Hot on the heels of the debut of three new Moto G phones, a new report claims to have details on Motorola and Lenovo’s upcoming Moto X hardware.
According to VentureBeat, Lenovo and Motorola will be ditching the Moto X brand that Motorola has used for its flagship Android phones in recent years. Reportedly replacing it will be the “Moto Z” name, which is expected to be used on the devices codenamed Vertex (above left) and Vector Thin (above right) and that leaked earlier this month. Those phones are now expected to be called Moto Z Play and Moto Z Style when they come to market.
Exactly why Lenovo and Motorola are changing from Moto X to Moto Z isn’t mentioned in today’s report. It’s kind of a strange move considering that the two names are only a couple of letters apart, but perhaps with these new phones being the first Moto flagships from Lenovo, they want to start a new Moto flagship brand.
In other Moto naming news, it’s expected that Verizon’s DROID versions of these phones will not use “DROID Turbo” and “DROID Maxx” names like past models. Instead, Verizon will simply tack “DROID Edition” onto the ends of their names, giving us the “Moto Z Style DROID Edition.”
Finally, you remember those modular back plates that are rumored to be coming with these new Moto Z flagships? Today’s report claims that they won’t be called Amps as previously rumored. Instead, they may be known as MotoMods, which makes since considering that the Moto name is already used for the phones themselves and Motorola’s customization tool.
Lenovo is hosting a big event on June 9, and so that may be when we get our first official glimpse at the new Moto Z phones. Stay tuned.
