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Motorola Unveils 4.7-Inch Moto X Smartphone with 24-Hour Battery and Touchless Controls
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Welcome back later. That's what happened to my friend after switching to Samsng. His next phone will be iPhone.
Not just that, plus how well battery lasts with voice commands used frequently and in parallel with other apps like playing games and maps.
Laypeople don't care whether the processors are overloaded.
Advertisement use cases are choreographed. Real use cases will not be so clean, effective and efficient. There is no magic here. The battery life and processors are not industry leading.
Yeah I know, I realized that too late. My mistake.
Actually I'm annoyed with the rumors concerning the price of the "cheap" iPhone. If it costs 300 $ or more, I'll definitely buy something else, and ... almost anything will do. Just need a new phone with a decent camera that works.
Jebus people, stop using empty arguments when you have nothing to say.
Every app you install on your iphone has same permission access needs it's just nobody asks you if you agree on that nor you see what the app is accessing.
Don't look for porn or shady apps and you will be fine.
We test apps for various purposes and from about 4500 we went through none was ever malicious.
Ignorance is not a bliss anymore. Just makes you look 10.
You actually believe there is a chance that the iPhone will cost less than 300$?
Save yourself the trouble and go buy that cheap phone you want right now.
Google voice recognition works pretty damn impressive in most environments. When my headset plugged in I can write a text/email while rollerblading or riding a bike. Very few errors and in two different languages (separately of course).
It's awesome
The Apple reviewers will check what resources the apps try to access. iOS will also pop up dialog if sensitive resources like the camera is accessed. There are also anonymizing tech to protect the ID of the user.
Plus anti-theft activation and other stuff in iOS7 to protect the users.
Not everybody has telekinetic powers... I for one had to use my hand to raise it to my ear...
Why on earth are they claiming 24 hour battery? That's just a marketing BS way of saying "it lasts a day with average use" which is the case for almost every major smartphone now. They know damn well it will be immediately debunked so why bother? There is no way in hell they got a 2200mAH to last anything even remotely close to 24 hours of usage when Motorola themselves make phones with higher capacity batteries. Unless of course they've mastered witchcraft.
Different languages have different accuracy. In Siri, I got people from different countries to try it out. Cantonese and Chinese are the most impressive. It got everything right. English is somewhere in the middle. More prone to accent.
I did another small test on the beta the day before, it's improved significantly. No mistake for my 4 test cases that used to fail.
Will try more next week when I have more time.
I wondered about that. Is that 24 hours of normal use or standby time? My current phone lasts a week if I don't touch it at all.
Considering the history of the iPods, I don't see why Apple wouldn't come out with a less powered phone for a much lower price tag.
The iPod Nano was made available to millions of young people who couldn't afford the Classic, it just didn't have all the bells and whistles.
So yes, I actually believe there is a possibility and a market for a 250-300$ iPhone. I hope so too.
Thoughts....
A bit of history:
I had a iphone 4, got bored and went to a Galaxy S3. The reasons i came back to an iphone 5 were:
What i didn't like about the S3:
What i liked about the S3/Android:
So after all this, if this Moto X does have the battery life its says and with the nice notification screen, it is a great phone. My negative points about working with Android (for me) would still be there, but this phone is now really showing what apple needs to come up with, and unfortunately i do think they're playing catch up at the moment. I'd like better mapping, better notifications and perhaps a slightly different form factor. I found the S3 was better in the pocket as it was thiner, so the wider screen didn't feel any bigger (until i typed on it, but thats my smaller hands).
A bit of history:
I had a iphone 4, got bored and went to a Galaxy S3. The reasons i came back to an iphone 5 were:
What i didn't like about the S3:
- S3 battery was awful. I even sent it back to Vodafone to fix and there were "not problems" with it, so i don't think i had a dud.
- Screen size for me was just past the boundary of practicality, using the edge to edge of the keyboard made it a 2 handed job.
- When your friends and family have iPhones, the photo-stream is great for sharing photos.
- Im quite in the Apple garden, so things like iTunes sync was do-able but not as smooth as having an iphone.
What i liked about the S3/Android:
- Google maps is better than Apple.
- Hangouts is great for me to keep contact with Android friends/family
- NFC
So after all this, if this Moto X does have the battery life its says and with the nice notification screen, it is a great phone. My negative points about working with Android (for me) would still be there, but this phone is now really showing what apple needs to come up with, and unfortunately i do think they're playing catch up at the moment. I'd like better mapping, better notifications and perhaps a slightly different form factor. I found the S3 was better in the pocket as it was thiner, so the wider screen didn't feel any bigger (until i typed on it, but thats my smaller hands).
Maybe if they provided a normal screen size, this would be something worth at least considering... Rest of it looks cool.
Very plausible.
Yes I can see this happening....
I can picture a hacker in his basement listening to hundreds of hours of random conversations. And waiting for someone to say their bank account number.
Yes I can see this happening....
I can picture a hacker in his basement listening to hundreds of hours of random conversations. And waiting for someone to say their bank account number.
I saw a news piece on this tonight on ABC. This is the first mobile phone Motorola has made in the US in over a decade. A number if the internals are US sourced as well. The factory plans to employ over 2000 people by the end of August.
All this said, I'm still waiting for iPhone 6...
Does it have the master key exploit fix ?
Odd that they can't use the latest Android since there is arguably no bloatsware or is there ?
My only turn off on this phone is the screen. I can't stand over-saturated screens. The price, I really don't mind since that would be the price I would pay anyways for any flagship phones.
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4.3 is very incremental anyways.
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4.3 is very incremental anyways.