{"id":20770,"date":"2013-11-26T11:01:29","date_gmt":"2013-11-26T17:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcitement.com\/?p=20770"},"modified":"2013-11-26T14:20:36","modified_gmt":"2013-11-26T20:20:36","slug":"moto-g-raises-the-low-end-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/hardware\/moto-g-raises-the-low-end-bar\/","title":{"rendered":"Moto G Raises The Low-End Bar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The high-end, on-contract end of the smartphone market tends to get the bulk of everyone&#8217;s attention. Unlocked phones tend to be either high price or have less than desirable specs. Motorola is trying to change that with the Moto G.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VunSqD1MOjE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">With similar styling to the high-end <\/span><a style=\"font-size: 13px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.motorola.com\/us\/motomaker?pid=FLEXR1#exterior\/backplate\">Moto X<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">, the Moto G has several small but important differences. The 720p screen is a 4.5&#8243;LCD \u00a0instead of 4.7&#8243;AMOLED. The camera is a mere 5 MP, half of the X&#8217;s 10 MP and it only records at 720P instead of 1080. TheQualcomm Snapdragon 400 is not the Motorola x8 system that Google has been bragging about, but it&#8217;s still a crazy powerful quad-core chip, and one you&#8217;re just not going to find on a pre-pay carrier for less than $400 . With these specs, one has to wonder what makes this phone low end instead of mid-range. The answer, of course, is network speed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Most people are going to have to decide if they can deal with the Moto G&#8217;s\u00a0lack of LTE. The $179 price may be worth it, especially if you live in an area without LTE. \u00a0An additional plus in the G&#8217;s favor is that it ships with Android 4.3 and is guaranteed to update to Android 4.4. That&#8217;s a big change from most low-end Android devices, which tend to sit at the same OS level, barring hacking.<\/p>\n<p>For $179, the Moto G beats out a lot of off-contract phones and features. If you&#8217;re considering such a handset, we suggest you take a strong look at this model.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The high-end, on-contract end of the smartphone market tends to get the bulk of everyone&#8217;s attention. Unlocked phones tend to be either high price or have less than desirable specs. Motorola is trying to change that with the Moto G. With similar styling to the high-end Moto X, the Moto G has several small but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,1917],"tags":[34,74,439],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20770"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20770"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20779,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20770\/revisions\/20779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}