Motorola Moto X flagship Android smartphone rolling into the UK on Feb 1st

Motorola’s flagship smartphone, the Moto X, has finally broken free from its U.S. exclusivity and it will be will be charging onto shop shelves in UK, France and Germany from the beginning of next month. 

Priced at £380 for the sim-free version or from £25 on contract from Phones 4u, Carphone Warehouse, O2 and Amazon, Motorola’s big hitter will be available to the masses in black, with Phones 4u bagging the exclusive on the white model for three months.

The phone is more or less identical to the US model, which means you’ll be getting a generous 4.7-inch AMOLED (RGB) / HD 720p display running on the latest Android 4.4 Jelly Bean OS.

A shuffle around its innards would reveal a muscular Snapdragon S4 Pro 1.7GHz dual-core processor running the Motorola X8 Mobile Computing System, backed by 2GB of RAM, and 16GB/32GB storage. 

Powered by a 2200 mAh battery, the Moto X has a 10 MP rear-facing Clear Pixel camera with LED flash and a 2 MP front-facing camera.

The device measures up at 65.3mm (width) x 129.4mm (height) and 5.7 -10.4mm deep and weighs 130g.

Read more on Motorola’s site or scroll down for the full spec sheet:

Connectivity
Bluetooth technology
4.0 LE + EDR
Wi-Fi
802.11a/g/b/n/ac (dual band capable), mobile hotspot
2G/2.5G GSM/GPRS/EDGE bands
850/900/1800/1900
Networks 
GSM/GPRS/EDGE – UMTS/HSPA + up to 42 Mbps – 4G LTE
3G UMTS bands
850/900/1800/1900/2100
4G LTE bands
800/1800/2600MHz (B20/B3/B7)

Display
4.7″ AMOLED (RGB) / HD 720p
Interface
Operating system
Android™ 4.4, KitKat

Physical
Size (H x W x D)
Width 65.3mm; Height 129.4mm
Weight
130G
Curve
5.7 -10.4mm

Power
Battery type
2200 mAh. Mixed usage up to 24 hours

Camera
Front Camera
2MP 1080p HD video
Rear Camera
10MP CLEAR PIXEL (RGBC) – Quick Capture – LED flash – 1080p HD video (30 fps) – 4X digital zoom – Slow motion video – Burst mode – Auto HDR – Panorama – Control focus/exposure

Technology
Architecture
Motorola X8 Mobile Computing System which includes a software optimised Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro (1.7GHz Dual-Core Krait CPU, quad-core Adreno 320 GPU), a natural language processor and a contextual computing processor

Memory
2 GB RAM, 16 GB standard, 32 GB version available online. 2 years 50 GB storage free on Google Drive. Offer must be redeemed within 30 days of activation.