Whats your first impression of your new Moto X!?

[gone down south]

Love it, but I already miss my Gravity Box tweaks

 

[Swavek]

This phone is SO much more impressive than what I anticipated. It hasn't been that long (almost 2 days), but I am loving this phone. It's a pleasure to hold and use. And as many others have already mentioned, active display is awesome. I also like that this phone isn't as big as I thought it would be. It has a larger screen than my previous phone (Sony Xperia Z1s), but it's actually smaller.
I do have one question: How is the Moto Assist activated (other than when it's connected to a car's bluetooth system)? I'd like for it to speak out loud incoming messages and/or notifications.

 

[Flexia]

This phone is SO much more impressive than what I anticipated. It hasn't been that long (almost 2 days), but I am loving this phone. It's a pleasure to hold and use. And as many others have already mentioned, active display is awesome. I also like that this phone isn't as big as I thought it would be. It has a larger screen than my previous phone (Sony Xperia Z1s), but it's actually smaller.
I do have one question: How is the Moto Assist activated (other than when it's connected to a car's bluetooth system)? I'd like for it to speak out loud incoming messages and/or notifications.

It can track your speed when in cars and also see your home WiFi when in home mode. If you open up the assist app you can play with the setting

 

[GSOAT]

Every day, I find new intuitions from the phone. Today, on the Google Now screen, it told me that my commute to work would be 14 minutes in light traffic. Obviously, it knows my home and work addresses, but it's so cool that it took that information, and the fact that it's Monday morning, and gave me the unsolicited advice. At first I was disappointed that it wasn't recognizing when I was driving as I expected, but it does now- it just needed to identify what to hear/notice about the situation and now it always knows. I'm actually hoping to see even more stuff in the coming days, but my first 3 1/2 days with the Moto X 2nd gen have been eye-opening and impressive.

 

[jephanie]

Every day, I find new intuitions from the phone.

Most of that is Google Now but I'm thinking the Moto X (OG and Gen2) simply let that come to the forefront more easily since there isn't so much noise generated by skins like other OEMs. The more you use it and the more you let it learn from you, the better and better Google Now gets for proactive information display. Even my wife, an iPhone convert, LOVES the Google Now stuff on her OG X.

 

[GSOAT]

Most of that is Google Now but I'm thinking the Moto X (OG and Gen2) simply let that come to the forefront more easily since there isn't so much noise generated by skins like other OEMs. The more you use it and the more you let it learn from you, the better and better Google Now gets for proactive information display. Even my wife, an iPhone convert, LOVES the Google Now stuff on her OG X.

I'm an iPhone convert too- this is my first Android phone, and I think I made a great decision. I was considering waiting for the elusive Nexus 6 (or Nexus 5 2nd gen), but was so impressed by what I heard about the Moto features that I went with the Moto, sacrificing (probably) SD card expansion and a (probable) better battery for the Moto software innovations.

 

[radyoactive]

Even more than that, it will learn your patterns. 15-30 minutes before I leave for work, I'll get a notification giving me the current traffic conditions. It's even learned I have two different routes on my commute and it has told me travel time for both.

Every day, I find new intuitions from the phone. Today, on the Google Now screen, it told me that my commute to work would be 14 minutes in light traffic. Obviously, it knows my home and work addresses, but it's so cool that it took that information, and the fact that it's Monday morning, and gave me the unsolicited advice. At first I was disappointed that it wasn't recognizing when I was driving as I expected, but it does now- it just needed to identify what to hear/notice about the situation and now it always knows. I'm actually hoping to see even more stuff in the coming days, but my first 3 1/2 days with the Moto X 2nd gen have been eye-opening and impressive.

 

[Jonathan Wills]

I have never owned a cell phone before but I have owned more than a dozen desktop PCs and Laptops. I also own a Sony A57 DSLR.

I'm impressed by the feel of my new Moto X. It is sleek, feels great to the touch. I have the leather back and the texture is grippy. The voice commands work well, but I think I still have to train my voice to say more complicated sounding webpages easier.

I got the power pack micro with my moto X. it heats up a lot in use, but it does work perfectly as a companion device, it is able to locate my phone and my phone is able to locate it. It is also half the size of another 1500 battery that I have.

