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hey guys this is Austin and today near the video going over why you're probably paying way too much for your phone earlier this year I reviewed the Moto G a phone that's a lot better than its price would suggest I honestly thought that was about as good as it gets on a budget but Motorola wasn't done there for $130 off contract the new Moto e is a very very good smartphone however this is only half of the story it doesn't make much sense to save all that money and buying the Moto e and spend $100 a month on cell service so for testing I went with simple mobile a prepaid carrier here in the US once everything is set up its totally seamless simple mobile uses t-mobile's network so you get coverage basically everywhere meaning you're really not giving up anything besides the camera I've been happy with the Moto ease performance and normal day-to-day use especially with the great battery life it comes in a design that's not too far off from the Moto X with the same nice curves and relatively small size which makes it feel great in the hand it is a bit on the thicker and heavier side but that doesn't stop it from being a very nice phone to use pop off the back and you can get at the microSD card slot which is important as the Moto e only comes with four gigabytes of storage out of the box if you want to customize the look you can buy different colored back blades which snap on and off without too much trouble now it's easy to get caught up in aspect comparison when you're shopping for new phone how many megapixels does it have how fast is the processor what resolution is the screen all these are important questions and yet they definitely don't tell the entire story if all you look at are the raw numbers the Moto e Falls a fair bit behind its more expensive competition as far as the internals go there's just no way $130 phone will match the specs that device is costing three times the price actually use the Moto e though and you'd be hard-pressed to notice a major difference at all to give you an example I have the Moto e side-by-side with the new LG g3 now the g3 is a very expensive phone it's very powerful it's better in a lot of ways how responsiveness is surprisingly close so we're going to open up the app drawer on both phones you'll see the Moto e actually has a slight advantage go ahead and hit the home button together right now about the same open up multitasking and jump into settings and you'll see that the Moto e absolute has no problem keeping up reven being just a little bit faster than a phone that's over five times the price part of the reason the Moto e is so responsive is that it's running nearly stock Android KitKat this paired with Motorola's lightning quick updates or something I wish everyone would just copy of course there are areas where the budget price is more noticeable the rear camera is a pretty unremarkable 5 megapixel shooter that lacks a flash or autofocus and produces pretty mediocre pictures it's the same story with the video so the Moto e tops out at 480p on the video side which actually isn't the worst thing I've seen however definitely would be nice to have a little bit more resolution one thing I will say positively about it though is that does a really good job of cutting out the wind noise so it is very windy where I'm standing right now however it does a pretty good job of dealing with it oddly there's no front-facing camera either not the end of the world but of all the things to cut this seems like a bit much thankfully a place Motorola didn't skimp is with the screen we're looking at a 4.3 inch display with a resolution of 540 by 960 it's not quite HD but it's got pretty decent colour and contrast with totally acceptable viewing angles and brightness they also switch to using a front firing speaker which was a great move giving you a lot more volume setting up a no-contract phone is pretty straightforward you can pick up the SIM card at a store or order it online and sample mobile sent out a combo card for both older phones and new smartphones like the Moto e just snap the SIM out of the package then pop the Micro SIM out of the regular size SIM card it's tiny but this is all you need to get your phone up and running on the network just pop off the back of the Moto e and will slide right into the phone super simple stuff you'll just need to go to the simple mobile website to activate things and you'll be good to go the entire process only takes a few minutes data speeds are pretty solved with the Moto e however you are limited to 3G now if you want even faster LTE service simple mobile actually does support that all you need to do is just make sure that you bring a phone that supports t-mobile LTE price-wise there's really not much competition take the Moto e on a normal carrier and you'll get around 2 gigabytes of data for $65 a month compared to 3 gigabytes of data for $15 less phones like the Moto e make it easier to completely avoid having to deal with contracts you get the same service with simple mobile and you can upgrade your phone as often as you like while it's not perfect overall I'm really impressed by what Motorola was able to pull off with the Moto e considering how much you're able to get for so much less it's really hard to justify spending six or seven hundred dollars on a phone and $100 a month for cell service so what do you guys think would you ever switch to the Moto e and simple mobile let me know in the comments below anyway guys thank you so much for watching and I will catch you in the next one