Motorola Moto X Phone Release Date, Specs, Price: Available End Of August Or Early September, With Customizable Features When Ordered Online

Motorola Moto X Phone is the first device built from scratch since Google bought the company. The Moto X phone is designed and assembled in the U.S., and will only be available to American buyers. The release date, specs, and price were all recently revealed for the highly-customizable phone.

The Moto X will be available at the end of August or at the beginning of September, ABC News reports. The phone can be bought through AT&T, T-Mobile Verizon, Sprint, US Cellular and Best Buy. The 16GB model will cost $199 and the 32GB version $249. The company says it might offer a version directly through the Google Play Store eventually, according to ABC News.

The phone will ship with Android 4.2.2 and will be updated to Android 4.3 soon.

Motorola decided to make the phone available only in the US, resulting in disappointment from tech fans around the world.

"Moto X is just the first device in a new portfolio of products that show the best of Motorola as a Google company," Kevin Si, a Motorola spokesman in Asia, wrote in an e-mail. "We have exciting plans for all regions, although we can't reveal specifics right now. This is just the start."

However, spokespeople for Google's Motorola Mobility in Europe and Asia said after the announcement that the company doesn't plan to release the Moto X in those regions, Bloomberg reports.

As for the specs of the phone, the Moto X is the narrowest flagship Android phone available today, PC mag reports. The X is 2.57 inches wide, 5.09" tall, and .42" thick, weighing in at 4.6 ounces. The 720p AMOLED screen is 316 pixels per inch.

Motorola also advertises the Moto X as having unusually long battery life. PC mag reports that their tests resulted in 14 hours, 15 minutes of CDMA talk time.

According to ABC News, if you order the Moto X through Motorola's Moto Maker website, there are 2,000 color combinations to choose from. Buyers can customize the color of the back of the phone, the edges and even the color of the volume and power buttons and the ring around the camera. Motorola is currently designing a back made of real wood for the Moto X. Additionally, buyers can engrave a message or name on the back of the phone.

However, the color-customized versions of the phone will be available only with AT&T service at first. The other carriers, including Verizon and Sprint, will have black and white versions of the phone in stores and on their websites, ABC News reports.