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I think you should make a video covering the Moto Z Play Droid. It is an amazing low budget way to get into moto mods. It also offers amazing specs for the price, similar to the X Pure (my current phone).

Hi everyone, So my nexus 4 died a few months back and now in the market for a new one (RIP solid phone) Things i'm looking for Price: $600 Australian (max but flexible) Specs: good enough to run light games (if at all) - i've been hearing good things about the snapdragon 617 (and it seems enough for my needs) Camera: Decent camera with decent image stabilization (software or hardware, just done well) (would like 1080 60fps but not needed) Battery life: 2 days use (or a solid single day) probs in the 3000mAh+ range SD card slot Size: 5-5.5 Inch (my N4 was 4.7) Decent support on software (eg HTC seem to support their devices for 3 years (mid to flagship) What i'm looking at so far HTC A9 Price: $500 (~$50) Pros: good camera, good size. Cons: Battery could be better, Moto X force. Price: $600 Pros: Great battery, good size Cons: Camera could have been done better, slow updates (security patches slow to arrive if at all) HTC 10 Price: $800 (chepest i've found, kogan might be able to get me a better price though) Pros: Flagship has everything i want really, Cons: Price, battery could have been better Avoiding nexus because i want to try other brands (and i want a decent camera) Opinions or alternatives? Thanks everyone

So I currently have a very scratched, and kinda broken (bought it used cheaply), pebble time. I was looking into buying a good used REAL smartwatch from the new gen that have decreased in price. I was looking at the Moto 360 sport, and the Gear S2. The sport is ~140$ on amazon, and the Gear s2 is ~160$. I want to use it for running casually 3-5 times a week (about 10-15 miles a week), and use hr tracking. I know that the sport has GPS which is huge, because I will not be running with my phone, however not having GPS is not a complete dealbreaker. If the regular smartwatch use is much worse on the Moto, than I will happily take the Gear s2 (I have a note 4), but if the difference is very close, than I would probably go with the Moto because of GPS. If anyone has any comments on the watches, and their normal functionality that would be great. To me, the screens are both good, the rotating bezel is kinda cool but not necessary, and the not replaceable straps are annoying but okay. If you could give me you thoughts and opinions that would be great Thanks

Hey there. I do a lot of media consumption (Netflix, etc.) on my phones, as well as a pretty large amount of web surfing but little gaming. I'm due an upgrade, and I've all but settled on the Motorola Moto G 3rd generation, since it's available on my upgrade plan. However, the 2GB RAM/16GB storage version is not available as an upgrade so I'd be paying full price for that model. I was wondering, do you think the 1GB RAM/8GB storage version is sufficient for my needs? Will it be fast, responsive in Android 5.1 and able to do a bit of multitasking? Please note that only 8GB storage is a non issue as I have a 32GB microSD card laying around which I can use if needs be. All opinions welcomed.

I plan on buying a new phone and have decided to chose between the moto x style and the nexus 6P. A bit skeptical about nexus as it will be manufactured by huawei. On paper it seems like a better phone in many aspects albeit the extra 100$ and lack of SD card support. So I need some help deciding! Thanks!

Just saw a tweet from eveleaks on twitter about the leaked images of Motorola DROID Turbo 2 and Maxx 2. @LinusTech It's Turbo 2 Turbo 2 Turbo 2 and Maxx 2 Maxx 2. Motorola’s DROID Turbo 2 is rumored to feature a Snapdragon 810 processor, a 5.4-inch Quad HD display, 3GB of RAM, 32/64GB of on-board storage and a big 3760mAh battery. It will also likely come with “the world’s first shatterproof display” I really like the design of Turbo 2 except that ugly looking Verizon logo! Those are gonna be unveiled on October 27th. Source: AndroidAuthority, Twitter (eveleaks).

