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The New Moto G
- lnanek2 12y agoSearched the entire page and saw no mention of LTE, so I assume it doesn't have it. The price is actually high for a non-LTE smartphone in my opinion.
- telecuda 12y agoI've been using the Moto G on T-Mobile for roughly 1 month and have nothing but great things to say about it. Fast, no bloatware, screen is brilliant, right size, available on all carriers (I believe). Best sub-$200 phone I've come across that feels state of the art.
- bvvv 12y ago> Best sub-$200 phone I've come across that feels state of the art. Coolpad 7320 (bought for $139!, 5.5'') and Coolpad F1 (5'') are better for me. - Faster - Much better camera - Dual sim. Very important for me because I can use free unlimited internet on secondary card. - MicroSD - Bigger screen space - no Android buttons bar on bottom. - Same high quality. Coolpad is 6th biggest smartphone manufacturer in the world. I compared my Coolpad 7320 with real (hands on) Samsung Galaxy Note 3 and it's quite similar. (edited post a bit)
- telecuda 12y agoI could be wrong, but Coolpad looks large (like a Note) whereas Moto G is small and easy to operate with one hand - which I prefer. Also, when I Google Coolpad 7320 my purchase options are eBay or AliExpress - and that's fine for many people, but I like to recommend a phone to a customer that they can walk into a retail store or Amazon and get easily. There's something to be said for that.
- briandh 12y agoAnyone who downvoted bvvv want to say why? I probably would buy a Moto G over a Coolpad model personally, but his/her comment is topical, polite, and provides justification.
- Kayou 12y agoMaybe because the original post mentioned "right size" (so 4.5") and the smallest Coolpad is 5". Also, I wouldn't consider importing a chinese phone and buying a phone from Amazon or a physical store to be comparable. Good luck with your warranty on you chinese import, good luck with the roms to get a translation, etc... Maybe down-voters thought the same. Not the same category. If you go to the chinese import way, then there are many, many phones comparable to this "Coolpad".
- mahyarm 12y agoHow about android OS updates and unlockable bootloaders?
- bvvv 12y agoCoolpad F1 has KitKat update. Coolpad 7320 is still on 4.2.2. Bootloader is fine, to install custom ROM just press volume up and power and select .zip from SD card.
- BHSPitMonkey 12y agoThe new Moto G has MicroSD, too.
- n0body 12y agoI hope you're right because I just ordered one based off what you said :)
- bvvv 12y agoCool. I don't think you can be disappointed. It works great. Screen, battery, wifi, GPS, and 3G signals are good. No crashes. PS. 1. Speaker volume can be increased with MTKTools. 2. Root with latest version of Chinese VRoot (not english version). 3. USB disk doesn't show up in Windows for me, instead I use Total Commander with ADB plugin. 4. New Coolpad F2 will be better, with very fast MT6595.
- foobarqux 12y agoWhere is the best place to get deals on these phones?
- foobarqux 12y agoWhere is the best place to get deals on these phones?
- foobarqux 12y agoHow does this phone compare to other primarily Asian market phones like the Xiaomi Redmi?
- someperson 12y ago7 hour old account, his only post is this one, advertising a phone. Very likely a astroturfer working for Coolpad (not too say that the phone isn't better or worse than Moto G).
- bluedino 12y agoHow much usable space is there on the 16GB model? I'd pay an extra $49-99 for 32GB
- sliverstorm 12y agoMy 8GB has 5.52GB total space in the Storage menu. Make of that what you will.
- soperj 12y agoIt supports sd cards, so you'd have to pay significantly less than that.
- zanny 12y agoYou can get a 256GB MX100 ssd for $105. Those prices for mobile storage space is ridiculous.
- rtcoms 12y agoMy last Year Moto G model had around 13.2 GB available space
- cujo 12y agoI must say, that is an exceptional price for this phone.
- ibisum 12y agoUnless you don't live in America, in which case you can't purchase it.
- josephg 12y agoYou've been able to buy an unlocked Moto G on amazon since not long after it came out. I assume the same will be true of its replacement. You can buy it with either the US or worldwide GSM frequencies.
- briandh 12y agoThat's not true. It's being sold in Brazil [1] and if it's anything like previous the previous generation, probably a lot of other countries, too. [1] http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/09/04/the-new-moto-g-leaks-on-video-ahead-of-official-announcement/ http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/09/04/the-new-moto-g-leaks...
