This is an archive article published on December 3, 2016

Meet the new Moto mods: An Incipio car dock and Mophie battery

Moto has released two new Moto Mods for its Moto Z series modular phones – a car dock from Inicipio and a Mophie Juice Pack battery

3 min readDec 4, 2016 09:26 AM IST First published on: Dec 3, 2016 at 10:33 AM IST

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Moto Z smartphones were launched in India with four mods – the JBL SoundBoost Speaker, Hasselblad True Zoom camera mod, the Instashare Projector and the Incipio offGRID Power Pack

Lenovo-owned Motorola has released two new Moto Mods for its Moto Z series modular phones – a car dock from Inicipio and a Mophie Juice Pack battery. According to a Verge report, the Mophie charger with a capacity of 3,000 mAh will be priced at $80 (approx Rs 5400). It is expect to give the Moto Z range an additional 60 per cent battery backup. The Mophie charger mod also comes with a status indicator light, and a Type-C USB charge port that can be used to charge it separately from the phone.

The Incipio Car Dock gives a way to mount the Moto Z smartphone in a car, charge its battery and lets you connect to the car audio via the 3.5mm output. The Incipio doc clips on to the car’s AC vent and can hold the phone vertically or horizontally. When you connect your phone to the doc, it automatically launches Android Auto, which gives s safer user interface to use while driving.

The new mods will starting shipping soon according to the report, with Motorola saying that it plans to launch more mods in 2017.

Lenovo last month partnered with crowdfunding platform, Indiegogo to help developers raise funds for Moto Mod designs. The company announced the Moto Mods Developer contest for the developers, the winners of which will win the Moto Z along with a Moto Mods Development kit.

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Both Moto Z and Moto Z Play modular smartphones were unveiled at IFA 2016, in Berlin back in September and were launched in India in October. The highlight of the Moto Z series is the snap-on and snaps off attachments that will help you customise a phone as per your needs.

The phone was launched with four mods – the JBL SoundBoost Speaker priced at Rs 6,999, Hasselblad True Zoom camera mod at Rs 19,999, the Instashare Projector at Rs 19,999 and the Incipio off GRID Power Pack for Rs 5,999.

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