Hey everyone, As I'm sure you can see by the title, I was wondering if anybody here has had or has heard of problems with the loudspeaker while on a phone call. For some reason when I am on a phone call and place the person on loudspeaker they say that there is an overwhelming amount of background noise and static noise. Do I have a faulty moto x 2014 or is this a software issue that I can fix myself?? Thanks everyone

My ~3 year old Galaxy s4 has come to a disappointing end, not with a bang, but a whimper. I think the battery contacts have gone off somehow so its practically inoperable since its unreliable whether or not it will remain on. Anyway, I know that i want my next phone to be phablet, but I also want to carry over my 13.5 GB of music that is on my micro sd card to my new phone. The Galaxy Note 5 looks very enticing to me, especially with how sexy it would look with the mahogany dbrand skin, but I want there to be some way to use a micro SD card with that phone. Surely there's a case that plugs into the phone that one could put an SD card into? If not, I would appreciate some recommendations as to which phone i should get for the best phablet experience that has an sd card slot.

Has Motorola finally figured out how to get rid of the bottom bezel? Have they finally gone full circle? Maybe, just maybe they have! It would certainly make for a cleaner design upfront, something that IMHO the 360 did need since that bezel wasn't exactly hiding itself very well. http://www.slashgear.com/moto-360-successor-leaked-to-have-360x360-resolution-06377529/

So I recently sent my Moto 360 off because the back was terribly cracked (the cracked back is actually covered under warranty if any of you have that problem). I got the replacement this morning and it won't connect. I already forgot my old watch in android wear and connect, even tried reinstalling both apps. I've factory reset set the watch many times, and restarted my phone a couple times as well. My phone (HTC M8) finds the watch almost immediately, just won't connect. My original watch was working fine before I sent it off and got the replacement. When the watch starts up, I get the "install android wear" screen. So I go to android wear and try to connect. When I select the watch to pair, the pairing screen to confirm the code pops up on the watch for just a second and then goes away. It goes away before I can check yes or no to connect. The few times I've been able to hit the yes check, my phone goes straight to the "couldn't pair" screen. I've even tried connecting straight through the bluetooth settings and the same general thing happens. Anyone have similar problems or some way to get this working? Thanks!

I have not had a new phone in about 6 years. My sister is buying a new phone so I'm considering buying her old IPhone 4. Do you think it would be better to buy a used IPhone 4 (White) (http://www.gsmarena.com/apple_iphone_4-3275.php) or a new Moto G (http://www.gsmarena.com/motorola_moto_g-5831.php)? Used Iphone 4 - around £70-£80 (Possibly less if I can convince her) Moto G 4G - £130 Thanks, Blueprint

Soo yeah as the title say, i need help rooting my 2013 Moto G xt1033 (dual sim) cyanogenmod 12. Currently my phone is on factory new condition soo i didn't touch any ROM,kernel,bootloader,etc. soo i need a PACK! , yeah A PACK ! of link to download the version for me exact phone that work without any down site,the software/tool that i need to use to start rooting (please no bloatware) , also a guide how to do soo..... got question ? please ask it, it help me more that help U !!! (seriously really, u get what u need to tell me what i need )

