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Motorola Makes The Moto G Official, A “Premium” Phone Starting At $179 Unlocked

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Re: Motorola Makes The Moto G Official, A “Premium” Phone Starting At $179 Unlocked

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Post by bencoder »

InclinedPlane wrote: post #29
tsunamifury wrote: post #5

A competitive globally accessible phone price would be $50, not $200. This feels more like a cheap 1st world phone than a global one. ZTE and other have already made 50 dollar phones using Android and Windows + Asha won't be far behind at $60. Motorola has a long ways to go (4x price reduction) to truly get their android devices into India, China And other poorer regions of South America and Africa.

The Moto G is a very high quality phone for only $200. The $50 phones out there are extremely low quality in comparison. However, you're ignoring a key factor, over time manufacturing efficiencies will bring the cost of the Moto G down, while the quality remains the same. In a year or 2 it will still be a good phone, in 5 years it will still be a decent phone at the low end of the market. But by then the cost could b…

> in 5 years it will still be a decent phone at the low end of the market

The original iPhone which started this market was only released 6 years ago. 5 years ago the flagship phone for android was the HTC Dream/T-mobile G1. That was top-end at the time and no way could it be considered "still a decent phone at the low-end" today. I think you're underestimating progress in this industry

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Post by kayoone »

wisty wrote: post #105
vshade wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But the iPhone 5s has a much more capable CPU, you can't compare both based purely on clock speeds. Each Cortex-A7 should be slower clock for clock than an Cortex-A9, so it should put the single threaded CPU performance between the iphone 4s and the iPhone 5, although it can maybe outperfom an iphone 5 in highly threaded tasks.

Apple still sells the 4s, which has half the RAM and a slower CPU. And I wouldn't call the 4s a low-end phone. Basically, the days when a <$200 Android was painful to use (click, wait for the UI to figure out what you just did) are past.

i just recently tried an Android device with a 1Ghz Dual Core, 800x480 4inch screen and Android 4.1 and it was quite painful to use. Not very responsive, scrolling lagged on the browser or content heavy apps like facebook/instagram to the point that it was really annoying. Seems to be more of an Android problem though, as a similarly priced and specced Windows Phone didn't have these problems.

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Post by BillyMaize »

TylerE wrote: post #86
kenrikm wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Specs lie. The HTC One does have a super high-res screen though! http://www.macworld.com/article/2049270/benchmarks-iphone-5s...

That's literally Apples and oranges.

>That's literally Apples and oranges.

Yes literally, my orange phone rings off the hook cause I'm so popular.

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Post by ismail »

wlesieutre wrote: post #80
ismail wrote: post #64

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LTE is available in Africa. look into the mobile industry in Africa in some ways we have leap frogged . theres an entire generation of tweens whos access to the net is via mobile. I Will never forget my visit to canada in 2009. I get there, purcuase a prepaid sim card, and data does not work. go back to the store, and I am told you have to have a contract for data. wtf? LTE/3g all cost the same here both on prepaid a…

Did you mean to reply to tsunamifury?

Yep. Damn mobile client. Anyone got a good recommendation for android HN client?

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Post by alandarev »

TylerE wrote: post #54
cs702 wrote: post #33

This phone looks like a game changer to me, because it has the specs of a high-end smartphone but is priced like a crappy low-end one. The cost of an unlocked unit is $300 to $600 LESS than that of other devices with comparable specs, so mobile carriers should be able to offer the Moto G to the masses for hundreds of dollars less than any iPhone or high-end Android device by Samsung, LG, etc. Mobile carriers could of…

If this is high-end what is the HTC One I bought 6 months ago?

Of course ultra-high-end!

Re: Motorola Makes The Moto G Official, A “Premium” Phone Starting At $179 Unlocked

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Post by ansible »

TheLegace wrote: post #84
ansible wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was in the market for a phone at that time. Google then dropped the price of the Nexus 4 to $200 (8GB storage) and $250 (16GB). That was way too good a deal for me to pass up.

It was kind of unfortunate since just 2 weeks before the price drop I had paid about $350 for the Nexus 4. Well that's life I guess.

So you just missed the cutoff for the refund? That's a bummer.

I could maybe have held off and gotten a Nexus 5, but it wasn't clear how much it was going to sell for, or exactly when. I had previously tried out a N4, and found it acceptable (other than the lack of a physical keyboard), so I just went for it. No regrets.

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