As expected, Motorola has launched the Moto Z and Moto Z Play smartphones in India along with Moto Mods accessories. Motorola unveiled the Moto Z and Moto Z Force at the Tech World 2016 event held in San Francisco, USA in June this year. While Moto Z Play was launched at IFA 2016.
The Moto Mods accessories includes JBL SoundBoost speaker, the Moto Insta-Share Projector, Hasselblad True Zoom Camera, Incipio offGrid Power Pack and style shells with finishes like real wood, leather, and fabric.
The Moto Z is a very thin premium smartphone measuring only 5.2 mm in thickness and is ultra-light. As far as specifications are concerned, the Moto Z flaunts a 5.5-inch Quad HD (2560 x 1440 pixels) AMOLED display with pixel density of 535 ppi and protected by Corning Gorilla Glass 4. Under the hood, it has a 2.2 GHz Quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 820, clubbed with Adreno 530 GPU and 4 GB LPDDR4 RAM. It comes in 32 GB and 64 GB storage variant which is expandable up to 2 TB with microSD card slot. It runs on Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow.
On the photography front, the Moto Z sports a 13-megapixel rear camera, with f/1.8 aperture, Zero shutter lag, OIS, laser auto-focus, dual-LED (dual tone) flash. It bears a 5-megapixel front-facing camera with LED flash. The Moto Z doesn’t feature a 3.5 mm headphone jack. It includes a fingerprint sensor and is backed by a 2600 mAh battery with TurboPower charging.
On the other hand, the Moto Z Play flaunts a 5.5-inch Full HD (1920 x 1080 pixels) Super AMOLED display with pixel density of 403 ppi and Corning Gorilla Glass protection. Under the hood, it has an Octa-Core Snapdragon 625 processor, clocked at 2 GHz, coupled with Adreno 506 GPU and 3 GB RAM. It comes with 32 GB internal storage which is further expandable up to 2 TB via microSD card slot.
On the Photography front, the Moto Z Play sports a 16-megapixel rear camera with laser auto-focus, f/2.0 aperture, dual-LED (dual tone) flash and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera with f/2.2 aperture, wide-angle lens, LED flash and 1080p video recording. The smartphone runs on Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow and comes with fingerprint sensor. Moto Z Play is backed by a 3510 mAh battery which is said to offer massive 45 hours of battery life on single charge and with Turbo charging you can get 8 hours of battery life in just 15 minutes.
The Moto Z has been priced at Rs. 39,999 and the Moto Z Play is priced at Rs. 24,999. Both the smartphones will be available from 11:59 pm onwards on 17th October via Amazon.in and Flipkart.
All the Moto Mods accessories mentioned above will be launched at a discounted price to purchase separately which starts from Rs. 6,999 and goes all the way up to Rs. 19,999. Stay tuned for more updates!