Motorola has struggled to find its footing in the smartphone era. After early successes like the Droid, it increasingly fell behind the likes of Samsung and OnePlus. After focusing on cheaper phones for the last few years, Moto says it’s coming back to the flagship space in 2020 with the brand new Snapdragon chipsets in tow.
Under Lenovo, Motorola backed away from high-end phones—it hasn’t even launched a competitive flagship device in the last two years. In 2018, it released the Moto Z3 on Verizon with a year-old Snapdragon 835. This year, the Verizon Moto Z4 stepped down to the Snapdragon 675.
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At the Qualcomm Snapdragon Tech Summit in Maui, Motorola announced plans to release new flagship devices by 2020. They’ll reportedly be powered by Qualcomm’s latest Snapdragon 865 SoC and offer 5G connectivity. Motorola’s Moto Z series of ‘premium’ smartphones fell flat after the Moto Z4 and we could very likely see a sequel to that, but this time with a Snapdragon 865 instead.
Future Motorola device will also be running the Snapdragon 765. “Thanks to the new technologies announced today, we’ll have new premium products to announce in early 2020,” Motorola’s Sergio Buniac said onstage at the Snapdragon Summit in Hawaii. Motorola plans to globally launch products with the Snapdragon 765 soon.
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