Motorola May Launch a Phablet and a Smartwatch in 2015

Motorola could be the next manufacturer to jump into the phablet game. Just days after Lenovo purchased the company’s mobile division from Google, reports are suggesting that a 6-inch phone, a Moto X successor and a smartwatch are all in Motorola’s 2015 lineup.

According to a recent post in China’s Sina Weibo forum, the next-generation Moto X is already in development. The blog doesn’t go into much detail, however. Lenovo’s ownership over Motorola Mobility isn’t expected to change the customization options available for the Moto X, the post notes.

The author behind the blog is said to be a reliable source that leaked correct information about the Moto X and Moto G prior to their respective launches, PhoneArena says. It’s unclear exactly what the future holds for both Motorola and Lenovo, but we would love to see a Vibe Z-esque phablet with Motorola’s clean Android UI and touchless voice controls in the future.

via Sina Weibo

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5-inch LG Optimus Vu Phablet Could be Coming to Verizon as LG Intuition

If you like your phones big and your cellular carrier’s nationwide network even bigger, you’ll be happy to hear that your phablet options are about to double. According to Droid Life, the Optimus Vu — LG’s long-awaited (and massive) Samsung Galaxy Note competitor — should hit Verizon stores sometime in the coming weeks, sporting a 5-inch screen and a brand new name: the LG Intuition.

Droid Life’s source passed a long a screenshot that shows a blurb for the phone, referenced as the Intuition and sporting a $199.99 on-contract or $549.99 off-contract price tag.

Curiously, the listing doesn’t include any mention of a stylus. When we went hands-on with the Optimus Vu in February, it packed an included pen, though we noticed that there wasn’t any place to actually store it in the phone itself.

LG has yet to confirm that the Optimus Vu/Intuition is coming to U.S. shores, much less talk about spec details, but the Korean version sports a 5-inch IPS screen with a 4:3 aspect ratio and 1024×768 resolution. Presumably that will stay the same in a U.S. release, though it would make sense for LG to replace the overseas Optimus Vu’s older dual-core Qualcomm processor with a new and improved CPU. Qualcomm’s own Snapdragon S4 processor, with its integrated 4G LTE radio, would be a likely replacement choice.

Samsung is expected to announce its follow-up to the Galaxy Note, the cleverly named Galaxy Note 2, on August 29th at IFA Berlin.

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