Is your Nexus 4 still smooth?
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Nexus 4 is a great phone and will stay smooth for a longtime, especially with ART enabled.
The Moto X's SOC, which is labeled as
Moto X is a much better phone if you take rooting and flashing roms out of the equation.
-Better screen (it's amoled, but has RGB matrix and well calibrated so no oversaturation, good white level).
-Superb speaker, it will blow away the N4 speaker and many other single speaker phones.
-Superb battery life, I get over 5hours on scree on time before completely draining the battery.
-Motorola quality signal reception / call quality.
-Overall the phone is just very well optimized, and have that touchless control feature.
-Factory nano coated to be water resistant.
My recommendation is don't buy the Moto X if you already have the N4 and happy with it, the performance upgrade isn't big enough. It's camera isn't much better. You can consider the Moto X however, if you have poor signal / call quality or poor battery life with the N4. The Moto X is great in these areas.
I was considering between the N5 and Moto X, but I also played with other phones like the HTC One and LG G2 as well. I settled on the Moto X when I actually held it in the hand and felt how small it is while delivering all that features. The size and form factor of the phone was a big factor for me.
If you are interested in rooting and flashing roms at all, I don't think Motorola is the way to go. It's not a problem if you have previous experience with other Motorola devices, but definitely require more reading if you are new to it comparing to working with a Nexus. They have too many securities in place and it's still possible to hardbrick a Developer Edition if you flash the wrong thing.
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The Moto X doesn't have a Snapdragon 400 processor. That's the Moto G. The Moto X has a dual-core S4 Pro with a better GPU than the Nexus 4.
Yes, still smooth. I hope the Nexus 6 is a big upgrade, because if not I may stay with this phone for another year.
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Although I don't use my Nexus 4 anymore due to upgrading to the Note 3, every once in a while I'll go back to it for a few days, due to my eyes having bled from the abomination that is TouchWiz... ;-)
But yeah it's as snappy as day 1 for sure! Kit Kat really increased performance and battery life for me. It's still a very viable competitor in my opinion. Works fantastically! (If only mine wasn't cracked on the back though :'( )
But yeah it's as snappy as day 1 for sure! Kit Kat really increased performance and battery life for me. It's still a very viable competitor in my opinion. Works fantastically! (If only mine wasn't cracked on the back though :'( )
Still smooth, but I'm a bit bored with it. So I'm looking for some excitement by rooting, installing Franco Kernel and switching to ART.
I used to do this with my htc desire (cyanogenmod, then oxygen - loved that ROM), but I'm quite happy with the latest stock android =) Any recommendations though? What fun stuff could I be doing with a custom ROM?
Only on my 11th month but still runs great. I'd probably keep it for the foreseeable future if it wasn't for headset jack issues - music only works in one ear. 
Will probably get a MotoX2 or N6 later this year.
Will probably get a MotoX2 or N6 later this year.PAC ROM. It is absolutely feature packed, using right now and there are a ton of tweaks.
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Mine has little hiccups now and then but nothing bothersome, just noticeable. I could probably fix them with a factory reset but I'm too lazy. The one other issue that bothers me has nothing to do with Android (my headphone jack is completely kaput), but even that's not a big deal with bluetooth headphones. Still, I'll look at the phones coming out in the next several months and see if any catch my eye enough to give up my beloved N4.
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It seems just as good. It's running cm11 and Nova. That may have something to do with it. I mean that I'm wiping a lot.
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Smooth here, too. Just as important, being unlocked means I can switch carriers when one network no longer is smooth instead of having to chuck a phone that has years of life left. Subsidy lock is for losers.
Mine was nearly a year old when I got it. I've used it for nearly 2 months and it's still running smooth. Guess it helps that the previous owner took good care of it. Quite snappy and smooth.
Mine is actually smoother since 4.4 and I started using Google Now Launcher. I moved into Android from Windows Phone (king of smoothness IMO) and wasn't expecting it to be this smooth, even on a Nexus.
Its been a pretty good 13+ months with my N4. At first I went through all the rooting and unlocking but then found that the only benefit to me was being able to change the colour intensity on the screen. The downside of rooting was certain banking and finance apps wouldn't work so I've been back to stock for the past 9 months or so. No regrets. I am running ART however.
Phone still works smooth and I've never had the random reboots like other have mentioned. Not to my knowledge anyway.
The only thing I've noticed is recently the Snapdragon battery app has stated my charged battery life is now around 42 hours when it was around 60 a month or so ago. Who knows.
Going forward my main concern Nexus phone wise is that they become phablets. I would dearly love the Nexus 6 (whatever) to go back to a 4.7" design. I am not a fan of humungo phones.
Phone still works smooth and I've never had the random reboots like other have mentioned. Not to my knowledge anyway.
The only thing I've noticed is recently the Snapdragon battery app has stated my charged battery life is now around 42 hours when it was around 60 a month or so ago. Who knows.
Going forward my main concern Nexus phone wise is that they become phablets. I would dearly love the Nexus 6 (whatever) to go back to a 4.7" design. I am not a fan of humungo phones.
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