Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Moto X hands-on review”.
Well, this is David with the verge, and this is the Moto X. This is Motorola’s flagship phone, the first it designed in conjunction with Google after being acquired more than a year ago, and what’s most interesting, is that it’s not really competing with the other flagship Android devices out there. It doesn’t have a huge hi-def screen or a crazy, fast processor, it’s going after the iPhone a simple usable, friendly phone designed for everybody. At the same time, though, there’s no question that the Moto X feels like a premium device. It has a different feel from the solid metallic HTC One, but even with plastic parts, it feels every bit as high-end.
The buttons are sturdier and click here than most other phones, and it has a solidity and heft to it that a device like the GS 4 just doesn’t it’s not exactly groundbreaking design, but it’s mature. It’S comfortable and it’s solid, of course, the real hook to the X’s design is that you can customize nearly everything about it. Most phones today are black and if you’re lucky white, but the Moto X can be anything you want. The front of the phone is either black or white, but the back can be any of 18 colors, each of which has a different texture and feel to it. And there are seven options for the buttons on the side and the accent ring around the camera as well being able to customize the phone probably won’t make or break the success of the Moto X. But it might make buyers, consider it when they would have just passed over a black version on the shelves.
There are some great combinations and some hideous ones, and it’s gon na be really interesting to see how Motorola and carriers show those options to customers. But I love the idea of being able to treat my phone like my car or my cool Nike hyssops, you customize the whole thing through a really simple tool called moto maker, which also lets you pick how much storage you want on the phone and even sign Into your Google account and pick a wallpaper, we couldn’t test ourselves and actually buy a phone, but the tool is great and it’s really nice to be able to have your phone set up and ready to go as soon as you turn it. On the front of the phone, of course, is dominated by a 4.7 inch, 720p AMOLED display, like all AMOLED screens, it’s a little oversaturated in contrast II, but it’s far from the worst screen. I’Ve seen there’s some slight color banding at times and some seriously over-aggressive dimming. But the screen itself is totally usable, even though I don’t tend to prefer AMOLED screens in general. In this case, using one enables one of the coolest software features of the Moto X.
It’S called active notifications and it’s really great. Instead of having to turn your phone on unlock, it pull down the notification window and open an app, the screen just shows you the time in a notification when you have one tap on the screen, and it shows you the details, it’s just so much faster for Seeing your email or your Twitter mentions, or whatever messages you have, I wish you were easier to jump to a specific notification instead of just the most recent one and there’s no way to make the little window turn on other than flipping your phone upside down, and Then back up, but I really hope Motorola keeps working on it because it’s an awesome feature. It’S exactly how notifications should work. The same is true of the touchless controls feature, which is basically just voice activation. The actual voice. Recognition itself is amazingly accurate, but it’s really weird to set up. You have to remember the particular cadence of how you trained your phone with ok, Google, now or else it just won’t hear you sometimes it’ll. Also, ask you to choose default apps when you first try to say, set an alarm and it’s basically useless if you have a passcode on your phone, but as long as you don’t care about security and don’t just trust it to work every time immediately without you. Looking at it, it can be really useful in places the mic and the speaker by the way, are both pretty good. The phone can hear you and be heard from across the room, which makes for solid call quality and speakerphone as well. Motorola assist, on the other hand, is pretty much just universally awesome.
I just turned it on and forgot about it and then was amazed when I was driving, and it started telling me out loud that I had incoming calls and text messages. It responds to voice commands and made it dead simple to deal with what would have otherwise been a pretty dangerous interaction with my phone assist has other usage scenarios as well like when you’re in a meeting or when you’re sleeping, but it’s so useful in the car That I want a moto X just for a while I’m driving. Otherwise the Moto X is almost a stock Android 4.2.2 fun.
It comes with some carrier bloatware, which is the worst AT .