Moto X

                                   MOTO X                           

Despite being one of the most iconic cellular phone brands and probably the only brand which came close enough to challenge Nokia for its crown before the smartphone era, Motorola, the creators of phones like the Razr, was struggling to reinvent themselves in the new era of smartphones. search engine giant Google, although prevalent in the smartphone market with their Androids OS and their Nexus brand of phones, wanted to have an even larger presence in the market, thus taking over Motorola in 2011. Now, after two years of anticipation, the merger of the two goliaths of the technological era is finally bearing fruit Motorola releasing its first smartphone Moto X designed under Google. Although Google designs have been prevalent with their attempt at providing pure Android experiences though Nexus, the Motorola collaboration seems to be for the mainstream market and will feature added innovations to the android OS such as the much touted  'Active Display' and ' Touchless Control' . 

Camera

Apart from the 10MP autofocus camera with video recording capabilities of1080p at 30fps, the best thing about the camera is the way you activate it. Twist your wrist a couple of times while holding the phone, feel it vibrate, and voila! The camera is ready to click pictures. Also, touching anywhere on the screen clicks the pic. The secondary camera isn't too shabby either as the 2MP camera is also capable of 1080P recording.

Memory

Although lacking of an external SD card slot, the Moto X comes with two variants with inbuilt memory of 16GB.

Display

The 4.7 inch (diagonal) display features an AMOLED capacitive touchscreen with 16M colours. The Corning Gorilla Glass provides ample protection while multi-touch features work like wonders on it.

Processor

Although the Qualcomm MSM8960Pro Snapdragon chipset with a Dual-Core krait CPU might be a tad bit outdatd it still processes at a really speed of 1.7 GHz.  

WHY MOTO X

Active Display

A unique motion-sensing function that does wonders for its battery life. The screen remains blacked out when in your pocket or when not in use. When it gets a new notification, it subtly pulses. Pressing on the screen will awake the phone to reply to it while retracting the finger will put it back to sleep.

Customize

With the Moto Maker Tool, you get to customize your phone before purchasing it. With a wild range of option available for the back panel which included wood finishes and differ color combination, you get a total of 504 potential versions of the phone. As a bonus, it also allows you to engrave custom messages.

Touchless Control

Another cool sensor function, the Touchless Control activities the Google Now voice controls without touching the phone. Just say "Okay, Google Now' and the phone will be ready to answer questions even if you don't touch it. What's more: the voice control is calibrated so that it will match with owner's voice only.

Skip

A small wearable accessory that clips on to your clothes, the Skip conceals a NFC chip embedded into it. When the phone automatically unlocks for you so you don't have to fumble around to find that power switch  It also comes with another accessory, the Skip Dots which unlocks the phone wherever it is in this range without needing to come to contact.