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so we've been looking at the Motorola MOTO z3 this is the latest Motorola phone to work with Mont and Motorola and its partner Verizon have a very special mod in mind one that will support 5g data speeds correct with that modes' device is gonna be available to be upgraded to a 5g network which is gonna be available next year that means that it's gonna be much faster than 4G LTE which many of you actually are using right now so the funny thing then is that the phone goes on sale August 16th there is no 5g in the phone that will only work with mod and there are no 5g networks that's not gonna happen until early 2019 so in the meantime you just have a phone that runs on the 4G network and then even when those networks do start kicking up it's not gonna be all over the country it's gonna be one market at a time so what do you do with the phone in the meantime is it still gonna be valuable that's the question that I think buyers are gonna ask so let's talk about the specs this device has six inch screen Super AMOLED which is pretty nice besides if he has a snapdragon 835 which is last year processor it's kind of hard to argue that is the best processor since there's no drag on a 45 is available in many flagship devices besides this it has four gigs of RAM and 64 gigs of storage which is pretty average for the market right now and what about the cameras on the back so he has a dual 12 megapixel cameras but now one of the lenses is actually black-and-white which is pretty nice and then you've got that 8 megapixel front facing camera and you can still take portrait shots on the back right correct that's pretty good that's some average in many ways we'll see how works in the real life but it's good to see alright there's still no headset jack but the box will include a dongle so that you can listen to music using the USB C port it splash resistant it's not water resistant and if you want wireless charging of course you've got to buy the mod to do that so what else do we have on here we've got Android 8.1 Oreo and one thing that I always really like is it's got the ability to actually use just real navigation and replace those controls on the screen have you played around with it yeah he's very similar to iPhones in many ways and to Android P also a little bit ugly so he's probably getting a little bit confusing with Andrew P coming up pretty soon I don't know what Motorola is gonna do in the future but I think it's pretty confusing right now okay so I'm holding it in my hand we don't have any mods on this it has that typical feel for me where it feels like it's missing something what do you think about the design I think it's very similar to the Motor City play another Motorola devices what's nice is the disk range you know it has less bezel which is more modern more attractive for smart I agree but for that you need to have a different finger print sensor what happened this year well they put it on the side it's kind of like this trough cutout it's not a button and I actually really liked it I liked it on the Moto XIII play and you just kind of it's it's a very natural fit if you're right-handed your thumb just goes right there and it unlocks really quickly so I do like that another difference from last year's model the z2 force is that at the screen material right correct now is breakable he has got Gorilla Glass through he actually doesn't have Gorilla Glass 6 which of course is less resistant than the new generation that Cornyn announced this year and the z2 force also had sort of the coating on top of it that was supposed to be unbreakable it scratched I dropped it 26 times and you did see you know somewhere around the corners and things like that but it never did break and it's interesting to me that Motorola is pulling back from that promise and I think some of that might have to do with a trade-off of keeping the costs down this right now seems to me like a mid-range phone it's not gonna go against the iPhone 10 or the Galaxy S 9 and as you say think Motorola really is betting on 5g what's your if I don't take away well I would say that we need to wait for fugly exactly to see how well it works but for right now I think it's a great device maybe for the price but it's competing with the one plus six which it has a newer processor it has a similar price so we'll see what happens yeah and of course we can't forget that there are other flagship phones coming right around the corner we're gonna be looking for the pixel three phones probably in October a month before that we've got the iPhone next generations the 2018 iPhones and then of course Samsung is going to be announcing the galaxy new 9 on August 9th so there are a lot more phones to come and there's a lot of competition in this space so I would say we're gonna review these just stick with us and we'll let you know how it goes