Speaking at the AllThingsD D11 conference, Motorola CEO Dennis Woodside confirmed that Motorola's newest flagship, the Moto X, will be available by October. Woodside didn't provide any hard facts but said that this Android phone will be smarter than others using sensors that will make the device "contextually aware." Woodside also touted the Moto X to be the first smartphone to be built in the U.S., with the assembly process taking place in Fort Worth, Texas. The handset will be broadly distributed and will retail at $650 without a contract.
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- "We know when it's in your pocket, we know when it's in your hand, it's going to know when you want to take a picture and fire up the cameras," Woodside said, describing the phone's sensors.
- The 480,000 square foot facility was previously used to manufacture Nokia phones and will employ 2,000 people by the end of August to assemble new handsets for the Google subsidiary.
- Components for the Moto X will be coming from 12 states in the U.S. but the processors will be shipped from Taiwan and the OLED displays from Korea.
- At the D11 conference, Woodside admitted that the he had the Moto X phone in his pocket but he was unable to show it.
- Most companies manufacture their smartphones in China and other developing markets, where labor costs are lower.
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Seems like the previous speculation of the X Phone having some “eye tracking for scrolling” might be coming true.- Ian Hardy, Mobile Syrup
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