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
#2I hoped it is based on the X8 architecture, but is just "normal". So it makes not sense to compare it with Moto X, is a different phone, different target, is no "little brother", more like a distant "poor cousin".
Re: Motorola Makes The Moto G Official, A “Premium” Phone Starting At $179 Unlocked
#3I hoped it is based on the X8 architecture, but is just "normal". So it makes not sense to compare it with Moto X, is a different phone, different target, is no "little brother", more like a distant "poor cousin".
I don't follow Android that closely. How is the performance of this phone? Cheap phones like this will help get Android into the hands of another billion people. It's probably more important to have a more recent version of Android than the fastest CPU.
Re: Motorola Makes The Moto G Official, A “Premium” Phone Starting At $179 Unlocked
#4I hoped it is based on the X8 architecture, but is just "normal". So it makes not sense to compare it with Moto X, is a different phone, different target, is no "little brother", more like a distant "poor cousin".
I don't follow Android that closely. How is the performance of this phone? Cheap phones like this will help get Android into the hands of another billion people. It's probably more important to have a more recent version of Android than the fastest CPU.
It's quad core. Looks like an excellent phone for the price. Interesting that Motorola is one-uping the Nexus to some degree here (the Nexus is closer to being a flagship, but this is significantly cheaper).
This might be my next. What's for sure is I'm never buying another $600 phone again.
Re: Motorola Makes The Moto G Official, A “Premium” Phone Starting At $179 Unlocked
#5A 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.
Re: Motorola Makes The Moto G Official, A “Premium” Phone Starting At $179 Unlocked
#6I hoped it is based on the X8 architecture, but is just "normal". So it makes not sense to compare it with Moto X, is a different phone, different target, is no "little brother", more like a distant "poor cousin".
I don't follow Android that closely. How is the performance of this phone? Cheap phones like this will help get Android into the hands of another billion people. It's probably more important to have a more recent version of Android than the fastest CPU.
This is similarly spec'ed to a Nexus 4. A little bit worse, actually, but not by much.
This is probably still too expensive for another billion people.
I think the most recent version of android is the most important part. really.
Re: Motorola Makes The Moto G Official, A “Premium” Phone Starting At $179 Unlocked
#7I hoped it is based on the X8 architecture, but is just "normal". So it makes not sense to compare it with Moto X, is a different phone, different target, is no "little brother", more like a distant "poor cousin".
I don't follow Android that closely. How is the performance of this phone? Cheap phones like this will help get Android into the hands of another billion people. It's probably more important to have a more recent version of Android than the fastest CPU.
This in the same league as the first generation N7 (very roughly) which is a hell of a lot of hardware for 200 bucks.
If this had been around when I bought my N4 I would have been very tempted (as I just want something that is a decent mobile web browser, I don't really use Apps at all).
Re: Motorola Makes The Moto G Official, A “Premium” Phone Starting At $179 Unlocked
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't follow Android that closely. How is the performance of this phone? Cheap phones like this will help get Android into the hands of another billion people. It's probably more important to have a more recent version of Android than the fastest CPU.
This is similarly spec'ed to a Nexus 4. A little bit worse, actually, but not by much. This is probably still too expensive for another billion people. I think the most recent version of android is the most important part. really.
It's considerably worse than an N4, N4 has 2Gb RAM, Quad Core 1.5Ghz.
It's closer to the 2012 N7 Quad 1.3/1Gb RAM.
Still a hell of a lot of phone/screen for the money.
Re: Motorola Makes The Moto G Official, A “Premium” Phone Starting At $179 Unlocked
#9A 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.
Woodside said that the average worldwide is more around the $200 mark.
They say their target research shows that people are spending $200 on poor quality phones. If that's the target they're going for and that's what they research shows, I don't think they missed the mark.
Re: Motorola Makes The Moto G Official, A “Premium” Phone Starting At $179 Unlocked
#10A 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.
Woodside said that the average worldwide is more around the $200 mark. They say their target research shows that people are spending $200 on poor quality phones. If that's the target they're going for and that's what they research shows, I don't think they missed the mark.
Nokia has been making great windows phones for cheap like the 521 that routinely available for as little as 70 bucks. The hardware is lower spec as compared to this one but windows phone is known to run well on slower hardware. It will be interesting to see how well Android runs on this.