Verizon's Motorola X, HTC One Get August Release Dates

One of the year's most successful smartphones the HTC One is ready for its Verizon debut, and another highly anticipated device the Motorola X will follow shortly thereafter.

Craig Galbraith, Editorial Director

July 13, 2013

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It looks like Verizon‘s business customers and other on-contract subscribers will finally get their hands on the HTC One, one of the year’s best-selling smartphones. The highly anticipated Motorola X is expected to soon follow.

The One has cracked the top three only behind Apple’s iPhone 5 and the Samsung Galaxy S4 at carriers AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile since making its U.S. debut in April. Verizon has been slow to get the Taiwan-based manufacturer’s flagship smartphone, but that’s about to change. An internal document leaked to Phone Arena shows that the one will go one sale August 1. The phone runs on Android 4.2; has a 4.7-inch display; a quad-core, 1.7 GHz processor; 2GB of RAM; and 32GB of built-in storage.

The same document purports the Motorola X will debut three weeks later, on August 23. The Moto X, which was first expected to hit store shelves before the end of this month, also has a 1.7 GHz processor; a substantial, 10MP rear-facing camera that shoots well in low light; and a cool function that helps the phone recognize its location for example, in your pocket, on an airplane, and the like. Motorola Mobility, the Chicago-based company that was recently purchased by Google, was expected to host an event introducing the X earlier this week, but that didn’t come to fruition. All major U.S. carriers are expected to offer it.

Phone Arena goes on to say that several more big Motorola phones are poised to debut in September or later, including the DROID RAZR Ultra, the DROID MAXX and RAZR M Ultra.

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Craig Galbraith

Editorial Director, Channel Futures

Craig Galbraith is the editorial director for Channel Futures, joining the team in 2008. Before that, he spent more than 11 years as an anchor, reporter and managing editor in television newsrooms in North Dakota and Washington state. Craig is a proud Husky, having graduated from the University of Washington. He makes his home in the Phoenix area.

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