The rumored Motorola Moto X3 smartphone makes an appearance on Indian import and export tracking website Zauba.
Lenovo-owned Motorola is yet to officially launch a mobile phone for 2016. However, the company suggests that smartphone enthusiasts could see a good number of Motorola and Lenovo-branded mobile devices hit the shelves this year.
A previous Tech Times report suggested that Chen Xudong, the senior VP of Lenovo Group and president of the company's China and APAC regions, confirmed that none of the Moto-branded phones launched in 2016 will have a screen size of less than 5-inch.
Zauba has a listing of a Motorola handset called Moto X3. According to the listing, the Moto X3 has a 5-inch display and it is a single SIM GMS device.
Other details of the Moto X3 remain unknown for now. But Chen Xudong has confirmed that all Motorola branded phones to be released in 2016 will have top-end specs, which means that the Moto X3 may have a powerful Snapdragon 820 processor and at least 3 GB of RAM. The majority of all top-notch smartphones of 2016 come running on Android 6.0 Marshmallow and Moto X3 may also come pre-installed with Android's latest operating system.
Almost all high-end smartphone launched in 2016 till now have a fingerprint scanner and all Motorola-branded mobile devices of 2016 will have an embedded fingerprint scanner.
Motorola has a number of Moto X smartphones but the company does not have a Moto X2 device, which will be succeeded by the Moto X3. However, in the past, some handsets appearing on Zauba listing have been launched with the same name.
The Moto X3 is not the only handset that Motorola is developing. Two new Motorola smartphones have been spotted on the GFXBench benchmark website but the names of the devices remain unknown as the website only mentioned the model numbers of the Motorola phones.
The models appearing on GFXBench website were XT1700 and XT1706. Both the models have a 5-inch screen with a 720 x 1,280 HD resolution. A MediaTek MT6735P SoC is and 2 GB of RAM are expected to power the device. The devices are expected to get 16 GB of internal storage, 8MP of primary camera and a 5MP selfie camera.
Motorola is yet to officially announce the existence of the Moto X3 or the models appearing on GFXBench. It remains to be seen how long Motorola will take to launch its first mobile device of 2016.
