During the firm’s recent earnings call, Google’s Larry Page talked about some of the areas in smartphone development he feels need addressing, including durability and battery life. Could the rumored Motorola X Phone be its solution?

Google has sparked further rumors it’s working with Motorola on a brand new smartphone, by discussing – in a roundabout way – some of its potential features during the company’s first quarter earnings call.

CEO Larry Page talked briefly about Motorola, saying he was, “Excited about the business,” before going on to highlight some of the areas he felt needed improving in this, “multi-screen world.” The first was to extend the battery life on our smartphones, as, “We shouldn’t need to worry about constantly charging our phone,” while the second was on durability, as our devices shouldn’t, “go splat,” when they’re dropped. He concluded by saying “There is real potential to invent newer and better experiences.” Page called the team at Motorola, “World class,” and confirmed that it was already working on these opportunities, although it’s still early days.

Google acquired Motorola Mobility in May 2012, but has so far left the company to rollout its planned portfolio of devices, and has continued to work with companies such as Samsung and LG on its Nexus line. There have been rumors of a so-called Motorola X Phone for a while, so could Page have been hinting on the type of problems it’s trying to solve with the device?

Originally leaked through the Wall Street Journal, the Motorola X Phone was described as a flagship handset designed to compete with the iPhone and the Galaxy S3. Motorola was said to be working on extending the battery life and experimenting with making the phone more, “Stress resistant.” This certainly fits in with Page’s statement. Google is also a fan of using the letter X when referring to its cutting-edge projects, as evidenced by its X Labs, where Project Glass and its self-driving cars were born.

Motorola X Phone wishlist

Last week, discussion of the X Phone was reignited, when a (wish)list of features appeared on an Internet forum. It stated the Motorola X Phone would be the first device to use Android 5.0 Key Lime Pie, but instead of it being a clean install of the OS, it would use a Motorola-designed UI that is intended to be, “Nexus-like.”

Like the Nexus 4, the X Phone could be sold through Google Play and with a contract through all major networks. A $299 on-contract price with Verizon was also suggested. Finally, a Google I/O announcement along with a July 8 release date was stated. None of this can be verified, and should be treated as pure speculation. In December, Larry Page told Fortune it would have been impossible to come up with a Motorola Nexus phone before that point, making the suggested announcement date sound somewhat realistic.

Later in Google’s earning call, Chief Financial Officer Patrick Pichette took a moment to remind us it was only 180 days into its ownership of Motorola, a company he says is being, “reinvented,” and when it took over there were 12 to 18-months worth of products to get through. A year will be up this May; the same month Google I/O is scheduled to take place. There’s a chance it’s a coincidence, but it’s sounding more like the perfect opportunity to hold Motorola’s debutante ball as each day passes.

Nokia is rumored to be working on the first, true PureView camera phone to run Windows Phone 8. According to a new report, the device has the codename EOS and will launch later this year.

Nokia has always promised it would one day pair its PureView camera technology with Windows Phone, and although the Lumia 920 incorporated a degree of PureView magic in its camera, the Finnish firm is rumored to be working on something even better. According to The Verge, a device with the codename EOS will be the first true PureView phone to run Windows Phone 8.

To qualify as a “true” PureView phone, the anonymous source has said it’ll use a similar sensor to the 41-megapixel 808 PureView phone released during Mobile World Congress last year. Nokia isn’t afraid of making a bulky phone, but the lens in the 808 PureView made it something of a monster. That’s all very well on a niche Symbian phone, but it could be a risk on a mainstream Windows Phone 8 handset.

The phone will probably sit near the top of Nokia’s new range of Windows Phones, and like the rumored Catwalk – Nokia’s possible Lumia 920 replacement – it’ll have an aluminum chassis instead of one made from polycarbonate. AT&T is said to be one of the networks which will stock the Nokia EOS later this year.

During an interview last year, Nokia’s head of imaging technologies said his team was hard at work on the next generation of PureView cameras, but he stopped short of providing any firm details, saying only what it has planned was, “Very cool.” We were also reminded that PureView is more of a marketing term these days, used to tell us the camera is, “The latest and greatest in imaging.”

This is slightly at odds with this new rumor, so while the 808 PureView’s camera was mentioned, expectations of another 41-megapixel camera should be kept in check. That’s not to say the tech incorporated into the Nokia EOS will be any less impressive though.

Recent talk of an iPhone Math, sporting a larger screen than the current iPhone, has inspired one Apple news site to create a mock-up of the rumored device.

A China Times report earlier this week suggested Apple is prepping not one, not even two, but three new iPhone models, among them the iPhone 5S and the where-did-a-name-like-that-come-from iPhone Math. The latter, it’s claimed, has a 4.8-inch screen.

Of course, when it comes to Apple and its non-existent products, not a week goes by without someone somewhere claiming to have come into contact with “people familiar with the matter” who’ve somehow managed to get their hands on classified information from the company’s top secret R&D facility.

Russian Apple news site Apple Digger has taken the most recent rumor/suggestion/speculation/fabrication – the one about the improbably-named iPhone Math – and created a mock-up of how it could look.

As you might expect, it still looks like an iPhone, with Apple Digger’s rendering suggesting that its 4.8-inch display would allow for another row of apps on the screen. It also shows the device in five colors – black, white, pink, blue and yellow – and highlights the rumored 12-megapixel camera.

The idea that the iPhone might be offered in a variety of colors – thereby following in the footsteps of the iPod Touch – has been around for a while, with Jefferies analyst Peter Misek claiming last month that the Cupertino company’s next handset will launch in as many as eight different colors.

According to this week’s China Times report regarding the iPhone Math, the device, with its larger screen, improved camera and multiple colors, will launch in June. But what are the chances of it really happening?

Either way, the rendering is below if you’re at all curious….

[Apple Digger via Cnet]