So my family and I all were on AT&T.
My parents and my brother are already off contract, i was the only one with some 20 months left over.
for the sake of saving some monthly cost for the whole family, we all moved over to T-mobile this weekend.
I had to surrender my Moto in order for T-Mobile to honor the "break up" strategy
From the view of owning a phone, considering T-Mobile give me the ability to break ETF, and 173 dollars towards a new device,
the cost looks great, and pretty much a discount of paying for a Nexus 5 for 223 dollars pretax.
having used the Nexus 5 for the weekend, I will say, its everything I've come to expect for a stock device. its stable, and of course no real issues.
The only thing going for it from my perspective is its screen is brighter, but a bit washed out compared to my Moto X. Speed wise for a day to day user; I see almost no difference in performance for the applications. Ergonomic wise, the Moto X feels so much better in hand compared to the N5.
but I have to say, I miss the twist twist camera motion, and active notifications. I know its nuts, as the Moto X is pretty much half way through its cycle... But seriously just those two things alone from my user preference, I am heavily considering to sell the N5 just to buy an out of contract Moto X. I knew I was going to miss my Moto X; but I didn't think it would hit me this fast... but to save some money upfront from service contracts for my family was the key to why i had to bit the bullet... and T-Mo doesn't honor the Moto X as a new handset from their line of android phones.
but i thought i'd share some thoughts on the after life of a Moto X user. Moto and Google really have made a good device, even the Nexus flagship in this case has nothing over the Moto X due to the software offerings paired up with a nearly 4.4kit kat experience.
My parents and my brother are already off contract, i was the only one with some 20 months left over.
for the sake of saving some monthly cost for the whole family, we all moved over to T-mobile this weekend.
I had to surrender my Moto in order for T-Mobile to honor the "break up" strategy
From the view of owning a phone, considering T-Mobile give me the ability to break ETF, and 173 dollars towards a new device,
the cost looks great, and pretty much a discount of paying for a Nexus 5 for 223 dollars pretax.
having used the Nexus 5 for the weekend, I will say, its everything I've come to expect for a stock device. its stable, and of course no real issues.
The only thing going for it from my perspective is its screen is brighter, but a bit washed out compared to my Moto X. Speed wise for a day to day user; I see almost no difference in performance for the applications. Ergonomic wise, the Moto X feels so much better in hand compared to the N5.
but I have to say, I miss the twist twist camera motion, and active notifications. I know its nuts, as the Moto X is pretty much half way through its cycle... But seriously just those two things alone from my user preference, I am heavily considering to sell the N5 just to buy an out of contract Moto X. I knew I was going to miss my Moto X; but I didn't think it would hit me this fast... but to save some money upfront from service contracts for my family was the key to why i had to bit the bullet... and T-Mo doesn't honor the Moto X as a new handset from their line of android phones.
but i thought i'd share some thoughts on the after life of a Moto X user. Moto and Google really have made a good device, even the Nexus flagship in this case has nothing over the Moto X due to the software offerings paired up with a nearly 4.4kit kat experience.