Motorola CEO Dennis Woodside confirmed on Wednesday at the AllThingsD's D11 conference that the company is developing a lead phone called the Moto X for release by October.
Speaking with hosts Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher, the Motorla executive said the hero device would sport an OLED screen and sensors.
"Motorola has always been good at managing power on the device, but we're really good at managing sensors. We know when it's in your pocket, we know when it's in your hand, it's going to know when you want to take a picture and fire up the cameras," explained. "The device will know when you're in the car and it's moving at 60mph and you'll interact with it differently, more safely."
Woodside further said a 480,000-square-foot factory in Fort Worth, Texas - currently used to assemble Nokia phones - will manufacture 70 percent of the Moto X, with processors coming from Taiwan and OLED screens coming from Korea.
Earlier in the interview, when Mossberg asked Woodside what's in store for Motorola, Woodside simply said, "We're relaunching our entire portfolio this year."
Woodside didn't provide any more concrete details on upcoming products while on stage, aside from noting the Moto X will contend with the iPhone and Galaxy devices, but he teased that the hero phone was in his pocket for the interview. And, no, he wouldn't show it.
"I'll save the details for later, but battery life is a huge problem. Motorola has some of the world's best engineers and systems designers who spend their lives on that problem. There are two processors in the device that creates a system that allows you to do such a thing," added wood side before confirming that the phone would be widely available in the US on multiples carriers.
The Moto X is the first major product announcement from Motorola since Google bought the company.
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