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Start Designing Your Own Smartphones

Moto_X

The Moto X design studio, is open for online orders for AT&T customers. Users can also buy a Moto X online directly through Motorola without a contract, for $579.

Uses can literally design their own Moto X phones. They can pick the colors, decide on the front, back, choose accents, memory, wallpapers, and even accessories. Users also have the option of providing their Google account details to have their information pre-loaded to the phones before shipping. Delivery is expected to take a week.

The Moto X smartphones are the first phones to be designed and built from scratch since Motorola Mobility was acquired by Google last year. In another first, the 4.7-inch, 1280×720-resolution Moto X phones are individually assembled in Ft. Worth, Texas.

Moto X phones will be available through other other carriers soon, starting with Verizon in a couple of days.

[Image courtesy: Motorola]

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