Tuesday, July 28

Hands-on with the 2015 Moto X Pure Edition—stock Android at a great price

[ars_Ad]NEW YORK CITY—Motorola just took the wraps off its newest flagship, the 2015 Moto X. Motorola actually announced a couple phones today. There's a new version of the Moto G and two Moto Xes, but only one Moto X is coming to the US. Internationally, Motorola calls the flagship the "Moto X Style," and the mid-range Moto X the "Moto X Play." In the US, there's only one Moto X model, so it's called the Moto X Pure Edition. We're just going to call it the "2015 Moto X."

We've long considered Motorola to be the best Android OEM, and with the new Moto X, the company seems to be making all the right moves. The Moto X is still running stock Android—Motorola wants to make experiences that "augment, not compete" with Google's OS. And the Moto X is still really cheap—$399 gets you a 1.8GHz Snapdragon 808, 3GB of RAM, a 5.7-inch, 1440p display, 16GB of storage, and a 3000 mAh battery.

Motorola says the big upgrade this year is the camera. The company called the new 20MP camera "one of the best in the world," with "better light, faster focus, faster capture, and better color" when compared to the 2014 Moto X. Camera review site DxOMark has rated the Moto X 2015 camera as one of the top three cameras in the world, ahead of the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6+. The font of the device has some camera upgrades, too, as the 5MP front-facing camera now has an LED flash.

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