Battery life alone makes this best phone on the market at the moment.
Moto X review
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#12What sensors does it have? There doesn't seem to be a list anywhere on the spec sheets from Motorola. I'm especially curious if it has a barometer - does anyone know?
I'm curious why you're curious about a barometer?
For me it was a must have feature of my new phone because I wanted to use the BASELine flight computer app while skydiving.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.platypii.b...
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#13I cannot comprehend why they did not put this through the Nexus branding (of course with slightly adjusted specs and price). Instead of having one true Google line-up they segment even further away with this purified Google-ish Motorola phone, the Nexus line-up and already existing phones of other brands with stock Android (Google Play editions?). Where is this heading?
They made a very public guarantee to their other partners that Moto would have to wait in line for their turn as Nexus maker. I think there was some cryptic non-replies which indicated that the next flagship Moto after this might/will be a Nexus product.
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#14I find it odd that they are pushing the, assembled with you, aspect but only one US carrier actually supports this feature (at this time).
Maybe I'm confused, but isn't this just a stylized cover plate? Similar to what is on offer at all the kiosks at various malls?
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#15I cannot comprehend why they did not put this through the Nexus branding (of course with slightly adjusted specs and price). Instead of having one true Google line-up they segment even further away with this purified Google-ish Motorola phone, the Nexus line-up and already existing phones of other brands with stock Android (Google Play editions?). Where is this heading?
It's a great question. I asked a friend who works at Google the very same thing yesterday and sadly got a very non-answer answer - either because he didn't know, he didn't want to say, or because Google is having a case of the corporates.
Something about internal corporate structure, compliance issues having to do with the Motorola acquisition, objectivity when it comes to Android competitiveness, how the Android group has to treat Motorola just like every other Android phone vendor and can't give them special treatment, something about contracts with HTC, etc. etc. etc. I felt more confused than before I asked.
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#16What sensors does it have? There doesn't seem to be a list anywhere on the spec sheets from Motorola. I'm especially curious if it has a barometer - does anyone know?
Just out of curiosity, what's your use case for the barometer? How accurate is a typical smartphone barometer?
I have an S3 and did my first testing of the barometer while skydiving on the weekend. I was happily surprised by how accurate it was. I'm not about to stop using a wrist mounted altimeter and rely on this alone, but being able to use my phone as an audible altimeter and not handing over $300 for a "real" audible alti makes sense to me.
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#17when you think; for $199 you can buy a HTC one and flash an AOSP ROM vs pay the same for MotoX. I would go with HTC One every time.
I agreed with you at first, the day they announced the Moto X. But now all the head-to-head comparisons are showing the X to perform either on-par with, or better than, the HTC One. Plus the X is a smaller form factor for the same physical screen size (since it doesn't have the two front-facing speakers of the One which I don't need). And it supposedly has better battery life, likely in part due to having less pixels to power (which again I don't need) and two less cores (which I obviously don't need if it performs the same or better for all practical usage). In short, I'm now leaning back toward the Moto X developer edition, which will have an unlockable bootloader.
EDIT: I should mention, the benchmarks I'm referring to are these:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmO5LeWUEeM&feature=youtube_...
http://www.laptopmag.com/reviews/smartphones/motorola-moto-x...
And I swear I saw one with Sunspider et. al. benchmarks that more or less contradicted the benchmarks in this article.
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#18What sensors does it have? There doesn't seem to be a list anywhere on the spec sheets from Motorola. I'm especially curious if it has a barometer - does anyone know?
Just out of curiosity, what's your use case for the barometer? How accurate is a typical smartphone barometer?
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#20I cannot comprehend why they did not put this through the Nexus branding (of course with slightly adjusted specs and price). Instead of having one true Google line-up they segment even further away with this purified Google-ish Motorola phone, the Nexus line-up and already existing phones of other brands with stock Android (Google Play editions?). Where is this heading?
"Where is this heading?" ... "Instead, it comes with an almost pure version of Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean."
I think the color shells is misdirection, it's a way to get the Moto resellers on the (almost) pure stuff.