WEBVTT 00:00:06.160 --> 00:00:12.719 buy an Intel knock barebones PC and get a limited edition t-shirt and in-game 00:00:10.440 --> 00:00:17.160 items for Planet Side 2 click now to learn more let me start this off by 00:00:15.160 --> 00:00:20.960 saying I'm not a hardcore phone guy so that's the perspective you're about to 00:00:18.600 --> 00:00:24.039 get I spent some time with the Moto X I really liked it here are my thoughts on 00:00:22.600 --> 00:00:29.320 it but if you want the more hardcore perspective you know what Marcus brownley has a video about it and his 00:00:26.800 --> 00:00:32.160 videos are great go watch that I will do a brief summary of some of the stuff 00:00:30.759 --> 00:00:37.000 everyone else has already told you however and it starts with it's 00:00:33.960 --> 00:00:38.680 assembled in America which I guess to me 00:00:37.000 --> 00:00:42.120 as a Canadian isn't quite as immediately relevant but it does represent a very 00:00:40.399 --> 00:00:45.039 positive trend that we're seeing not just with Motorola in this phone but 00:00:43.719 --> 00:00:49.559 Apple's even embracing it with the upcoming Mac Pro it has a customizable 00:00:47.640 --> 00:00:54.399 experience which is partly achieved by that assembly in America so even though 00:00:51.559 --> 00:00:57.559 mine is a bone stock you know Carbon fibery looking black back and black 00:00:56.160 --> 00:01:01.760 buttons you can actually change around quite a few things for over 200 00:00:59.640 --> 00:01:06.920 different combinations it does not support SD expansion hello Google 00:01:04.960 --> 00:01:10.360 influence so there was no getting around that Google's not a big fan of SD 00:01:08.640 --> 00:01:14.920 expansion and we don't find it on the Moto X which is the first phone that has 00:01:12.400 --> 00:01:20.400 really got the Google influence on it since the acquisition of Motorola quite 00:01:17.280 --> 00:01:21.840 some time ago the hardware is it's okay 00:01:20.400 --> 00:01:26.720 it's nothing really special so there's an S4 Pro class processor featuring two 00:01:24.040 --> 00:01:31.439 1.7 GHz cores and a fairly capable adreno 320 GPU Wireless AC is a stand 00:01:29.960 --> 00:01:35.520 out feature however and it's normally not included with this particular 00:01:33.200 --> 00:01:40.320 combination it feels plenty fast out of the box but in reality what doesn't 00:01:38.079 --> 00:01:44.000 these days there's more to it than CPU speed however page nine of an anc's 00:01:42.439 --> 00:01:50.040 excellent review of this phone gives a great Summary of why fast well-designed 00:01:46.840 --> 00:01:52.719 storage is important maybe even more so 00:01:50.040 --> 00:01:57.119 than CPU speed to keeping your device operating in that like new state that 00:01:54.840 --> 00:02:01.640 we've all become quite used to now let's start with the Hands-On I love the shape 00:01:59.079 --> 00:02:06.280 and size I complained quite a lot if you watch my weekly live stream the L show 00:02:04.240 --> 00:02:10.759 or really anything else about the fact that the HTC1 is just a little bit too 00:02:08.479 --> 00:02:16.080 big for me well the Moto X has the same size screen 4.7 in but because of the 00:02:13.720 --> 00:02:19.560 gentle curvature of the back and the fact that the sides of the bezel are 00:02:17.760 --> 00:02:23.879 much smaller I find it much more comfortable to hold and I can type 00:02:21.120 --> 00:02:28.319 one-handed on it very very easily so big thumbs up for the ergonomics of the Moto 00:02:25.840 --> 00:02:31.519 X it does get a little bit toasty on the back side especially when you're doing 00:02:29.599 --> 00:02:36.319 something like using it as a hot spot but again not worse than something like 00:02:33.800 --> 00:02:39.200 the HTC1 and while the plastic backing might not be better for heat conduction 00:02:38.080 --> 00:02:42.640 it will make it so that your hand doesn't get quite as sweaty I love the 00:02:41.280 --> 00:02:46.280 position of the lock button this is another complaint I have about the one 00:02:44.400 --> 00:02:49.840 that recessed lock button on the top or flush lock button that's kind of hard to 00:02:47.959 --> 00:02:54.040 reach without slipping the phone out