Is anyone switching to the new Moto X?


Lumia 520, £130; Nexus 5, £285; Lumia 1020, £380; G3, £480. All bought high street retailers. Add £10-15 each for cases. Not too bad. About £1325. About $2200.
(Actually, that's bad.)

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A good camera on the phone is very important to me so I will be passing with the moto x. Its a shame the camera is so lame, I'm sure they would have much more sales. I will be looking into the note 4 when it releases as the camera is going to be amazing or so they say.
 
A good camera on the phone is very important to me so I will be passing with the moto x. Its a shame the camera is so lame, I'm sure they would have much more sales. I will be looking into the note 4 when it releases as the camera is going to be amazing or so they say.

I have yet to understand why no Android phones have a camera to match or exceed that of the Lumia 1020. There are some good ones of course, but not AS good. Since there's doubt about a 1020 successor, Motorola, or any other maker, could have stepped in there with an Android equivalent to win the hearts of the photography buffs.

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I sincerely beg your pardon. You're obviously my equal in i.d.i.o.c.y.
Yes, I must admit I've been attracted to the iPhones of late as well. I know next to nothing about the differences between iOS and Android, as a relative newcomer to it all. Fewer problems but less flexibility I'd guess.
If you're any kind of a camera nut and care to use WP I can strongly recommend adding the Lumia 1020 to your collection....it's ageing a bit, but incomparable camera.

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I can't help it lol. I love phones.

Don't get me wrong, I know windows have came a long way since my HTC Diamond but I hated that phone and windows as a whole so much back then that I've never have windows another look.

In talk just very happy with android. Only reason I'm considering the iPhone is because one never had one

Then ever since the Nexus 4 I've wanted to try Nexus...

Then my daughter got the G2, so I had to get the G3 lol. You can see a pattern

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I considered the G3 but I can't but it carrier free and unlocked by default. So I passed. In fact I got the Moto X instead. I'm excited about it. But I saw this post looking into the G3 for last minute stuff. I'm sure the G3 is a great device though! :)
 
@ffejjj: I understand the fascination. I used to be like that with classic cameras. Since discovering smartphones and the 1020 in particular, even my Leica M2 sits unused.

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Now that the Samsung Note Edge won't be available this year :( I might consider the moto X. moto Voice got my attention but then I'm thinking I barely use "Ok Google?" We'll see.
 
Nothing at all entices me about the Moto X... Looks cool, but... Nah

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@ffejjj: I understand the fascination. I used to be like that with classic cameras. Since discovering smartphones and the 1020 in particular, even my Leica M2 sits unused.

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I'll take it off your hands if you really want to get rid of it. For free, of course. :)
 
I'll take it off your hands if you really want to get rid of it. For free, of course. :)

All my camera-nut life I aspired to a Leica M-series but could not bring myself to spend the large amounts of money involved. Finally I do it, about the cheapest you can get them for in good condition, and shortly after I become beguiled by smartphones. They are wonderful cameras, though.

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It may be great for some people but the two things you mentioned...I just don't get it. Are they competing just against iPhone?

It's OK for Apple to have a non-removable battery and no SD slot...because they are Apple and they walk on water.

So the complaints are poor battery and poor camera. Does nobody realize or fail to mention that the Motorola phones are equipped with qualcomm quick charge technology? 15 minute charge gives you 8 hours of phone charge. I don't know off the top of my head if any other manufacture offers this yet?
We are spoiled by android phone battery life.... jump over to the Apple farm and where you can enjoy recharging your phone at lunch everyday.
I still am not quite on board with needing my phone shooting professional quality pictures. Sure it would be great but I'm no Ansel Adams and if I was, I wouldn't be using my smartphone for photos. 90% of photos shot on camera phones are of pure crap that twenty years ago we wouldn't have considered wasting the film on. You just have to ask yourself if you need a 20 megapixel photo of your dog snacking on his nuts?
 
It's OK for Apple to have a non-removable battery and no SD slot...because they are Apple and they walk on water.

