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Google’s $179 Moto G puts every single cheap Android phone to shame

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Re: Google’s $179 Moto G puts every single cheap Android phone to shame

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Post by localuser »

quaffapint wrote: post #23
localuser wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I bought 3 moto g's and on the day they arrived switched the entire family to tmobile. I had enough of Verizon and now my bill is $100 a month. Can't beat that.

I would like to leave VZ too, but I'm simply too afraid that the coverage will not be there on tmobile and at&t - and especially I need to consider the WAF.

I understand. Coverage was what kept me on VZ for 10 years. What finally got to me was the fact that when I'm overseas I can just swap a sim and T-mobile's coverage has been improving exponentially.

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Post by aroch »

justin66 wrote: post #11
naner wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Moto X and Google's own Nexus series appear to be pretty high end. I don't think this is their plan at all.

Motorola doesn't manufacture the Nexus phones.

The poster doesn't imply that it does...

Re: Google’s $179 Moto G puts every single cheap Android phone to shame

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Post by linux_devil »

aseembehl wrote: post #25
linux_devil wrote: post #22

Right move to target market in India and China , its way affordable than Iphone 5C and comes with the brand name too.

Unfair to compare Iphone 5c with Moto G. Iphone 5c vs Moto X is a more meaningful comparison.

Comparing only with respect to price and only with respect to articles which referred Iphone 5c is targeting Asian markets especially India and China.

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Post by TrainedMonkey »

sushidev wrote: post #29

I've got good recommendations on Lenovo A820 ( http://www.gsmarena.com/lenovo_a820-5462.php ) which has about the same price but a little lower. What would you buy? A Moto G or a Lenovo A820?

It looks like Moto G has slightly better screen, newer OS, and better integration with Google services, while A820 has micro sd slot and better camera. If none of that is critical for you - I would say get a feel for both of them and go with one you like better. There is nothing fundamentally better about specs on either phone.

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Post by hbharadwaj »

linux_devil wrote: post #22

Right move to target market in India and China , its way affordable than Iphone 5C and comes with the brand name too.

Not yet. They need to beat Lumia 520's price. Agreed, the specs are higher but most people in that space don't care.

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Post by 001sky »

Is Moto-G now good enough to replace an iPod touch? for a no-contract 'smartphone' that doesn't need to be up on 4g all of the time (say w/good wi-fi acesss)? Because it sure seems like a better deal in terms of functionality. The main limitation/constraint IMHO is the memory [8 or 16 GB NAND flash], which seems arbitrarily low. (ie, >5 years out of date).

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Post by blinkingled »

001sky wrote: post #36

Is Moto-G now good enough to replace an iPod touch? for a no-contract 'smartphone' that doesn't need to be up on 4g all of the time (say w/good wi-fi acesss)? Because it sure seems like a better deal in terms of functionality. The main limitation/constraint IMHO is the memory [8 or 16 GB NAND flash], which seems arbitrarily low. (ie, >5 years out of date).

Yeah barring the storage part - it is definitely a great iPod Touch replacement. You might be able to live with the 16GB if you stream stuff instead of playing it locally. There are many media player apps (Archos one that I use is great - even the free version) that can play videos from SMB shares etc.

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Post by kombine »

My Lenovo P780 was only $80 more expensive, but its battery has the highest capacity on the market, 4000 mAh. The phone holds the charge for >2 days of quite intensive use. I had Samsung Galaxy Note before this one, but now don't understand why anyone would choose top end phones from the brands like Samsung or Apple, if half of the cost of a phone goes to profit their shareholders.

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Post by CJefferson »

pedrocr wrote: post #4

>It's tempting to think of the Moto G as some kind of "Nexus Jr.," a cheaper way to buy into the clean UI and quick software updates that Google's reference phones have always received. However, Google is making no promises about versions of Android beyond version 4.4, and speculating about whether Android 4.5 or 5.0 or whatever will roll out to the Moto phones as quickly as KitKat is a pointless exercise. Again shoo…

Guessing (possibly incorrectly), one reason they might not want to promise upgrades is in case the hardware simply can't handle it.

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Post by derekp7 »

winterswift wrote: post #21
alexmat wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Anecdotal point, but my Mom is much happier to get an update with a new phone than to have an old phone updated.

I kind of wonder if that's because a lot of updates are rolled out poorly to older devices. On my previous two phones, I've ended up running CyanogenMod or another third-party ROM, even at the same base Android version at the stock OTA updates, because many times even the RC versions run better than what's getting pushed by the carrier. Verizon customer here though, so I don't know if other networks are better about…

Part of it is just change. One day, I needed to pull up the map on my Nexus phone -- and it had a completely different interface to it. I had to sit in a parking lot for an extra 15 minutes to get it to do what I wanted.

Now I've got KitKat, and the phone dialer has changed -- I have to hit an extra button to get all my contacts, and I don't like the "premium" spots being automatically populated (there are only 3 large icons, and room for two smaller icons, in the quick-access screen). The most important contact is the one I need right then.

Oh, and I also have to re-agree to the license terms on a number of apps whenever I launch them the first time after an upgrade. And my tethering is no longer working. And the flashlight app that worked fine is now rebooting the phone randomly after it is on for a few seconds. At this point, I'm ready to wipe and re-install the older OS version.

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