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...While Moto presses pause, others are forging ahead in the hopes that fresh innovations will catch consumers’ imaginations....
...Sales of the Moto branded phones were up by a fifth quarter on quarter, lifted by shipments to India and Latin America....
...It comes at a time of flux for the wearable technology market, after Motorola said last week it would not be making any more of its Moto 360 smartwatches for the foreseeable future....
...(Reuters) Tech tools you can use – Moto X Force The X Force is a new version of my trusty Moto X, writes Jonathan Margolis, with an apparently unbreakable screen, using what Motorola calls ShatterShield...
...It’s going to use Motorola’s Moto brand for high-end products and its homegrown Vibe brand for budget devices....
...Motorola’s Moto 360 was the first smartwatch to feature a circular screen, and the Lenovo-owned company now offers customisation in its second version with new bezels, colours and wristbands....
...Yet at $199, it seems expensive compared to the Moto 360, the price of which was recently cut to $150. I wanted to fall for Pebble’s retro-cool stylings and feisty independent spirit....
...Putting its Moto X and G devices on sale in the country in the first quarter of this year, Motorola is aiming for younger and more affluent customers in the world’s largest and most competitive mobile market...
...Fitbit says the Surge should not be compared with the Apple Watch or Android Wear devices such as the Moto 360, because it is designed for a more sporty or athletic consumer....
...The telecoms experts believed that round-faced watches — such as those from LG and Moto — would remain the most popular this year....
...Jawbone Up Move or Misfit Shine (below): Although there are some decent smartwatches available today – the Pebble Steel, Samsung Gear S or the Moto 360, for instance – there is little worse than giving a...
...Take this statement from Motorola today on the launch of Moto 360, which will be available in stores this summer: Moto 360’s iconic design, featuring a round face and premium materials, feels comfortable...
...The Moto X was the first product released on the back of Google’s $12.5bn acquisition of Motorola Mobility in 2012....
...Still, Moto X was only on sale in the US, where the strangehold of Apple and Samsung is hard to crack....
...In order to keep the price down, the Moto G has a smaller screen than Motorola’s flagship Moto X which was launched a few months ago, uses a less-expensive display technology, and is manufactured in Asia...
...The company late last year opened a factory in Texas for assembling its Moto X handsets, a task typically done in mainland China by outsourced manufacturing such as Foxconn....
...Three years on, supermarkets are selling extremely cheap but well-designed Moto G handsets, tying consumers into Android software....
...Google’s mobile phone unit, Motorola, responded in its campaign for its latest flagship smartphone, the Moto X with the phrase: “Designed by you – assembled in the USA.”...
...Google also sought to upstage Apple with the news that it will produce the Moto X at a plant near Fort Worth in Texas....
...One thing that’s clear is that the Moto X is not doing much on its own to put Google on the map....
...But the Moto X will face fierce competition....
...The result is the Moto X. Moto X (Rating: 4/5) I suspect that I don’t have too much in common with Eric Schmidt, Google’s executive chairman....
...He hopes to hack at those margins with the Moto X, a phone that will read users’ minds (or some such). The Moto X, he intimated, will be much cheaper than the iPhone....
...A steady trickle of leaks from Apple’s Asian supply chain has suggested it is testing stretching the display from 4 inches to 4.7 inches – similar to Motorola’s Moto X but smaller than Samsung’s Galaxy S4...
...But basic step-counting bracelets such as the Fitbit Flex and Jawbone’s Up are seeing more of their movement-tracking capabilities absorbed by smartphones such as the iPhone 5s and Moto X – as even their...
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