of your hands no this one's really easy to 00:02:51.920 --> 00:02:56.599 reach very very natural the way that you're normally holding it you can press 00:02:55.360 --> 00:03:03.280 it with your thumb or if you're left-handed you can press it with your middle finger very very nice however 00:03:01.480 --> 00:03:06.959 it's a little bit close to the volume rocker which is not as much bigger than 00:03:05.720 --> 00:03:10.440 the lock button as I would have liked and is difficult to distinguish the two 00:03:08.760 --> 00:03:14.400 from each other when the device is in your pocket which a lot of the time 00:03:12.319 --> 00:03:17.920 let's face it it probably is the other ergonomic thing that I'm not really a 00:03:15.680 --> 00:03:21.720 big fan of is the 3 and 1/2 mm Jack in the middle of the top particularly when 00:03:20.120 --> 00:03:25.360 watching videos or something where I'm holding the phone like this I did found 00:03:23.799 --> 00:03:29.280 it kind of got in the way whereas one that's a little bit more off to the side 00:03:27.120 --> 00:03:33.200 is easier to put my hands around than something that right out of the middle I 00:03:31.080 --> 00:03:36.879 found the auto rotate a little bit on the sluggish side which contrasts with 00:03:35.319 --> 00:03:40.920 the one which I find really really Twitchy to the point where it's annoying 00:03:38.599 --> 00:03:44.319 I think I'd rather have sluggish than you know just like ADHD you know you 00:03:43.239 --> 00:03:48.680 accidentally tilt the phone a little bit and it's like oh do you want to go this way do you want to go that way so that's 00:03:47.120 --> 00:03:53.000 just an observation not so much a complaint or a positive thing and the 00:03:50.840 --> 00:03:57.079 battery life didn't light my world on fire it was about like the HTC1 with my 00:03:55.480 --> 00:04:00.519 general usage although if you want scientific analysis of the battery life 00:03:59.239 --> 00:04:05.120 again head over to that on on tech review it's very excellent I'll link it in the video 00:04:03.040 --> 00:04:07.920 description speaking of lighting my world on fire and batteries those are 00:04:06.519 --> 00:04:12.439 two things you probably don't want together when I plugged the Moto X into 00:04:10.120 --> 00:04:18.959 a charger it was like magic it reminds me of my iPhone 4 lightning fast 00:04:15.239 --> 00:04:21.479 charging the HTC1 is so slow and the 00:04:18.959 --> 00:04:27.919 Galaxy S4 is better to an extent but the Moto X charges in like you know 70% 65% 00:04:25.720 --> 00:04:31.960 as much time as the HTC and it was refreshing to be able to grab the device 00:04:30.320 --> 00:04:35.680 go oh crap I don't have enough battery I'm on my way out the door throw it on a 00:04:33.919 --> 00:04:40.639 charger for 20 minutes and then have that actually help and have it get you 00:04:37.840 --> 00:04:44.880 through the next outing on the screen side of things it's a bit of a different 00:04:43.000 --> 00:04:47.720 approach than well this one again I'm comparing it mostly to the phone that I 00:04:46.280 --> 00:04:53.680 have the most experience with it has an AMOLED screen and definitely suffers 00:04:50.639 --> 00:04:55.560 from what I like to call STD or store 00:04:53.680 --> 00:05:00.080 television display syndrome with oversaturated colors it looks very 00:04:58.800 --> 00:05:05.919 vibrant to the point where it almost makes your eyes want to bleed but that is a characteristic of Ed screens and a 00:05:03.360 --> 00:05:09.840 lot of people like it whites do have a definite yellowish cast that was 00:05:08.039 --> 00:05:14.800 noticeable on both web pages when I'm reading as well as when watching videos 00:05:12.199 --> 00:05:19.120 but the flip side of that is that blacks are amazingly deep you can hardly see 00:05:17.600 --> 00:05:23.120 the difference when you have a black screen up between the bezel and the 00:05:21.360 --> 00:05:28.360 screen which combined with the Touch button design makes the front of the 00:05:25.160 --> 00:05:30.240 phone seem very very seamless overall I 00:05:28.360 --> 00:05:33.520 think I like the implementation it doesn't take up screen real estate 00:05:31.720 --> 00:05:36.840 permanently the way