- petervandijck 12y agoBeing sold in Colombia too, lots of people have them.
- plinkplonk 12y agoyou can buy it in India. http://www.flipkart.com/motorola/newmotog http://www.flipkart.com/motorola/newmotog
- moondowner 12y agoIn some countries it's available, e.g. Switzerland https://www.digitec.ch/en/s1/brand/motorola-330 https://www.digitec.ch/en/s1/brand/motorola-330
- gagege 12y agoDescriptional noun. Exceptional price. repeat 10x
- velocitypsycho 12y agoIs it only 3g?
- corford 12y agoNot sure but I guess they will release a 4G one if it isn't. I bought a Moto G 4G last month here in the UK and it's fantastic, really happy with it.
- maxsilver 12y agoYes, this variant is, according to the various articles online. (max speed over HSPA+, or "4G not-LTE" for AT&T / T-Mobile users) I'm guessing a LTE variant is in the works, since last years Moto G got an LTE variant.
- jesuslop 12y agoThe LTE variant is shipping from Amazon also including a microSD socket.
- kevin_thibedeau 12y agoThe existing LTE version is now strangely listed as the "Gen 1" on the Motorola site.
- rb2k_ 12y agoBecause it's not obvious: "Availability: Pre-Order" I've been trying to see if it supports LTE or HSDPA, but I can't see it on their specs page...
- The_Sponge 12y agoGSM arena claims hsdpa. Considering it's the same chipset as the 1st gen means it's probably whatever the 1st gen was, ie no lte
- utefan001 12y agoI am very happy with my Moto G on PTEL. I don't know why PTEL isn't more popular. The coverage as far as I know is the same as t-mobile. Not the best, but it works for my location.
- briandh 12y agoHonest question: why would I want to use ptel? Glancing at them real quick, they're a T-Mobile MVNO and their mid-range unlimited plan is $50/month with 2GB of high-speed data. Straight Talk, which is usually on T-Mobile but depending on device and region also uses the other three major carriers, is $45 for an unlimited plan with 3GB of high-speed data. And MetroPCS, owned by T-Mobile, is also $50/month for a mid-range plan, but with 3GB of high-speed data. Unless it has better roaming priority, I don't see what it brings to the table (maybe pay-as-you-go is a different story, though, if that's what you're interested in).
- maxsilver 12y ago> I don't know why PTEL isn't more popular. Potentially because T-Mobile direct offers the same plan for $5 cheaper than PTEL does. (TMO Simple Starter 2GB at $45/month vs PTEL 2GB 'Unlimited' for $50/month). T-Mobile also has lots of advertising and lots of physical stores, which probably helps a bit.
- greenwalls 12y agoPure Android is so much nicer.
- ZenoArrow 12y agoLooks like Motorola have got the right approach to Android, a balanced device at a great price coupled with Android OS in its standard form. I may even be tempted to get this instead of a new Nexus.
- mpclark 12y agoThe first Moto G had no NFC though. Don't know if this one does yet. But NFC will very soon be a 'must have' feature.
- timdierks 12y agoNFC has 'must have' next year for the last 5+ years.
- natrius 12y agoPeople have been saying that NFC will take off any day now for years. I've used Google Wallet with NFC. It's worse than handing over my credit card.
- mpclark 12y agoThis coming Tuesday has a strong chance of being the day :)
- privong 12y ago> The first Moto G had no NFC though. Don't know if this one does yet. But NFC will very soon be a 'must have' feature. I used NFC some on my Galaxy S3, and when I was buying the Moto G, I was a bit hesitant about going to a phone without NFC. But I have not once missed not having NFC. NFC has interesting prospects, but I have yet to see a real "must have" use for it.
- dkhenry 12y agoWhile I am not thrilled about the bump in screen size. The Moto-G has been the best phone I have owned so far from a total ownership experience. No Contract, Decent Specs and Multi-Day Battery Life.
- drfritznunkie 12y agoDitto. Small(er) phones are getting harder and harder to find. If I could find a phone the same size as my Sony Xperia Ray with upgraded guts, I'd be ecstatic. Even so the G has been great for me as well. I hope the new one has a better camera, that's really the Achilles heel of v1.
- commandar 12y agoIt's bigger than the Ray, but check out the recently announced Xperia Z3C. Looking like it should be a really solid phone.
