Motorola reduced the Moto X to just $350 for the second time today, following website issues that prevented many people from ordering when it was first reduced last Wednesday. But if you didn’t place your order within ten minutes of the deal going live, then you’ve missed you chance to take advantage of the $150 reduction.

Motorola has today begun rolling out a new festive boot animation that I’m sure you’ll enjoy this Christmas, as well as a fix for the lag issue effecting the handset’s Active Display feature.

Developers love getting their hands on a kernel source code, primarily because it allows them to develop some great new custom ROMs with awesome features you don’t usually get as standard. Starting today, the official Android 4.3 kernel files for the Moto G can be downloaded directly from Motorola’s official SourceForge homepage.

Motorola’s first scaled-down Moto X variant, the Moto G, has been in the headlines a lot recently, mainly for its impressive hardware coupled with its very appealing budget-friendly price tag. The Google-owned company is selling the 16GB version of the smartphone for $199 in the U.S. off contract, but have you ever wondered how much the handset costs Motorola to build? If so, then wonder no more.

The Moto G has revolutionised the lower-end smartphone market. The handset packs in such a brilliant package of specs and software that it manages to make the Nexus 5 from Google look somewhat overpriced.

Unlike the Moto X, the Moto G comes with a bootloader that can be easily unlocked, making the process of rooting the handset relatively easy.