Moto G starting at $179 available in US

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz51So2yp9Lf5cyuiFYxFJjxt1r3TPc8xzn-AmgoDhjlfb7awX3NpOjv4ItrPzpK-8J5bIteutK4qJYitWqKfJf2XWtbQNY8wucjrNgVWOo11UDwHa4uW7ZZQie5zujw-YY87De9_PS3S6/s1600/motogaam1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz51So2yp9Lf5cyuiFYxFJjxt1r3TPc8xzn-AmgoDhjlfb7awX3NpOjv4ItrPzpK-8J5bIteutK4qJYitWqKfJf2XWtbQNY8wucjrNgVWOo11UDwHa4uW7ZZQie5zujw-YY87De9_PS3S6/s1600/motogaam1.jpg" /></span></a></div><div class="entry-content" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.952941); border: 0px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Moto G is now available for order in the US. The 8GB model is going for $179 and the 16GB for $199. Devices won’t start shipping until December 2, but that should give people just enough time to come out of their tryptophan-induced comas after Thanksgiving.</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As a quick refresher, your $179 (or if you want to splurge $199) will get you a 4.5-inch 720p display. A 5MP camera on the back and a 1.3MP camera on the front. A 1.2GHz quad-core Snapdragon 400 processor and 1GB of RAM. The US version of the Moto G available now has all of you GSM folks covered, but no CDMA love. And just as a reminder: no LTE with the Moto G, so HSPA+ will have to cut it. At launch the Moto G is running Android 4.3, but an update at the beginning of 2014 has already been promised.</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I realize most of you are probably targeting the high-end of things, but is anyone taking the plunge on a Moto G? Or perhaps the better question is whether this is about to become the phone you recommend to your less tech obsessed friends and relatives?</span></div></div><div class="clear" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.952941); border: 0px; clear: both; height: 0px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: hidden; width: 0px;"></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.952941); border: 0px; line-height: 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Via: <a class="via" href="http://www.technobuffalo.com/2013/11/26/moto-g-orders-open-in-u-s-ships-on-dec-2/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">TechnoBuffalo</a></span></i></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.952941); border: 0px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Source: <a class="via" href="http://www.motorola.com/us/consumers/moto-g/Moto-G/moto-g-pdp-ways-to-buy.html" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Motorola</a></span></i></div>

Moto G starting at $179 available in US

The Moto G is now available for order in the US. The 8GB model is going for $179 and the 16GB for $199. Devices won’t start shipping until D...

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Motorola Moto G vs. HTC Desire 601: Budget Android Phone Shootout

