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hey guys this is Brian Bennett for cnet.com and right now we are taking a first look at the brand new motorola moto x smartphone we're at Motorola's launch event in New York City so this device has been long awaited it's born out of a partnership with motorola and google who owns the company we have a very distinctive design you can tell it's got a 4.7 inch AMOLED screen that's 720 resolution what's really nice though is that it's very thin the shape of the back is actually a very kind of a rounded scalp shape that has little tapered edges here on the side on each side here that will hopefully fit in your hand a little bit easier the back of the phone uses a soft touch surface here and the whole device actually is a nano coated for some water resistance now on back you can see there's a 10 megapixel camera it uses the clear pixel technology which is in the droid phones that just were announced on verizon and what's interesting you can tell it's got a little like dimple here where you put your finger when you hold it it's kind of cool on the motorola logo we've got a sim card slot where you can put in your sim card it's going to be available on five carriers in the US among those will be verizon AT&T t-mobile and Sprint the phone itself is going to cost 199 99 and the other key features of the phone here we can see it's you've got the typical stuff like the volume very small Vaughn control power key and you know front facing camera on top headphone jack over here this phone is running Android 4.2 to jellybean it's not 4.3 some of the features that make the Moto X very interesting is that it uses the x8 processor potentially it has what Motorola says is 8 cores but really is based on the dual-core 1.7 gigahertz Qualcomm s4 pro processor that processes information for applications and then it also has a quad-core a dream graphics processor and then underneath that it's got to process there's one for contextual computing and one that controls you know voice recognition that kind of stuff so as part of the this whole Motorola touchless interface where you will just address the phone and say okay Google now you know please do this please do the search will tie into google now's service which analyzes your voice and basically does lots of searches and things really quickly without you having to touch the screen other features include the ability to customize the phone basically you will be able to customize a phone in thousands of different ways and it's all going to be handled out of a factory in Fort Worth Texas and basically that will enable you the customer to order your phone and receive it within four days that's pretty cool another interesting feature on the Moto X is this ability called quick capture that enables you to take photos within two seconds so basically if you have the phone and it's sitting down we could just pick the phone up like this and then twist it two times and that immediately fires up the camera and you can quickly fire off a shot boom like that just by touching the screen to reach the other kind of basic settings and scene modes you just kind of swipe the screen on the left side and you've got a rotating little control here where you can access you know panorama mode location settings additionally on the Moto X is a feature called the active display so you have the phone in your pocket or exceeding like this on the table it uses the ambient sensor to immediately fire up a notification area on the lock screen so here we go we have the notifications here we can see who is texting us or setting a message we can also just push up and jump straight to that message so we can do exactly what we need without having to waste time messing around the menus firing up the screen for a long time and hopefully that also will save your battery so there you have it folks i'm brian bennett for cnet.com and we just took a first look at the motorola moto x check back soon for review