeably with all U.S. carriers; significantly lower price than most flagship phones

Cons: Large size can be awkward to carry and to use single-handedly; display not as impressive as those on other flagships; LCD screen doesn"t fit well with Moto Display feature; some jerkiness in system animations; no wireless charging; camera struggles in low-light

The Moto X is undeniably Motorola’s first step back into the spotlight – the company’s first superphone since the original Razr. Since faster hardware doesn’t always sell more phones, the Moto X has a number of unique non-spec features that set it apart from the pack. It’s the first phone you can completely customize online; like a pair of Nike shoes, you can order your Moto X in a range of different shell colors, accent colors, and materials (even wood). When you hit buy, you only have to wait four days for it to be delivered from a plant in Ft. Worth, Texas to your door. Yep, it’s also the first smartphone manufactured in the United States, and will arrive on every major carrier at a palatable $200.

It’s a fantastic phone, too, an absolute pleasure to use. Most of the time. Unfortunately, a few bugs in Motorola’s software tarnished my time with the X, making it one of the best, but also most frustrating, reviewing experiences I’ve ever had.

Holding the Moto X is a pleasure; it’s easily one of the most comfortable phones we’ve ever held. We didn’t get any perverse joy from handling it, of course, but it’s clear that Motorola and Google (which now owns Motorola) did their homework when they created the Moto X. Motorola engineers explained to us that instead of starting with a screen size, they measured people’s hands to find the best width and length for a phone. Once they found it, they put the largest screen possible inside that frame. As a result, the Moto X has a 4.7-inch screen, but one of the thinnest bezels we’ve seen yet. This should be enough screen for anyone who isn’t a die-hard Galaxy Note nut, but a small enough overall size that you can hold it more comfortably than competing devices like the Galaxy S4 and HTC One. It’s more comfortable than an iPhone, too.

Unless you buy a version with a wood backplate on it, the Moto X is made of polycarbonate, which is a strong plastic. The front glass seamlessly blends into the rest of the design, which makes it comfortable to hold to your face, and the shell of the phone has a curve to it, helping it rest more comfortably in your palm.

Most importantly, the Power and Volume buttons are on the right side of the phone, so you can easily press them and the Android navigation controls – Back, Home, Recent Apps – without changing your grip on the X. This will prevent a lot of accidental drops and help most people (unless you have small hands) hold the phone better.

(Note: While the Moto X is not a “rugged” phone, it does have a water-repellent coating on the outside and inside of it. The coating works like this and should save you from problems if you whip the phone out in the rain.)

To make the Moto X fully customizable, Motorola had to build a new kind of factory, capable of producing phones in a vast array of colors and configurations. If you go into an AT&T store or order your Moto X from Motorola.com, you can customize your phone with Moto Maker.

Using the Moto Maker site, which looks fancy enough to be an app, Motorola lets you choose from 18 back colors, 7 accent colors, 2 front colors (black or white), 16GB or 32GB of memory for file storage, 16 wallpapers, 2 cases in a variety of colors, 2 charger colors (black or white), and a variety of Sol Republic headphone colors. You can also etch a custom message on the back and another to display when you boot up the phone. Motorola claims there are more than 2,000 total combinations available.

Upon order, you should receive your customized phone in four days. That’s Motorola’s promise. No other phone is offered in anywhere near as many configurations. With the iPhone, for example, you can choose black, or white. Some phones don’t have that much choice. We applaud Motorola’s efforts in this area and like that it’s built in America, too (hell yeah!).

We’ve heard the Moto X called a “mid-range” phone, but we think it’s plenty powerful. The device does only use two cores for processing apps, sure, but the powerful Snapdragon Pro also includes a quad-core graphics processor, and two processors no other phone has – one for processing sensor information and one for processing language and commands. Together, these eight cores make up the Motorola X8 chipset. In all our tests, it performs admirably. In the Quadrant benchmark test, for example, the phone usually attained about a 9,000 score. This is lower than the 12,000 that a Galaxy S4 would score, but more powerful than most any other top-tier Android phone.

