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Introducing Moto E and Moto G with 4G LTE: Smart phones priced for all

222 pointsby nedumaabout 11 years ago

29 comments

nicpottierabout 11 years ago
The big surprise for me was that they nixed the rear LED flash. Not because anybody would take pictures with that camera, but for a phone made for the developing world not having a &quot;flashlight&quot; is a huge knock against it.<p>Seriously, flashlights are a big selling point even on simple dumb phones here in Rwanda, and I just can&#x27;t imagine having a phone without it When the power goes out a few times a week, having a source of light on you is a big boon. (and no the screen doesn&#x27;t count!)<p>Seems like a misstep to me.
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rtpgabout 11 years ago
The Moto G is still pretty much the best value proposition out there, great phone at a great price.<p>In this crowd there&#x27;s a lot of hate when the phone doesn&#x27;t have an SD card slot (and I kinda wish it did), but the fact of the matter is you cannot get a better phone for the price (and even for double the price it might be hard).
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nolokabout 11 years ago
The Moto G is still the best in its price range, and at $129 the Moto E may manage to pull the same thing in the lower than 150 dollar market.<p>Whatever Google changed in Motorola&#x27;s approach, it&#x27;s working, because that&#x27;s the first two phones they&#x27;ve ever made that I wish to buy and recommend (including G for myself).<p>They say it sells very well so I hope these things are sufficiently profitable for them, we will all benefit from great phones at low price point.<p>(the higher priced market may be harder to breach though, since the Nexus brand is already there playing the same game)
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pjmlpabout 11 years ago
Go to love the way upgrades are &quot;sold&quot; to the customers:<p>&quot;And with a guaranteed upgrade&quot; == &quot;The device will receive at least one software update to the current KitKat 4.4.2 operating system&quot;
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freeabout 11 years ago
This is the first time I am seeing that a phone is priced cheaper in India. It is exclusively available online in India on <a href="http://www.flipkart.com/motorola/motoe" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.flipkart.com&#x2F;motorola&#x2F;motoe</a>
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higherpurposeabout 11 years ago
Moto E is a nice phone, and although I haven&#x27;t tried Moto G in real life, it actually looks like it has slightly better build quality for some reason, and more compact, too (for the size). But for only $50 difference, Moto G seems the better choice. Maybe my expectations were unrealistic, but I actually thought they could manage to put this one at $99, especially once I saw a rumor that it will sell for $117 in India. Moto G also started at about 17 percent in India more than in US ($210), so I logically deduced in US it would be $99.<p><a href="http://indianexpress.com/article/technology/mobile-tabs/motorola-launches-moto-e-prices-it-at-rs-6999-makes-it-available-exclusively-on-flipkart/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;indianexpress.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;technology&#x2F;mobile-tabs&#x2F;moto...</a><p>Moto G had a GREAT price at $179 ($210-$240 elsewhere), and why it became so popular in the first place. It doesn&#x27;t quite look that Moto E has the same type of great price for what it offers. $99 would&#x27;ve been that great price that would&#x27;ve made everyone recommend it as the default choice for the price range.<p>If the rumor about the price in India was right, and it won&#x27;t actually be more like $150 now there, then perhaps they are trying to have a more &quot;global&quot; price, where it&#x27;s more or less the same price everywhere, even in US, and this way they&#x27;d make little profit on the global versions, but more profit in US.<p>As for the specs, I&#x27;m a little disappointed it comes with Cortex A5 instead of A7, but since it&#x27;s clocked 200 mhz higher than Cortex A7 would be, maybe it&#x27;s not too big of a problem, especially since they claim the general performance of the device is faster than a Galaxy S4 in many situations (like opening apps, which I think has more to do with their use of the F2FS file system, which ironically is made by Samsung, but they aren&#x27;t using it themselves).<p>I also told my little brother if he&#x27;d want one of these, and he asked me if it has flash, and was disappointed to hear it does not. I think Motorola underestimated the importance of flash for this type of phone. The screen, size, internal storage+SD, I&#x27;m fine with. I&#x27;m just hoping that whenever Google launches Android 5.0 (hopefully this year), it will be upgraded to it.
ColinDabritzabout 11 years ago
Regarding the guaranteed upgrade: &quot;2 The device will receive at least one software update to the current KitKat 4.4.2 operating system.&quot;<p>The wording there is confusing. I could see reading it as &quot;it currently doesn&#x27;t support 4.4.2, but it will.&quot; or &quot;We&#x27;ll upgrade to at least 4.4.3&quot; or &quot;we&#x27;ll upgrade to at least 4.5&quot;<p>I suspect they intend it to mean 4.5, but it is written vaguely, and that sort of promise sounds very much like marketing weasel words to avoid shipping anything more than minor system upgrades (which are INTENDED to not break functionality on devices).<p>They should be more explicit, why not just say a particular version number or later? Fear of the team changing the numbering scheme?
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plingabout 11 years ago
I own a Moto G and am not totally happy with it. I replaced a Lumia 820 with it. The big problems for me are the camera is awful, I mean really bad. It&#x27;s that bad I&#x27;ve started dragging my DSLR with me. Also the WiFi is terribly unreliable. I&#x27;ll be sitting opposite the router and it&#x27;ll start &quot;avoiding poor connections&quot;. This isn&#x27;t environmental as it happens everywhere. Also exchange integration is ugly and painful. Genuinely regretting the purchase.<p>I&#x27;m sure someone can produce a better handset for the price.
