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Motorola Moto G - new budget smartphone champion?
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Not many do these days, it's just expected that people will use a streaming radio service.
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Looks very nice for money. Not too big too which I like.
Will definitely keep my eye on this over the next few months.
Will definitely keep my eye on this over the next few months.
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I just bought a Moto X and it's a fantastic phone. I can't believe how monumentally stupid Motorola/Google are being with not selling it in more markets and marketing it properly. Hopefully the Moto G isn't too much of a downgrade from the X.
I can't believe that myself. I would probably have bought one. Broke my Razr HD, so have bought a s/h HTC One last week. Good as the Moto G might be for the price I can't help but feel if this is the Moto X for the rest of the world then it's a big letdown - could be wrong mind you
Good as the Moto X might be I read that they are not selling as well as Motorola hoped.
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No, it has nothing on the N5.
It's in a totally different price range though.
It is totally bizarre that the moto x came out with 2 CPU cores and that was deemed sufficient. Yet in this phone they have dumped in 4 cpu cores (?) and a poorer camera.
Surely a smarter move (given the moto x is not available in Europe) would to save on the CPU costs (i.e. dual core) in order to put in a solid camera.
Surely a smarter move (given the moto x is not available in Europe) would to save on the CPU costs (i.e. dual core) in order to put in a solid camera.
The SoC may well just have been what they could get on a cheap deal.
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You're comparing a Dual Krait @ 1.7GHz with a quad A7 @ (I think) 1.2GHz ... so a simple "G has more cores than X so must be better" doesn't make any sense (unless you are in the marketing department!)
Ah ok; I thought they were using 4 Krait cores (which they should be given that the lumia 520 manages to at a good price)
The x8 costs a lot because of the "other cores" there are only 2 CPU cores on the x8 and that was deemed sufficient. My point was that shoving 4 on this makes no sense. I understood basic tasks to be essentially limited to using 2 cores. A quad core cpu on this therefore is somewhat pointless.
The x8 costs a lot because of the "other cores" there are only 2 CPU cores on the x8 and that was deemed sufficient. My point was that shoving 4 on this makes no sense. I understood basic tasks to be essentially limited to using 2 cores. A quad core cpu on this therefore is somewhat pointless.
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The 520 has two Krait's, not four.
Hmmm, http://vr-zone.com/articles/motorola-moto-g-gets-leaked-affordable-variant-moto-x/62390.html has it pegged as an S4 Pro, same as the Nexus 4.
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Probably correct ... but (as my previous reply hinted) is all down to marketing - most people buying phones have no idea what the differences between different processors are so if they look at phone A with a dual core and phone B with a quad core then phone B must be twice as powerful and thus twice as good since it has twice as many cores. Plus given Apples decision to use the same naming system for its cores as ARM do for their reference designs but with completely different meanings I guess some people will think that an A7 must be one step up from the 64bit A6 in the 5s!
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So, if its quad then its quad A7, or if its dual its dual Krait (thats what SD 400s have)
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compared with what exactly, I don't know of (m)any phones with that sort of spec for £135 SIM FREE (well it could be payg but it should be unlocked).... it's not very high spec if you compare it to a nexus 5 obviously but then it is over under half the price
After re-reading the OP it seems I mis-read it due to bad grammar. I read the post as "Google have to really up the ante" when in fact the word to wasn't in there. Nothing to see here.