The camera is fantastic. Everything I saw on the forum made me think I would be let down by it. To be honest I do not have high expectations from a cell phone camera though, because I have a $1000 dollar camera for my real shots. The color balance is great, the focus is good. I would say 2-3rds of my photos come out the way I want them. I am a semi pro photographer so your milage may vary.

I did notice that as soon as my screen powers up, the whites are a little bit yellowed, however after about 30-40 seconds the screen drifts towards being purely white. I have placed it right next to my white balanced LED, LCD screen to compare it and used a white balance card on my phones screen.

No my screen is not perfect, but it does not have horrible stock color balance, if anything the colors might have a tinge more red than what they should have, were I to tweak the balance myself that is what I would adjust. This isn't to say my screen is "pink" or any of that bs, it still looks white.

Anyways moving on. The speaker on my moto X is good. It is a small speaker with a low power output which means it suffers from one key area but being high quality it still excels in other areas, I will go out and say that it's size to performance and power ratio impresses me.

So yeah, the base is not the greatest, not that it doesn't have base, actually I heard one of the best harmonica performances from this phone that I have heard and it did not sound much worse than on my home theatre setup. This was very very good. On the flip side, it can not play complicated multi directional audio, it can not rattle the house with the boom boom base, but anyone who is expecting it to do that is nuts and I should refer you do buy a real home theatre set or an M8.

Anyways, eh, in short, my Moto X is fun and I will be keeping her and stroking her leather back often.

 

[pblakk]

Does it have carrier iq installed?

 

[robertc88]

Got a black from Verizon a few hours ago. Just went through setting it up and updating apps and playing around with it a bit.

Too big? Live with the Iphone Plus for two weeks, the new X will change that impression faster than Johhny Rocket.

First impression? Liking it so far to the point that nothing has totally distressed me. Browsed, watched some youtube videos which I thought were smashing, and played a few games (I admit the touch screen response was a bit sluggish moving around in some running games but I will enable developer options and tinker). I like the screen quality to tell the truth. No real overblown color as far as I'm concerned like the Samsungs. The speaker quality is "acceptable" to me, I had a M7 so you know where I'm coming from about that.

So far so good I'd say. Time for more fun!

 

[Jonathan Wills]

What is carrier IQ? I can look.

I can say mine is the pure edition and does not seem to have any bloat that I can see.

 

[vor]

I do have one question: How is the Moto Assist activated (other than when it's connected to a car's bluetooth system)? I'd like for it to speak out loud incoming messages and/or notifications.

When a notification pops up you can speak your phrase or the default: "Ok Google now, What's up and it will go through your notifications.

 

[someguy01234]

Does it have carrier iq installed?

I think they stopped using that a while ago, but you shouldn't worry, because even if it doesn't have carrier IQ, there are many other ways the feds can track you.

If you want to be safe, compile your own rom from AOSP and make sure all your codes are safe and not install gapps.

If you want you can use Supercurio's app to try to detect it: https://forums.androidcentral.com/e...voodoo.simplecarrieriqdetector&token=8prwWZny

 

[planoman]

That was another nail in the coffin foe the G3 I had before returning it. In addition to the 25 bloatware apps, it has carrier IQ on the att model. Not that it is a big deal but I paid 625 for that device new and should not have all that "stuff" on it if I do not want it. Thank goodness Moto made the Pure Edition and to all OEM that make unlocked models.

 

[bwcud2000]

I just activated my new moto x last night and haven't been able to keep my hands off of it since. This phone is truly amazing. It is very fast with a clean and smooth interface..I've literally seen no lag at all. I hesitated to buy this phone because of the rumored horrible battery but i can see now that the battery is no issue at all. In fact I'm fairly impressed by it so far. I would encourage anyone to seriously consider this phone. It is hands down the best smartphone experience I've ever had. BTW mine has a white front, slate back and red trim.

 

[fluffymangoes]

i dont know why but the game "dont touch the spikes" game is very laggy on my moto x but it runs silky smooth on my nexus 5. can you guys try the game out to see if im the only one with the lag?

 

[Jonathan Wills]

I will test the game and let you know.

 

[Jonathan Wills]

I had some issues with it, personally I did not like the game. I played some touch active games like Ifighter and it worked perfectly so I dunno. I wouldn't call it lag on don't touch the spikes, more like touch lag, the software itself was otherwise not laggy.