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drooling over the Samsung Galaxy S5 the HTC M8 Etc but honestly the Moto G was
never about being the best phone available in North America anyway so why
don't we approach this from a bit of a different perspective let's consider its
importance in another Market one that Motorola talked about back when they
launched it India the 16 gig version
launched earlier this month Android 4.4 KitKat rolled out there on it about a
week ago and at the time of filming this the Moto G has 2300 user reviews on
flipcart.com more than the Galaxy S4 and
HTC1 combined so as interesting as the successors to those products are I would
actually argue that even today you know 4 months latest as I am the Moto G is a
more important product overall for the world's move towards smartphones than
either of those two successors so the main difference
between the Moto G and the Moto X are as follows performance is lower in every
way slower CPU and GPU with a quad core A7 processor at 1.2 GHz and adrino 305
GPU 1 gig versus 2 gigs of RAM n
wireless versus AC Wireless and 3G cellular data maximum versus LTE being
available on the X all of that though actually sounds worse than it is more on
that later the build quality is very solid it is thicker and uses noticeably
cheaper plastic but you do get a removable and customizable replaceable
backing now however difficult it might be to get off it's got a regular 720p
LCD display versus the OLED display on the Moto X that enables the display to
power on only the pixels that are needed a great power saving feature it lacks
the always listening voice activation and this actually bothered me a lot more
than I expected the camera feels straight out of 2010 megapixels and
gigapixels aside my iPhone 4 to my eyes
anyway actually takes similar quality pictures and does it with a faster
response on the shutter but that's me losing track of the product positioning
of the Moto G I'm complaining the camera is competitive with the iPhone 4 but
that still passes for Apple's value option in India that is what the Moto G
is up against and on flipcart.com the 8 gig iPhone 4 actually costs about 50%
more than the Moto G whose other advantages vastly outweigh that one
disadvantage in my opinion let's talk
physicality in everyday use she don't have many buttons C I like the top 3 and
half mm Jack it's easy easy to pocket but I found the positioning of the
camera lens a bit awkward for taking pictures in landscape mode the onboard
speaker is suitably loud for watching YouTube videos in the backseat of a
moving car which is all I really ask for but it's got that awkward positioning
that requires the now classic Hand Cup maneuver to achieve Optimal Performance
B the volume rocker is another thing that bothered me a fair bit throughout
the time I use the phone it's short cheap feeling and hard to differentiate
from the lock button when you're not actually looking at the phone when you're just trying to feel it I don't
have much to say about the software that I didn't already say in my Moto X or
Nexus 5 reviews it's Android 4.4 and
it's pretty much stock Android with no real bloatware there are only a few
things that really drove me crazy I also don't like the dialer at all dialing by
name is something that I take for granted now and is conspicuously AC
absent here and switching to the address book is up at the top of the phone where
it's not really convenient to reach one-handed and finally Hangouts still
just plain sucks as a messaging app the chip in my head though tells me that
much like the YouTube comments our Google overlords will address it at some
point in the future so it's a minor concern but it's definitely something
that's bothering me for now but negativity out of the way let's get into
the first of my top four Moto G advantages versus cheaper and even
similarly priced phones from off Brands and other premium Brands like Samsung
alike software updates Motorola promised
and delivered Android 4.4 in a timely manner on the Moto G many of the devices
in this price range are still running 4.1 or even earlier versions of Android
and when you consider Google's focus on making their OS run faster and lighter
with each iteration You could argue that software updates are even more important
than getting better specs on your phone in the first place Advantage number two
performance other stuff in this price range like the Samsung I 826
is just plain laughable compared to the Moto G even coming from a premium phone
games ran fine at Native res and I only notice slowdowns while multitasking or
while installing apps in the background I also suspect that any of the stutters
I did feel were because the flash storage was almost completely full the
entire time I had the phone that will hamper the performance of even the
quality flash storage in the Moto G I used an 8 gig but I would really
recommend the 16 gig for another 20 bucks if you plan to put lots of apps or
even a small to medium music collection on your phone Advantage number three
that screen where most of its competitors are still advertising their
screens as TFT LCD without even
specifying a resolution on the product page the Moto G's 42 in 720p IPS screen
is a design choice that even made me forget sometimes while I was reviewing
it that I was holding a device that costs a third of my daily driver the
HTC1 the viewing angles on it are excellent the colors are vibrant without
seeming oversaturated and unnatural like some OLED displays and it was even easy
to use outside nice and bright excellent contrast my only complaint here is that
the touchcreen seemed to lack the pinpoint accuracy of some other products
I've used which was noticeable in things like typing very quickly Advantage
number four is well the other stuff the
all day battery that got me almost through two light usage days last
weekend the Gorilla Glass 3 front cover and the lip on the front of the phone
that means I can put it down without worrying about scratches the
customizability you can replace the backing with a color of your choice or a
flip starting at 15 bucks and these are all little things that maybe don't Merit
individual advantages but they add up to make the conclusion for this video very
simple at $179 to $199 this is the only phone that really
matters in much the same way that at $350 the Nexus 5 is the only phone that
really matters yes you can find imperfections in both of them but the
only way to fix those complaints is to spend more so I believe what I said
stands I wouldn't consider recommending something else to my mother if she had
$200 to spend which is about the strongest praise I can give a product Oh
wait right sorry the part of a phone review where I uh talk about call
Quality uh it's good actually better than expected the Moto G has an extra
mic for back noise suppression which at this price point is a very compelling
value ad just like everything else about this phone so overall great work
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