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The (maybe) "Epic" Motorola X Pre-Release Thread

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Just a little note -

This does not apply to the Nexus or the Google Experience versions of the HTC One or SGS4 - but -

The stock One and SGS4 each have a lot of extra software features, pretty cool and fair enough.

Those features take processing power. The Snapdragon 600 quad core handles them very well.

This phone has some unique whiz-bang features too - and X8, while only a dual cpu core, has separate, low-power cores to deal with those features.

Something the Snapdragon 600 lacks.

Just saying. ;) :)
 
What I'm most interested in seeing is battery life. So far, benchmark wise, it is holding it's own compared to the S4 and the One but if it can get all day battery life then IMO it's a winner
 
drhill said:
Really, they lost me when they didn't support wireless charging. I would have still considered a higher price, but I wasn't willing to give up a huge convenience feature for it. Now I'm hoping for a new Verizon Nexus phone... I must be insane.
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They could knock it out of the park with accessories like they used to do with the OG Droid / OG Droid X and car and home cradles that were very functional and were forward compatible the the D2/DX2 etc. Hell, make some decent cradles that are compatible across the X line and the price point of the phone gets more attractive as I don't have to completely accessorize with each upgrade.

You know how nice it would be to toss my phone in a cradle in my wife's car when I use it?
 
I am really looking forward to the iFixit on this one.:p

For a rumored device that we seem to know so much about it seems we don't know that much at all.
 
EarlyMon said:
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Comparing to the Nexus 4 - faster on graphics, faster on memory, faster on I/O - but due to the dual cores - slower on integer and floating point calculations. In a benchmark.
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the Nexus4 has a S4 Pro... doesn't the Moto X have the same processor? so shouldn't they integer and floating point calculations be same or close?

note: I'm not debating or arguing, I'm just trying to clarify and understand all these specs that come in a little handheld :) and how they compare to each other.
 
egDonald said:
the Nexus4 has a S4 Pro... doesn't the Moto X have the same processor? so shouldn't they integer and floating point calculations be same or close?

note: I'm not debating or arguing, I'm just trying to clarify and understand all these specs that come in a little handheld :) and how they compare to each other.
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The S4 Pro is a family describing a general class with the on-board world programmable modem - or without it - and different numbers and types of CPUs.

The one thing that all S4 Pro processors seem to have in common over the S4 Plus and S4 is that they have the high end Adreno 320 GPU.

The Nexus 4 had a quad of Krait 200 CPUs, as I recall.

The Moto X has a dual of Krait 300 CPUs.

Both have the Adreno 320, and both are called an S4 Pro.
 
The_Chief said:
Not sure. Really. I may just pounce on the standard one, depending on how long the dev edition takes to release and how much MORE it's gonna cost.
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Past history of Verizon Developer Edition devices are that they're exactly the same price, though release a little after the consumer version and are in short supply.
 
I wonder how much of the slowness in the One is caused by Sense. I would have liked to see how it compared side by side with the GPE of it.
 
jhawkkw said:
I wonder how much of the slowness in the One is caused by Sense. I would have liked to see how it compared side by side with the GPE of it.
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Modern Sense is fast and a foreground app should get the phone's highest runtime attention.

And even allowing for Sense being slower - the One is a quad.

Once again, I predict that you'll see no improvement on the GPE One. I'm just swagging that, but I'll stand by it.

Screens with fewer pixels push out game images faster, all else being equal.

The Moto X is going to have a higher frame rate.

And they've clearly done something right with memory and io.
 
EarlyMon said:
Modern Sense is fast and a foreground app should get the phone's highest runtime attention.

And even allowing for Sense being slower - the One is a quad.

Once again, I predict that you'll see no improvement on the GPE One. I'm just swagging that, but I'll stand by it.

Screens with fewer pixels push out game images faster, all else being equal.

The Moto X is going to have a higher frame rate.
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Yeah, I don't expect there to be much difference. I'll be the first one to say that I don't really see the need for 1080p on a 4.7" phone. I actually prefer it to be 720p actually for many of the reasons that Motorola is boasting about the Moto X. My eyes aren't good enough to tell the difference, lol.
 
jhawkkw said:
Yeah, I don't expect there to be much difference. I'll be the first one to say that I don't really see the need for 1080p on a 4.7" phone. I actually prefer it to be 720p actually for many of the reasons that Motorola is boasting about the Moto X. My eyes aren't good enough to tell the difference, lol.
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Likewise. :)

PS - even if there is a difference with the GPE One, it would be surprising if it's night and day. Either way, that was an impressive demo for something with so-called inferior specs.
 
sean76 said:
Wow! The X is basically faster...Very interesting!
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Yes right! :)

Now go RGB HD AMOLED, bigger camera sensor, and additional low power cores to handle the special features...

I'll still agree that this may not be the highest end device on paper, but I think we misjudged this calling it a midrange phone.

Curious, yeah?! :)
 
so is there defo no photosphere on the camera app? That apk i posted could have been genuine then.
Why not include it?? Its a killer feature!
 
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