So the complaints are poor battery and poor camera. Does nobody realize or fail to mention that the Motorola phones are equipped with qualcomm quick charge technology? 15 minute charge gives you 8 hours of phone charge. I don't know off the top of my head if any other manufacture offers this yet?
We are spoiled by android phone battery life.... jump over to the Apple farm and where you can enjoy recharging your phone at lunch everyday.
I still am not quite on board with needing my phone shooting professional quality pictures. Sure it would be great but I'm no Ansel Adams and if I was, I wouldn't be using my smartphone for photos. 90% of photos shot on camera phones are of pure crap that twenty years ago we wouldn't have considered wasting the film on. You just have to ask yourself if you need a 20 megapixel photo of your dog snacking on his nuts?
In a vacuum the new Moto X seems like a good phone but when you compare it to other flagships it kinda falls short. Battery life and camera are two of the most important aspects of a smartphone. And no I don't need my phone to take professional looking pictures. But I would like to be able to take pictures indoors without them looking like they were taken with a flip phone from 10 years ago. I will be skeptical about Motos quick charge claim until we see some reviews or real world use. I just don't believe 15 minutes of charging will get you 8 hours of battery life. Just like Moto claimed 24 hours of 'mixed usage" on the 2013 Moto X. We all know that phone did not last close to 24 hours if you actually used it..
 
It's OK for Apple to have a non-removable battery and no SD slot...because they are Apple and they walk on water.

So the complaints are poor battery and poor camera. Does nobody realize or fail to mention that the Motorola phones are equipped with qualcomm quick charge technology? 15 minute charge gives you 8 hours of phone charge. I don't know off the top of my head if any other manufacture offers this yet?
We are spoiled by android phone battery life.... jump over to the Apple farm and where you can enjoy recharging your phone at lunch everyday.
I still am not quite on board with needing my phone shooting professional quality pictures. Sure it would be great but I'm no Ansel Adams and if I was, I wouldn't be using my smartphone for photos. 90% of photos shot on camera phones are of pure crap that twenty years ago we wouldn't have considered wasting the film on. You just have to ask yourself if you need a 20 megapixel photo of your dog snacking on his nuts?

Camera quality isn't a big deal to me, either. I have real cameras for serious photography, so as long as the phone will capture something good enough to upload to the the web I'm fine. OTOH, there may be times the phone is the only camera I have with me, and there's a great shot I want to capture. Then it's nice to have as good a camera as possible. I don't reject the Moto X based on camera quality, though.

As far as quick charge, that's all well and good if you're somewhere you can plug in. That's not always the case. And it doesn't really address the problem that batteries gradually lose capacity, so the 1800 mA (or whatever it is) the battery supplies when new is probably down to about 1600mA by the end of the year, and well under that by 2 years.And fast charge will cause a battery to wear out faster. Shoving current into a Li battery that fast is going to heat it up, no matter how clever Qualcomm's tech is, and heat is the enemy of Li batteries.

It's also nice to have the option to replace a failed battery without spending $100 or more on a repair service.

And we still haven't address expandable storage. I'm not sure what Apple has to do with this. I don't have one of their phones either.

These are my priorities, however. I fully understand they won't matter to everyone, and the X looks like a very good phone if they don't matter to you.
 
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And we still haven't address expandable storage. I'm not sure what Apple has to do with this. I don't have one of their phones either.

External SD card for this phone should have been included. It is a real shame.

It is in Apple's best interest to keep away from external SD slots as they want people to buy the larger capacity, paying tons more for memory that is cheap. Their margins grow with the size of the memory.
 
Don't get me wrong, I, like everyone else wants the best that is available.
If I compare buying an iphone 6(16gb) at $650 to a Moto X(16gb) customized with the $25 back of my choice, that makes it $525. So what does that $125 extra get me in the iphone. Typically, iphone's have very good camera's so I will give them that. Screens size and resolution is a wash as some may prefer one over the other. The rest of the spec's are about the same. And mind you, price point across most android phones are very similar. So the question is whether that extra $125 is worth a marginally better camera?
 
If T-Mobile actually carries the moto x I will get it. I won't get it if it's just an unlocked phone. I gotta have WiFi calling.

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