- to3m 12y agoWell, smaller is definitely relative ;) - I think the Moto G is still a bit large (maybe an inch or so too tall?). But it's definitely one of the better ones of a bad bunch. (And I agree that it's an excellent phone overall, which feels a lot classier than its price tag, and that the camera is... functional.) (It's strange, but bigger-is-better really seemed to have permeated the Android market. Whatever happpened to the opposite mindset, the one that gave us stuff like the Nokia 8210? The size of friends' iPhones - particularly the 4s - had really seemed just right, and I was rather disappointed when shopping for an Android equivalent to find they were all anywhere from large to hulking enormous by comparison. Even the so-called "Mini" ones were no better, being generally only the tiniest bit smaller than their non-Mini siblings.)
- grakic 12y agoCheckout http://legacyxperia.github.io http://legacyxperia.github.io for CM11 build for Xperia Ray. It will not get you better CPU or more RAM but new software feels better.
- rdtsc 12y agoI really like my Moto G. It was the first smartphone that was nice enough, had a clean default Android UI, had enough battery life, cheap enough if I sit on it and it breaks, I won't be too upset over hardware cost.
- imaginenore 12y agoIt won't break if you sit on it. Car driving over Moto G: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzI-Cd3SYVE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzI-Cd3SYVE 30 minutes under water: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVaTKG5q4YI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVaTKG5q4YI Under water and scratch test: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-wzY4v1a0c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-wzY4v1a0c
- lukasm 12y agoThey forget to say this is exceptional price for this phone.
- chdir 12y agoLots of people loved Moto G as a secondary/travel phone. But for me, it's my primary phone now, even though I consider myself an early adopter of cutting edge technology. Where I live, there are no carrier subsidies. This new trend of having a wonderful sub $200 phone is pretty neat. I don't need games, just a decent smartphone with calendar, email and a handful of other utilities. The recent evolutions in smartphone are pretty banal. Other than the sub-par camera (low frame rate & grainy), Moto G (first version) is an amazing phone. It has great battery life, perfect screen size (for me), it's snappy, no bloatware. I'm not scared of dropping/losing it as much as I would with an iPhone.
- privong 12y agoI second this. It is my only phone, and aside from the camera, it is a great phone at an awesome price. There has been a lot of discussion of screen size in the Moto X thread [0], and I tend to agree that the old Moto G's screen size was great. I previously had a Galaxy S3 and did not mind the larger screen, but after switching to the smaller Moto G screen, I much prefer the 4.5". It is still big enough, but the battery life is far better. My cursory checking of the battery stats for both phones showed that generally the screen use was the driving factor in battery life, so I was happy to make the tradeoff to a smaller screen in exchange for a longer-lasting charge. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8272745 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8272745
- laikaa 12y agoI honestly don't notice anything wrong with a 720p screen at that size. Sure it may not be retina, but I don't care as long as my battery lasts all day (it does and into the next day). Being able to pass out at a strange house and not have to worry about my cellphone in the morning is freeing.
- throwawaydjasda 12y agoIt is retina as in at-least-pixel-per-arcsec.
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- guelo 12y agoIt's baffling that Google sold off Motorola right when they finally have a pipeline of really nice competitive devices coming out. I wonder if it was competitive worries from Samsung that got them to sell.
- enjo 12y agoI always figured that they just didn't really want to be in that business. It creates a conflict with the other phone manufacturers as well. From Google's point of view having a robust Android ecosystem is more important than building phones.
- briandh 12y agoShareholders didn't like them being in the lower-margin hardware business; other Android OEMs didn't like having them as a competitor. And all the "analysts" (for whatever their words are worth) are saying that even Samsung is/will be feeling the heat from Chinese handset makers -- such as Huawei, ZTE, Xiaomi, Coolpad and, not coincidentally, Lenovo.
- noir_lord 12y agoI think in part they achieved what they want to which was to accelerate what was available at the $200 price point. The other manufacturers while not a cartel where in no hurry to reduces pricess and the stuff available at point was horrible shit like the Orange San Francisco.
- Zigurd 12y agoBuying Moto was the biggest, costliest mistake Google ever made. Spend a lot. Annoy OEM partners. ???? Profit? These are nice devices, but so are Nexus, Google Play Edition, and Android One devices. Google does not lack for GTM routes for crapware-free, low-cost Androids.
- nkozyra 12y agoI'm not sure how you could make an evaluation like this without knowing the scope of the patents they kept, which by all accounts was the reason for the acquisition in the first place.
