14 DAY TRIAL // Motorola unveiled the Moto Z and Moto Z Force smartphones in early June, and afterward some rumors suggested that the Moto X line would be discontinued. The company then came out and confirmed that the line was alive and well, but a 2016 edition of the Moto X has yet to be released.
Now it seems that a smartphone bearing the codename XT1650 has surfaced on GFXBench, and the benchmark test reveals some of its specs, according to the Times News UK. The device is believed to be the Moto X (2016), and by the look of things, it sports a 5.5-inch display with 1440 x 2560 pixel resolution.
The smartphone packs a Snapdragon 820 chipset with quad-core 2.1GHz CPU and Adreno 530 graphics processing unit. It also has 4GB of RAM and provides 32GB of internal storage, which would possibly expand with a micro-SD card.
Moto X (2016) could come with dual-camera setup on the back
Moto X (2016) could impress the market with its rear camera as it seems to boast a dual camera setup, one unit with 21MP and the other with 16MP, which will be able to shoot 4K videos. Front camera capacity will reach 5MP, and the smartphone seems to run Android Marshmallow 6.0.1.
The handset also appears to support Bluetooth, GPS, USB, single SIM, WiFi, and NFC. But since benchmark tests aren't always reliable sources of information, all of this should surely be taken with a grain of salt.
Nevertheless, the specs do tell us that this could be Motorola's first smartphone with a dual-camera setup on the back, which certainly makes it exciting. The specs do seem to be quite similar to the Moto Z Force, which was the more powerful of the two phones released during Tech World event earlier last month.
In June, another Motorola device surfaced on GFXBench, but this one featured the codename XT1662, and it was presumed to be the Moto X (Play) 2016.
Information is quite scarce, but it does confirm that Motorola is working on a powerful smartphone, and more details are bound to surface soon.