that it did with old Android tablets I mean wasn't that 00:05:35.080 --> 00:05:41.000 infuriating when just the bottom of your screen was always taken up even when you 00:05:38.560 --> 00:05:45.560 were in full screen video so it doesn't do that it can reorient itself and never 00:05:43.759 --> 00:05:49.199 really glitched out on me it was a bit disorienting at first when the buttons 00:05:47.280 --> 00:05:53.840 disappeared and turned into dots that were obviously not labeled at that point 00:05:51.919 --> 00:05:58.840 but uh once I memorized the positions of the buttons it became a non-issue very 00:05:55.919 --> 00:06:02.840 very quickly the screen is 720p so we're getting used to these these 1080p 00:06:00.440 --> 00:06:08.039 smartphones in this kind of a size range like the S4 and the HTC1 but remember 00:06:05.639 --> 00:06:11.639 guys that is still what Apple would call retina class density so I don't have any 00:06:10.360 --> 00:06:17.560 complaints and it was not very noticeable compared to the HTC1 except 00:06:13.840 --> 00:06:19.880 with very very small text the main 00:06:17.560 --> 00:06:23.919 AMOLED advantages that this phone did get to enjoy was during gaming and 00:06:22.039 --> 00:06:28.160 watching videos there's no blur or smearing Amed doesn't have the same kind 00:06:26.199 --> 00:06:31.720 of ghosting effects that you'll get on a lot of LCD displays and it's extremely 00:06:30.319 --> 00:06:36.120 power efficient so you can see right here this notification right now is only 00:06:33.960 --> 00:06:39.720 lighting up the pixels that are needed the rest of them are actually turned 00:06:37.599 --> 00:06:43.520 completely off and that also contributes to those excellent black levels the 00:06:41.560 --> 00:06:47.800 viewing angle is also awesome even compared to Super LCD 3 which is what's 00:06:45.400 --> 00:06:51.880 in use over here but there are some disadvantages the main one being that 00:06:49.800 --> 00:06:55.759 oversaturation looks unnatural once you're used to once you're used to 00:06:53.880 --> 00:06:59.080 better I mean I guess really that is the main one other than that I really do 00:06:57.280 --> 00:07:03.080 like the screen the touch interface electron are visible to me at a 00:07:01.319 --> 00:07:07.120 comfortable viewing distance on Plain backgrounds and even during video 00:07:05.160 --> 00:07:12.639 playback particularly in cartoons where you're going to have a lot of um single 00:07:10.960 --> 00:07:16.960 color large spaces and you can really pick out that Matrix behind it I wish 00:07:15.000 --> 00:07:21.080 that we were past this Apple's had it right for years and I wish everyone else 00:07:18.879 --> 00:07:24.199 would get on board um the last thing about the screen the backlight flicker 00:07:22.599 --> 00:07:28.039 weirds me out a little bit so you can really see especially when moving it 00:07:26.319 --> 00:07:31.639 quickly and when there's only a few pixels lit up on a black background you 00:07:29.759 --> 00:07:34.199 can really see the flickering of the backlight but it's only really 00:07:32.759 --> 00:07:38.199 noticeable when you're moving the phone quickly and so it stopped bothering me 00:07:36.000 --> 00:07:41.400 after about the first day the lowest light setting on auto is not really 00:07:39.800 --> 00:07:45.720 suitable for nighttime use and this is a little bit ironic to me because usually 00:07:43.440 --> 00:07:49.680 phone manufacturers in Auto setting are trying to preserve battery as much as 00:07:47.639 --> 00:07:52.919 possible and crank things down but I found that for nighttime viewing I 00:07:51.080 --> 00:07:57.400 actually had to manually turn it down even further on the software side this 00:07:55.000 --> 00:08:01.919 is actually my first experience with pretty much bone stock Android and 00:08:00.159 --> 00:08:04.960 I this isn't going to be popular but I don't really know what all the fuss is 00:08:03.280 --> 00:08:08.960 about most of the Annoying stuff about TouchWiz can be worked around and I 00:08:06.919 --> 00:08:12.479 quite like HTC Sense there's some stuff that I just found easier to do 00:08:11.000 --> 00:08:17.159 particularly their multitasking interface is in my mind world's