Motorola confirms it received’t be releasing a Moto Z3 Drive model this yr

Motorola unveiled its new Moto Z3 handset at present at an occasion in Chicago, and the corporate introduced in a while within the afternoon on Twitter that it’s breaking with custom with the third installment in its Z Collection. Not like with the Z2 and the unique Moto Z, the Z3 received’t be getting a shatterproof Drive model — no less than not this yr.

“We is not going to be launching any extra Moto Z’s this yr,” the corporate’s official US Twitter account announced. (There's already a midrange Moto Z3 Play, introduced again in June.)

There’s a variety of the explanation why Motorola could also be shying away from its extra sturdy variant. For one, gross sales on earlier Drive units could also be fairly minuscule when put next with the gross sales of the primary Z Collection telephones. There’s additionally a component of selling: having three telephones with the identical names is perhaps complicated clients, a few of whom might probably not be maintaining with Motorola’s naming schemes.

Hello. We is not going to be launching any extra moto z’s this yr.

Definitely decreasing the variety of gadget variants in the marketplace will assist in each areas there. Though there's nonetheless the likelihood that Motorola may launch a model of the Z3 with its ShatterShield display safety expertise in some unspecified time in the future this yr or subsequent, slightly below a special identify.

Correction: An earlier model of this story said that Motorola received’t be releasing a Moto Z3 Play model. That's incorrect; the corporate unveiled that gadget in June forward of the official Z3 launch. We remorse the error.