The Motorola X-Phone release date is reportedly set later this month, with Google using the I/O Developers Conference as the fitting occasion for the fresh Jelly Bean flagship handset.

You read it right. The device remains on Android 4.2, according to 9to5Google, and neither on Key Lime Pie nor on Jelly Bean 4.3 as reports earlier suggested.

In fact, the new smartphone has a finished form, as provided for the leaked images from Vietnamese blog site Tinhte.vn, which showed an all black and sleek-looking gadget, borrowing much from the profile previously seen in Motorola's RAZR phone models.

Also, the pics disproved earlier claims that part of the X-Phone market appeal is the wide choice of body colour variants. Instead, the handset will likely retail with protective skins and buyers can pick from 25 options that Motorola will offer, the 9to5Google report said.

The X-Phone comes with a 4.7-inch screen size, which makes it a very much phablet candidate, yet it appears that Motorola designers poured considerable efforts to produce a phone that is thin, slim and light.

It follows the prevailing trend of edge-to-edge screen make, ditching the capacitive button in the process to give more room to a phone viewing pleasure that is both tall and wide.

There was no explicit mention of CPU muscle but Motorola could be using either Qualcomm or NVIDIA technology with the assurance of a top-speed quad-core horsepower. This chip will work in tandem with a 2GB of RAM.

Save for a few bundled apps from partner telcos, the power behind the X-Phone is nearly stock Android, which will debut for now at the 4.2 level with the possibility of swiftly swallowing the Jelly Bean 4.3 and Key Lime Pie the moment they become available.

The X-Phone model mentioned in the same report alludes to a 32GB storage configuration with no chance of memory expansion. Google prefers the use of Google Drive for those wanting to access extra smartphone space, expert said, hence the deliberate omission of the microSD slot.

Debates are raging on when buyers will actually get a hold on the Motorola X-Phone but the report indicated that it will launch a few weeks from now via the I/O gathering that Google will host later this month.

The X-Phone's actual release date could come in the immediate weeks after that annual Google event and not in August as earlier hinted, the blog report said.