Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Motorola One hands-on: a budget iPhone X clone”.
Hey it’s Chaim with The Verge. I’m here at IFA 2018 with Motorola’s new phones.. We have the Motorola One and the Motorola One Power. They’re new bezel-less mid-range Android phones.. They run Android One and the big thing is that they have an iPhone 10 style notch display.
But at like a much lower price point., The Moto One is gon na, be more widely available. It’ll be available in Europe, Latin America and Asia, starting in October for 299 euros, which works out to like $ 350 U.S., which is really cheap for a phone where You’Re getting this kind of form factor. And at that price, it’s honestly pretty great.. The two phones are pretty similar.. The Motorola One is smaller, with a 5.9 inch screen and the design is a bit different.. It has Gorilla Glass 2.5 on both sides of the metal.
Frame., On the other hand, you have the Motorola One Power which will again only be available in India.. It’S bigger with a 6.2 inch screen, that’s a bit of a higher resolution and it swaps out the frame from the glass on both sides to metal. On the back and top has a headphone jack, which is unfortunately a little rare to see on phones these days and extremely welcome. Here. The rear cameras on the Motorola One are dual 13 megapixel shooters.
The front camera is an eight megapixel selfie cam., The Motorola One Power for India bumps those both up a bit.. The rear cameras are upgraded to 16 megapixel lenses and the front-facing camera is 12 megapixels.. Both phones will be shipped with Android 8.1 Oreo running the Android One version which Google promises, security updates for for at least three years. Being Motorola phones, they’re also running pretty close to stock Android with a couple of enhancements here and there., But both phones should be Getting Android 9.0 Pie in the near future, which should have additional software enhancements, especially for those notch bezels on top. In terms of processor, the Android One has a Qualcomm Snapdragon 625, while the One Power has a Qualcomm Snapdragon 636..
Again, these aren’t quite top of the line processors, but for a mid-range Android phone at the price points that these are reaching it’s pretty much in line. What you expect with the rest of the market. Storage and memory are also pretty good.. Both phones come with four gigabytes of RAM 64 gigabytes of storage out of the box, which can be expanded up to 256 gigabytes with Micro, SD cards., So I’m holding the iPhone 10 and the Motorola One and honestly, I’m really impressed with the Motorola One. Again. It’S not quite the same level of fit and polish that you’d expect from the iPhone.. The screen isn’t quite as seamless with the sides.
The screen on the iPhone obviously has much higher pixel density, it’s brighter. It’S an OLED screen. The colors are a little better, but for the price that this costs, which is again 299 euros around $ 350 in America, it’s a really impressive piece of hardware for a mid-range Android phone that has this kind of design and polish Motorola seems to have something really Impressive on its hands, here.
And when you add in the fact that it’s running Android, One which is again nearly stock Android with just a couple of Motorola’s enhancements here and there. It’S really just a great experience that you don’t usually see from Android phones at this price. Range.. There’S no extra. You know bloatware installed, it’s just Android the way you want it and right now just quickly it does feel pretty snappy. The Motorola One is set to come out in Europe, Asia and Latin America, starting in October for 299 euros., The Motorola One Power will only be Available in India at a later date and honestly, if it came to America, I’d probably buy one.
On the back. You have also a fingerprint scanner which is useful. The right side of the phone. You have your useful volume and power. Buttons. Bottom is speaker: USB-C charging, which is great.
Right side, is where the SIM card slot is and top is a headphone jack. .