Moto X Pure Edition: Various Reviews

[anon(5506951)]

Here's a video on the battery after 24 hours, along with some camera samples. Seems encouraging.

https://youtu.be/ZFEOq8SIcFg

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[The Harrington]

Zdnet did a preliminary review:

http://www.zdnet.com/article/moto-x-pure-edition-first-impressions-of-the-low-cost-android-flagship/

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[kj11]

Re: So who's happy with their new Moto pure.

Nice follow-up of a review from a person that actually uses the Pure (unlike use em' and leave em' media reviews). I value this dude's view on devices and he really likes the Pure and puts things in perspective. Good stuff. He just needs to adjust the background music down a tad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EK94b6ZDv8

Am I the only one who thought this was unbelievably awkward!? 10 minutes of watching him caress the phone, I swear more than once I thought he was going to try to make out with it. I don't know if he was even taking himself seriously, he looked like he was going to bust out laughing. What was that!? "I love truth" hahaha

 

[kj11]

Re: So who's happy with their new Moto pure.

I was waiting for him to propose marriage to it by the end. LOL

Hahaha exactly!!

 

[cathain]

Re: So who's happy with their new Moto pure.

Am I the only one who thought this was unbelievably awkward!? 10 minutes of watching him caress the phone, I swear more than once I thought he was going to try to make out with it. I don't know if he was even taking himself seriously, he looked like he was going to bust out laughing. What was that!? "I love truth" hahaha

Possibly one of the worst tech enthusiast videos I've ever seen. The 'background music' is bizarre and completely unbalanced, I think he was trying drown out some noise from off camera maybe? The contents of the video is essentially just him repeating himself over and over again and seems he is taking it quite personally that somebody called this phone midrange. It's almost like satire??

 

[Aquila]

Re: So who's happy with their new Moto pure.

Does anyone have a bulleted summary of his findings? Can't watch the video - attempted a couple of times but it isn't linear and even skipping around I couldn't find any points being made.

 

[jephanie]

Re: So who's happy with their new Moto pure.

Does anyone have a bulleted summary of his findings? Can't watch the video - attempted a couple of times but it isn't linear and even skipping around I couldn't find any points being made.

I think this about sums it up:

* It feels good in the hand
* It's not a mid-range device
* It feels good in the hand
* The screen is really nice
* It just feels so good in the hand
* I don't know why this phone is getting so much hate
* It really, really feels good in the hand
* Is it legal to marry a piece of technology in my home state?
* Did I mention how good it feels in the hand?

 

[kj11]

Re: So who's happy with their new Moto pure.

I think this about sums it up:

* It feels good in the hand
* It's not a mid-range device
* It feels good in the hand
* The screen is really nice
* It just feels so good in the hand
* I don't know why this phone is getting so much hate
* It really, really feels good in the hand
* Is it legal to marry a piece of technology in my home state?
* Did I mention how good it feels in the hand?

Hahaha, nailed it

 

[Stanley Kubrick]

Re: So who's happy with their new Moto pure.

Supreme Court said anyone can marry.

 

[Jkb1023jb]

Got mine this morning.
I've been so pumped about this phone for so long, but have to admit that I'm a bit underwhelmed so far. The camera UI is awful. Hate the tap to shoot. Coming from the Note 4 and crappy Touchwiz, virtually stock Android is incredible. But it feels a bit laggy to me, to the point that I'm contemplating returning it and going back to the Note 4. Was probably expecting too much out of it, but really underwhelmed with this phone so far.

 

[kj11]

Got mine this morning.
I've been so pumped about this phone for so long, but have to admit that I'm a bit underwhelmed so far. The camera UI is awful. Hate the tap to shoot. Coming from the Note 4 and crappy Touchwiz, virtually stock Android is incredible. But it feels a bit laggy to me, to the point that I'm contemplating returning it and going back to the Note 4. Was probably expecting too much out of it, but really underwhelmed with this phone so far.

Well that's no good... Would a different camera app help do you think?

I'm not sure what to say about lag vs touchwiz... In theory it should be the opposite

 

[craZDude]

I got mine yesterday evening, and have also seen a bit of lag. I love the feel of it (I have the CSR back), and the screen and speakers are great. I was in bright California sun this afternoon and the screen was perfectly visible! I'll post the screen shots in the battery thread, but I didn't get great battery today. My radios seemed to have a hard time connecting at work, even though my old Moto G did just fine. I'll chalk it up to fluke for today. With 40% left I got 1.5 hours SOT.

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[VoltaicShock]

Got mine this morning.
I've been so pumped about this phone for so long, but have to admit that I'm a bit underwhelmed so far. The camera UI is awful. Hate the tap to shoot. Coming from the Note 4 and crappy Touchwiz, virtually stock Android is incredible. But it feels a bit laggy to me, to the point that I'm contemplating returning it and going back to the Note 4. Was probably expecting too much out of it, but really underwhelmed with this phone so far.

Maybe I am missing something about this tap to shoot. In the stock android app on my Nexus 5 I still have to push a button on the screen to take a picture. How is this different? Does the Note 4 have a dedicated button for taking pictures?

 

[Clocks]

Does the Note 4 have a dedicated button for taking pictures?

Yeah it does.

Funny my wife hates the 'tap anywhere on the screen to take a picture' that Moto does too. I can't stand having to hunt for a little fake shutter button like the note 4 has.

 

[VoltaicShock]

Yeah it does.

Funny my wife hates the 'tap anywhere on the screen to take a picture' that Moto does too. I can't stand having to hunt for a little fake shutter button like the note 4 has.

LOL!

I refuse to buy any phone that doesn't use the onscreen buttons.

 

[VoltaicShock]

Yeah it does.

Funny my wife hates the 'tap anywhere on the screen to take a picture' that Moto does too. I can't stand having to hunt for a little fake shutter button like the note 4 has.

LOL!

I refuse to buy any phone that doesn't use the onscreen buttons.

 

[Clocks]

LOL!

I refuse to buy any phone that doesn't use the onscreen buttons.

I may have misunderstood the question. The note 4 does not have a dedicated *physical* button. It has an on screen button which I dont like. I think the note 4 lets you change it to 'tap anywhere to take the picture' though.

 

[VoltaicShock]

I may have misunderstood the question. The note 4 does not have a dedicated *physical* button. It has an on screen button which I dont like. I think the note 4 lets you change it to 'tap anywhere to take the picture' though.

You mean like this:

 

[rushmore]

I may have misunderstood the question. The note 4 does not have a dedicated *physical* button. It has an on screen button which I dont like. I think the note 4 lets you change it to 'tap anywhere to take the picture' though.

Yep, my N4 (perhaps the last IMO great Note) is set to tap anywhere. This can also be a problem, since I take a lot of unintended pics when moving the phone around. A slight ding in regards to thin bezels. Did not have the issue with the S4.

 

[kj11]

Pretty thorough camera comparison with a lot of indoor and low light shots. Moto X gets killed here by the Note 5, which was expected, but it's also bested by the one plus 2. Fairly disappointing.

https://youtu.be/IeBClN2ByT8