breadnatty08
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That is one busy notification bar!
But it's not as bad as that stupid menu bar that takes up WAY too much space!
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The (maybe) "Epic" Motorola X Pre-Release Thread
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But it's not as bad as that stupid menu bar that takes up WAY too much space!
AntimonyER
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That is one busy notification bar!
I know, it's annoying. Between tasker, Pebble, and gsam on full time it has 2 empty spaces.
I know, it's annoying. Between tasker, Pebble, and gsam on full time it has 2 empty spaces.
Why don't you just hide the tasked notification?
Ditto on Gsam.
halon
hakuna matata
I don't believe the part about a 2,000 mah battery.
http://m.androidauthority.com/motorola-x-phone-specs-mean-nothing-242398/
http://m.androidauthority.com/motorola-x-phone-specs-mean-nothing-242398/
Well I'm glad that stuff doesn't matter to the author. It DOES, however, matter to me. I will not trade in my Nexus for a smaller screen and exact same battery just for some whiz-bang user experience. May as well buy a fruit phone.
Nor do I like a device that is ALWAYS listening to me. Who's listening to IT?
Nope. I'm taking this with a pile of salt... but the more I learn about the X, the more I dislike it
halon
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jova33
Android Expert
The NSA!
RIGHT!!!!!
I really wanted this to be the "hero" phone or super pocket PC it was hyped up to be. Now it's sounding more and more like the Xbox One. It doesn't matter if you pump half a billion into advertising, it's still not going to sell like they're hoping it will. Even with the latest and greatest software, it's not going to run it as good as one of these powerhouse flagship phones.
Please define "not run as good." 
jova33
Android Expert
Well a year down the line, will the Moto X run Android 5.0 as good as an HTC One or Galaxy S4? Given the life of a cell phone seems to be about two years before the OS and app updates make it feel dated, and the Moto X isn't at par with the other flagship phones hardware wise.
I mean, a white guy can run as fast as he can til his heart gives out, but an Ethiopian will beat him without breaking a sweat. Just saying, the Moto X doesn't have the hardware to compete in the long run.
I mean, a white guy can run as fast as he can til his heart gives out, but an Ethiopian will beat him without breaking a sweat. Just saying, the Moto X doesn't have the hardware to compete in the long run.
Will it run the future Android extremely well 18 months down the line?
Yes. I believe it will.
The One and the SGS4 run far more than Android. Blinkfeed, air gestures, the whole bit.
Will this run Android as fast as a quad core?
No.
But there's no reason that it won't run it very well.
PS - not sure about all white guys and all Ethiopians.
Yes. I believe it will.
The One and the SGS4 run far more than Android. Blinkfeed, air gestures, the whole bit.
Will this run Android as fast as a quad core?
No.
But there's no reason that it won't run it very well.
PS - not sure about all white guys and all Ethiopians.
DirtyDee
Android Expert
Hands-on Moto X video: 4.7-inch display, dual-core Snapdragon S4 Pro? This seems intresting like it runs on par with quad core but you know benchmark apps
Debunking time.
My S4 dual core processor at 1.5 GHz comes in at 25408.
Add 13.333% clock speed increase = 28976.
Add about 14% efficiency increase of the next generation Krait cpu = 32827
The benchmark result was 34715.
Nearly the same as my linear prediction.
And near the results of the quad core Snapdragon 600.
Conclusion - there's no doubt that the benchmark is incapable of assessing a fully powered quad core Snapdragon 600.
The Moto X is clearly running a Qualcomm S4 Pro.
Without any secret sauce whatsoever.
The real news in the article that they've overlooked completely - it's sporting both temperature and pressure sensors.
DirtyDee
Android Expert
I noted a lot of sensors and thanks for that debunking
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Contrast this phone's capacity for use in the future with the LG Optimus G2, which I desperately hope comes to Verizon just to make my decision-making that much more miserable:
5.2" 1080p screen, Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor @2.3 GHz w/2GB RAM. 13MP camera. Power & volume controls on the back, and on-screen soft-keys. Nothing but glass up front and plenty of it.
Sure, the Moto X is a capable phone... but how long will it remain so? What if Android 6 does away with capacitive button support (doubt it, but it could happen)? Seems like the G2 will remain far more capable and "future-proof" than the Moto X, and they're being released at the same time.
Thoughts?
5.2" 1080p screen, Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor @2.3 GHz w/2GB RAM. 13MP camera. Power & volume controls on the back, and on-screen soft-keys. Nothing but glass up front and plenty of it.
Sure, the Moto X is a capable phone... but how long will it remain so? What if Android 6 does away with capacitive button support (doubt it, but it could happen)? Seems like the G2 will remain far more capable and "future-proof" than the Moto X, and they're being released at the same time.
Thoughts?
DirtyDee
Android Expert
Mine are I can't afford a flag ship, the moto X and it's moto magic seems to be looking like a pick for me. The G2 looks to hit that 650 range off contact I don't do contracts. Now if the nexus is based off of the g2 this year it will be scary as a Google flagship or maybe Motorola will spec out a beast silently in the coming months just slip it passed the FCC.
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Not subject to future proofing - camera megapixels, button placement, screen size and soft keys vs capacitive.
Why on the capacitive? Because Google would fallow too many Open Handset Alliance phones, including their own.
Ram is the same.
You're gaining faster quads of likely the same generation and an Adreno 330 gpu with the G2.
Android is a symmetric multi processing architecture because Linux is.
That means that it can gain efficiency as number of cores increases but it doesn't require a specific core count by design.
That's precisely why we never needed new apps when the first dual core processors hit. The design of apps with threads of execution that were parallelizable and ditto on the underlying Linux in Android made app rebuilding and design unnecessary. Same thing with the quads.
The G2 sounds better and more beastly, and if your gut says to go with it, I sure would. I bet for many apps it will run circles around the X. It'll use more power doing so, but that's no big deal in my opinion. We all expect that when you increase speed.
To date, the only apps that I've seen insisting that they need a quad were the Tegra Zone games. Which were promptly made available for phones with the Snapdragon S3, their first dual core from 2011.
If price, heat and power consumption aren't major factors in the final handset, then by all means go with the Snapdragon 800. It'll perform better.
But as far as safe for 2 more years, my opinion is that they're going to be equal.
We haven't seen what the Tegra 4 and other yet to be released processors will do to the landscape either.
PS - I think that the real drag on future proofing for the X is its 16 GB of storage.
Won't bother a lot of users.
Will bother a lot though too.
Won't bother a lot of users.
Will bother a lot though too.
DirtyDee
Android Expert
Seeing as I have trouble using 4 GB on my motion with 16gb SD card I think that won't bother me to much since I don't play games and keep my pictures on Google plus and stream my music from play all my important things are on a cloud or two Google drives ubuntu etc all free stuff off course and I don't watch movies on my phone so my needs will be met with 10gb for me to use
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Grabs my 32GB GNex on which I have done zero maintenance (e.g. purging images, nands, etc.) for storage since I got it on release day. 21GB free still. If I can keep my unlimited data I think I'll survive in a 16 GB phone.
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halon
hakuna matata
I thought the S4 was quad core?
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