- fourstar 12y agoThe Android ecosystem is so fragmented. I've had an Android phone since the Nexus One (in which I RMA'd 3 of them in the span of a year). Here I am on a Nexus 4 and it's had its fair share of problems. Namely random restarts, freezing, volume buttons non responsive, etc. The battery life pales in comparison to all my friends with iPhones, so I'm really excited to be switching to the iPhone for the first time. I don't need to hack my phone which I feel like is what everyone always sells Android as e.g. "It's so customizable", "can you do X on an iPhone?". I want to make phone calls. And use maps. I heavily use Google Voice, but from what I hear, it's being rendered obsolete in favor of hangouts (which I'm very opposed to).
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- bane 12y agoIs anybody else impressed that this is basically better in technical specifications to the netbooks of yor, in the size of a phone, for <$180 off contract? Yeah I know hardware always keeps getting better and cheaper, but still when you stand back for a second, and think about it, it's kind of wow. I guess the innovation here is making a decent device that's cheap, but the fact that it's cheap and small and has good specs and battery life? Wowzers. Yet, I almost wish these devices did a little bit more to work in non-handheld modes. I'd be happy to ditch my laptop for most things if I could get better interface access to the hardware in a modern smartphone, even if the interface wasn't optimal, an impromptu computing environment at a coffee shop would be pretty nice. Hell, I just got a Note 3, and it's just about as powerful as the desktop I replaced at the end of last year. I'd wager it's too powerful for most of the mobile junk I do with it. Plopping it down on a table next to my coffee and just turning it onto "computer" mode would be pretty amazing. Something like what's outlined here with pico projectors. https://pdf.yt/d/J5nSHPu5dzdpWwvn https://pdf.yt/d/J5nSHPu5dzdpWwvn Another issue is that, when phone shopping, it's hard enough to tell what are the newer devices vs what are the models on the way out (and on the way out of being supported). $180 is just about at the price of phones that are on the way out vs. ~$300 for phones that are current models. It won't matter to many people, but unless the phone sales guy tells you, or you're up to date on current phone releases, you might give this a pass.
- sp332 12y agoWhat kind of "computing environment" do you want that a phone doesn't have? Just a bigger screen?
- Touche 12y agoShell access by default. A complete unix toolset. Some type of init system I can hook into to run daemons. Logically separated layers. Not "you don't like the display server... well you have to re-implement everything from scratch yourself". You know, normal computer things.
- bane 12y agoI'd actually be pretty happy if it just projected a reasonable-to-use keyboard on the table. I could work off the screen on a Note, it's big enough and high resolution enough for lots of work. edit I'm thinking basically of this use-case, but with the projector in the phone. http://www.brookstone.com/laser-projection-virtual-keyboard http://www.brookstone.com/laser-projection-virtual-keyboard edit apparently this is as close as is available (almost) http://www.ctxtechnologies.com/products/vk300-iphone-docking-virtual-keyboard/ http://www.ctxtechnologies.com/products/vk300-iphone-docking...
- higherpurpose 12y agoI really wish it had the new Cortex A53-based Snapdragon 410, instead of the exact same Cortex A7 chip as last year. For me that was a deal-breaker.
- bluedino 12y agoI would really love to go with a $199 off-contract phone and switch to Straight Talk. Sprint MVNO's are terrible where I live. Then again I'd only be saving $50/month...
- bob_loblaw 12y agoBest Sprint MVNO is Ting. You, essentially, pay for what you use. My bill averages about $20 a month. There are some limitations on which phones you can use. Most Android flagship phones are available at launch. For things like the iPhone, Sprint has to give permission for Ting to activate them. The general rule is that once it has been a year since the phone came out on the Sprint network, you can take the used device to Sprint. Here is their latest update about upcoming devices: https://ting.com/blog/device-update-didja-miss-us-2/ https://ting.com/blog/device-update-didja-miss-us-2/ They even have a signup for notifications when the iPhone 5S/C is available. https://ting.com/blog/be-the-first-to-know/ https://ting.com/blog/be-the-first-to-know/
- ISL 12y agoMore love for Ting here. Just works, inexpensive, used phone from Glyde remains very satisfactory.
- bryanlarsen 12y agoDoes anybody know whether this an AMOLED or IPS LCD screen? The Verge and a couple of other sites say AMOLED, and other places say IPS LCD.
