Das Motorola X Smartphone kommt und hoert auf den Namen, oh Wunder, Moto X! Motorola CEO Dennis Woodside teilte dies und weitere Details zum neuen Moto X in einem Interview waehrend der D11-Konferenz in Kalifornien mit.
Mensch was wurde um das geheimnisville Motorola X Phone orakelt, jetzt gibt es endlich Fakten und Infos direkt vom Motorola Chef! Auf der All Things Digital Konferenz bestaetigt Motorola CEO Dennis Woodside, dass das neue Spitzenmodell auf den Namen Moto X hoert und in den USA hergestellt wird:
It’ll be the first Motorola smartphone built in the United States. It’ll be built in Texas — we’ll employ around 2,000 people. It’s right outside of Fort Worth in a 500,000 square foot facility that was previously used to build Nokia phones
Nokia raus, Motorola rein und dazu noch 2000 neue Angestellte. Das duerfte bei den US-Medien und Usern mal richtig gut ankommen und wohl in zukuenftigen Werbekampagnen auch den Wettbewerbern aufs Broetchen geschmiert werden.
Stichwort weitere Details! Woodside spricht im Interview die Akkulaufzeit-Probleme moderner Smartphones an und gibt einen dicken Wink mit dem Zaunpfahl:
“I’ll save the details for later, but [the industry issue of] battery life is a huge problem. Motorola has some of the world’s best engineers and systems designers who spend their lives on that problem. There are two processors in the device that creates a system that allows you to do such a thing.”
2 Prozessoren also? Ich gehe “all in” und behaupte mal, dass die dann die ARM big.LITTLE Technologie nutzen werden, wie bereits im Samsung Galaxy S4 mit dem Exynos 5.
Lesenswert: Weiterer Test bestätigt: Galaxy S4 mit Snapdragon mit deutlich besserer Akkulaufzeit
Weitere Infos zu dem Phone: OLED Screen aus Korea, SoC aus Taiwan (das waere dann TSMC, wo auch Qualcomm produzieren laesst) und Corning Gorilla Glas!
Offizielle Pressemitteilung:
Moto X: The First Smartphone Assembled in the USA
There are more than 130 million smartphones in use in the USA today and not one of them was assembled here…until now.
May 28, 2013 Danielle McNally
Today at the AllThingsD conference Dennis Woodside revealed how we are reinventing Motorola through a portfolio of products starting with Moto X, a new flagship smartphone that will be designed, engineered and assembled in the USA. We’re not talking about just a handful of units either — available this summer, every Moto X sold in the USA will be assembled in Fort Worth, Texas, making it the first smartphone ever assembled domestically.
There were a few reasons why we decided to do this. There are several business advantages to having our Illinois and California-based designers and engineers much closer to our factory. For instance, we’ll be able to iterate on design much faster, create a leaner supply chain, respond much more quickly to purchasing trends and demands, and deliver devices to people here much more quickly. And as a part of Google we’re being encouraged to take big bets on things that make a difference.
We still have a network of global operations, and that won’t change. Our global manufacturing partner remains Flextronics and we’ll continue to assemble devices locally in China and Brazil. But Flextronics is busy looking for people for the new Fort Worth facility now. If you’re interested, we encourage you to check the available positions and apply.
This is an incredibly exciting time to be in the mobile device industry. Our role in inventing the mobile phone is well known. We’re happy to be shaping its future as well.
