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so you might be shopping for a budget smartphone there's great news there's a lot of really affordable options out there I think a favorite I've seen is the Moto G this is an update to last year's Moto G and there are a lot of new things in it they make it worth your while it's got LTE if you were worldwide customer you could have gotten that before but in the US now this is the first moto G that has LTE it's also got an improved camera 13 megapixels on the back 5 on the front and it's water-resistant ipx7 so you could put this in water 1 meter of water for 30 minutes which means you could drop it in a puddle you could possibly take it in a quick bath or a shower but it's not really meant for swimming it's meant to ensure against dunks and accidental exposure to water this has some customization to like always moto likes to have some ability to change colors here this backplate can snap off and you can put on different colored backs you can also pick different colored trims here it's all made of plastic with a gorilla glass front but it feels really nice and solid there's a 5-inch display 720p which looks perfectly fine and it's running pretty much a pure Android this is android 5.1 point 1 and it feels so clean it's like using a nexus phone now the processor it's not that great it's a qualcomm snapdragon 410 similar to what was on the g before it's just not all that fast but it's fast enough to get your basic stuff done if you're really into playing games or doing a lot of work on your phone you'll feel that it's laggy compared to premium phones but the battery life is really good its water resistant feels nice cameras good and it's affordable this one hundred eighty dollars with eight gigs of storage and one gig of ram where you can pay up forty dollars and get one with 16 gigs and two gigs of ram that's the one I would pick there are a lot of affordable phones now that are unlocked the Moto G might be my favorite I'm Scott Stein at cnet with the Moto G 2015 my favorite budget smartphone you