Motorola Moto X's features revealed in new video The initial command "OK Google Now..." fires up the phone without needing to manually select voice operation, and allows the phone to respond with the desired information or to load the specified Google Now function. Users can set alarms, check weather forecasts and search for directions without even touching the screen. The video demonstrates the 'press anywhere' camera function, doing away with a shutter button 'Active updates' is the new discreet notification system through which information quietly appears on the screen, enabling users to decide which notifications to deal with at their leisure. The Moto X will be launched in Canada next month, and although a release date and price for UK customers is yet to be set, it's likely to cost less than an iPhone. Motorola boss Dennis Woodside revealed that the company was working on a new flagship device back in May, which will be the first released since Google bought Motorola in 2011 for a cool $12.5b. Addressing the audience at a conference in America, Woodside said Google wanted to sell the device at lower margins than companies such as Apple have become used to. He confirmed the Moto X would use advanced sensors to anticipate user behaviour and would change the way users "engage with how the devices are designed." The discreet new notification feature in action The Moto X largely aims to predict what a user wants to do so that they do not waste time choosing it manually. Examples include automatically sensing a device is travelling at speed along a road and suggesting entering "car mode" or making it faster to open the camera application.