Aiding the X8 chipset are a few other specs you’ll probably want to know. The AMOLED screen is one of the most beautiful we’ve seen at 4.7 inches and 1280 x 720 pixels. (I cannot tell the difference between the HTC One’s 1080p resolution and the Moto X’s 720p. If you’re a screen hound, I’m sure you can.) Inside, there is 2GB of RAM, 16GB or 32GB of internal storage (no MicroSD but it does come with 50GB of free Google Drive storage), Bluetooth 4.0, Wi-Fi a/g/b/n, GPS, a dual-band LTE antenna, a digital compass, and plenty of accelerometers and gyroscopes. Like every other Android phone, it charges with Micro USB.

Most of the new features in the Moto X revolve around Google Now, which its hardware has been specifically tailored to. Thanks to a dedicated processor, you can start giving commands by saying “OK Google Now,” even when it’s asleep with the screen turned off. A separate “language recognition” processor allows it to detect your voice and reject others. We had mixed luck, with this feature, but it’s a good start.

Saying “OK Google Now” anytime you want opens up a lot of possibilities. We hadn’t used Google Now since we last used it earlier this year (it came out in 2012). It’s a neat feature, but we never remember to use it – until now. The Moto X puts Google Now on the map, and the service is a lot better than it was even a few months ago.

You can ask Google Now just about anything, and sometimes it will know what to do. Ask it to set an alarm, remind you of something, tell you the weather, or inform you about something like a sports game, and it will jump at the opportunity. You can call or text friends from the service, too. The only thing we always wanted but struggled to get was walking or transit directions. Though Google Maps is integrated into the phone, asking Google Now to tell you “where I am” or “navigate to Central Park” only results in a page of blue Google Web links. No fun.

The best part about Google Now isn’t always how well it answers, though; it’s how well it predicts what you need to know. Google Now will inform you of upcoming flights and whether they’re on time, tell you the weather each morning, or predict where you need to go next and send directions (again, not sure why it can’t use Google Maps when I ask, but will give it to me before I ask). All of this prediction stuff is based on crazy algorithms, email scanning, and all the info Google knows about you, which can be a little scary. But, we have to say, it’s also damn helpful. If Google Now is the way we give up our freedom of privacy, it will be a convenient way to go.

Active Notifications replace the traditional lock screen with a completely black one that only has a few pixels lit up to show the time, and whatever else you need. Moving the phone turns it on, then you can slide your finger down to unlock the phone, or slide up to “peek” at a recent text or email notification. You can customize what types of notifications pop up in this window.

Though it’s awesome that the time will pop up anytime you lift or move your phone (it’s a time saver), the downside to Active Notifications is that every email you get will vibrate your phone. The vibrating is minimal, but there’s no way to shut it off if you want Active Notifications. This is silly because the Gmail app we use has a setting that allows you to turn off vibrate for notifications. Why does Motorola have to supercede these settings?

Motorola Assist app allows you to “communicate hands free” with a Driving mode, “avoid interruptions” in a Meeting mode, and “get a good night’s rest” with a Sleeping mode. Until Motorola fixes crippling bug, Assist has another not-so-neat trick: The Moto X can get permanently stuck in hands-free operation, meaning it will announce everything out loud, even if you have the phone on silent. This happened to me.

I turned on every feature of Moto Assist on a Saturday to test it out, then hopped in a cab to head to a dinner (I was running late and the train was out). The phone thought I was driving, and turned on Driving mode, so I quickly clicked the button on the notification that said, “I’m not driving.” But it didn’t turn off. Every time I got a text or call, Google Now said it out loud, as if I was in hands-free mode. I went into the app and shut all of the Assist services off, but the app persisted. Rebooting wouldn’t help either. I could turn down the volume to shut it off, but anytime I turned it up, say, to listen to music, I would hear that annoying Google Now lady talking again. In hands-free Driving mode, text notifications also become full-screen notifications, so every time I received a text, it took up the entire screen.

Motorola engineers acknowledged the bug, and we were able to find two workarounds: Go into Settings > Apps and disable all Motorola Assist running processes, or factory reset the phone and never open Assist in the first place. Neither is really viable for the long term.

Motorola claims a fix is coming at launch: Or that’s what engineer Richard Hung told us. We also discovered a volume bug related to this issue. He said that the team is hoping to have a fix out on AT&T and Verizon by the time the phone launches in late August, with other carriers coming as soon as possible. Until this fix is available, we cannot recommend ever opening Motorola Assist.

