It started out as Motorola but when Google acquired Motorola Mobility in 2012, phones from the American company were released under the Moto brand name. Fast forward to 2016 after Lenovo acquired them, the Chinese electronics giant announced a change to “Moto by Lenovo”, putting aside the Motorola name.

The announcement was made by Rick Osterloh, former Motorola Chief Operating Officer at CES 2016. His statement back then was “We’ll slowly phase out Motorola and focus on Moto,”. At the moment, it seems the Motorola name is being resurrected.

The Moto name was used by a number of the smartphone maker’s official Twitter accounts up until a few days ago. If you check now some of them have switched back to Motorola.

An example is the Motorola USA account. The account went by Moto US @Moto_USA but has now been changed to Motorola US @MotorolaUS.

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Motorola Canada has also made the change but their handle is still @Moto_CAN. The global account is still @Moto so also is the Indian account. It seems the change is limited to North America and only the name for now as the batwing logo is still the same across all accounts. We don’t know what Lenovo is brewing but we are keeping our ears on the ground.

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A few days ago, the invite for a Motorola event leaked online. The invite which is written in Spanish mentions the launch of a new product on June 1 at 9:30 am. A tweet by Motorola Canada has confirmed there will indeed be a launch tomorrow.

Guess what?! We’re announcing the next bold phone from Motorola on June 1st. pic.twitter.com/SCyEkNtPza

— Motorola Canada (@MotorolaCA) May 30, 2017

The tweet doesn’t mention the phone but sources say it is the Moto Z2 Play.

The Moto Z2 Play has been in the news a lot lately. We first got to see press renders of the device which gave us the hint that it would be thinner. Then a TENAA listing confirmed that it will be under 6mm thick (excluding the camera bump) and will sport a smaller 2820mAh battery.

Lenovo then issued a statement saying it will launch with a 3000mAh battery which is better than 2820mAh but still smaller than the original Moto Z Play’s 3510mAh battery.

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The Moto Z2 Play will look a lot like its predecessor save for the redesigned fingerprint scanner, antenna lines, and Moto mods connector. It will sport a Snapdragon 626 processor, 4GB RAM, & 64GB ROM. There is a 12MP rear camera and a 5MP front camera, both with LED flash. It will run Android 7.1.1 out of the box and support the Moto Mods released last year.

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