Flipkart has just teased the imminent arrival of the Motorola Moto Maxx smartphone in India. The handset is the global version of the Droid Turbo, which was announced back in September as an exclusive via American carrier Verizon Wireless. Beyond this, the Moto Maxx was only available in Brazil, but it's good to see that Motorola is finally looking to bring the smartphone to India as well.

Flipkart's teaser doesn't mention the Moto Maxx outright, but the hints are pretty obvious. The use of phrases like "Turbo charged", "Accelerated Performance" leaves nothing to the imagination. The Moto Maxx retails for 2,199 Brazilian Real, which is somewhere around the Rs 48,000 mark.

The actual arrival date of the smartphone is not known yet as this is merely a teaser, but we're hoping Motorola or Flipkart will share more details over the coming days. Read on for more details about the hardware on the Moto Maxx:

· 5.2-inch QHD (2560x1440) display

· Ballistic Nylon body texture

· 21MP rear camera with f/2.0 aperture size

· 2MP portrait camera

· 2.5 GHz Snapdragon 805 chipset

· 64GB internal storage (no microSD card slot)

· 3GB of RAM

· Android 4.4 KitKat with the Android 5.0 update on the horizon

· 3,900 mAh battery

Considering the popularity of Motorola smartphones in India, we expect the Moto Maxx to do fairly well when it arrives in the region. Price will obviously play a crucial role in the success or failure of the smartphone and we're sure Motorola will be mindful of that. The Moto Maxx has hardware to rival even the best handsets in the market today, so we're guessing Motorola will treat it like a flagship.

The Chipmaker is expected to expand its Smartphone partnership with Lenovo, introducing phones for both China and the Global market in the coming Weeks.

Intel is taking another step forward in its march toward mobile relevancy.

Lenovo plans to announce two new Intel-powered smartphones in the first two months of next year, according to a person familiar with the devices. Intel will provide both its 64-bit Atom processor and LTE-Advanced modem chips for the Lenovo phones, with one targeting China coming by early February and the other focused on emerging countries, coming in early January. The information comes just weeks before the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas early next month, when Intel, Lenovo and other major tech firms are expected to make a series of product announcements.

The design wins, the person said, mark Intel's first 4G smartphone in China -- by far the biggest smartphone market by current users in the world -- and represent an important milestone for Intel as the country rapidly moves into high-speed 4G technology. The deal follows two previous Intel-powered smartphones released by Chinese vendor Lenovo.

The 4G phones follow Intel's announcement in October of its first 4G smartphone in the US, the Asus PadFone X Mini. Though such product announcements are helpful advances for the Santa Clara, Calif.-based chipmaker, Intel remains well behind Qualcomm -- which controls two-thirds of the global mobile modem market -- and MediaTek as a supplier of chips for smartphones and tablets.

In a recent interview, Aicha Evans, an Intel vice president focused on wireless technologies, said Intel intends to be a "credible player" in China and around the world in mobile, saying the company is well positioned to grow in the space. "We're determined," she said. "This is going to be a marathon with a lot of sprints in between."

Intel faces tough competition trying to fight its way into mobile -- a market it ignored for years as it instead focused on its core business of supplying chips for personal computers and data centers. But, as mobile's growth has exploded and more customers have transitioned from PCs to tablets, Intel has shifted to pushing hard into mobile in hopes of keeping up its growth. So far, the company has lost billions of dollars trying to expand in the space, and it expects to keep losing money in its mobile business through 2015. Yet Intel executives continue to voice their strong commitment to mobile, even as other chipmakers -- such as Broadcom and Nvidia -- have moved away from supplying smartphone modem and processor chips.

Intel early next year will introduce its first 4G system-on-a-chip under the new SoFIA name. Such chips include both a processor and modem together and are sought after by handset makers because they're smaller in size than separate processor and radio chips, and use less power. That chip could help Intel come closer to matching Qualcomm's Snapdragon system-on-a-chip franchise, but that depends on whether manufacturers embrace SoFIA.

"It's really too early to tell" if Intel can succeed in China and elsewhere, said Christopher Rolland, a chips analyst for FBR Capital Markets. "We don't know how good that 4G product is going to be."

Rolland said Intel is still "a long way off" in mobile but could gain a foothold in China with strong design wins and partnerships.

Intel is late to come to market in China, said Ian Ing, an analyst for MKM Partners, but thanks to the expansion in 4G there, "they've got a good opportunity to participate in some of the strong growth years."