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what's up everyone John Rechy from technobuffalo here I've been using the Moto X for about two and half days my daily driver not enough time for me to confidently do a full review but plenty of time to do a hands-on and first impressions let's get started so the Moto X has been kind of a polarizing phone since it was announced last week we've got this guy all decked up and kind of boring black on black a lot of you said the comments John why would you order a straight black phone answer is I didn't order this one this is the unit that Motorola was kind enough to give us a we conduct our review if I had ordered probably would have blue on the back and maybe crazy gold accents on the side I don't know but that is one of the positive things about the phone let's start there at the customization over 2,000 options for your phone just pretty neat usually limited to a few colors white black sometimes blue and red might come out a few months down the road but not that many optional the way customize your phone really was via cases so i love what Motorola stun be able to make your phone absolutely yours and that's a really innovative thing that they've done and I really enjoy it I'm hope that people take advantage of they use it and they get a phone that suits their personal needs the next thing I like about this phone is the build quality it is absolutely outstandingly build phone it's got plenty of half to feel significant and it feels like you are using a premium device I liken it to what the iphone 5 feels like what the nexus 4 feels like you know that you're using a premium device and I really felt that here with the Moto X a lot of people are making a big fuss about the specs and a lot of ways I get that it's not a quad-core phone for signing a two-year contract you want a phone that's going to last you for you know presumably the next 48 or so months so i can understand those concerns i will say though in my test this thing has performed as well as any quad-core device that I've used I've thrown some really heavy gaming at it I'm not going to reveal my benchmark score yet i'm gonna do a few more for i do the full review but it's about performed pretty much everything and performed on par with any other quad-core phone i've tested and certainly outperforms any other dual-core phone that I've used out there now if you can get past that spec war also some other cool things that it does so it looks on the surface like stock Android it's got some really neat features my favorite thus far is the google now feature and I've always loved Google now since its first announced I use it the time this one I'd have to talk to it so check this out ok Google now what's the weather in irvine california phone wakes itself hook it's 24 degrees in partly cloudy and irvine pretty freakin nia that ever happen T really touched the phone I could call my wife I could send a text message I could do anything that I want which is especially handy while driving cuz you should not be looking at the phone so that's kind of a really cool feature that they've done here with it another cool features on the software side it's something called moto connected to send to receive text messages from your computer I love that idea that with ichat when i used an iphone and i like that to do that again with another android device so one of the other big knocks on this thing is a price it is a hundred and ninety-nine dollars that is expensive for it's essentially a mid-range device but here's kind of the rub people want phones that are made in America you have to pay more for devices that are made in America there are Union cost labor is more expensive so that's really the reason that this thing comes in at 199 the question though is going to be in the hands of consumer do you want to pay that price for an american-made product you have a choice if you want to pay that price for making me a product you've got an option to customize it get what appears to be a pretty sweet phone if you don't want to pay that price you could pay something lower depending where you go for an HTC One or galaxy s4 and the option in the choice is totally yours that's one thing that I like consumer as of a choice no one's forcing you you don't handcuff on you and making you buy a moto x 42 years you have the option and i love that there is an opportunity now to buy American at least American assembles device which never existed really before so you know I give my hats off to Motorola for that I think it's kind of a cool thing that they've done so another issue 720p screen I am listen I'm a screen horror I'm going to knit it I'm more of a screen whore than i care about specs 720p screen here actually does look pretty good now i can tell by whole two side-by-side but it's not 1080p but i didn't take this home i'm looking only at this screen it looks really good i like it it to me dropping to a TV you go into your store you see two TV side by side and one clue looks better than the other but if you buy that less expensive maybe less quality one you hang it up on your wall it's gonna look great too got nothing to compare it to side by side same thing here the 720p screen looks really good nothing was pixelated nothing looked washed out the blackout was really dark that was a really white everything just looked really good overall about the phone to the screen let's have an issue for me than I thought it was going to be but one thing that I really don't like them on-screen buttons I don't mind how they work they perform well but they 4.7 inch screen Mary taking up so much precious space I wish I could use all of that space on the phone to do whatever I want to do I would have loved to have capacitive buttons here on the bottom but that is not the case I'm design standpoint really thin bezels I'd really like that as well and then enough bezels when I want to hold in portrait mode and top or bottom my fingers aren't going to touch anything but still really thin I haven't done thorough test yet of the camera I haven't done full battery life test yet but I will say it's been pretty a solid performer usually I have about forty percent in today with most phones act tested this has been right on par with that at least thus far I'll use it for a few more days then I'll do a full review anything else do you guys want to see about the foam if you leave them in the comments down below I love to hear your thoughts again it just started my first impressions and hands-on with the brand new Moto X please give the video a thumbs up I'm go stuff we appreciate it I am jon rettinger from TechnoBuffalo and I will see you in the next video bye bye what's up everyone it's ashley thanks so much for watching that most recent video if you enjoyed it please click on the word subscribe right underneath me to get tons of more tech videos from us here at technobuffalo we've got unboxings comparisons reviews recaps and everything else you can think of here 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