Moto X Pure Edition arrives at Best Buy in white, black and bamboo

The Moto X Pure Edition is now available from Best Buy for in-store pickup. The retail chain started selling the unlocked smartphone this week in white, black or bamboo options.

You won’t get all the customization options that come when you order the new Moto X Pure Edition straight from Motorola. Using Moto Maker you can pick a variety of color combinations, along with a personalized engraving. But on the plus side, if you pick up the device from Best Buy you could be using it a lot sooner.

Best Buy is offering the Moto X Pure Edition starting at $399 (same as Motorola). That gets you 16GB of storage with the option to add more via microSD card. You’ll have to pay an extra $25 for a bamboo back panel though, and adding more built-in storage means a $50 price bump to 32GB as well.

Whichever way you buy it, the Moto X Pure Edition is a pretty awesome smartphone, packing powerful specs and excellent software at a very fair price. It comes equipped with a 5.7-inch Quad HD display, a Snapdragon 808 processor, 3GB of RAM, a 21-megapixel rear camera, a 5-megapixel front-facing shooter and a 3000mAh battery. It also runs a near stock version of Android with a handful of helpful tweaks and additions from Motorola.

If you need to get your hands on the latest from Motorola as soon as possible, hit the source link below to see if any nearby Best Buy stores are carrying the device.

Moto X Pure Edition pre-orders start in the US

Motorola has made it official: the new Moto X Pure Edition will go up for pre-order in the US tomorrow. As previously announced, it will start at $399, and the only way you're going to be able to get one will be if you use Motorola's Moto Maker service. This means all units will be sold unlocked, you will not find this device at any of the carriers (though Verizon is apparently working on its own variation of the Moto X Play, but that's another handset entirely).

The new Moto X Pure Edition is going to be called that only in the United States, for whatever reason. In the rest of the world, the exact same product will be sold as the Moto X Style. This was unveiled in July alongside the Moto X Play.

Motorola says the Moto X Pure Edition works on "all major networks", and the price is really competitive given its specs. The handset comes with a 5.7-inch QHD touchscreen, a 21 MP rear camera with dual-tone dual-LED flash, a 5 MP front snapper with a LED flash of its own, Qualcomm's Snapdragon 808 SoC with hexa-core CPU, 3GB of RAM, 16 / 32 / 64GB of expandable storage, and a 3,000 mAh battery. It runs Android 5.1.1 Lollipop.

Oddly enough, this isn't the first time Motorola unveils a launch date for the Moto X Pure Edition through a tweet - the same thing happened last month, though the date was differentand that tweet eventually got deleted. Hopefully that won't be the case this time around.

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