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Joshua Topolsky's review on the Verge [http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/5/4588922/moto-x-review http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/5/4588922/moto-x-review] seems to c
by magic_haze 13y ago
Joshua Topolsky's review on the Verge [http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/5/4588922/moto-x-review http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/5/4588922/moto-x-review] seems to contradict the battery life claim:
> "Motorola could have built a monster of longevity like the RAZR Maxx — and it should have — but it didn’t. It definitely gets a full day of use: I used it heavily for 15 hours before it died, and if you use it like most people use their phones, you won’t need to charge it during the day. It lasted for 7 hours, 14 minutes on the Verge Battery Test, which loads popular websites and high-res images with brightness at 65 percent; that’s a very good score, far better than the HTC One and the GS4, but well below class leaders like the Maxx or the Galaxy Note II."
But personally, the biggest deal-breaker is this:
> "But there’s a catch. The touchless controls are rendered nearly useless if you have any kind of security lock on your phone. You can still use it to make calls, but everything else requires that you unlock your phone, which requires that you pick it up and interact with it… meaning you just defeated the whole idea of "touchless controls."
That said, I'm very curious about the sensors they've included, and can't wait for Anandtech's breakdown.
- sciwiz 13y agoSupposedly, in the near future Motorola will release NFC tags and also an update to set a trusted device's (your car or your headphones) bluetooth connection as authentication mechanism to override the lockscreen.
- beaumartinez 13y ago> The touchless controls are rendered nearly useless if you have any kind of security lock on your phone. Being able to swipe up to launch Google Now on my Nexus 4 from the lock screen is the reason I gave up on passcodes. If I go out clubbing or something I do activate it, but in day-to-day life I find passcodes are more of a hindrance than anything else.
- mtgx 13y agoYou could at least use Face unlock, no? Still better than nothing. On the same line of thinking, they already have a pretty good technology that recognizes your voice. So why not have that be the built-in security lock, too? So if anyone else tries to unlock it in any way (either voice or touch), they can't. It doesn't seem like the technology is perfect yet, but it's still better than nothing.
- mtgx 13y agoI don't think Josh contradicted him, just that he might be an even heavier user than Engadget's author. Plus, Motorola never said 24h of heavy usage. They said 24 of mixed usage. The battery life seems better than average, either way, and it probably does last 24h or longer for most people. The 7h test is obviously a stress test using the CPU, screen and Wi-Fi all the time until the battery is drained..
- bluthru 13y agoWould it be possible to have voice verification when saying "Ok Google Now"?
- Shooti 13y agoNot necessarily, the Moto X seems to have a feature called "Trusted Devices" which gets gets past security when in range of aBluetooth device you've opted in with: http://i.imgur.com/EPKauya.png http://i.imgur.com/EPKauya.png Looks like Topolsky missed this.