0 Motorola Moto G budget smartphone goes official with 4.5-inch HD display at $179, coming to India in January

Motorola has finally announced the Moto G - a mid-range smartphone designed to bring the acclaimed Moto X user experience to a lower price point. It's built around a 4.5" 720p edge-to-edge display that's covered in Gorilla Glass 3 for extra protection against scratches and drops. Motorola has even wrapped the insides of the Moto G with a water-resistant nano-coating. Under the hood It has a 4.5-inch (1280 x 720 pixels) edge-to-edge display at 329 ppi with Corning Gorilla Glass protection, powered by a 1.2 GHz quad-core Snapdragon processor and run on Android 4.3 (Jelly Bean) with upgrade to Android 4.4 (KitKat) soon. It has a 5-megapixel rear camera with 720p HD video recording and a 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera.

Motorola Moto G specifications

• 4.5-inch (1280 x 720 pixels) edge-to-edge display at 329 ppi with Corning Gorilla Glass protection
• 1.2 GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 processor with Adreno 305 GPU
• Dual SIM (Optional)
• Android 4.3 (Jelly Bean) with option to upgrade to Android 4.4 (KitKat)
• 5MP rear camera with LED flash, 720p HD video recording at 30fps
• 1.3MP front-facing camera
• 6.0-11.6 mm thick (curve) and weighs 143 grams
• 3.5mm audio jack, FM Radio
• 720p HD video playback
• 1GB RAM, 8GB/16GB internal memory
• 3G, WiFi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0, GPS, GLONASS
• 2070 mAh battery

The Motorola Moto G is priced at $179 for the 8GB version and the 16GB version costs $199. It will be sold without contract and an unlockable bootloader first in Brazil this week and parts of Europe, Latin America, Europe, Canada and parts of Asia within the next few weeks. It will be available in the US, India, the Middle East and more of Asia in early January 2014. Motorola has announced that the Moto G will be available in more than 30 countries with 60 partners by 2014.

0 Moto X Launched with X8 Chipset, 4.7" AMOLED Screen and Available in 18 Colors

The Moto X went official in the USA, with a ton of information(aka press coverage) doing the usual internet rounds. With modest hardware specifications, Motorola has taken a completely different approach with its latest flagship device. So different, it makes you wonder what really is special with this device. Unless you want to read through various long form articles, you won’t really know what the stand-out features are. We have taken that effort instead, so here is a compiled list of really interesting Moto X features you definitely need to know

Ergonomic design and customisations

The Moto X, according to various hands on reports, has a really comfortable design. Thanks to the slightly conically shaped back and an extremely thin and curved bezel, the device sits perfectly in the hands, and is apparently one of they key design decisions they took

10 Megapixel RGBC camera

The camera on the Moto X is a 10 megapixel 1/2.6″ sensor with a pixel size of 1.4 um. This is slightly bigger and possibly better than the recent flagships with 1/3″ sensors and 1.1 um pixel sizes. It also sports a f2.4 lens and a true 16:9 format sensor. But one thing that stands out is the colour filter Moto has chosen to use on top of the sensors. This is provided by the Omnivision OV10820 and OV660combo.

Touchless control for Google Now

Another interesting feature that already leaked before the announcement, is the always listening Google Now service for the Moto X. This is called “Touchless control” and is primarily enabled by the specific NLP(Natural Language Processor) in the Moto X8 chipset. Acting as one of the cores in the 8 core chipset, this NLP is always on and keeps listening for a specific voice command, in this case, it is “OK Google”, just like the Google Glass

Motorola Moto X at a glance

• General: Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE, quad-band UMTS/HSPA, 100 Mbps LTE with a second LTE antenna
• Form factor: Touchscreen bar phone
• Dimensions: 129.3 x 65.3 x 10.4, 130 g
• Display: 4.7" 16M-color 720p (1280 x 720 pixels) capacitive touchscreen RGB AMOLED display with curved Gorilla Glass and ~316 ppi
• CPU: Dual-core 1.7 GHz Krait
• GPU: Adreno 320
• Chipset: A custom-built Motorola X8 Mobile Computing System, based on a Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro chipset
• RAM: 2GB
• OS: Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean
• Memory: 16/32GB storage
• Cameras: Primary 10 megapixel auto-focus Clear Pixel camera with 1.4 µm-sized pixels, f/2.4 aperture, native 16:9 aspect ratio, face detection, HDR mode, panorama, geo-tagging; Full HD (1080p) video recording at 30fps with HDR, Secondary 2MP front-facing camera with FullHD video capture; Quick capture allows you to activate the camera with a double twist of your wrist;
• Connectivity: Dual-band Wi-Fi a/b/g/n/ac, Wi-Fi hotspot, Bluetooth 4.0 LE, standard microUSB port with MHL and USB host, GPS receiver with A-GPS, GLONASS, 3.5mm audio jack, NFC, wireless screen sharing (Miracast protocol)
• Misc: Composite plastic materials - surrounding back panel and curved edge-to-edge Gorilla Glass front; dual-mic setup for noise cancellation; water-repellent coating on electrical components for trouble-free operation in the rain; some 50 GB worth of extra free Google Drive storage for 2 years (on top of the usual 15GB); Active Display system, showing notifications on a fraction of the screen size when the screen is off; Touchless control - voice control capabilities in standby (with the screen off).
• Battery capacity: 2200mAh.