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whizzkidabout 11 years ago
I see that Motorola is trying to get to the position where Nokia is&#x2F;was. I don&#x27;t think it is really really easy but at least they got the idea right.<p>&quot;Moto E: Made to Last. Priced for All.&quot;
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enscrabout 11 years ago
Moto E &amp; Moto G, both are very well designed, hot selling items in developing countries. They offer so much more value for that price point than ANY of the competitors. Granted you&#x27;d find pain points but the fact is, they are providing a quality user experience to the masses at a fraction of the cost.<p>I think a first time budget user deserves a quality UI with a great touch experience to start with. (I&#x27;m looking at the sluggish Samsung etc. models at this price point with crappy touch experience).
serfabout 11 years ago
I know it&#x27;s becoming less of an issue for others, but I wish that the current Motorola lineup had replaceable batteries.
apricot13about 11 years ago
They&#x27;ve been very clever with the timing on this! Bringing it out at a really affordable price just before all the new nexus&#x2F;galaxy s5 mini&#x2F;metal&#x2F;iphone 600 come out!<p>So people like me, who are (desperately) due an upgrade can buy this and sit on the fence until all the shiny new phones are available and then start a new contract. Genius!<p>Its a shame about the lack of flash and the non removable battery but I think this type of phone is made to be short term. Its meant to be either an interim solution as I mentioned above or as a taster to get people into the smart phone ecosystem and upgrade to something better in a year or so when it starts slowing down.
fidotronabout 11 years ago
At least in Canada it remains incredibly difficult to get the G or X without a plan or contract. I can&#x27;t help wonder what exactly it is that makes Motorola so resistant to direct selling in the frozen north.<p>The single greatest thing about the Nexus 5 is how easy it is to buy the handset with absolutely no consideration about the carrier at all, and it&#x27;s sad that Motorola haven&#x27;t learned this from greater Google before going off to Lenovo.<p>Doubly sad, as the products deserve a lot more attention. I do wonder if they&#x27;re concerned about them being good enough to cannibalise vast swathes of the market.
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ctb_mgabout 11 years ago
Where does the Moto E compare in &quot;horsepower&quot; to phones we currently know? It states the Snapdragon 1.4 ghz dual core processor, isn&#x27;t that what&#x27;s in the US domestic Galaxy S3?
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nellyspageliabout 11 years ago
This is great news for android developers! Maybe one day google will be able to deprecate Gingerbread! It was released over 4 years ago yet every android app must support it since it represents about 20% of users since manufacturers continue to sell phones with it in 2014. Gingerbread is a real pain to support and bloats and slows all android applications by having to include a huge support library (~5MB).
peterwwillisabout 11 years ago
My Android 4.1 smartphone is $70 at Bestbuy. It&#x27;s a dual-core 1.4ghz with 1GB ram. Half the cost of the Moto E.<p>Does the Moto E have slightly higher specs than my phone? Yes. But is it &quot;shaking up&quot; the smartphone world? Hell no. Feature phone buyers will buy phones like mine, which are half the cost of the Moto E, and fully capable modern Android phones.
rahimnathwaniabout 11 years ago
Does anyone know why the maximum MicroSD capacity is listed as 32GB? 64GB cards work on my relatively old Huawei Android handset.
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grymoire1about 11 years ago
&quot;Goodbye Flip Phone&quot; Not likely - as long as the carriers REQUIRE a data plan to buy a smart phone. Some people use a WiFi tablet and a flip phone to keep monthly costs to a minimum.
shapeshedabout 11 years ago
Seems you can&#x27;t buy the phone outright in the UK and have to buy it through network providers. Would have been good to see an unlocked version purchasable direct from Motorola.
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DonGateleyabout 11 years ago
These Moto phones would be great vehicles for getting people to try Ubuntu Touch. Why do they only provide images for the most expensive possibilities?
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nevesabout 11 years ago
I&#x27;m a happy Moto G user, use its led as a flashlight, but as someone who has a big music collection, the external 32g sd card is really a must.
jokoonabout 11 years ago
I&#x27;d still buy a smartphone without a camera. I wonder how much that smartphone would cost without a camera.
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jestinjoy1about 11 years ago
Both MotoG and MotoE don&#x27;t have replaceable Battery. Whether this has any effect on their pricing!
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dan_bkabout 11 years ago
Who cares about yet-another-new-phone.<p>What we need is 100% open-source software, hardware and firmware.
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krisgenreabout 11 years ago
Its better than my Galaxy S2 that I bought for more than $550 just three years ago :(
JohnDoe365about 11 years ago
Currently Moto G has US GSM option only.
andylabout 11 years ago
I hope all phones will adopt this feature: &quot;Built-in FM radio&quot;
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ommunistabout 11 years ago
Moto - 1 day on battery with moderate use. iPhone - 5 days on battery with moderate use.<p>Moto does not cost 5 times less than iPhone.
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chrisboltabout 11 years ago
I went to motorola.com, clicked &quot;Learn More&quot; about the Moto E, then clicked Buy Now, and the first &quot;option&quot; I was presented with was this:<p><a href="http://cl.ly/image/3E3y0m083j2I" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cl.ly&#x2F;image&#x2F;3E3y0m083j2I</a><p>After that, I was shown options &quot;US GSM&quot; and &quot;Global GSM&quot;, both priced identically. Why even ask me? All they did was add clicks between me and giving them money.
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