Of course, had this not been a problem with a specific app (the volume bug may not be) a fix could be a long time coming. But because it’s not a Nexus phone, wireless carriers will have to approve and test any update Motorola releases for the Moto X. Like most Android phones, this could mean that the device never gets an update, or only gets one in its lifetime. The Moto X also won’t launch with Android 4.3. When is it coming? We don’t know. Maybe never.

Motorola has engineered its own camera app for the Moto X, which doesn’t blow us away, but is a clear improvement over the standard Android camera, and a giant step up from older Motorola phones. Using gestures, you can turn the camera app on at absolutely any time by twisting the phone in your wrist twice. Yes, even if the phone is asleep. This is a fun and useful feature. You can focus on and snap a picture by tapping anywhere on the screen, as well – another great feature.

By swiping in from the left side of the screen, a dial of options appears. These allow you to toggle options like flash, HDR, Panorama mode, etc., but we cannot find the options to switch from taking 16:9 10-megapixel shots to a different aspect ratio or resolution.

The X’s 10-megapixel rear camera does its job fairly well. We took it to a concert and it did alright in the dark there, and in a variety of other conditions. But if you’re hoping for something as good as an iPhone 5 or Lumia 1020, this is not it. Motorola’s camera doesn’t go above and beyond in the picture or video quality department. The 2-megapixel front-facing camera is similarly adequate.

Motorola has equipped the X with three separate microphones, which supposedly reduce noise and make a clearer talking experience. We’re not really sure if they do anything, but it was a standard experience talking on the Moto X. We had no problems hearing or being heard. We tested the device in Manhattan on Verizon’s network, which is typically solid in this area. Data speeds were about 25Mbps up and 30Mbps down. These are the fastest speeds we’ve recorded for Verizon, which must be upgrading its network. This is likely two or three times as fast as a typical broadband connection in your home. Kudos to Moto and Verizon. They make a good team.

This is no Droid Maxx, but Motorola has packed enough juice into the Moto X to get you through a day. It has a 2,200mAh battery. In our time with the phone, we ended up with about a 30 percent charge at the end of an average day. If you go overboard, then you’re going to cut it close, but you can activate a battery-saver mode, which turns off background notifications when your battery gets low. Overall, this is not particularly impressive battery life, but it’s better than some phones. Keep that charger handy.

We really like the Moto X. It’s a lean, almost pure Google Android experience, with a few nice extras and amazing Google Now support. We were incredibly annoyed by the bug we encountered with Moto Assist and don’t recommend you touch the app, but outside of that, it’s still a great phone. Hopefully, Motorola fixes more bugs before its launch in late August and early September.

The Moto X is available on AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon, and US Cellular at launch, and will cost $200 with a two-year contract or $575 unlocked. This puts it in direct competition with Nokia’s Lumia 920/925/928, Samsung’s Galaxy S4/Active, the HTC One, the Sony Xperia Z (T-Mobile only), the Motorola Droid Ultra (basically the same phone), and the iPhone 5. It’s a worthy challenger to any one of those devices in almost any category, and because of its compact size and simple interface, this is our favorite Android phone for iPhone defectors. When it comes to customization, this entire comparison can be thrown out the window. Nothing else comes close.

The Motorola Moto X Style isn"t exactly small, but it isn"t humongous either. As a matter of fact, it boasts one of the highest screen-to-size ratios in the industry – 76% of its front is occupied by the 5.7-inch screen packing a 1440 by 2560 pixels of resolution. Inside ticks a Qualcomm Snapdragon 808 SoC with a 1.8GHz maximum clock speed. Yup, turns out that the rumors of the phone packing an SD 810 were incorrect. But while not the fastest SoC in Qualcomm"s stable, the Snapdragon 808 is still powerful enough to deliver a smooth experience, especially when it is accompanied by 3GB of RAM.Turn the Moto X Style around and you"ll find a 21MP camera with F2.0, phase-detection autofocus, and dual-tone LED flash.On the front of the Moto X Style we see a 5MP front-facing camera backed up by... an LED flash.

The Moto X was the first smartphone from the company fully developed under Google -Kevlar coating used since the original Droid.Google Now)United States.Verizon exclusive.

Moto X was met with mostly positive reviews, with particular praise towards its hardware design, Motorola"s new approach to customizing Android, along with its suite of contextual features, and the influence of its "mainstream" targeting on its overall performance, user experience, and battery life. Its camera, while praised for its user interface, was criticised for inconsistent image quality (later updated with an OTA software patch), and the lack of certain advanced features for the sake of simplicity. Before its release it was tipped as Motorola"s "comeback" device.

