Motorola Moto X (2016) leaked with fingerprint reader on the front

While Motorola’s flagship smartphone scene seems confused at best with Motorola X Style and Moto X Force fighting for the top spot, 2016 may be a better year. The first leaks about the company’s upcoming 2016 flagship seems to have already popped up online. HellomotoHK has put up a rather interesting post on its social media channel showing a spy shot of an unknown Motorola smartphone. The device in the blurry picture shows off a smartphone with trademark “M” logo on the top bezel, with the form factor of a Motorola-made Google Nexus 6. What is interesting however, is that there is a fingerprint reader and it sits on the front of the device. [caption id=“attachment_308173” align=“aligncenter” width=“300”]  Image: HelloMotoHK[/caption] Again, the placement is very similar to what we have on Apple devices, with the fingerprint reader sitting right above the data/charging port. The charging port again appears to be a USB Type C charging port and there are other finer details like the presence of a front facing flash, that simply looks like a white dot in the leaked image. While the smartphone in question does appear to be a prototype, it could also be a gist of things to come for Motorola. The placement of the fingerprint reader could change because Motorola always intended to place it on the dimple at the back of its handsets. Motorola made official earlier this year that all of its smartphones launched in 2016 would feature a fingerprint reader , something that the company has stayed away from for a very long time. The only Motorola smartphone to feature one so far was the Atrix 4G that features a fingerprint scanner on the chin of the device.