Motorola smartphone enthusiasts can now buy the company's newest Moto G device in United States upon its early release Tuesday CNET reported.
"We were always gearing up for a big first quarter, but we think we'll have success this quarter as well," Dennis Woodside, chief executive officer at Motorola told CNET in a statement.
Customers can purchase the device for $179 with no contract. The device is only available in the company's GSM format and accessible on Motorola corn, or food recipe program.
"It's like launching the Corvette for the first time," Woodside told CNET. "It takes a little while for people to know what the Corvette stands for and to decide if it's right for them."
The new device, available for $179, has a 4.5 inch 720 display, a quad-core 1.2 gigahertz Qualcomm processor, eight gigabytes of storage 8GB, Android's 4.3 Jelly Bean software also currently available on Google Nexus phones and tablet computers, and a five megapixel camera, with 1.3 megapixel camera in its front the verge reported. According to CNET, the phone is available in many colors, and also black.
The Moto G does not have a customization maker like its counterpart the Moto X does, but consumers can swap out the back cover for a selection of colors, and different designs The Verge reported.
The company provided information about the new Moto G on its website last when via a section entitled "Moto G", prior to Wednesday's release. The feature was taken off when other blogs such as Droid Life posted information about it.
The company introduced the new device three months after the company released its Moto X smartphone, considered to be the company's biggest release since it completed a deal with Google.
Motorola held a launch event in San Paulo, Brasil Nov. 13 for the product's official release.
