I've been an Apple fanboy for long enough. After having replaced 4 iPhones in just over a year I decided that I'm done spending over $500 on a phone that is too easy to break. Decided to give the Moto X4 a shot and I couldn't be happier! IT does everything my iPhone 8 did but better. It's EXTREMELY responsive, especially with things such as fingerprint opening. It recognizes my print and jumps to the desktop faster than my iPhone would realize I was even touching it.
The camera is amazing for any phone under $200. In fact, can't get over the quality-to-price ratio for the quality of pictures the dual-camera on this phone delivers. I prefer it over the iPhone 8 any day for both speed, focusing, customization of the camera (you can change literally every professional setting of this camera, including ISO, shutter speed, etc). The HDR pictures are great and a nifty feature is the Bokeh effect that can be attained which, if it were Apple, would require the iPhone 8 plus. The fingerprint gestures that Moto provides make me feel right at home since it can be configured to work much like the iPhone 8 sensor, except this one is far more responsive.
Overall the speed of this phone is impressive. Every app opens quickly, is extremely responsive. Haven't experienced lag in anything, including website browsing some sites that would bring my iphone to it's knees.
The fast charging is probably one of my favorite features. I'm really bad at pluggin in my phone until it's telling me that it's dead.. Well this thing charges in no time flat and then lasts the entire day with juice left at the end, no matter how hard I use it.
Android has come a long, long way since the last Android phone I have owned. Everything is so tighly integrated with this latest Android, even more so than iOS, which is really hard to believe. An example is the Facebook integration. Every app that can login through FB on Android is extremely quick, easy and just works, whereas half the apps on my iPhone that can login through FB would take me to a login screen browser to login to the FB that I was already logged into the app with. I haven't experienced any of these setbacks on the Moto X. It just... works.
The screen is one of the brightest I have seen on any phone. In fact, I have my brightness at 25% and it's plenty bright. 100% surpasses the brigtness of my iPhone considerably. The resolution is extremely crisp, everything looks great, clean and smooth.
One of my favorite features and one that I coudln't wait to try was the muti-bluetooth speaker setup. This is one cool feature! You can link multiple bluetooth speakers to this phone and have them play simultaneously. This turns your common cheap bluetooth speakers into a multi-speaker surround sound type setup. Fascinating!
The internal speaker is plenty loud and sound quality is quite good. The iPhone 8 may have it beat here, but only by an insignificant amount. The 8 isn't quite as loud but the sound quality of the 8 is a bit better considering it plays in stereo and not mono.
The only thing I haven't figured out how to do yet is when notifications come in, it pauses the music playing. This annoys me to no end. I don't mind the notification sound but please don't stop the music completely. If anybody knows a way to change this setting please let me know, for I've exhausted myself trying to figure it out. I don't attribute this to the phone but to Android, no stars deducted for this.
Overall if you're looking for a budget phone that does pretty much everything good and some things extremely well, then this is the one! I don't see myself going back to an iPhone anytime in the distance future. Sorry, Apple. You're overpriced and I'm actually kinda upset that you blinded me from the Android world for so long while it secretly surpassed everything you can do.
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Compare to other phones
| | Fingerprint Sensor | |
Upgradeable to 9.0 | Android OS | Upgradeable to 9.0 |
3 GB / 32 GB | RAM / Storage | 4 GB / 64 GB |
2.2 GHz octa-core | Processor | 1.8 GHz octa-core |
3,000 mAh | Battery | 3,000 mAh |
5.2” Full HD | Display | 6.0" FHD+ Max Vision |
Dual 12 MP + 8 MP | Rear Camera | Dual 12MP + 5 MP |
| | Fingerprint Sensor | |
Upgradeable to 9.0 | Android OS | 8.0 |
3 GB / 32 GB | RAM / Storage | 4 GB / 64 GB |
2.2 GHz octa-core | Processor | 1.8 GHz octa-core |
3,000 mAh | Battery | 3,000 mAh |
5.2” Full HD | Display | 5.7" FHD+ Max Vision |
Dual 12 MP + 8 MP | Rear Camera | Dual 12 MP + 5 MP |
| | Fingerprint Sensor | |
Upgradeable to 9.0 | Android OS | Upgradeable to 9.0 |
3 GB / 32 GB | RAM / Storage | 3 GB / 32 GB |
2.2 GHz octa-core | Processor | 1.4 GHz quad-core |
3,000 mAh | Battery | 4,000 mAh |
5.2” Full HD | Display | 5.7" HD+ Max Vision |
Dual 12 MP + 8 MP | Rear Camera | 13 MP |
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Wow.. the camera.. the build... The curves and color
The very good:The build of the phone. It's a full glass wrap around with a aluminum frame. For a cheap phone this build packs a premium feel and looks to match. It's a very good looking phone in my opinion, it feels as good as a Samsung flagship.The camera(s) this is a dual lens camera with beautiful colors and a portrait mode that dosent look like it's just a blury Circle.The power.This phone isn't a flagship grade phone it's a "premium budget divice" that packs a chipset from Snapdragon. It's a 630. Power efficient and strong enough to to play the latest games around. ( you won't be able to play on the highest levels,but still it's not a bad experience.) Along with a cortex A53 and with a Adreno 508 Graphics chip it makes a pretty good phone for 300$.Android?8.0 it's up to date for now.The AI. Comes with type c port ( yes. All I have to say is yes. Thank you moto! )AND we have a head phone jack! ( 3.5 mm )Extra( Ipx 67/68 ) I I believe this means that it is dust and waterproof and or resistant as for the screen and rear glass I believe it is Corning Gorilla Glass 3 and 5. 3 respectively being the screen and 5 being the back now I have dropped this phone several times and I bought screen protectors for that reason. I'm horrible at breaking phones, but it's held up I've literally dropped it on the back of the phone and kicked it across the kitchen that I work at and it was just fine. So tops to that!For the bad...The phone doesn't have the biggest battery ever.. it has an all day charge, but personally I am a power user and prefer a 5,000 mAh. But it is made up for with the quick charge ( Turbo charge as moto calls it ) so lose win it's ok.Selfi-cam.It's great and all but dosent do well in low light on it's own. BUT there is a good selfi light. Again it's ok.The speaker.It's ok. Not the greatest and chips out at high volume. Keep it at a mid and you good. Also it makes a good earpiece.So thats it. Thanks for reading!
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