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It's not all bad out there, but as the lines between "writing" and "blogging a scoop to get page views" blurs further every day, it's nice to see some people still care about the writing itself.
I 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?
Battery life alone makes this best phone on the market at the moment.
I 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?
> "Motorola could have built a monster of longevity like the RAZR Maxx — and it should have — but it didn’t. It definitely gets a full day of use: I used it heavily for 15 hours before it died, and if you use it like most people use their phones, you won’t need to charge it during the day. It lasted for 7 hours, 14 minutes on the Verge Battery Test, which loads popular websites and high-res images with brightness at 65 percent; that’s a very good score, far better than the HTC One and the GS4, but well below class leaders like the Maxx or the Galaxy Note II."
But personally, the biggest deal-breaker is this:
> "But there’s a catch. The touchless controls are rendered nearly useless if you have any kind of security lock on your phone. You can still use it to make calls, but everything else requires that you unlock your phone, which requires that you pick it up and interact with it… meaning you just defeated the whole idea of "touchless controls."
That said, I'm very curious about the sensors they've included, and can't wait for Anandtech's breakdown.
Too bad the Droid line of phones with physical keyboards is dead. For those of us who write long paragraphs of text for work or need to ssh into a server, it's a big loss...
I'm using Swype on my current phone and it's pretty good, but it has a tendency to pick really uncommon words instead of the common word I tried to type.
Perhaps not enough people use Google Now to care?
Joshua Topolsky's review on the Verge [ http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/5/4588922/moto-x-review ] seems to contradict the battery life claim: > "Motorola could have built a monster of longevity like the RAZR Maxx — and it should have — but it didn’t. It definitely gets a full day of use: I used it heavily for 15 hours before it died, and if you use it like most people use their phones, you won’t need to charge it duri…
Joshua Topolsky's review on the Verge [ http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/5/4588922/moto-x-review ] seems to contradict the battery life claim: > "Motorola could have built a monster of longevity like the RAZR Maxx — and it should have — but it didn’t. It definitely gets a full day of use: I used it heavily for 15 hours before it died, and if you use it like most people use their phones, you won’t need to charge it duri…
Being able to swipe up to launch Google Now on my Nexus 4 from the lock screen is the reason I gave up on passcodes. If I go out clubbing or something I do activate it, but in day-to-day life I find passcodes are more of a hindrance than anything else.