- praetorian84 12y agoI saw a motorola support replied to someone on Twitter to say it's "TFT LCD". I was pleasantly surprised when I saw the verge describe it as AMOLED, but I think they have it wrong.
- mosselman 12y agoI love it. Very valuable addition to the market. Apparently it IS possible to deliver a much more honest value.
- findjashua 12y agoIf you use your smartphone to mostly browse the web, use google apps (gmail, hangouts, gmaps, youtube), and don't mind waiting 6-12 months for the hot new app to come to Android, the MotoG is a fantastic device. The LTE version is just $220, and I don't really see the point of paying 3x the price ($650) for an iPhone. Also, Firefox is the only mobile browser that allows extensions and it's only supported on Android, so you can install Adblock Edge and browse the mobile web free from any ads!!
- psbp 12y agoYep, I'm coming up on a contract renewal and I think I'm going to use it to resell the new iPhone and then buy the Moto G and the new iPad. I just don't use my phone enough to play games or mess around with apps.
- ssmoot 12y agoThat's an expensive way to finance your purchases. Your credit is your own business of course. But if it's just a random idea you had, you'll save a lot more money switching to pre-paid, and buying the hardware you want outright. Plus that'll give you flexibility you didn't have before (to switch carriers when/if you feel like it, without penalty).
- findjashua 12y ago+1. I'm very happy with TMobile's $30/mo prepaid plan. You get 5gb of data (LTE), unlimited texting, and 100 minutes of talktime. If 100 minutes is too low, you can get unlimited minutes with Skype for $9/mo ($6 for a skype number, $3 for the unlimited minutes).
- ews 12y agoJut something quick: do you mean the $30 plan? That's the one I use with 100 minutes, 5GB and unlimited texting.
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- jryan49 12y agoI love my Moto G. Just got it a few weeks ago on sale for 80 dollars. Hard to beat.
- admax88q 12y agoWhat's with the asterisk next to "With a guaranteed upgrade* " The footnotes on the page say: * Officially licensed College Cases by UnCommon. which makes no sense. It's annoyingly common when sites put asterisks on things but never actually include the footnotes it's supposed to refer to.
- derekp7 12y agoNot only that, there is this wonderful technology known as a hyper link. Why, in the name of all the heavens, doesn't anyone make that asterisk a link, instead of making you search for it? It drives me insane.
- JadeNB 12y agoBecause asterisks are meant to hide the fine print, not make it easily accessible?
- Pxtl 12y agoCanada website still says "Coming Soon!". Seriously, please just let me pay an extra pile of cash to ship across the border.
- throwawayMGWC 12y agoThose are some great specs for a very reasonable price. I actually think the midrange is the most interesting area for mobile phones these days, particularly as more impressive hardware trickles down into the lower models and we reach the end of rapid hardware increases. For around $200-300 (or 150-200GBP) you can pick up powerful phone that will do almost everything a flagship will. They are an even more interesting proposition outside of the US, where a greater number of people tend to buy phones off-contract and thus are more sensitive to the unsubsidised price. At the low end you have the Moto E and several of the Nokia Lumia devices at around the $100 price point, basically replacing the feature phone. I'd consider these over the cheap Android clones that may have better specs for the same price due to the build quality and software support. Then, at the lower-end of the mid-range, you have this just announced Moto G (2nd Gen), alongside the Lumia 730 and a few others in the $200 bracket. Such a price is perfect for people like my parents who just want a phone with respectable smartphone features, solid build quality and reliability. I think this really is the sweet spot where sales and growth will occur - are there any other quality phones in this price bracket? Going up to the higher side of the mid-range, you have the Nexus phones, the OnePlusOne, and the just announced Sony Z3 Compact and Lumia 830. Such phones will do pretty much everything more demanding customers are after in a smartphone, including myself. I imagine they will end up overshadowing the flagship phones, leaving them to just the tech-spec obsessed. Honestly, is there really any need for a $600 phone anymore?
- notastartup 12y agoFor me, battery life is key. I don't care for all the fancy gizmos, I just want a phone which I know will have enough juice for the entire day of use.
- praetorian84 12y agoAnybody know if this has a gyro sensor? The gsmarena page claims so, but I don't know how reliable that is as I don't see any mention of it elsewhere. I find it a little annoying when the manufacturer's web page has a dumbed-down version of the specs.
- state 12y agoThe phrase "exceptional price" appears five times on that page.
- anarchitect 12y agoI thought that was strange too.
