Motorola introduced its highly-anticipated Moto X last month, its first Google smartphone that customers get to design themselves.
The Moto X is the first collaboration between Google and Motorola since the Internet search engine finalized its $12.5 purchase of Motorola Mobility back in May of 2012.
"At Motorola our roots are deep in mobile hardware, we invented mobile communications," Motorola Mobility Canada general manager Odile Guinot said in a press statement.
One of the main features included with the Moto X is that its capable of detecting when it is in a moving car or its owner is in a meeting, and it adjusts its behavior accordingly. The screen also turns off by itself when the phone is placed face down or in a pocket.
According to The Wall-Street Journal, the Moto X can detect when the car is moving but doesn't alert the driver that it is entering driving mode. The phone also doesn't turn off features drivers shouldn't be using.
The phone is capable of reading texts out loud, automatically sending texts back saying you're driving, or saying out loud if someone is calling while the vehicle is moving, so a driver doesn't need to look at his or her phone.
"Now, as a Google company, we've become the kind of company that can build a smartphone like Moto X," Guinot said. "It fuses our history of mobile innovation with the best of Google mobile services."
The phone is powered by Google's Android software and includes new voice controls, an improved camera, and other features that customers have asked for in the past.
Customers can get 24 hours of battery life on a single charge.
Moto X will be available for purchase in the U.S. by the end of August or early September with a starting price of $199 when purchased along with a two-year contract according to AFP.
Customers can visit the Motorola site to customize their device by picking out a color, accent, memory capacity and other aspects.
Once a customer is done designing their device the phone will then be assembled in the U.S. and delivered free of charge in approximately four days according to Motorola.
"Moto X promises to be unlike any device we've offered before," said Jeff Bradley, senior vice president of devices at US telecom giant AT&T.
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