The annual holiday shopping season is here in North America and many other countries around the world, and that means Black Friday and Cyber Monday real-world and virtual retail price discounts on consumer electronics. But Amazon, as the largest Internet retailer in the world, decided to drop the retail price of the Motorola Moto X 4G smartphone in advance of those two popular and much-anticipated sales days.
At the Amazon Wireless store online, you can currently purchase the Motorola Moto X for just one penny with a standard two-year contract. Motorola has included substantial RAM memory, a very large True HD display, a fast processor and Clear Pixel camera technology in the Moto X, and the one penny price tag comes as an unannounced special from Amazon. The handset arrived in August of this year, and has been a good seller for Verizon ever since it launched.
Running on the Verizon 4G LTE system in the United States, the Moto X 4G was recently praised by consumer advocate Consumer Reports as delivering an overall performance and feature package that makes it more attractive as a smartphone purchase than both the Apple iPhone 5S and 5C models, in their opinion. Consumer Reports pointed out specifically the Active Display notification feature and “always on” technology which integrates Google Now and the handset’s standalone natural language processing core.
That language processor allows you to communicate with and control your handset without touching it, even when it sits in standby mode. Simply say, “Okay, Google Now,” and the Moto X powers on and is ready for your verbal commands. The Active Display feature helps conserve battery life, because it illuminates just that portion of your display which is needed to alert you of a notification. The Clear Pixel technology mentioned above lets the rear facing 10.0 megapixel camera absorb more light than other smartphone cameras.
The AMOLED display is a large 4.70 inches, with a resolution of 720 by 1,280 pixels. Corning Gorilla Glass is on board for scratch resistance, and the battery delivers 13.0 hours of talk time after a full charge. The handset also delivers the Motorola X8 computing package, which includes a versatile and powerful quad core graphics processor, 1.7 GHz dual core Snapdragon S4 Pro and individual computing core as well as the language processing core. The phone comes equipped with 16 GB of built-in storage, and Google Drive chips in with 50 GB of free data storage space. You can also purchase the Verizon Motorola Moto X handset at a discounted price tag at select online retailers starting at just one penny.