The 2014 Moto X will be phased out in the next few months by the new model, appropriately named the 2015 Moto X (most likely that is). At this point in time it’s about 9 months old which is normally forever in the mobile world due to the rapid advances in tech. So what’s it like to use now that it’s fallen behind? What’s it like to use last year’s device? Does it keep up? Let’s start off with the specs, the Moto X features a 5.2 inch 1080p AMOLED display with average color accuracy and overall display performance. Where it really shines is its blacks and greys! AMOLED displays excel in this area due to their ability to actually deactivate the pixels that are black. Each pixel acts as its own backlight so there isn’t any uneven lighting to worry about either. The display doesn’t get super bright but I don’t ever go outside so that doesn’t matter really . Reading at night is really nice because it does get pretty dim while still retaining image detail fairly well in my experience. Powering this display is a Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 SOC with an Adreno 320 GPU which makes for snappy performance during Games and general use. Like I stated before, this review is now a bit out of date but honestly this chip holds its own for the most part considering it’s now 2 generations behind in terms of performance! I mean it seems like just yesterday that Qualcomm released the Snapdragon 805 which has now been dethroned by the Snapdragon 810! But honestly none of that matters, they are just specs on a piece of paper. The way this performs in lollipop is one of the best experiences I have had with a phone, honestly. My daily driver is a Nexus 6 which is currently running Android M. The Nexus is the epitome of Android, Googles shining crown! The Moto X keeps up surprisingly well considering it is behind in every single spec department. Motorola made a smart design choice sticking with a stock Android build for the Moto X (Lollipop 5.0), despite its apparent age it’s as fast as or faster in my experience than many of the new smartphones I have used in recent months including the Galaxy S6 and LG Gflex 2. Granted I haven’t spent nearly as much time with them but they still feel bloated down by their respective skin. Motorola keeps things simple, not unnecessary features constantly bugging you to use or ones that are completely useless. What Motorola does include are things like voice features, and motion gestures that can dismiss a phones call or activate its ambient display to show you quick access notifications which saves battery. Speaking of battery it’s pretty decent in my usage thought your mileage may vary, I tend to get about 5.5-6 hours of screen on time, on Wi-Fi with fairly heavy usage (YouTube, forum/web browsing, phone calls, Reddit!!!) What’s really nice is its standby time, with some tinkering it only drops about 3 percent at night time when I’m not using it! Battery charge time is really fast! It has a 2300 MAH battery that charges to 75 percent in about 45 minutes with the Motorola Turbo Charger. Unfortunately it doesn’t have Wireless charging but that’s not a problem for most people including myself. The way the phone sits in the hand is superior to any phone I have ever used! I owned an HTC One M8 and it set well in the hand but those top and bottom chins made it a bit annoying at times to reach and its metal back and rounded sides made it extremely slippery. The Moto X doesn’t have this issue, it’s curved like the M8 but the screen sets even between the top and button, also on the back is a recessed dimple that makes gripping the phone easier. The metal frame really drives home the quality feel of the phone and the customizable back makes the phone very personal. I only have the default. Nothing fancy, black back but it’s still nice feeling and adds to the grippyness. To wrap things up on my generally long/jumbled review (like most of them are) this phone is fast, built well, feature rich and still very viable despite its age. I would recommend picking one up as I did (well it was free, given to me by a great friend) especially now that Motorola has dropped the price and offering a bundle with its Moto 360 smartwatch. <3 Thoughts?

Another year has started, and I feel like kicking it off with a new phone. I'm currently running a 2013 Moto G, which is still completely functional. However, I feel like it isn't too bad to replace it right now, considering that I can get it's succesor, the Moto G 2014, on eBay for only £158. However, in my searching, I also discovered the Nexus 5, selling for £208. So, my question is, what should I go for? Whilst the Nexus 5 is faster than the Moto G, it doesn't have expandable storage, or as big a screen. But then again, the Nexus 5 does also have NFC, and it's only .1 inches less than the Moto G. Thank you for any input! EDIT: My budget is £210. Phone has to be unlocked, so I can transfer my current SIM over.

So here's my situation, I have a 2013 Moto X and the screen is completely shattered. It'll cost me 200$ to repair the screen, and I'd rather just buy a new phone, the things I prioritize is general speed, battery life, responsiveness, and the newest software. Any personal experiences with the other 2 devices, I find the Nexus 4 attractive because of stock Lolipop, but if it's laggy/battery life is terrible I wouldn't want it, also the lack of LTE is another turn off. The only reason I'm a little hesitant on the G Flex is size and price, it's 280$ on amazon, the Moto X and the Nexus 4 are both basically the same price, 220$ for 16gb, I would have to buy a case for the G Flex and the Nexus 4, mostly because I don't already have one. Camera is also somewhat of a factor, I'm coming from a Moto X, so there's not much to ride home about, but if the Nexus camera is worse, than it's off the table. So, recommendations time.

