Skip to main content

Motorola officially announces the Moto X Style & Moto X Play

Motorola has officially unveiled the Moto X Style, its top-of-the-line offering for those looking for a good-looking powerhouse. The company also unveiled a second Moto X called the Moto X Play, which is more rugged and offers better battery, but is less powerful in terms of tech specs.

Moto X Style packs a 5.7-inch Quad HD display and the Snapdragon 808 running at 1.8 GHz, 3 GB of RAM, 4G LTE, and storage tiers at 16, 32, and 64 GB. The phone has a beastly 21-megapixel main camera w/ a f/2.0 aperture and 4K video capture, a dual-tone flash, a 5-megapixel front cam, and a front-facing flash as well. As for the battery, the Style sits at 3,000 mAh which gives you up to 30 hours of mixed use. As expected, the Moto X Style will be customizable via Moto Maker, and you can now pick silicon rubber material as a new back option.

Moto X Play offers up to 48-hours of battery life and a water-repellent design, as well as slightly lesser specifications compared to the Moto X Style. You get a slightly-smaller 5.5-inch HD display, a 1.7GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 615, 2 GB of RAM, a 21 megapixel camera, a 5-megapixel front-facing camera, and a 3630 mAh battery. Of course, the phone runs Android Lollipop 5.1.1 out of the box.

Moto X Style, which costs $399 for the Pure Edition, will be available starting sometime in September. The Moto X Play will be available in 55 countries starting August (but, unfortunately, this doesn’t include the United States).

Check out our live blog as it’s being updated.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0b98BFCqOvQ

FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. More.

You’re reading 9to5Google — experts who break news about Google and its surrounding ecosystem, day after day. Be sure to check out our homepage for all the latest news, and follow 9to5Google on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn to stay in the loop. Don’t know where to start? Check out our exclusive stories, reviews, how-tos, and subscribe to our YouTube channel

Comments

Author

Avatar for Stephen Hall Stephen Hall

Stephen is Growth Director at 9to5. If you want to get in touch, follow me on Twitter. Or, email at stephen (at) 9to5mac (dot) com, or an encrypted email at hallstephenj (at) protonmail (dot) com.