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Motorola Makes The Moto G Official, A “Premium” Phone Starting At $179 Unlocked
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"I want full week battery life"
That's what's wrong with dumbphones. I want multi-year battery life, so I stay with my solar calculator.
Re: Motorola Makes The Moto G Official, A “Premium” Phone Starting At $179 Unlocked
#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
With such a low unlocked price, I wouldn't be surprised if this hits a subsidized price of $0.
At $0 subsidized you would be getting ripped off. You'd be better off buying a subsidized iPhone, selling it, then buying the G at full price (plus pocketing a bunch of $$ at the same time).
I would bet cash flow is more important to which phone someone buys than absolute value.
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#74A 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.
I'm from India and I've been looking to buy a smartphone in this price range for sometime. The Lumia 520 seemed really attractive as it was the only phone in the $200 price range that wasn't crap. The Moto G looks really compelling and if its available for this price in India I would buy it in a heartbeat. If this phone is as good as claimed (and thats a big if) then Samsung and Nokia stand to lose a lot of ground. A…
> if its available for this price in India
The blog says it will be available in India in January.
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#76I was talking to representatives from Lyft at a festival here in Baltimore, and I asked them if they had any plans to support non-smartphones like mine, or any other way to use their service. "No" was the answer. I realized, this was genius! They could ensure only wealthy customers used their service, creating a vacuum in which the upper class could use transportation in style and comfort, without having to interface…
Also, Lyft requires Facebook connect so it can't work on any platform that the Facebook API does not work on.
Re: Motorola Makes The Moto G Official, A “Premium” Phone Starting At $179 Unlocked
#77This is terriffic news! Smartphones are things that drop, that break, that fall into water and that get lost. Shelling out $500 for something this... ephemeral... always seemed absurd to me. Or maybe I am just clumsy.
I think the subsidies make this worse. When you hand over $200 for a phone, it doesn't feel like it's a $650 piece of equipment.
Re: Motorola Makes The Moto G Official, A “Premium” Phone Starting At $179 Unlocked
#78A 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.
You're wrong. The "cool in-crowd" of Nigeria can totally afford this phone(minus shipping costs that I don't know about). "Only" the poorest of the poor are left out. Like, people who can barely feed their families, which I guess is a lot in some areas of the world. But for anyone who has enough money in a 3rd world country to think about buying jeans, going to the movies, hanging out in an internet-cafe. A good amount of those folks can get a $200 phone. Might take a few months of saving up, but they can do it.
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#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
Note that the iPhone 5s also has 1GB of RAM and has a similar CPU speed (1.3GHz). I feel you on the LTE portion, but much of the targeted market has no opportunity to use LTE. Maybe they could have a Moto G+ that costs $50-75 more and includes LTE.
High-end Android is way past those specs. For instance, my HTC One has a 1080p screen vs 720p, twice the RAM, four times the storage, and a 1.7Ghz quad with twice as much on-die cache as the 1.2GHz Quad in this thing.
Specs lie. The HTC One does have a super high-res screen though!
http://www.macworld.com/article/2049270/benchmarks-iphone-5s...
Re: Motorola Makes The Moto G Official, A “Premium” Phone Starting At $179 Unlocked
#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
Note that the iPhone 5s also has 1GB of RAM and has a similar CPU speed (1.3GHz). I feel you on the LTE portion, but much of the targeted market has no opportunity to use LTE. Maybe they could have a Moto G+ that costs $50-75 more and includes LTE.
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…
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