Motorola X spotted in benchmark as XT1055?

News Paul Briden 14:40, 1 May 2013

A Motorola XT1055 has been spotted in benchmarks - could this be the Motorola X?

A previously unheard of Motorola handset has appeared in online benchmark results as the XT1055 which might be the rumoured Motorola X.

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The details showed up in AnTuTu, a popular benchmarking suite available on Android. The device is shown as running Android 4.2.2 and whoever’s testing it is based in the US. The results, meanwhile clock up a score of 18252 and it appears to be running on a Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 quad-core chip at 1.7GHz.

Previous rumours suggested the Motrola X would feature a Qualcomm 800 chip with 3GB of RAM and clocked as high as 2GHz. That means there’s a few possibilities here – either the rumour was wrong and the Motorola X will ship with a Qualcomm 600 chip or this XT1055 device isn’t the Motrola X at all and is something else entirely.

That’s not outside the realms of possibility. When things start showing up in publicly facing benchmark apps they’re generally in a fairly advanced state of testing. Current rumour suggests the Motorola X won’t actually show up at Google I/O in May and could arrive as late as August or November.

There’s also another Motorola branded device which leaked in recent months which hasn’t been named and could be this XT1055, perhaps this will hit the market earlier and the Motorla X will turn up at the end of the year.

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Another factor is that Google’s own chief finance officer, Patrick Pichette, revealed the Android-maker is not entirely happy with Motorola’s current crop of phones in development and that there was a ‘pipeline’ of devices already being worked on that needed to be cleared before it could deliver phones with a ‘Wow’ factor. That sort of suggests we’ll see at least another model from Motorola before something as amazing as the Motorola X is alleged to be will show up.

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Rumours around the Motorola X are currently quite diverse. There’s some suggestion it could come in as many as 20 colour variants and it’s said to sport a 1080p Full HD display. Some claims allege it’ll follow the Nexus 4 into the high-spec low-price category for as little as £190.