- cmapes 12y agoThis is what the Amazon fire phone should have been. They would have sold millions. Kudos to Motorola for figuring it out.
- yzzxy 12y agoAmazon has no interest in selling cell phones, they want to surface their conglomerate services to consumers through cell phones. Fire COULDN'T have been this phone, it would just be an AmazonBasics style anonymous product to them.
- cmapes 12y agoWhat you're saying is in essence correct, but I don't think that their fire phone "3d gimic" (which added very much to unit cost) was necessary to achieve that outcome. I think it was detrimental. A phone with comparable specs to the Moto G could have achieved their real goal that you mentioned, with the effect of spreading sales opportunities to millions more people. Those millions more in phone sales would have caused many, many more added transactions to the Amazon machine, as I assume they intend with the Amazon Fire Phone.
- yzzxy 12y agoYes, the 3D gimmick is arguably a bad move (I don't know enough about consumer statistics to comment). But my point is the goal of Amazon is to sell media/software and everything about the phone is designed for that. The goal of Motorola is to sell phones, and to a lesser extent push the Android platform's market share(due to momentum from time under Google if nothing else). So the Motorola phone is going to have good cost/value, and the Amazon phone is going to have gimmick, gimmick, gimmick to surface more of their products and services to you.
- cmapes 12y agoAs a side note, Amazon has the Moto G for $159.99 w/o contract. That's pretty amazing to me and I'm honestly considering it even though I was holding out for an iPhone 6. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00GWR36F6 http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00GWR36F6
- jtheory 12y agoHmph. Never mind 2nd gen, Moto G of any kind is still "À venir bientôt" (coming soon) on the French version of their site. It's probably possible to buy a US phone and get it working here; but I know (vaguely) that US networks are different enough from the rest of the world that I don't want to make any quick assumption about that, and don't have the time to research it...
- dimitar 12y agoMine is a reexport from the UK and it worked in Italy and Bulgaria (dual sim was a big plus when traveling), so surely it must work just fine in the rest of the EU. The only thing is that I had to change the software keyboard to add Bulgarian, but I think most people change them anyway.
- ErikRogneby 12y agoSo what is it missing? NFC? GPS? compass? accelerator? The spec doesn't talk about any sensors other than the camera and mic.
- kcvv 12y agoIt has a GPS, Compass and Accelerometer, light and proximity sensor. No NFC or Gyro.
- mikeflynn 12y agoI can't seem to find absolute confirmation on this, so I'll ask here: Does the Moto G also have the always listening features or is that just available on the Moto X?
- dannyr 12y agoNo. Only Moto X has this feature.
- paul9290 12y agoOk EXPECTIONAL PRICE. Didn't anyone not see that?
- hell-banned1 12y agoOnly you.
- Eleutheria 12y agoMoto G and E are two great phones for the price. Android 4.4 and 1GB ram are more than enough to run everything you throw at it.
- Chiba-City 12y agoI absolutely love my Moto G with T-Mobile. I won't buy an "on contract" phone again. I have no need to upgrade, but this new one looks like a winner too. I've been turning friends and family onto the Moto G, saving them a ton of money and worry about broken phones. My computing device history goes way back to Commodore 64 and Apple IIc, I became a developer in the late 80's and today I am absolutely fascinated by relatively "disposable" < $200 phones, ChromeBooks and laptops. After decades of developing new software for the next great leap in hardware specs, we're entering an interesting new phase of software development for a new class of hardware targets. Good times!
- mrbill 12y agoI ordered one, even though I already have a Nexus 5 as a main phone, a spare Nexus 5 "just in case", a Moto G "just because", and a Moto E used as a music streamer. I sent one of the first-gen Gs to my mother as an upgrade from her iPhone 3GS. Will be great to use as a standalone music/media player on camping trips, etc, with the SD card support.
- neves 12y agoI love my 1st generation Moto G. It just has two problems: no SD card to put my music, and a terrible camera. The new version has a SD card. How the camera performs? It has 3 megapixels more.
