Motorola X Phone image leaks online

It looks like Motorola’s fabled X Phone is nearing its launch date. PhoneArena has posted a picture of a Motorola device, dubbed the XT1056, that is being tested on Sprint’s 4G LTE network. The website’s source believes that this is a Sprint variant of the fabled X Phone. The smartphone bears the standard Android 4.2 Jelly Bean interface and the on-screen NavBar can be seen at the bottom. The screen size is rumoured to be around 4.6-inch.

Specifications of the smartphone were leaked by serial smartphone leaker EvLeaks earlier this month. The Moto X will not feature top of the line hardware; instead, it will compete with the current mid-rangers in the market. It will have a Qualcomm MSM8960 Pro dual-core processor, clocked at 1.7GHz.

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Yet another X Phone leak

This may not be able to go toe-to-toe with the quad-core CPUs of flagships today, but we are hoping there’s some killer optimisation to make the software run smoothly. Speaking of which, the X will ship with Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean, says EvLeaks. We have already seen many instances of Android 4.3 leaking in benchmark tests, so we are a bit suspect about this particular speculation.

The leak also mentions that the device will have a 720p display, but there’s no mention of the screen size. The X phone will have a 10 megapixel camera on the back, which will be accompanied by a 2 megapixel shooter on the front. In addition, the phone is said to be carrying 2GB of RAM and internal storage is expected to be 16GB, with no mention of a possible microSD card slot.