There’s not a lot to say about the photos, but they give us two important bits of information about the upcoming phone. First, despite allegedly having a much larger display (5.2 inches compared to the orginal’s 4.7 inches), the phone itself won’t be monstrously large. There’s a considerable reduction in bezel area around the screen on the new model. Yes, it’s clearly larger than the Moto X, but not as much as you’d expect from a half inch increase in screen size. The other part to take note of are the speaker cutouts. There’s a much wider opening for the upper earpiece, a twin cutout down at the bottom of the phone. There’s not a lot of reason for an arrangement of cutouts like this other than to put speakers behind, so it seems like the Moto X+1 will have front-facing stereo speakers similar to those on the HTC One (M8). This is great news—putting small speakers on the back of a phone makes absolutely no sense from a usability stpoint, it’s high time the practice goes the way of the dodo.
