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The benchmarks are impressive considering its older architecture. Combined with the fantastic battery life and novel features, this may be the Android phone to

The benchmarks are impressive considering its older architecture. Combined with the fantastic battery life and novel features, this may be the Android phone to buy. I'm not exactly sure why Engadget concluded that it isn't worth $200.

noarchy 13y ago
That's $200 on contract, an important distinction for some of us. But the battery life is definitely one of the killer features of this phone. If you want good specs, without paying a lot, there is the very nice Nexus 4 (likely due for a refresh soon), but that phone in its current incarnation certainly can't boast great battery life.
- ChuckMcM 13y ago
  I would say that the battery life is the killer feature. Everything else is sort of "nice, but on <X> they have ..." For me that was refreshing to hear because when the first Android Phone came out (the G1), battery life was so poor that it made the phone seem unusable (well you were afraid if you used it at all you wouldn't have charge in an hour or so).
- jsnell 13y ago
  I've seen people claim that the Nexus 4 has bad battery life, and just don't understand it. I charge my Nexus 4 roughly every other day. And not because it runs out of charge at that point, but because I don't like to have the battery go much under about 40% or so. In my normal usage, the battery would easily last at least 3 days. (I've got a screenshot of the battery being at 25% after 4 days since last recharge). My use case is roughly: - About half an hour of screen on per day, mostly web browsing - About 2h of audio playback per day - About 3-4h on HSPA every day, on WiFi for the rest of the day - Several kinds of automatic syncing going on (for example all default Google services, Google Now enabled, automated podcast polling + downloads) Now, that might not be the heaviest workload in the world. But it's certainly realistic, and at least compared to any other Android phones I've used the battery life is nothing short of amazing.
sciwiz 13y ago
"The benchmarks are impressive considering its older architecture." Blame Qualcomm's idiotic naming scheme. They are calling this a Snapdragon S4Pro, same as what's in the year old Nexus4. In reality, it has the same Adreno 320 GPU as of the Galaxy S4 and the HTC one. Also the same Krait 300 CPUs of the S4 and HTC One, just 2 of them instead of the 4. www.anandtech.com/show/7197/a-quick-look-at-the-moto-x-motorolas-new-flagship

noarchy 13y ago

That's $200 on contract, an important distinction for some of us. But the battery life is definitely one of the killer features of this phone. If you want good specs, without paying a lot, there is the very nice Nexus 4 (likely due for a refresh soon), but that phone in its current incarnation certainly can't boast great battery life.

ChuckMcM 13y ago
I would say that the battery life is the killer feature. Everything else is sort of "nice, but on <X> they have ..." For me that was refreshing to hear because when the first Android Phone came out (the G1), battery life was so poor that it made the phone seem unusable (well you were afraid if you used it at all you wouldn't have charge in an hour or so).
jsnell 13y ago
I've seen people claim that the Nexus 4 has bad battery life, and just don't understand it. I charge my Nexus 4 roughly every other day. And not because it runs out of charge at that point, but because I don't like to have the battery go much under about 40% or so. In my normal usage, the battery would easily last at least 3 days. (I've got a screenshot of the battery being at 25% after 4 days since last recharge). My use case is roughly: - About half an hour of screen on per day, mostly web browsing - About 2h of audio playback per day - About 3-4h on HSPA every day, on WiFi for the rest of the day - Several kinds of automatic syncing going on (for example all default Google services, Google Now enabled, automated podcast polling + downloads) Now, that might not be the heaviest workload in the world. But it's certainly realistic, and at least compared to any other Android phones I've used the battery life is nothing short of amazing.

sciwiz 13y ago

"The benchmarks are impressive considering its older architecture." Blame Qualcomm's idiotic naming scheme. They are calling this a Snapdragon S4Pro, same as what's in the year old Nexus4. In reality, it has the same Adreno 320 GPU as of the Galaxy S4 and the HTC one. Also the same Krait 300 CPUs of the S4 and HTC One, just 2 of them instead of the 4. www.anandtech.com/show/7197/a-quick-look-at-the-moto-x-motorolas-new-flagship