On August 15, 2011, Google announced its intent to acquire Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion;patents as a means of defending its Android mobile operating system.Apple and fellow Android vendor Samsung, and that the company had experimented with curved screens and ceramics as possible hardware aspects. While Motorola"s new CEO Dennis Woodside declined to comment directly on the X Phone project, he did mention that the company now had the "resources to do big things" because of its acquisition by Google and that Motorola was "investing in a team and a technology that will do something quite different than the current approaches."

At a press conference hosted by AllThingsD in May 2013, Woodside publicly teased a new Motorola device known as Moto X. Although Woodside did not present the device (which he claimed was in his pocket), he did reveal that Moto X would be "contextually aware", and had two special processors which would allow it to do so while maintaining sufficient battery life. Woodside also announced that the phone would be designed and manufactured in a factory outside of Fort Worth, employing 2,000 people, and would be released by October 2013.

Moto X was revealed publicly for the first time during a press event on August 1, 2013, where it was announced that the device would be released by all major U.S. carriers, while Rogers Wireless later announced it would exclusively sell the device in Canada.

Motorola specifically stated that it would only release the device in North America, and had "[no] immediate plans" to release it in areas such as Europe, although the company hinted that it had "exciting plans" for a separate device tailored to the European market (Motorola later announced the entry-level Moto G (1st generation) in November 2013 with a broad international release).France, Germany, and the United Kingdom. In particular, Motorola scheduled a British release for February 1, 2014.India on March 19, 2014.

A "Developer Edition" with an unlockable bootloader was released in late September 2013.Republic Wireless announced that they would offer Moto X without a service contract at a significantly lower price compared to the Developer Edition and other models sold without a contract.

In May 2014, Motorola ultimately announced that it would wind down operations at the Fort Worth plant due to the high costs of domestically producing high-end smartphones like the Moto X at it in relation to the device"s overall sales. The decision was unrelated to an announcement earlier in the year that Motorola Mobility would be acquired by the Chinese company Lenovo Group.

Moto X uses a polycarbonate-based construction with a slightly rounded rear. The device is powered by a chipset branded as the X8 Mobile Computing System, which consists of a dual-core, 1.7 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro system-on-chip with a quad-core Adreno 320 GPU, a custom-designed Natural Language Processor core and Contextual Awareness Processor core (for a total of 8 cores), and 2 GB of RAM. It uses a 4.7-inch 720p Super AMOLED display; Wicks referred to the size as a "sweet spot" for phone displays, and argued that using a 1080p display like other recent high-end phones "would just suck battery and nobody would know the difference." The display is covered with Corning Gorilla Glass 3

Users can custom-order their Moto X through an online service known as Moto Maker; which allows users to choose between black and white colors for the front of the device, 26 color or 4 real wood options for the rear cover, 10 colors for "accents" (including the camera ring and bezel buttons), the option of a custom engraved message on the rear cover, 16, 32, or 64 GB of storage, custom text on boot-screen, and to pre-configure the device"s Google account and wallpaper. Devices customized through Moto Maker are shipped within 7 days of purchase. On launch, Moto Maker was only made available to those purchasing the device through AT&T, with all other carriers only carrying the device in black and white versions.

On November 11, 2013, Moto Maker became available to Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon customers.bamboo wood rear cover option was released on Moto Maker. On January 21, 2014, additional wood rear covers--walnut, ebony, and teak—were released on Moto Maker.Republic Wireless users as well.

Moto X initially shipped with a stock version of Android 4.2, but enhanced with several additional features. Among these features are a voice recognition system; taking advantage of the on-board Natural Language Processor, the device can be trained to recognize the voice of its user. Once configured, the phone will automatically respond to a user-set phrase, such as "Ok Moto X" (even when in sleep mode) to launch a voice assistant able to perform various tasks.lock screen—the feature takes advantage of AMOLED zero-power black (rendered by not turning on the pixel at all), to show live messages with minimal battery impact. The Assist feature can automatically enable or disable certain modes, such as silencing the ringer, auto replying to text messages, or activating voice controls, depending on certain scenarios—such as when a user is in a meeting as determined by their calendar, or driving.

