Motorola Moto X Play India Launch To Happen Today: Check Out The Live Stream Here!

| Updated: Sunday, October 25, 2015, 10:59 [IST]

In just about few hours from now, Motorola will launch the Moto X Play smartphone in India. The company, which is now owned by Lenovo, is hosting a launch event on 14 September, in Delhi, where in it will be announcing the India price details related to the Moto X Play, which was announced globally last month.

The X Play is a Motorola's new generation model in its ‘X' series of smartphones, and was announced along with the Moto X Style. The Moto X Play is the company's phablet offering that has been placed in the mid-range segment, to take on the bigger-display smartphones from rival OEMs, including top players or domestic vendors.

Like all the previously launched Motorola smartphones in India, the newbie will be retailing exclusively on Flipkart, starting today afternoon around 2:00PM.

Watch The Live Stream Here!

For those who want to know more about the phone, here we list 5 top features of the Motorola Moto X Play that you must known about.

Processing power

The Moto X Play is powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 615 Octa-core chipset, which is supported by the company's own Motorola Mobile Computing System, which takes the core-count to 10. It essentially includes two separate processors, one of which takes care of contextual computing that works with motion sensors, while the other is natural language chipset that takes care of the gesture controls or 'Touchless Control' on the Moto X Play.

The chipset is paired with Adreno 405 GPU, and gets support from 2GB of RAM and 16/32GB of internal storage. Though, it is uncertain whether Motorola will bring both the variants to India.

Higher capacity Battery

One of the most talked about features of the Moto X Play is its bigger battery that can work for two days or 48hours under mixed usage without needing another charge. With such claims, we look forward to test the performance of the 3630mAh battery of the phone.

Camera

The Moto X Play scores pretty well in the camera department, considering its camera details on paper. It adorns a 21-megapixel primary camera which is supported with Color Correlated Temperature (CCT) flash with dual LED flash and f/2.0 aperture, and has features like Burst mode, night mode, PDAF (Phase Detection Auto-Focus), gesture based Quick capture, and HDR Video support.

For the selfie enthusiasts, the phone sports a 5-megapixel front-facing camera.

Almost raw Android

Motorola phones come with an almost raw Android OS, and this has undoubtedly been one of the major attractions of the Motorola phones. The Moto X Play too gets minimal UI tweaks and does not give bloatware issues that other smartphones gives, due to heavy skin atop Android OS.

Water-resistant coating

Another interesting feature of the Motorola phones has been the nano-coating technology on the innards of them. The new Moto X phone also boasts advanced boasts advanced nano-technology feature that essentially works like a protective water repellent layer which protects the phone against moderate water exposure and accidental damages.