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWrjFQ_Tb3B3amO9hgNVbXc8qWsNfEHMVdwEO7UcudpO5Q397U9o_dXg7D94h_NtUlwhNHP283jHr6kNRcxPpOGyi_5unWWyuzc4HHIi15pqHfnxlwbRIoV_4uixh133iKS9xOtwW3AZc5/s1600/131119-motog-copy-640x347.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="346" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWrjFQ_Tb3B3amO9hgNVbXc8qWsNfEHMVdwEO7UcudpO5Q397U9o_dXg7D94h_NtUlwhNHP283jHr6kNRcxPpOGyi_5unWWyuzc4HHIi15pqHfnxlwbRIoV_4uixh133iKS9xOtwW3AZc5/s640/131119-motog-copy-640x347.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As gadget geeks who love to live on the bleeding edge of technology, we focus most of our energy on flagship devices like the Galaxy Note 3 and the Sony Xperia Z1, but what if you have a tighter budget? Two of the better budget offerings to show up in the Android world recently are the Motorola Moto G and the HTC Desire 601, the latter of which is marketed simply as the HTC Desire by some carriers. Which one is the better bargain? Which one offers the better bang for the buck?</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Display</b></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Both phones feature a 4.5-inch touchscreen display, but the Moto G has the higher 1280 x 720 resolution (326ppi) compared to the 540 x 960 resolution (245ppi) found on the Desire. The Moto G also gets the newer Gorilla Glass 3, whereas the Desire gets Gorilla Glass 2.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Winner: Moto G</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Connectivity</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Unsurprisingly, both phones will play friendly with the usual GSM radios and they’ll do the 3G dance via HSDPA, but only the HTC Desire gets LTE support too. If you want to have the higher speeds, assuming the phone can handle it, the Desire is the way to go.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Winner: HTC Desire</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEsLQNxMGXNRO4OSbKbd5iycY_R0HhqLPLWiLCh3GvSyZeXL3UCpfeAoEe4i-Oml4t3ChSeO7_3v1j-vKhd7_xkbxgwdFuLX91sU8fJ0XOYzylt-p2FXWErZCFgNT5qYtULOgZW6Dg8A3H/s1600/131119-motog1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEsLQNxMGXNRO4OSbKbd5iycY_R0HhqLPLWiLCh3GvSyZeXL3UCpfeAoEe4i-Oml4t3ChSeO7_3v1j-vKhd7_xkbxgwdFuLX91sU8fJ0XOYzylt-p2FXWErZCFgNT5qYtULOgZW6Dg8A3H/s1600/131119-motog1.jpg" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Performance</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Neither phone is going to hang with the big boys in terms of performance, but they are priced accordingly and should be able to handle your regular daily tasks. Both phones utilize Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 400 technology, but the HTC Desire 601 has only a 1.4GHz dual core CPU whereas the Moto G gets a 1.2GHz quad core chip. I think the slight sacrifice in clock speed is worth the extra cores.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Winner: Moto G</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Memory and Storage</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Both phones come with 8GB of standard internal storage, but you can bump that to 16GB on the Moto G for an extra $20. On the flip side, only the HTC Desire has a microSD expansion slot and that supports up to 64GB of additional space for photos, videos and music. There’s a definite tradeoff, as internal storage is generally more desirable than a memory card, but the Desire wins here.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Winner: HTC Desire</i></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Camera</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Moto G and HTC Desire both get a 5MP main shooter with autofocus and LED flash, but the Desire gets 1080p video capabilities compared to the 720p on the Motorola. On the flip side, literally, the Moto G gets a higher resolution 1.3MP camera on the front versus the VGA unit on the HTC. So, you’ll have to decide whether you want better video or a better front camera.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Winner: Tie</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Operating System</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It’s obvious enough that Android is under the hood, but the HTC Desire ships with Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean with no official announcement in terms of upgrading. The Moto G ships with Android 4.3 Jelly Bean and the 4.4 KitKat update should arrive early next year. The G also ships with closer to a vanilla build of Android, whereas the Desire gets HTC Sense UI 5.0.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Winner: Moto G</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Battery</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Moto G is equipped with a 2070mAh lithium-ion battery, while the HTC Desire 601 has a 2100mAh lithium-polymer battery. That should make them pretty comparable, though the higher resolution screen and extra cores on the Moto G could have a negative impact on battery life. Realistically, though, they shouldn’t be all that different from one another.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Winner: Tie</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Verdict?</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you were to go through a carrier like Fido or Virgin Mobile in Canada, you’d be able to pick up the HTC Desire for free on a qualifying two-year contract, but the $300 outright purchase price does make it more expensive than the $179/$199 Moto G (for 8GB/16GB). When you’re looking at pricing in this range, the outright purchase is probably the better buy and the G gets the advantage there.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tallying up the score from the above factors, we get three points for the Moto G, two points for the HTC Desire 601, and two ties. With the price point as an extra tipping point (we are talking about a 50% difference), the Moto G sounds like the better deal overall on paper, though you may favor the front-facing speakers on the Desire too. How that of this parlays in practice remains to be seen… and then there’s the Google Nexus 5 for just a smidgen more money, but that’s another discussion altogether.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><br />

Motorola Moto G vs. HTC Desire 601: Budget Android Phone Shootout

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First-impressions Moto G

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiesZHtCfTcZWvLWEwxwU4GV-6kT0kIMwGgK7M2VUtRrKVYZn944tiWnsOgWlyQz9f8TBxwQkqpe7VsHfsTgU-6IUQbj3PDFaUCrNu-a8EpJcSNa54DRjHEZIvkggZr7wnkQw2RxpKaMQrQ/s1600/moto_g_hands-on_ac_19-540x369.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiesZHtCfTcZWvLWEwxwU4GV-6kT0kIMwGgK7M2VUtRrKVYZn944tiWnsOgWlyQz9f8TBxwQkqpe7VsHfsTgU-6IUQbj3PDFaUCrNu-a8EpJcSNa54DRjHEZIvkggZr7wnkQw2RxpKaMQrQ/s1600/moto_g_hands-on_ac_19-540x369.jpg" /></span></a></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Software</b></span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What you’ve got with this smartphone is a setup not unlike that of the Moto X. Just like the Moto X you’ve got a handset that’s roughly the side of an average adult palm at 65.9mm wide. Just like the Moto X you’ve got near-pure Android inside barring a few minor additions from the manufacturer like Motorola Migrate to make transferring data and settings from your old phone to the new as simple as possible (and it really, really is). Just like the Moto X, you’ve got a device that Motorola intends on carrying in the public as a headliner – a hero phone they wont likely forget about supporting any time soon.</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One example is the version of Android the Moto G has and will be upgraded to sooner than later. Right out of the box, the Moto G works with Android 4.3 Jelly Bean. Motorola has promised that this device will indeed be updated to Android 4.4 KitKat “at the beginning” of the year 2014. As the Moto X is currently set for “a few weeks” until KitKat, we’ve got high hopes for the Moto G in this regard.</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Support – and we’ll say this more than once throughout the life of this device – is something we’ll expect implicitly. Motorola is taking a stance here that suggests they’ll be behind the software updates – at least – of this device as if it were their own child. We’re going to hold them to that, even if they don’t say it in those exact words.</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><h4 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.3px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hardware</span></h4><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">By the major manufacturer smartphone release standards set in 2012, this device is a hero phone. By the major manufacturer smartphone release standards set in 2013, this device is certainly a contender for the top of the middle-tier. You’ll be working with a 5-megapixel camera, a quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 processor (less powerful than the processor in the Moto X, but still more powerful than that of the Samsung Galaxy S III, HTC One X (USA edition), or Motorola DROID RAZR HD.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This was proven beyond a shadow of a doubt by the 4-megapixel (or 4-UltraPixel, if you prefer) HTC One earlier this year. The Moto X continues to show improvement in the quality of its 10-megapixel camera here in software updates just weeks after its initial release – we’re expecting better-than-general results from the setup on the Moto G.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Source : <a href="http://androidcommunity.com/moto-g-hands-on-and-first-impressions-20131113/">Android Community</a></span></i></div>

