Official Press Shots Leak for Google's Moto X

It's been a Moto X kind of a week, and it's about to get a little bit juicer thanks to a new batch of leaked images from Google's upcoming Motorola smartphone.

If that sounds a wee bit odd, remember that Google purchased Motorola Mobility back in 2011 in the hopes that the smartphone manufacturer would become a quasi-independent hardware arm of the search giant. The Moto X is the first flagship smartphone from Motorola on tap since the acquisition.

The images, posted by famed smartphone leaker @evleaks, look to be the first official press shots of the rumored 4.7-inch device. There aren't any secrets that the images reveal – at least, nothing beyond that which has already been gathered by the rumor-hungry enthusiast sites so far. Even Google CEO Larry Page leaked the Moto X a bit when picture were taken of him walking around with the device at mid-July's Allen & Co conference.

Whoops.

While the Moto X has yet to make its official public debut – you'll have to wait until Motorola's August 1 event for the big reveal – plenty of other leaks have painted a pretty good picture of what the smartphone might have in store.

"I think they're working hard on making good products, we're really excited about it, they're excited about it," said Page, discussing the Moto X in Google's second-quarter earnings call Thursday.

The device, which Google bills as the "first smartphone you can design yourself," is expected to use an Android 4.2.2 operating system running on a 720-by-1184-resolution screen. A 1.7-MHz dual-core Snapdragon S4 pro chip allegedly powers the device, and the phone's expected to come with two total gigabytes of memory. Leaks so far put the smartphone's total storage at 16 gigabytes, and it's unclear whether that's set in stone or whether Motorola intends to produce different variants of the Moto X. Droid Life reports that, as of the leaks thus far, the Moto X doesn't appear to have any expandable storage (no slot for Micro SD cards).

A leaked video from Canada's Rogers Wireless has already showcased some of the Moto X's more eye-catching software features, including the phone's ability to learn your voice and respond to vocal commands for tasks like updating a user with the daily weather forecast, finding directions, and setting phone alarms – to name a few examples.

Much (albeit generic) talk has been made about new contextual awareness capabilities that might be built into the Moto X. Google Now will invariably fuel a part of that, but it looks as if smartphone enthusiasts will have to wait a bit longer to see what other tricks Motorola has up its sleeve in that regard.

The Moto X is expected to hit stores before October, with August 23 being rumored as the official sales date of the device (based on a leaked Verizon road map). As for the phone's cost, and the carriers supported at its launch, we're still waiting for more details.