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hey folks is Michael Fisher with pocket now here taking a look at the brand new American assembled Moto X the first official fruit of the union of motorola and google let's take a look so one of the most important things to understand about this phone is that moto is aiming for the mass market this is not a nexus even though it runs a very close to stock edition of Android it's not for enthusiasts it's for the average consumer and as such it will be available on five US carriers most of them by the end of the month we're told at a suggested contract price of 199 on a two-year contract it's not loaded with crazy specs but it does have some awesome standout features just talking build here we're looking at a composite material built around a 4.7 inch AMOLED screen at 720p that does a really nice job of popping here at the NYC launch venue the phone ranges in thickness from five point six millimeters at the edge to ten point four millimeters at its media center curved very nicely so it sits in the palm very well moto says the phone mass is 130 grams which is kind of unbelievable it feels nothing like the galaxy s4 which also masses under 30 grams so the company has done a really nice job of making this thing feels solid in the hand we don't imagine this creaking or popping at all as we heard before there are also going to be a bevy of color and customization options to choose from including customizable trim and engraving and later in the year some exotic wood materials see our special wooden phone hands-on for that Motorola also let us know that the inner volume isn't wasted at all there's a specially designed non-removable battery in there that's rated at 2200 milliamp hours but which motorola tells us will last 24 hours of use even with all the new fancy features turned on those features include touchless control a voice interface that's always listening for a keyword and which will take a look at in a quieter environment also though there's a 10 megapixel shooter on board that motorola is calling a clear pixel camera because it uses an extra set of clear pixels to gather more light about 75% more than competing cameras from according to moto while also shortening exposure time instills in video it's capable of 1080p of course along with motion high-speed recording the front camera is 2 megapixels the whole thing is powered by an interface that's quite Spartan it reminds us a bit of Windows Phone and there's a physical shortcut to open it that we imagine we'll get more convenient with practice Motorola has also implemented an increasingly popular glance feature into its software here displaying a special minimised notification screen when the phone is flipped over that allows you to either handle or dismiss the notifications that have come in since the phone was last active all that is powered by the company's new x8 mobile computing system which is a combination of an optimized dual-core Snapdragon s4 pro at 1.7 gigahertz the Adreno 320 GPU and two additional cores one each for language processing and contextual computing it's these cores that drive the most visible of the phone's new features all of which are once again heavily targeted at the mass consumer in terms of memory there's two gigs of ram and 16 or 32 gigs of storage depending on carrier variants but you also get 50 gigs of free storage on Drive when you buy one folks we've just unboxed our own review unit to explore check out that video and we'll be digging deeply into it over the days to come so keep it locked to pocket now for more on the new Moto X from google you