When Motorola announced its new line-up of smartphones, there was a fair amount of surprise when the Moto X Play wasn’t announced with US availability. While the Moto X Style would make its way to the States as the Moto X Pure Edition, there was no mention of what happened to the Moto X Play – until today. According to a new report, Motorola and Verizon‘s close relationship is allegedly behind a deal that will bring the Moto X Play to the US as the Verizon DROID Maxx 2 – and of course, it’s going to be an exclusive only for Verizon.
Given the Moto X Play’s huge battery (3,630mAh), this fits right in with previous Maxx devices who have always featured larger batteries than the average device. Naturally, all that’s missing is a coat of red paint, a CDMA radio and some bloatware for good measure. But that’s not all that this report has in store – according to the rumour, Verizon will also be getting a customized version of the Moto X Style in the form of the DROID Turbo 2. This would be a similar case to the Moto X 2014 being transmuted into the much more impressive DROID Turbo, which should be a sight to behold if that turns out to be true.
So how much can you expect to pay for one of these devices? The DROID Turbo 2 will alleged come in at $600 USD, a far cry from the starting price of $399 for the Moto X Style and the price of the DROID Maxx 2 wasn’t mentioned at all – we can only hope that Verizon keeps the pricing of the Maxx 2 close to that of the Moto X Play ($299 USD). We don’t have any reason to believe any of this is untrue, so we’ll just have to wait this one out.
Source: Phandroid via Android Police
