The Moto X phone will be made in the US -Priceangels.com

Motorola CEO Dennis Woodside has just confirmed that the company is working on a GT-I9300 phone, and that it is indeed called the Moto X. The phone will be made in the US, it will have an OLED screen, and Woodside has said that "we know when it's in your pocket, we know when it's in your hand, it's going to know when you want to take a picture and fire up the cameras." It'll know when you're in the car, for instance, and promote different interactions.

It's going to be built in Texas, in a 480,000-square-foot facility previously used to manufacture Nokia phones. Woodside says Moto X will be the first smartphone built in the United States, and was clearly proud of that fact. Some components will come from the US, too, though portions will come from Taiwan, Korea, and elsewhere. The phone is explicitly designed to compete with the iPhone and the Galaxy lineup, though Woodside did say that one of the areas Motorola sees as promising is in high-quality, low-cost devices.

Details are still relatively scarce, though Woodside did cite breakability and battery life as two of the things Larry Page is most focused on, which dovetails nicely with what we've heard before about Motorola's plans. Motorola's also apparently working with a number of different carriers, and Woodside said "the response has been great." The phone's coming by October, along with "a handful" of other devices.

Woodside has the phone in his pocket on stage at the conference, but wouldn't show it to Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher during their interview. Android head Sundar Pichai has seen it, apparently, but Woodside adamantly claimed that Motorola is treated no differently than any other Android partner. "We're hiring out of Google," he said, "but once you come to Motorola you give up your Google badge. It really is separate."

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Phones inside your home were once connected by traditional copper phone line systems. Now many of land lines are commonly tied into your internet or cable package. Currently, two major phone companies are looking to get rid of that traditional copper wiring system.Verizon is using areas in New York damaged by Superstorm Sandy to try out a wireless home phone service, rather than repairing the tradition copper phone lines. A spokesperson told 22news for some of those customers that will be a permanent fix. ds4324SG

T-Mobile also announced the availability of the Sony Xperia Z, a GT-I9500 S4 phone that sports a high-resolution display and water resistance. The Xperia Z is one of the first major phones that T-Mobile is getting exclusively in the United States. T-Mobile will start selling it next week, though Sony Corp. retail stores and its website started offering the phone Wednesday.

The Xperia Z is the first major phone to have water resistance as a standard feature. That means you can submerge the phone at least 3 feet deep for up to 30 minutes. You can continue recording a video or watching a movie while underwater. The phone is also protected from accidental spills. The Xperia Z comes with a screen that measures 5 inches diagonally and has a resolution of 443 pixels per inch — on par with rivals.