better 00:08:15.560 --> 00:08:21.800 than the stock Android multitasking interface it only shows you nine things 00:08:19.080 --> 00:08:26.400 at a time but they're it's much quicker to switch between them and I generally 00:08:23.159 --> 00:08:28.919 only use about nine things at a time so 00:08:26.400 --> 00:08:32.399 it's absolutely great for me I did find switching from one phone to another 00:08:30.680 --> 00:08:35.719 extremely easy the Motorola transfer wizard is completely painless and 00:08:34.279 --> 00:08:39.039 handles the whole thing wirelessly it only takes probably about an hour and a 00:08:37.519 --> 00:08:45.640 half it took for me to transfer from the HTC1 to the Moto X um I did find that 00:08:43.519 --> 00:08:49.839 again so the whole software thing I did find the update manager pretty 00:08:47.600 --> 00:08:53.680 aggressive I'm again not much of a power user so I just pick up my phone I expect 00:08:52.440 --> 00:08:58.920 everything to be where I left it and I don't really want them changing the functionality around on me that often I 00:08:56.279 --> 00:09:02.200 don't necessarily you know need to update to the latest software like the 00:09:00.519 --> 00:09:06.680 minute it gets released and again I know it's not very popular but their update 00:09:04.760 --> 00:09:09.800 manager just basically says look you have to install this update you can 00:09:08.360 --> 00:09:14.399 postpone it but you actually have to pick a time when we're going to remind you again you can't just do it manually 00:09:13.200 --> 00:09:19.440 at least that's the default setting there's probably some way to change it but I didn't spend enough time with the 00:09:17.040 --> 00:09:24.360 phone that it would have bothered me all right so now on to the whole always 00:09:22.079 --> 00:09:27.640 listening thing Google Now is great in theory but the functionality is still 00:09:26.079 --> 00:09:31.560 quite limited you can't adjust the volume or do other things that seem 00:09:29.160 --> 00:09:34.880 pretty obvious to me like Okay Google Now please mute my phone and it's going 00:09:33.560 --> 00:09:39.079 to be like what it's going to like Google it or something um also most of 00:09:37.399 --> 00:09:43.000 that functionality is disabled if you have any kind of a security lock and I 00:09:40.720 --> 00:09:46.600 do use my phone for work so it's the kind of thing where I really wouldn't I 00:09:45.360 --> 00:09:50.440 wouldn't consider running a phone without a security lock on it I'm not a 00:09:48.800 --> 00:09:54.200 huge fan of the stock Google keyboard swift key has treated me extremely well 00:09:52.760 --> 00:09:58.640 so that was one of the first things that I installed on it my last comment on the 00:09:56.959 --> 00:10:03.200 whole Okay Google Now voice control thing is having voice control that's 00:10:00.800 --> 00:10:07.640 constantly listening to you is the future that is the thing that really 00:10:05.279 --> 00:10:11.399 jumped out because it's incredibly cool to just have your phone be somewhere 00:10:09.200 --> 00:10:15.240 else and this is even Beyond being able to use your smartwatch to answer your 00:10:13.399 --> 00:10:18.640 call or or whatever other things you want to do being able to just talk at 00:10:16.920 --> 00:10:23.200 the phone once it can understand you and has more functionality regardless of 00:10:20.519 --> 00:10:28.480 whether it's woken up or asleep is very very very cool so in summary I guess 00:10:26.160 --> 00:10:32.200 it's also a phone voice quality was good no complaints there no one on the other 00:10:30.040 --> 00:10:36.399 end of the line had any complaints and that pretty much wraps it up thank you 00:10:34.040 --> 00:10:42.320 for checking out my sort of oh right unboxing okay so here's the Box there's 00:10:39.000 --> 00:10:46.000 like some documentation a micro USB 00:10:42.320 --> 00:10:49.800 cable a wall wart and presumably ah Sim 00:10:46.000 --> 00:10:52.160 remover okay my unboxing and review of 00:10:49.800 --> 00:10:55.519 the Motorola Moto X let me know if you liked it let me know if you disliked it 00:10:53.760 --> 00:10:58.560 by hitting those buttons leave a comment 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