Google certainly
made waves in the tech world when it chose to spend a whopping $12.5 billion to
acquire Motorola Mobility, but it’s fair to say that the Big G has yet to
really utilize this most sizable of purchases. Much speculation has pertained
to a so-called “X Phone,” perhaps
accompanied by an “X Tablet” to match, but as yet, these reports have remained
decidedly inconsequential. Shots of the X Phone enveloped in a squared-off case
were leaked by evleaks a couple of days ago, and as it transpires,
high-res images had already been leaked earlier this year depicting the device
in all its glory.
Back in
March, Vietnamese blog Tinhte.vn published a series of
images of an unspecified Motorola device, but the tech world was quick to
dispel any notion that the device was indeed the elusive X Phone. However,
these latest evleaks shots suggest that in actual fact, it probably was,
and the device wasn’t as much “elusive” as right under our noses.
On first impressions, I would say the
device looks a piece, and that curved rear shell reminds me somewhat of the
very beautiful HTC One. Although it’s perhaps not quite as easy on the eye as
the Taiwanese company’s flagship, the X Phone looks a marked improvement on
Google’s Nexus 4, and much like Google’s current mobile device product line, it
would seem the X series will pull no punches when it comes to hardware specs.
The guys over at
9to5Google tout the X Phone as bearing a 4.7-inch display, and although
the blog does not specify a resolution, one would presume Google would
commission nothing less than 1080p for what is quite an eagerly anticipated
handset. The device also looks set to pack in a reasonable 32GB of storage
capacity, 2 gigs of RAM and Android 4.2 Jelly Bean, or maybe Android 4.3 if we’re lucky
enough.
What remains unclear, is when exactly
we’ll be seeing this device hit the consumer market. Reports seem to conflict
each other on this subject, but it wouldn’t be all that surprising if Google
decided to announce it at this year’s I/O keynote, set to take
place later this month. [Source]
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