Google announced its intention to buy
Motorola in August of 2011 about a year
later they did just that for a whopping
12.5 billion dollars at the time there
was a lot of speculation as to why
Google would want to do that was it for
the patents were they trying to
dramatically increase their phone
production well two years after that
announcement we're seeing the first
tangible product from that marriage the
brand new Moto X hi I'm Gwendolyn with
iFixit and today we're taking our first
look at the brand new Moto X the highly
customizable new release from Google
owned Motorola the Moto X is the first
smartphone to be assembled in the USA
which allows the phone to be as
customizable as it is using the Moto
maker webpage during checkout allows you
to choose the color for almost every
visible part of the phone and with a
boggling selection of colors there is no
shortage of options the phone itself is
similar in size to the Nexus for
measuring a 129.4 millimeter in length
sixty five point three millimeter in
width and a curved back with a maximum
thickness of ten point four millimeters
wondering about its weight well the Moto
X is an exact match to the galaxy s4
coming in at 130 grams the Moto X comes
with a 4.7 inch AMOLED LCD with a
resolution of 720 by 1280 and a pixel
density of 313 pixels per inch just
slightly under the iPhone 5 but way
below other recent Android devices
that's enough about specs let's take a
look inside before we open the Moto X we
noticed a small goof next to the SIM
card tray that confirmed the rumors
about the issues with build quality yay
USA that held our attention for only a
half second as we were eager to take a
look inside
like most Android devices we were happy
to see that the rear panel was held on
with clips our joist moment quickly
turned to frustration as we noticed that
in addition to clips Google or Motorola
or but Rugal has added glue with the
help of our eye opener we got past our
first hurdle with the Moto X and made it
inside we were immediately greeted with
a not so cool giant adhesive pad and
some really cool inductive charging
coils and with the release of a zip
connector we are finally inside once we
got the volume sleep button cable out we
win
for the battery one screw and a sticky
charging coil later we got our first
look at the battery the 3.8 volt 2200
milliamp hour lithium ion battery is
claimed to get 24 hours of mixed usage
many reviewers got between 9 and 11
hours of HD video looping pretty
impressive
we removed the upper mid frame panel
which housed the speaker headphone jack
more antennas and pressure contacts we
love us some pressure contacts now the
help of our handy tweezers were able to
get the front-facing camera out of the X
this little guy is a 2 megapixel camera
that is capable of capturing 1080p video
with that camera out of the way it was
time to take a look at the motherboard
all the goodies were protected by EMI
shields but we made quick work of those
and turned our attention to the Qualcomm
Snapdragon s4 pro processor Motorola
developed a custom system architecture
which when coupled with eight processor
cores allows for the delegation of
processing power for graphics processor
cores for stunning clarity to
application processor cores for swift
action and two low power cores awaiting
your next command
lastly we took a look at the rear-facing
camera this little guy is a 10 megapixel
camera which is slightly less than other
recent Android phone releases but it
does have a lot of cool additional
features including 1080p HD video four
times digital zoom slow motion video
burst mode auto HDR panorama and tap
focus it's time to talk repairability
we score every device we tear down for
repairability between 1 and 10 1 being
the least repairable and 10 being the
most repairable the motorola moto x got
a 7 out of 10 on the plus side the phone
has pressure contacts and cable
connectors making the modular components
easy to replace another plus was the use
of a single type of screw but the major
downside was the sticky adhesive on the
back cover which will slow you down when
opening the phone for the complete
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