A report from Phone Arena indicates Motorola will not be focusing all its energy on the new X Phone, being developed in direct cooperation with Google. The report states Motorola will be developing three more phones following the X Phone, which have nothing to do with the Nexus or X Phone line.
The X Phone will be released in the second quarter, possibly at Google I/O or at a separate event around that time. Some rumours have said Google will ditch the Nexus smartphone, and start working directly with Motorola to manufacture their smartphones.
Sadly, the report states the X Phone will not come with customisable hardware, as once thought. Guy Kawasaki did hint this could be the future, and the ex-Apple evangelist is currently working as an advisor for Motorola. It would be awesome to see a system like Dell’s custom builds or Porsche custom cars.
After the release, Motorola will add two new smartphones to the mix in quarter three this year. The report is very vague when it comes to features, with the only difference between the two in size. The fourth smartphone release from Motorola will be in quarter four, and we again have no details on what this other smartphone will bring.
The X Phone has been reported time and time again, we have seen photos of a mid-range device, specs sheets that blow the current generation mobile devices out the water, and some rumours of the X Phone being the Key Lime Pie flagship device and it having customisation.
Most of this is just pre-release buzz, we suspect Google want to make cheap off-contract smartphones, and to appeal to the US they need to be able to package this in a system that doesn’t compete against all the features of the Galaxy S4 or iPhone 5.
We suspect the Motorola X Phone will come with customisation of some kind, to what extent we will have to wait and see.