First-impressions Moto G

Software What you’ve got with this smartphone is a setup not unlike that of the Moto X. Just like the Moto X you’ve got a handset that’s rou...

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Motorola Moto G Smartphone Packs Features at Affordable Price

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1-5UkPJBWlLa3z7kPPekcABFmy9akxrKVKXPdbcu_XdGwbiCkpw4aKZA-2V2zTrKRG64_8sNMGiiOQ9rDcb3xhEVGPC_4k66KRClqVNxwUWAMuACGR8tZklZsK5jskDvma-bXmyn42HAE/s1600/Motorola-DROID-MAXX-DROID-Ultra-and-DROID-Mini-Get-Camera-Updates-398929-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1-5UkPJBWlLa3z7kPPekcABFmy9akxrKVKXPdbcu_XdGwbiCkpw4aKZA-2V2zTrKRG64_8sNMGiiOQ9rDcb3xhEVGPC_4k66KRClqVNxwUWAMuACGR8tZklZsK5jskDvma-bXmyn42HAE/s1600/Motorola-DROID-MAXX-DROID-Ultra-and-DROID-Mini-Get-Camera-Updates-398929-2.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">You could buy a new phone, but if you're still in the middle of your cell phone contract, it will cost anywhere from $500 to 600. Motorola's looking to shake up the market with the Moto G, a new smartphone that starts at $179.</span></div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But Motorola is putting the United States on hold for now and looking to the global market for new customers. According to Motorola CEO Dennis Woodside, over half a billion people around the world will buy a smartphone for under $200 in the next year. "The problem is that the experience that smartphones in this class provides is really, really bad," he said today at an event to unveil the Moto G in São Paulo, Brazil.</span></div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Woodside pointed to Samsung's Galaxy Fame as an example of a new smartphone that uses outdated hardware. "It's built with old technology, yesterday's screens and processors," he said. "A number of these devices can't use apps that we know and love, the screens are small, and they're slow and buggy."</span></div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;"></div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Motorola's claims come with some fine print. All of the presenters at today's event said something that the Moto G would be the best phone "in its class" or "in its price category."</span></div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Ben Bajarin, the principal tech analyst for Creative Strategies, said that the Moto G is isn't designed to compete with iPhones or Samsung Galaxy phones. "It is a budget smartphone with budget phone features," he told ABC News. "Motorola is still highly differentiating the Moto X from the Moto G in this light."</span></div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But Punit Soni, vice president of software product management for Motorola, said it may be time to rethink what it means to be a premium device. "People spend their time focused on specs and numbers," he told ABC News. "But you need to look at how people use their phones. From the customer's perspective, the Moto G is on par with most premium devices."</span></div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Charlie Tristchler, the product manager for Moto G, agrees with Soni that the new phone comes with a host of features not found in budget smart phones. "It has an all-day battery life, a quad core processor and a pure Android operating system," he said. "I don't see anyone else offering that combination."</span></div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;"></div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Bajarin and the Moto G team may disagree on what premium actually means, but they can see eye to eye that this is Motorola's big attempt at getting new customers worldwide. "Motorola has not been relevant in the global smartphone conversation," said Bajarin. "This is a strategy to try and make them relevant at a global level."</span></div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Moto G is available for purchase today in Brazil, and will roll out to other markets in Latin America starting tomorrow. The phone should be available in the United States and 30 other countries in 2014.</span></div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"The mission is to connect millions of people to the world's information with devices that don't compromise on style or experience," Woodside said. "We want to give people around the world a better choice."</span></div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;"><i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Source : <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/motorola-moto-smartphone-packs-features-affordable-price/story?id=20876009">ABC News</a></span></i></div>

Motorola Moto G Smartphone Packs Features at Affordable Price

You could buy a new phone, but if you're still in the middle of your cell phone contract, it will cost anywhere from $500 to 600. Motoro...

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