- allegory 12y agoI just sold my older Moto G. Unfortunately I have to connect to Exchange and Android doesn't cut it at all in any way, shape or form for that task. Also it was buggy as hell. This could be an artifact of being Android though. So I bought a Winphone (Lumia 630). Actually quite pleased with the purchase. Everything just works and it's pretty fast. Few things that bugged me about the Moto G: 1. Battery life. Some days it was good, some days it was abysmal. I can't work out why. Google Play Services ate a lot of it though apparently. 2. Navigation under Google Maps craps out regularly and crashes, usually right at a road junction. Also it's useless to start a navigation session if you're on a G/E connection. You need an H/H+ for it to even consider working. That's bad as I drive out into the sticks regularly. 3. Chrome just refuses to load pages half the time and white screens. 4. Sometimes calls don't connect with audio. Nice phone but marred by bugs IMHO.
- porker 12y agoAny reason not to by an original Moto G (I presume prices are falling)? Stuck with an old version of Android I guess?
- otikik 12y ago1 inch too big for me.
- agumonkey 12y agoOf all possible changes, a larger screen is the one I wanted the least. Same SoC ... Is it a business error to keep producing the same model, sold at a lower price since parts cost less now ? An "old" Moto G + SD slot at 149$ would be awesome to me.
- judk 12y agoMaybe the next Moto E will be the old Moto G. The larger size probably helps fit he SD slot in.
- agumonkey 12y agoI forgot its existence. I don't believe the E will progress much otherwise it will eat the new G market.
- Kayou 12y agoJust get the old Moto G 4G (LTE), which has a micro SD slot then. But it costs something like 199$.
- yason 12y agoPower through your day with the all-day battery. Never worry about stopping to charge. I would buy a smartphone phone that's less impressive in performance but that would run for about a week. I would be happy to suspend all that "smart" functionality when the phone is idle but the system could run Android and thus give me a browser and Google Maps when I need them. I'm willing to burn energy while I'm explicitly using smart phone applications but I don't like the phone to drain itself out of juice in one day even if I only ever answered a couple of phonecalls on that day.
- thefatarrow 12y agoCheck the Greenify app, it could help you to achieve a such setup. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.oasisfeng.greenify https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.oasisfeng....
- cpursley 12y agoI've got a Moto G through Republic Wireless (http://republicwireless.com http://republicwireless.com). It's the stock android OS but with software making a hybrid phone where it makes calls over wifi if available and cell if not. Pretty tough to beat contract-free all you can eat minutes, text and data for $25 per month on a capable phone that is less than $200 cash. Blows my mind that people still pay $80+ per month for their smartphone plans.
- BrandonSmith 12y agoRepublic Wireless developer here. Thanks for joining the Republic.
- cpursley 12y agoAwesome. Another benefit was I was able to place US phone calls over WiFi while overseas with no extra charges.
- mdturnerphys 12y agoIt's a little disconcerting for me that Motorola doesn't provide the same level of detail on the specs for the new one [1] as they do on the old one [2]. I'm probably just being paranoid, but it makes me worry that the new one doesn't have some of the features (e.g. Gorilla Glass) that are listed for the old one. Has anyone seen more detailed specs anywhere? [1] http://www.motorola.com/us/Moto-G-%282nd-Gen.%29/moto-g-2nd-gen-pdp.html#specs-moto-g-titan http://www.motorola.com/us/Moto-G-%282nd-Gen.%29/moto-g-2nd-... [2] http://www.motorola.com/us/moto-g-pdp-1/Moto-G-%281st-Gen.%29/moto-g-pdp.html#moto-g-pdp-specifications http://www.motorola.com/us/moto-g-pdp-1/Moto-G-%281st-Gen.%2...
- mdturnerphys 12y agoLooks like the 2nd gen model doesn't have 4G [1]. [1] http://www.zdnet.com/motorola-moto-g-2nd-generation-first-take-bigger-and-better-but-still-affordable-7000033362/ http://www.zdnet.com/motorola-moto-g-2nd-generation-first-ta...
- judk 12y agoIt's basically the same phone tech set in a larger frame (same pixels, 10% longer screen) and SD slot, and the now standard gimmicky extra MP camera sensors without a lens quality to make it relevant. If they secretly cheaped out any components this time, that would burn their brand -- and the original Moto G was already "cheapest every component", so what could they downgrade?
- xorcist 12y agoI just wish more manufacturers would sell dual-SIM variants in the west. Apparently you could import the old Moto G with dual-SIM from India, but I am not at all sure that all the radio bands fit my operator etc. The support in Cyanogen for dual-SIM is also reportedly somewhere between bad and nonfunctional. I often carry three phones in my bag and it feels so wrong. I, and everyone like me, could surely pay a premium for this. But those products are kept to lower spec phones sold in Asia or India.