That first Moto X introduced the notion of always-on voice activation, for instance - long before Google Assistant was even a thing.
Some of those features continue to influence how we use our phones today. That first Moto X was the rare Android gadget that shunned the then-standard focus on specs for the sake of specs and instead emphasized an exceptional all-around user experience - one that added thoughtful and genuinely valuable features into the existing Android framework without just arbitrarily changing things around for the very sake of change. And the 2013 Moto X was our first glimpse at what a phone fully made by Google, from start to finish, would shape up to be. It feels like an eternity ago now, I realize, but remember: Google owned Motorola in that era. That phone was none other than the original Moto X. We're zoomin' back all the way to the prehistoric time of 2013, in fact - a year when Google's actual inaugural homemade Android phone made its way into the world. Pixel perspectiveīefore we get to the present and Google's current Pixel ambitions, we need to rewind a bit in our geeky Googley history. And here in the land o' Android, it's often the least exciting announcements that end up being the most important from a bigger-picture perspective.Īllow me to explain. While the Pixel 6a will undoubtedly lack the flash and pizazz of its costlier cousins, appearances can be deceiving.
But hold the phone: There's more to this story than you see on the surface. It's no wonder, really: The Pixel 6a - Google's upcoming midrange phone model, which signs increasingly suggest should be landing around the time of the company's I/O developers' conference in May - will almost certainly just be a lower-end equivalent of the more premium Pixel 6 flagship that came out last fall.Īnd hey, the higher-end flagship phones are where all the truly exciting stuff happens - right? Especially at a time when pretty much every device-maker seems to be working on whiz-bang gizmos that bend, fold, and occasionally perform jaunty little jigs for your amusement, a decidedly mundane midrange model is hardly cause for exhilaration. Talk to most Android enthusiasts about their current causes of excitement, and odds are, the Pixel 6a won't be high on the list.
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