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In an interview in Engadget, Motorola's SVP of Software Seang Chau spoke briefly about the focus the company had chosen for the development of its latest Moto X smartphone, and where he saw the next generation of smartphones heading.

Chau said that Google "levels the playing field every time" by adding to Android features that were once device-specific. It's for this reason that Motorola has chosen to focus on the 'always on' capability of the Moto X Style (or Moto X Pure Edition, as it is known in the U.S.).

We've got Moto Voice, where you just talk or make motions and gestures or you just approach it and [it] wakes up -- those kinds of things, you can't copy in software and if you try, you'll just kill your battery. We put a lot of effort into always-on, and I think that's where we're going to continue focusing a lot of our software efforts.

The future would, he said, be in making intelligent assistants like Google Now, Siri and Cortana significantly more capable. So far, he considers them to be at the "getting there" stage ...  Read more of this post