Google X Phone in the works - reportedly
Quartz has a little writeup that Google hinted in yesterday's earnings call that something big is coming from its Motorola division. The site speculates this will be the Google X Phone, a highly advanced smartphone with long battery life, wireless charging, and an unbreakable case. The rumored launch date is May 2013.
In today’s call, Google CEO Larry Page said that “In today’s multi screen world, the opportunities are endless… battery life is a huge issue… when you drop your phone it shouldn’t go splat. There’s a real potential to invent new and better experiences.” Page also mentioned phone recharging as a pain point for people. This is speculation, but the obvious interpretation of these comments is that Google is working on—or at least thinking about—phones with extra long battery life, some kind of novel (perhaps wireless) recharging capability, and a case that won’t break when the phone is dropped. (Which is possibly a reference to earlier rumors about Google’s X Phone using an extra-hard case that incorporates ceramics.)
X Phone as early as May 2013?
Twice during today’s earnings call, Google executives emphasized that when the company bought Motorola, Motorola already had a 12 to 18 month “product pipeline” in the works, which Google is still “working through.” Google could have shut down Motorola’s work on existing handsets, but that would have involved bigger short- and long-term losses than the company was apparently willing to take. It also means that all of the devices that Motorola has released since it was acquired were already in the works, and the same is likely to be true until at least spring of this year. (A good example is the Motorola Motogo! phone, which looks like a dated BlackBerry and doesn’t even run Android.)
Rumors have already circulated that Google will reveal a Motorola-built “X Phone” and “X Tablet” at its next developer’s conference, which is scheduled for May 15-17, 2013.
In today’s call, Google CEO Larry Page said that “In today’s multi screen world, the opportunities are endless… battery life is a huge issue… when you drop your phone it shouldn’t go splat. There’s a real potential to invent new and better experiences.” Page also mentioned phone recharging as a pain point for people. This is speculation, but the obvious interpretation of these comments is that Google is working on—or at least thinking about—phones with extra long battery life, some kind of novel (perhaps wireless) recharging capability, and a case that won’t break when the phone is dropped. (Which is possibly a reference to earlier rumors about Google’s X Phone using an extra-hard case that incorporates ceramics.)
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If this phone is anything like or better than the Galaxy Nexus, I will have it.

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If Google were smart, they'd put a few capacitive buttons on the bezel instead of using soft buttons, but that's just me I guess. I think they said they weren't going back.
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No way man! I like pie!
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i would like samsung to use soft button (or those sensor,capacitive, button instead).... seriously, hard button is so easily broken.
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Might be worth a look, the current crop of new phones announced / rumored to be coming out soon give me no reason to look at upgrading from my GNex.
This might be an interesting option