As far as leaks go, this is a pretty good one. Looks like the watch will have more varied band choices and allow you to use bands yourself since its using ACTUAL LUGS! What a forward move! But it still doesn't have a fully circular display. Why? Who knows. Because Motorola reasons. http://www.droid-life.com/2015/03/19/lenovos-ceo-may-have-just-outed-the-new-moto-360/

Hey guys, just curios about your opinions of the HTC One M8 vs Moto x 2nd gen. If you don't like either then recommend something else! Thanks for the time and input What I am looking for: Have to be able to get on Verizon 2+ gb of ram 32 gb or more of built in storage at or under $150 (USD) Solid construction Strong WiFi Android (nothing against apple, just don't like IOS) What I would prefer: Big battery Upgradeable memory (Micro sd card slot) Metal (Like htc one)

What should I get? Iphone 5s? Moto X? LG G3? HAILP!

NCIX: http://bit.ly/1FIZ993 Amazon: http://geni.us/39qC The hype around the Moto 360 was pretty darn huge, but the reception at launch was... well, let's be nice and say mixed at best. We finally got a chance to check it out... Acceptable resolution version now available: http://youtu.be/RT3lJMEdzck

Will the HTC One m8 work well with the moto 360, will there be support for Google now and all the other features promised in the release video any information will help. I am thinking about getting one

Hello everyone, I’ve been a long time visitor here and seen a lot of things that have interested me, but today I saw something that bothered me. In the most recent WAN Show (9/12/14) I saw that Luke wasn’t much of a fan of the moto 360 anymore due to the fact that it scored lower than all the other competitor’s smart watches in a battery duration benchmark. I’d just like to clarify some of the things said by some of the review sites mainly concerning the battery life of the watch. I’d also like to clarify before I start that by no means am I trying to sell the moto 360 to all of you, this is simply something that has bothered me as an owner of the thing and would like to clarify with everyone before they go and make up their minds about how the moto 360 was a complete failure. First of all I’d like to address the “terrible battery life” comments that were being made by some of the sites that reviewed this and how I believe that these may be misleading. First of all, some of these tests were performed with a setting called the “ambient screen” turned on. What the ambient screen does is that instead of turning off the screen when the watch is not in use and turning it only when it senses that the user is lifting up their arm to see their watch, when the user touches the screen of the watch to tell it to turn on, or when the user presses the button the on side it makes it so that the screen only dims down to a level that can still be visible to the user. And thus my first complain about the way that these reviews were performed, why would you want to do this??? You would rather the watch dim itself down to a level which cannot be seen properly anywhere other than inside in some relatively dim lighting (examples at the bottom) instead of having it turn off completely and saving battery and only have turn on in one of the three cases where it thinks that you are looking at it? Now, I understand that some people want this to keep the feel of an actual analog watch or that they want to make sure that everyone around them knows that they are currently wearing a smart watch, but why would you conduct a test with this setting on then only talk about the performance of the smart watch with that feature on and not even mention the battery saving without it? I personally like that the watch is trying to turn on only when it knows that I am looking at it. That being said I would also like there to be a way to personalize how the watch comes out of sleep because it keeps turning on when I don't really want it to, but even that isn't necessary for me to recommend this watch to the tech savvy. Next I’d like to address something that Luke said during the last WAN Show, and that would be that he’s worried about how much more battery the Bluetooth being on all the time would take up than just having the screen on. So I decided to look about how much battery everything on my phone was taking up: on the top of the list is the display which usually takes up about 50+% of the battery on my phone, then I looked to find what battery the watch was taking up and found it in the form of a process named “Mediaserver” which was taking a whopping 7% of battery. Some of you may be saying that this is a massive amount of battery for them, and maybe it is, but for comparison my Google Play Music application at the time has taken up 8% of my battery with me having used it for an extended period of time earlier today to listen to music while doing homework. This was all information coming from my Moto X, a phone where the screen takes dramatically less battery than some other alternatives, a phone that is also rooted and has a metric ton of xposed modules currently running to make it look nicer to me and which may also be over exaggerating the amount of battery used by some processes. Some people may now be saying that maybe it’s because I’m not getting too many notifications and that the phone isn’t pushing as many notifications as it would be with other people and other use cases, but I don’t believe that even this would cause a huge difference in the amount of battery that the phone and the watch would use to communicate. So I’ve said all this but I haven’t mentioned why I didn’t trust the reviews in the first place. At the time or writing this my watch has been off the charger for about 7 and a half hours and is sitting nicely at 75% on a relatively calm day, yesterday I has forgotten to charge the watch at night, woke up at 11AM and put it on the charger, took a shower and got ready for the day, came back got the watch and went about my day starting off with about 85% battery at around 12PM, and then proceeded to go about my day and end it all with 15% at 3AM. I do now doubt that the moto 360, with the right settings, could last two days on a single charge, something which I find thoroughly impressive considering it's the first of its kind. Furthermore, comparing this to the analog watch that I own and use on a daily basis, the only difference I see is that when I take the moto 360 off at night I have to put it on the charging dock before going to sleep, a very small price to pay for the convenience I get from having this watch. Examples for the "ambient screen" option in different lighting conditions (the option is turned on and on the dim state for every instance): Dimly lit room Fluorescent lighting Cloudy afternoon Sunny day If there is anything I missed in this post about the moto 360 that anyone of you would like to know let me know and I’ll try my best to answer your question.

