There were several Moto X announcements from AT&T, Moto Maker and Verizon Wireless. The Moto X Developer Edition is coming soon.
Moto Maker for Moto X is now open for direct orders for AT&T with colors and customized details: the front, back, accents, memory, wallpapers, accessories and Google ID information preloaded. Without a contract it sells for $579 for the 16GB version. It takes four business days without engraving to ship. Engraving was halted due to technical problems.
The black or white AT&T Moto X, you can buy from AT&T directly. You can also see different colored models in AT&T stores.
The Moto X from Verizon will officially be released by Verizon Wireles on August 29 this Thursday for $199.99 with a contract. The Verizon Edge pricing should be around $25.22 per month, with a total 50% paid for upgrade $302.64.
It takes four business days without engraving to ship. Engraving is not available, yet.
The Moto X has specialty software features. To activate the camera you twist your wrist twice for Quick Capture by touching the screen. The curved back and 4.7" screen size is for one-handed operation.
It does use the same Motorola X8 mobile computing systems as the Droid mini/Ultra/MAXX that includes the Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro ( packed with 1 dual.7 GHz dual-core Krait CPU and a quad-core Adreno 320 GPU) along with two Motorola processors. It also features a 2220 mAh battery, 10MP camera, front camera, 2GB RAM.
For Verizon Wireless, there are no color options except in woven white and woven black.
There is a teaser page for the Moto X 32GB pure Google Developer edition with and "of course an unlocked bootloader." However unlocking the bootloader voids all warranties and may cause harm to your Moto X.
The price for the Developer Editions is expected to around $630 similar to a full price 32GB Moto X from AT&T.
You pick the colors, and decide on the all details: the front, back, accents, memory, wallpapers, accessories -- you can even include your Google ID and we’ll load all of your account information for you in advance. T