Yeah ill pass on the Motorola X chip
. But you make a good point about inventory and something I forgot about/overlooked. Motorola could be under contract (or agreement) to set carriers (particularly vzw) which promises to produce X amount of devices that meets a certain standard. This could hinder Google from what they can do. Remember a few years ago fans hammered Motorola about the locked bootloader and Motorola's response was that they had to design the software to the carrier's specs. At the time many called hogwash (me included) only to find out Motorola was right as we started seeing other oems lock down their devices. We saw how vzw treated the nexus where they wouldn't allow Google wallet and with what Google has planned for wallet there is no way they are going to continue to let that fly. When Google bought Motorola they also bought their contracts and they are obligated to honor it. So that makes since that Google has to wait to empty the pipeline to do what they have planned. With that said I do not see Google being quiet. The tech industry is a fast moving business move too late and it could be game over. So I expect the pipeline phones to make its way to the carriers but I also see them releasing devices that follow in the suit of Google experience where they release it for purchase on their play store (gsm/hspa/lte). At least I hope they do. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I317 using Tapatalk 4 Beta
ual core
I have to say the hype isn't quite living up to my hope -- "contextual awareness" sounds like a term the marketing guys worked up to put a new spin on "location awareness" ("Yeah, you see...'contexts' are broader and more general than 'locations'!") and multi-processor battery management (*sigh*) -- yeah, that was the whole idea behind dual and quad cores, i.e., distribute the workload across processors so that they could run at a lower speed, and reduce power consumption. I'm thinking...this feels like a heavy dose of Emperor's New Clothes.