Hi everyone, I am in need of a new phone since my HTC Sensation is showing its age now. I have some specific requirements that just don't seem to be fulfilled by any phone that I have found. I need: 1) screen of 5 inches or less (maybe 5.2") 2) decent processor (snapdragon 800 or higher preferably) 3) wireless charging and NFC 4) decent battery life 5) decent camera 6) dual front facing speakers 7) at least 32gb of storage or microSD slot 8) Android (but no Samsungs) I have only found the Sony Xperia Z3 that ticks all these boxes, but that's still a bit of a compromise in the size department seeing as I don't want a large phone. The Z3 compact would have been perfect if it had wireless charging or at least had a case that adapted it to wireless charging like its big brother, the Z3. (Maybe there would be third party cases to add this functionality?) The only areas I am willing to compromise in are size and the speakers. Thanks!

So my phone died on the way home from the movies, after 3 hours on the charger and multiple attempts to get it to turn on, it wont. I declared it dead and ordered the Moto G. But I have a few questions, are they any good custom ROM's I can install to give the phone a better feel to it? Or anything for that matter to maybe make the phone a little more snappy and use less ram for the OS.

So we knew how hard it is to manufacture in North America(automotive industry anyone?). And I guess lenovo and Motorola is learning it now as well. Though they are still offering the moto maker services it will no longer be called "assembled in US". There are about 700 people currently employed at this facility. Follow the link below for more information from TheVerge My two cents.... The whole "made/assembled in USA" is a marketing stunt. The notion of made in USA or a place other than some Asian county having a better quality is purely BS. Yes there are differences in manufacturing tolerances but that is only if the product is also made in some other place. For example the cherry MX keys. They are made in Germany but also in China and Taiwan. But the different manufacturing companies have different tolerance for defects. But if something is made to a specific guidelines and manufacturing qualities then that is its quality. It doesn't matter where it's made. But it is quicker to deliver the product if it's made in the same place it's sold. For the case of moto maker it was a good idea. Source Http://www.theverge.com/2014/5/30/5764836/motorola-shutting-down-us-assembly-plant

I am about to get a new phone and always want the best but i get like a 50% employee discount for phones that att.com sells on there site. (so the nexus 5 is out of the question). anyway i am leaning towards the moto x only because of there software and LG's skin does not look attractive. the moto x also seems to get more software updates than the G2 because Motorola already announced they will release kit kat soon. i also like the moto maker feature. too bad the moto only has a 720p screen though even though i heard it still looks great. also the battery is average while i heard the G2's is outstanding. for the G2 what i like about it is it is straight the best phone on the market right now hardware wise. what i don't like about it is that the screen is .2 inches too big. my dad has a S4 and the 5 inch screen on that is perfect. I just would like some final advice on which one to get Thanks