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How does everyone feel about Motorola phones?

I have one of the Moto Edges, can't say I have many complaints outside of the slow charging and a dead pixel that developed a year in.

The edges didn't bother me as much as I thought it would, I can even use it as trigger to play Citra games which I couldn't do with a flat phone so that was nifty. Clean software, long battery life, but terrible update schedule though.

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  • @MargotRobbie Used to be decent value, but they've made a mess of it with far too many very similar models with pointless specs like 2-5mp macro lenses and such, also their update policy is abysmal, my motorola G4 play got left to rot lol. Not the only manufacturer guilty of this of course.

    I also think they should bring Ready For to as many devices in their lineup as they can. It's an interesting differentiator.

    • Let me tell you a secret: There are so many similar, redundant Moto phones because for their lower end devices, they are all build by different white label manufacturers and Lenovo just slaps a label onto them.

      • @MargotRobbie honestly doesn't surprise me, it just seems unhelpful, you'd think for all the inspiration most android manufacturers take from apple, they'd copy the lineup density. But nope.

  • I had a Moto X Style (Moto X Pure, Moto X 3rd gen) and moto x4. I still have the latter.

    The X Style had a 1440p screen, rubber back, dual front-facing speakers and infrared motion sensors on the front so that you would wave your hand over the phone to wake the screen to quickly glance the time or your notifications. It also had always-on Moto voice assistant and allowed you to set custom voice activation prompts. I had mine set to "Ok Jarvis".

    Unfortunately the display it had was extremely unreliable and faced horrible ghost touches. I got it replaced twice and both replacements ended up having the same issue after a while.

    I switched to a different phone after the X Style, and then once that phone died I got the x4.

    The x4 is very bare-bones in comparison, but it's the first phone that hasn't died on me/been killed by me. Nearly 4 years later it still carries on, despite some yellowing on the edges of the screen.

    I'm on a Pixel 6a now. I miss the Moto quick gestures, especially "double chop" for flashlight.

  • I have a Motorola Defy, and I love it; I dropped it countless of times, and the screen is still intact. It's a bit bulky and heavy, but I got used to it despite having small hands.

  • Moto G power, but a 2021 model. It's heavy and durable. I like the "flip three times to turn on the camera" feature. EDIT: Only thing I really care about in a phone is battery life.

  • I have Moto G5 Ace I got through my carrier, and aside from the lack of a physical keyboard (seriously why the fuck is this not a thing anymore?), I'm quite happy with it.

    I chose it specifically because it was the one phone I could get free with my plan that supports custom ROMs. I've got it running a bare bones LineageOS install, so no Google anything. It's runs the five apps I actually use and is massively overkill for that purpose. The fact that it's completely devoid of extraneous crap means that the battery life is incredible.

    I see myself using this thing for at least the next 4-5 years. Would recommend to my fellow turbo nerds who hate smartphones.

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