The Moto X camera software features a full-screen image, "touch anywhere" to shoot interface, touch and hold to focus/set exposure, "dial-in" touch to set exposure, and automatically optimizes itself for each photo. The camera can be activated by performing a quick "double-twist".

The Moto X has received generally positive reviews. Its design was generally praised for appearing well-built; Joshua Topolsky, editor-in-chief of Corning glass."Fisher-Price toy, this criticism was defended by considering the phone to be as durable as one. Its display was considered acceptable, but a noticeable downgrade from recent phones incorporating 1080p displays. Although it was acknowledged that the Moto X had relatively lower performance in comparison to quad-core flagship phones, the Moto X"s performance was generally considered to be sufficient for "real world" users, with Toposlky remarking that "for now, our phone hardware is clearly more capable than it needs to be; mid-range seems to be just fine in this case."Droid Razr Maxx, the Moto X"s battery was able to meet and exceed the company"s own estimates of "24-hour" battery life on a single charge under real-world usage scenarios.

The Moto X was praised for its emphasis on seamlessly enhancing the stock Android experience as opposed to heavily modifying it (as the company had done in the past with its Motoblur software). The Touchless Control and Active Display features were praised for their intuitiveness and usefulness, with Volpe going as far as dubbing it "Motorola"s new killer Android feature". However, Volpe criticized Touchless Control for feeling like a gimmick, while Toposlky criticized it for having inconsistent voice recognition, and for being "rendered nearly useless" if locks are enabled on the device, noting that "you can still use it to make calls, but everything else requires that you unlock your phone, which requires that you pick it up and interact with it… meaning you just defeated the whole idea of "touchless controls.""

Volpe considered the Moto X"s camera software to be "basically idiot-proof", allowing users to take photographs without needing specialized camera knowledge, letting the camera adjust itself for each photo automatically, However, Topolsky discovered that "somehow the Moto X’s post-processing is so aggressive and so ubiquitous that it ruins as many shots as it saves. There’s terrible artifacting and noise even in well-lit photos—like you cranked the JPEG settings way down." The camera was also criticized for having inconsistent focus and exposure, and for lacking certain advanced options.

In conclusion, although Volpe criticized it for being too expensive for a "mid-range" device, the Moto X was generally considered to be an innovative device. Topolsky gave it an 8 out of 10, stating that "the Moto X is not a perfect phone, but neither is any other phone on the market right now. What it is, however, is a pretty damn good phone and one I can recommend." Alex Roth of

In July 2014, a German court ruled that Moto X and Moto G infringed patents on the use of LPKF Laser & Electronics"s patented Laser Direct Structuring (LDS) process in the design of their antennas. Unless an appeal or settlement is reached, the company may now ban the products from sale in Germany.

Motorola"s second-generation Moto X is the company"s last hurrah as a "Google-made" phone, before the company joins the fold of its new owner, computer giant Lenovo. And just like the first Moto X, this iteration"s two most notable features are its amazing—almost spooky—ability to obey your spoken commands and hand gestures, and the number of made-to-order options for customizing it before it leaves the factory. This new version can handle more complex commands, such as downloading and installing apps, and also comes with a wider selection of customization options that include several real wood and leather finishes, personal inscriptions, storage capacity, even what you"d see on the phone"s 5.2-inch display when you turn it on the for the first time.

I"ve been using a press sample of the Moto X for the past few days, while my colleague Carol Mangis has been checking out Motorola"s Moto 360 smart watch. Overall, I liked this phone, including my test unit"s attractive bamboo finish. But there was one annoyance: The phone"s voice command feature is always listening—even when it"s in your pocket—and it "woke up" at inopportune times, such as when I was out to dinner with friends.

One unique feature of Moto X phones, including last year"s model, is that they"re always ready to respond to spoken commands even if you don"t touch them or wake up their screens. An onboard natural-language processor and multiple microphones help the phone interpret plain-English commands, while a contextual computing processor enables the phone to remain on standby for such commands while consuming minimal energy. As I mentioned earlier, this "always on" feature may cause the phone to wake up even when you don"t want to it, but you can turn it off temporarily in settings.

The second-gen Moto X ups the ante by allowing you to perform more complex maneuvers by voice command after uttering any launch phrase you program the phone to respond to, such as "Hey, Moto X." For instance, I just said "Hey, Moto X, download and install the LinkedIn app from Google Play." And it did just that. The only thing I had to do by hand was click the Accept button for the app"s user licensing agreement.

