It is being reported that Google, along with it’s recently-acquired Motorola is readying a new smartphone which is expected to take on the top end smartphones offered by the likes of Apple and Samsung. Currently, being dubbed as the X Phone, the device is expected to surface sometime in 2013.
According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, after being acquired by Google in May for a record amount of $12.5 billion, Motorola is now designing a new, top-end smartphone which fill feature some cutting edge features unlike any of the smartphone available in the market today.
The report goes on to say that though Motorola would continue to make it’s own handsets for Verizon in the US, but will also devote a lot of it’s resources to make the ‘X Phone’ with Google and later, develop a tablet on the same lines as well. It is being rumored that Google product manager Lior Ron, is heading the project as of now and Motorola is also working hard to integrate some innovative imaging and gesture recognition features.
If the rumor indeed turns out to be true, ‘X Phone’ would be the first smartphone that Google would manufacture along with Motorola. But it is being said that the companies are already facing some issues relating to manufacturing and supply chain management.
After acquiring Motorola, till date there had been no such news about Google creating an ‘in-house’ flagship smartphone with Motorola, so the new rumor seems legit as it was quite obvious that Google would soon utilize the manufacturing prowess of Motorola to create their own smartphone. Google, which has till now worked with various other manufacturers like HTC, Samsung and most recently, LG to realize the lineup of it’s Nexus handsets and with the ‘X Phone’, the company would surely be looking to pass the Nexus baton to ‘it’s own’ manufacturer, Motorola. All that being said, let’s just sit back and see what 2013 has in store for us.
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