Motorola's flagship model Moto X, which got released in India in mid-March for ₹23,999 can now be purchased under ₹20,000 at online store.
Flipkart, official (and sole) retail partner of Motorola has introduced the promotional buy-back scheme for prospective Moto X buyers. The e-shop website is offering the phone for ₹19,999 and ₹21,999 (wood-panel based variants) with exchange for old smartphone.
Buyers have to mention their device's IMEI (International Mobile Equipment Identity) number and location of their residence to check-out if they are eligible to avail the buy-back scheme. [To check for eligibility, click here for plastic models and here for wood-panel models]
Motorola's critically acclaimed Moto X originally made its debut in the USA in August 2013. Despite constrained with limited hardware specification, it received overwhelming response primarily for its rich user-experience like innovative voice-activated command features.
'Touchless Control', a virtual voice-assistant let's user to operate phone via orally to text message, email, set notifications/remainders, check game-scores and perform more operations thanks to 'always-active' micro phone. Users just need to say 'OK, Google Now' phrase to unlock the phone-screen.
Moto X also boasts of 'Quick-Capture' gesture control based camera-launcher feature where in a user can launch the camera just by flipping the device (even in sleep mode) twice horizontally and start snapping pictures in no time.
The Motorola phone houses 10.0-megapixel main camera (with 'Clear Pixel' (RGBC) sensor, LED flash support, full HD1080p video recording), a 2.0-megapixel camera with full HD video recording ability and a 2200 mAh battery which can provide back-up for close to 24 hours.
Other stipulated specification include 4.7-inch HD (720p) AMOLED screen and packs Motorola X8 Mobile computing system architecture based 1.7GHz Qualcomm snapdragon dual-core processor, quad-core Adreno graphics engine, one natural language processor core and contextual processor backed by 2GB RAM, 16GB inbuilt storage and it also come with water-repellent nano-coating inside and outside.
[Note: phone can be operated under rainy conditions, but users are advised not to take Moto X for a dip in the swimming pool]
Keys Specifications of Motorola Moto X:
| Model | Motorola Moto X |
| Display | 4.7-inch AMOLED (RGB) screen with HD 720p display resolutions,Pixel density : 316 ppi |
| OS | Android v4.2.2 Jelly Bean OS (KitKat update released) |
| Processor | 1.7GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro dual-core CPU with one natural language processor core and a contextual processor core(custom Motorola X8 Mobile computing system architecture) |
| GPU | Adreno 320 (four-cores) graphics engine |
| RAM | 2GB |
| Storage capacity | 16 GB (non-expandable) |
| Camera | Main: 10.0-megapixel CLEAR PIXEL (RGBC) camera, LED flash,Full HD 1080p video recording
Front: 2.0-megapixel camera with full HD 1080p video recording ability |
| Network | 3G & 4G-LTE |
| Battery | 2200 mAh,Power back-up close to 24 hours |
| Add-ons | Water-repellent body coating (inside and outside), Bluetooth v4.0 LE + EDR, USB v2.0, Wi-Fi :802.11 a/b/g/n/ ac (dual band capability), GPRS, EDGE |
| Dimensions | Height: 129.3 mmWidth: 65.3 mm
Curve: 5.6-10.4 mm |
| Weight | 130 g |
| Price | All color variant made of plastic costs ₹23,999, Wood-panel based smartphones - Teak and Walnut variants costs: ₹25,999Under buy-back scheme:
Plastic models costs: ₹19,999; Wood-panel models costs: ₹21,999; |
(Ed:AJ)