Say "take a picture," and the Moto X will launch the camera and snap a picture after a three-second countdown. There"s even a setting that allows you to unlock a protected screen by saying your password or PIN—something you should do only when you"re certain no one else is within earshot.

Of course, you can also have the Moto X post your comments on Facebook, though it wasn"t as good at it as say, Siri on a late-model iPhone. The Moto X stopped taking dictation after the first sentence, and it often misinterpreted what I said.

I"m not big on gesture controls on a phone that"s already in your hand, but I grudgingly admit that the Moto X interprets gestures very well. Just as with a Samsung Galaxy smart phone, you can now accept or turn down an incoming call by waving your hand over the Moto X. And as with its predecessor, this phone"s display instinctively wakes up when you pull it out of your pocket, and you can launch the camera by flicking your wrist.

Our engineers will fully test the Moto X"s 1080p display when it"s in our lab, but it appeared quite crisp to me, even in bright sunlight. The display measures 5.2 inches—larger than its predecessor"s 4.7 inches, which was the "ideal" screen size, according to Motorola research at the time. (The company must have changed its mind.) The screen"s Gorilla Glass coating appeared to protect it while it bounced around in my pocket, which it shared with keys and loose change.

Measuring 2.9 inches x 5.5 inches, the new Moto X is a tad larger than the old one. Yet I found it quite comfortable to hold, thanks in part to its curved back. The phone measures about 0.4 inches in the center but tapers to less than 0.25 inches along the edges. It weighs a hair over 5 ounces, which is pretty good for a large-screen phone.

Moto X will be available later this month for as low as $100 with a new two-year customer agreement on select carriers in the U.S. It will be available off-contract and unlocked from $500 on motorola.com.

I"m experiencing a similar issue. I"ve been scratching my head after replacing a screen on a customer"s device for several days now. When I power up the device, everything appears to work except for the AT&T network (not sure if has been disconnected or not). Though, once the phone goes to sleep on it"s own, or it"s left alone for too long, things start to act funky. I wake the phone up after falling asleep for the first time since boot, the home screen appears, but there is no sense of touch/the digitizer isn"t functioning anymore. Once the screen falls back asleep due to no interaction, it will not wake back up by pressing the power button and the LCD remains completely black. When I put the original screen back into the phone, however, the phone works as it should. The only way to reset the device is to unplug the battery, which results in app optimization after every trial (time consuming). There is also a bit of heat coming from the middle of the phone. I"m running out of ideas. Please help!

Mid-range devices are becoming as feature-rich as flagship devices and Motorola is no different, updating its Moto X series with two new devices in a bid to offer everything for everyone. Ahead of our full review, I spent a couple of weeks with Motorola’s new handset to figure out whether it delivers the performance and standards that past generations have.

As you might expect, the Moto X Play looks just like any other Motorola device and although it does have a few cool new tweaks, it’s very much a Moto at its core.

One change that makes the handset so appealing to would-be customers is the ability to customise the handset colours using Moto Maker. From changing the colour of the front, back or the accent to engraving and ordering additional accessories, Moto Maker lets you make the Moto X Play truly personal to you.

The Moto X Play also comes with interchangeable back covers, which lets you personalise the experience even further. If you’re someone who likes to visually express your feelings, ordering different colour rear covers can let you do just this.

Changing covers is as easy as removing one and popping the other on, but before you get excited, you can change the back covers but you can’t access the battery. It’s also worth noting that if you do intend to change the back cover, you need to make sure it’s firmly pressed into place as otherwise, the handset will no longer be waterproof.

The front of the Moto X Play is dominated by the large 5.5-inch Full HD LCD display and if there’s something I found somewhat lacking in Moto’s new handset, it was the screen. Compared to other devices at the price point, the display seems to be lacking in overall brightness and is very reflective, but in spite of this, it’s more than manageable; just don’t expect the best viewing experience.

Moving to the back, this is where Motorola’s Moto Maker really shines; although we’ve got a black handset here, the options are great and, as we showed you in our Moto G 2015 review, you can have a really cool end result.

The Moto X Play measures 7.9mm thick and although it’s not the easiest smartphone to hold it the hand, a rear curved back makes the handset a lot friendlier. The build is sturdy and doesn’t show any visible signs of stress when you’re using it (or even if you try to bend it). The design doesn’t stand out from the crowd but it certainly gets the job done.

