Motorola: so many products!

[Papamalo]

While I enjoy the sleek LG V30 I recently purchased and hacked to be a totally hands free phone, (I mean from lock screen to opening apps, all using voice command) I must admit I still hold out hope of coming back to a Motorola phone with moto voice. It was in my opinion the best voice control program ever.
So far I haven't been able to find a motorola with specs much better than my dear departed motorola Moto X Pure, which had
Camera: 21MP
RAM 3GB
But best of all......MOTO VOICE.
I said it. Moto voice was so good I didn't even need to say "Ok google" and I could make my phone wake up from a lock screen, and no matter what app I was in it would still respond.
It's four years later, and motorola has added a measly 1-3 GB, (GIVE US 8GB) on a phone with a significantly lesser quality camera, but basically I thought you Moto heads might know.
Which is the phone with the highest specs that has Moto Voice?

Thanks!
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[The_Chief]

I still have my MXPE somewhere around here as an emergency spare, but I can relate with your frustration over manufacturers removing really useful features to make room for not-so-useful features. For example, Samsung removed S Notes, which was a phenomenal app that used the S Pen to take down notes... and then actually link it to a function. For example, I could scribble someone's phone number down; and later, call up that note and S Notes would read it as a phone number and give me the option to call it or add to contacts. But no, that's too useful to keep!

 

[Clementine_3]

My sister has my MXPE and I must admit I sometimes miss it. I loved the few things Moto added, they sure did come in handy. I have a Z2 Play sitting here as a backup, it's a nice phone but I'm really loving my Essential. Le sigh, the chase is always on for the perfect phone that really just doesn't exist.

 

[Papamalo]

Yeah, this "one step forward while reducing essential specs popular in last years version", is a dumb strategy.

If the Motorola Moto x had simply designed a plus version with a bigger screen and more RAM, I would have jumped on the Moto bandwagon.

I finally trained my LG V30, (I bought it specifically because it could unlock on a voice command) to unlock at my passphrase, and then I can say "OK Google" to activate it.
However, "google voice assistant" is notoriously unreliable, and even adjustments to the text to voice, or app-to-voice functions, like speeding up the speech rate or changing the tone pitch, only work on some of the functions in the GVA.
"Google voice assistant" is like a drunk accountant who only shows up when they want to and does shoddy work.

So far I am not impressed. It was a better market for these function four years ago. SMH.
Thanks all for listening to my sad tale of woe. Lol. First world problems.

 

[Papamalo]

My sister has my MXPE and I must admit I sometimes miss it. I loved the few things Moto added, they sure did come in handy. I have a Z2 Play sitting here as a backup, it's a nice phone but I'm really loving my Essential. Le sigh, the chase is always on for the perfect phone that really just doesn't exist.

Actually, I thought the Motorola Moto X Pure was perfect, they just never updated it. boo hoo poor me. lol