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Never used Motorola Android phone but I'm thinking about buying this one somewhere soon. Does Motorola have a practice of "customizing" stock Android OS? If yes
by levosmetalo 13y ago
Never used Motorola Android phone but I'm thinking about buying this one somewhere soon. Does Motorola have a practice of "customizing" stock Android OS? If yes, I guess the only options would be rooting or using some of the Nexus devices, which are honestly too expensive for what they offer. Is it a good phone if all I need is more or less stock KitKat that I can use both for development and as a daily phone.
- patrickaljord 13y agoMotoG is basically stock Android and it's actively updated (kitkat already).
- dave809 13y agoit's got motorola assist, which is pretty cool
- spindritf 13y agoDoes it do anything useful? It wants access to my contact list for some reason which makes me uneasy.
- benjohnson 13y agoIt uses your address list to figure out if someone is allowed to wake you at night with a phone call: You set a time when you like to sleep, and if someone is 'stared' in your address list, it will ring. Otherwise their call will go to voice mail. There's a handy setting that will allow people who call twice in five minutes to ring you in your sleep.
- w1ntermute 13y agoThe changes that Motorola have made are mostly positive (such as the always-on voice recognition and Active Notifications feature). However, it's not hard to remove them.
- teekert 13y agoalways-on voice recognition is only on the moto X
- w1ntermute 13y agoI'm aware. My point is that Motorola's modifications to stock Android tend to be positive.
- blinkingled 13y agoNothing on the G is customized the way Samsung does or Motorola in the old day did. Motorola added some useful features but they provide them as Play Store apps. The G is essentially stock Android 4.4.2. (The comment below referring to voice recognition isn't about the G. It's the X that supports always on hands free voice recognition.)