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so I want to do something a little different with this video this is the new Moto e and this is going to be my only phone for the next week the thing you have to keep in mind is that the Moto e is a very very budget oriented smartphone we're talking about $150 here this is a version with LTE a little bit later on there's going to be a $120 version that does not have LTE so the battery life probably won't be too bad on the Moto e we'll find out but the camera I'm holding worried about so instead of having a removable back panel we actually have the removable bezels so once you pop it off you'll be able to see on the right side you have the option for a micro SD card which is important although not quite as much as on the original Moto e which only had four gigs of storage this comes with eight gigs out of the box which still isn't a lot so if you're gonna be using this you'll probably want to throw in a micro SD card but for my weak little test I think I should be fine and because the bezels are removable that means you can swap them out with different colors so I have the white and red combo here which actually I think it looks pretty good in person I just friends it's really echoey in here so first impressions are the screens not bad so with it's not even HD it's 965 540 but but considering that the screen is only 4.5 inches it actually doesn't look bad I mean yes if I look closely I can absolutely see pixels but $450 I'm not complaining so after one day with the Moto e I've got to say one thing this is an awesome size for a phone now I really like the original Moto X and this is almost the exact same size it's a little bit thicker and slightly bigger in a couple dimensions but overall especially coming from the iPhone 6 plus this is awesome actually fits in my pocket it's really easy to kind of just hold and use in one hand performance really isn't bad now I think a lot of this has to do with the fact that's running stock while we pop which makes a huge difference so today was a travel day in the Moto we did great so I decided to take along the Moto 360 today which is kind of funny considering that the watch costs $100 more than the phone without a great combo one thing I really appreciated today was having LTE something that the original Moto e and even the current Moto G lack so I'm traveling especially in busy places like airports usually that's really difficult to get a decent signal however because it has LTE was actually able to do just fine I was streaming YouTube you know the catch up with Twitter all that kind of stuff no problem all day long but I like is also still really impressing me so I'm really using the phone all day to listen to pond music as well as keep up with Twitter and all that kind of stuff I've still got 25 percent and that's all 4 hours of screen on time now the phone did get slightly laggy on me a couple times today usually when I was multitasking sometimes would freeze for 3 4 maybe 5 seconds before finally catch up now this is a lower end phone and it only does have one gig of Bram's it's not a big deal and it only happened maybe like two or three times in the entire day but you can sometimes notice it's really trying to struggle to keep up so this is the Moto e this is $150 phone what do you think the front speaker is definitely a nice feature that I kind of wish that we had as well cuz I will I will turn on like a podcast or something and if I don't want to have earbuds or something and I'm on the run I don't have my Bluetooth speaker I'll just turn it on just to have something oh no I want to focus on my face okay it's just really great it's really great it's like VGA it's really grainy considering how much makeup okay I mean seriously hey you know one yeah good oh see daddy that's how thumbnail so it's a five megapixel camera but the thing is the last one didn't even have autofocus it was really bad this one at least has autofocus it's not terrible I'm impressed I'm impressed that this phone is $150 like total not like with a contract so tomorrow is going to be my last day with the Moto e I think the thing that's really jumped out at me most about this is that there really are no major drawbacks sure it's not the fastest phone in the world doesn't have the best screen or the best camera but I've used this just like we'd use any other high-end smartphone all week long and it is not let me down so after one week with the new Moto e I think the verdict is pretty clear first of all this is a major upgrade over the original you're getting LTE better specs twice as much memory a much better rear-facing camera and an actual front-facing one is it perfect no over $450 it would be hard-pressed to do much better so I'm interested to know what do you guys think about this format for doing reviews that will be sure to let me know in the comments below and if you enjoy a Mike Schmidt few more anyway guys thank you so much for watching and I will catch you in the next one