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A Motorola logo is seen on their building at an industrial estate in Singapore, April 3, 2008. REUTERS/VIVEK PRAKASH

Rumors have it that two variants of the Motorola Moto E (2016) have received BluetoothSpecial Interest Group (SIG) certification. This indicates that release date of the Moto E (2016) smartphones is approaching fast.

According to Mobile Xpose, Bluetooth SIG has certified two Lenovo smartphones with model numbers XT1700 and XT1706. In March, the specifications of both the smartphones were spotted on GFXBench benchmarking site. Both the XT1700 and XT1706 have the same specs indicating that they are two variants of the alleged Motorola Moto E (2016).

GFXBench listing for both phones have revealed that the Moto E (2016) will be arriving with 5-inch HD screen that will support a resolution of 720 x 1280 pixels. It is powered by MediaTek MT6753P chipset that features a quad-core processor that clocks at 1 GHz along with Mali-T720 graphics.

The chipset is supported by 2 GB of RAM and it features an internal storage of 16 GB. Its rear camera will be of 8-megapixel and its selfie camera will be of 5-megapixel. It will come preinstalled with Android 6.0 Marshmallow. It also expected to arrive with a fingerprint reader.

Phone Arena has reported that the new Moto G models are named as Moto G4 for the regular version of the smartphone and Moto G4 Plus for the variant that houses a fingerprint reader. Hence, the XT1700 and XT1706 smartphones are expected to launch as Moto E2 and Moto E2 Plus. Since they have received Bluetooth certification, the release of these smartphones is close at hand.

Lenovo is heavily pegged to unleash Moto Z Style and Moto Z Play tomorrow through the Lenovo Tech World event. These smartphones will support snap-on modules for various accessories such as external battery, pico projector, external speakers and more. Lenovo is also rumored to unleash Lenovo PHAB Pro 2, a Project Tango initiative, with a 6.4-inch Quad HD display.