While design certainly isn’t Motorola’s strongest suit, the company can point to its software as a crowning example of how you should make a smartphone. As we’ve seen from Motorola in previous years, the Moto X Play adopts the mantra that “less is more”.

The handset has an almost stock-like interface with a few key additions that make the handset a Motorola. Like other devices in the range, it comes with the Moto App, which acts as a central home from which to control the various smart features that Motorola have built into the handset. As with the new Moto G, you can set particular shortcuts to quickly access the front or rear cameras using motion control but one (very welcome) change is the quick flick to launch the torch is nowhere to be seen.

From configuring gestures and motion controls to setting a hotword that lets you control the Moto X Play using your voice, the Moto App is the home to all things Motorola. In previous Moto X devices, we’ve seen the company put these options in the global settings menu, and while this change may confuse past Motorola users, it’s a much better way of implementing the controls.

Other than Motorola’s very few tweaks, the Moto X Play runs on stock Android 5.1.1 Lollipop and it’s likely to be one of the first handsets to get the new Android M update when it’s eventually released (probably next week at Google’s Nexus event).

Aside from the display, my biggest disappointment with the Moto X Play was the performance, and this is not something you could really say about Motorola smartphones in the past.

Indicative of the troubles that chip-maker Qualcomm currently finds itself in, the octa-core 64-bit Snapdragon 615 processor inside the Moto X Play seems to be underpowered for the job it’s tasked with. It’s either that, the 2GB RAM or the four (somewhat slowly-clocked) 1.7GHz Cortex A53 cores, but the end result is that the software doesn’t have the refined performance of past Motorola handsets.

It’s not all bad but there are glitches and lag that wouldn’t normally be present in a Motorola smartphone of old. When it’s lag-free, the Moto X Play is certainly no slouch but we do wonder whether an extra GB of RAM, a slightly better processor or higher clocked cores would have helped the overall experience.

From somewhat suspect performance to battery life, and this is where the Moto X Play really shines. As we touched on earlier, the handset has a non-removable battery clocked at 3630mAh (which is one of the highest at this price point) and as you might expect, it delivers excellent battery life.

Over the course of two weeks with Motorola’s new mid-range flagship, the battery life didn’t disappoint and unless you use the handset constantly and are streaming video with the screen on full brightness, it should easily last you a full day’s usage.

From testing, the average user can expect it to last 24 to 28 hours with social networking, camera usage, apps syncing and phone calls. Heavy gaming and streaming video can reduce this considerably – it’s possibly to completely drain it in 9 hours but this pretty much involves using it constantly at full brightness – and if you’re a medium to low user, you’ll probably get 36-48 hours on a single charge.

While the design of the Moto X Play feels very much like past Motorola handsets, the company has aimed to improve one of the features that affected past devices; the camera. Past Motorola smartphones (and even the Motorola-made Google Nexus 6) never had stand-out cameras attached on the back, but the Moto X Play comes with a new 21MP Sony-made sensor.

In good conditions, the Moto X Play camera certainly delivers but as the light reduces, so does the quality of the camera and in low-light, you might as well not bother pulling the handset out. The lack of OIS or any form of phase detection also heavily affects the camera quality, and while the sensor has certainly been improved over past Moto X devices, Motorola still have a way to go in order to rival other cameras at the price point.

The Moto X range has never failed to deliver and the Moto X Play mostly continues this trend, but with a little less gusto than previous years. Unlike the Moto G and Moto X Style (aka the Moto X Pure Edition), the Moto X Play is only available in a handful of countries.

[related_videos align=”left” type=”custom” videos=”643640,640394,639843,637478,637475,632593″]Motorola is offering the handset for £279 unlocked and free of contract in the UK and while this price tag would have been a smash-hit in previous years, the mid-range is a fiercely fought minefield and the Moto X Play gets a little lost in a sea of competitive devices.

If you’re looking for an unassuming mid-range smartphone that delivers excellent battery life and a solid experience, the Moto X Play certainly ticks the boxes. If you want something more than this however, there’s an entire range of handsets worth checking out (which you can see to the left now).

What do you think of the Moto X Play? Let us know your views in the comments below and be sure to stay tuned for our full Moto X Play review, which is coming soon.