Posted on 08/02/2013 7:01:16 AM PDT by illiac
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — Motorola lifted the wraps Thursday on a new, customizable smartphone called the Moto X that’s set to roll out to consumers in the U.S. later this month.
Bloomberg Dennis Woodside, CEO of Motorola Mobility, introduces the Moto X smartphone in New York on Thursday. This is the first significant smartphone to be designed by Motorola since its acquisition by Google Inc /quotes/zigman/93888/quotes/nls/goog GOOG +0.05% , which was completed last year. Google shares closed up 1.9% at $904.22 on Thursday following an event in New York City at which the company showed off the device.
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If google has anything to do with it, count me out. I’ll stick with my little flip “dumb” phone.
They don't need to ask "papers, please".
I agree-not going to spring for something I don’t need. I use mine at work where there are usually no landlines-so as long as I can make and receive calls, and text that is all I need...
So are these made in China?
(just wondering)
It’s OK. The NSA and the PLA collaborate so their individual spyware suites don’t interfere with each other...
Made in Austin TX
Well I’ll be darned.
For real?
Motorola way to go. :D
Ditto
It will be assembled in Austin by Flextronics International Ltd., a Singapore-based manufacturer, from parts made in Asia.
What a terrible idea!
So? What are they going to hear? My wife asking to pick up bread on the way HOme? When my grandsons next little league game is scheduled?
I doubt that I’ve ever had any conversation on my phone that the Feds would be interested in...and I don’t text at all.
The phone will be manufactured in a facility in Texas, different from most mobile devices that are assembled in China or other Asian countries.
BTTT
If Google, Microsoft, Apple, IBM, Dell, Johnson&Johnson, Nike, Facebook. Osborne Computer had anything to do with it, count me out!
I don’t want my phone to be particularly smart. Too smart for it’s own good and it’ll snitch on the user.
Telegraph, telephone, tellawoman. It’s all the same.
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