Xiaomi Mi A1 – I am the Android One phone with the best specs.
Moto X4 – Hold my beer!

Yes, it appears the Moto X4 will have an Android One variant according to the leak from Evan Blass.

Well isn't this interesting… pic.twitter.com/QrC8bJz1pX

— Evan Blass (@evleaks) September 9, 2017

The Moto X4 was announced a week ago in Berlin at IFA. It marks the revival of the X series which used to be Motorola’s flagship but was replaced with the Moto Z last year.

Although it is no longer a flagship phone, the specs of the Moto X4 put it firmly in the upper mid-range category. It has a 5.2-inch 1080p display, 3GB of RAM and is powered by the Snapdragon 630 processor. It also has an IP68 rating, dual rear cameras, and a premium glass body. And let’s not forget, like other Motorola phones, it runs stock Android with some Moto additions.

Now why would Google want to put stock Android on a device that already runs stock Android? Beats us as it feels redundant. The only plausible reason is that the Android One Moto X4 will be available in countries and regions where the Xiaomi Mi A1 isn’t such as the US, Canada, Brazil and West Africa.

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There are no details as to when this Android One version of the Moto X4 will be launched. Once we have more details, we’ll update you.

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According to an April 27 news article at Ubergizmo, this January, Lenovo bought Motorola from Google for 29.1 USD (18.2 billion RMB). We can expect Lenovo to fully take advantage of Motorola’s brand and online success in the market. According to a series of reports from Lenovo regarding Motorola’s new name, Lenovo will use a dual-branding strategy.

This means that the company will continue to sell its mid-range and high-range cell phones in the American and European markets under the Motorola brand, while it will sell its low and mid-range phones in the Chinese and Latin American markets under the Lenovo brand. The reports also state that Lenovo plans to sell 80 million phones this year.

Representatives from Lenovo haven’t made a comment and it looks like they are still considering the name of their new merger. However, dual-branding marketing is definitely a good idea. After all, Motorola was, at one point, one of the biggest retail cell phone companies in the world, and its brand is still going strong. There hasn’t been any official leak, however, from Lenovo regarding Motorola’s new name, and we probably won’t know it until the acquisition is complete.

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