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so let me get the obvious out of the way right now I am NOT John Ranger my name is Robert Rosenfeld among the video team care TechnoBuffalo so you may also know me as Berto from Facebook or Twitter or Instagram or snapchat but this is not the time for self promoting I've been given the task the honor to review this Motorola 2017 flagship and I'm here to make a case for it I'm not here to say this is the most amazing phone on the market and that you need to go out and buy it right now but I'm not here to bash it and tell you about all shortcomings and tell you that you should just completely write it off but I'm here to make a case on why you should just consider it I want to give you the pros the cons share the specs and share my experiences with this phone and give you all the information you need to make an educated decision on whether or not this is worth your hard-earned money and at least a few years in your pocket so let's start things off with design this phone is sporting a 7000 series aluminum chassis and it feels really good in the hand it feels premium but it's also lightweight and durable there's a bit of a chin on the bottom where the fingerprint sensor sits there's a little bit of a space of top for the front-facing camera and the flash so it's not a completely bezel this phone but it doesn't have to be Motorola didn't go the essay route and it looks just fine I think it's a really good looking phone so the phone is comfortable in the hand it's thin and it's light but all that does come at a price last year's moto z4 s had a thirty five hundred millionth our battery inside and this year's newest phone that has all the latest and greatest technology packs a smaller twenty seven thirty million of our battery inside and as a significant battery decrease in capacity and it does show I use the phone heavily throughout my four days of testing with replying to emails and playing games and sending messages on slack and watching videos and I got through the day comfortably with about 10 to 15 percent remaining though it wasn't as much wiggle room that I would have liked the phone does support turbo charging over USB type-c but if you're going to be away from a charger or an outlet during the day the decrease in battery capacity is something to keep in mind I don't think it's a deal-breaker but it something to think about though the battery on this tone was a little bit of a disappointment the screen on this phone is anything but the z2 force has a quad HD Super AMOLED display that looks really good colours pop and they're super vibrant text is sharp and clear watching anything on this phone is a real pleasure and I really like to display I think on par with the other flagships currently on the market besides looking good Motorola's also built some rugged technology into the screen called shatter shield it should keep it protected from falling on the floor or falling facedown on concrete but it is a little bit more susceptible to Nicks and scratching if the phone displayed did happen to shatter motorola is backing up their claim with a 4-year warranty that will cover it so below the display is the built-in fingerprint sensor which I actually really like it's fast responsive it has some haptic feedback so it even feels like you're pressing a button and the big red sensor also is big enough to double as a gesture pad so if you want to remove those on-screen navigation buttons and just use the gesture pad to navigate your phone you can do that and it works pretty well on top the phone has a built-in earpiece which also doubles as its only speaker so if you want to listen to music or watch any YouTube videos it's good it gets loud enough but it's not going to give you any kind of 3d sound effect or carry a lot of bass with it it's okay for listening to some things but if you really want to listen to music on your phone I'd pick up a motor mod one of the biggest differences between last year's original motor z4 and this year's phone is the addition of a new rear shooter you now have two cameras to work with both are 12 megapixel both have an f/2 aperture but one shoots color and one shoots monochromatic which means it's she's completely black and white and it's cool for a couple of reasons Motorola says that this sensor data can be used to make your colorful images stand out with deeper blacks and better color data you can also go back and after the fact and choose which part of the picture is black and white in which part is color it's cool in that sense but I really don't know anyone who would rather have that over just throwing a black-and-white filter over their photo and getting a different focal length there's something else that could have been done with that lens to make it a little bit more interesting photos the phone took look really good colors are sharp and vibrant I thought the camera was on par with others on the market currently the front-facing camera is also pretty cool it has an 85-degree wide-angle lens which is cool for those selfies there's also a true tone flash if you're in a dark situation and all your friends are crowding around trying to get a selfie you'll have that flash to get that natural skin tone and buff up that selfie game let's talk quickly about performance this phone is certainly no slouch and it handled everything that I threw at it inside the phone is packed with a snapdragon 835 processor four gigs of RAM 64 GB of on-board storage so you can expand that to your heart's content up to 2 terabytes with the inclusion of a micro SD card slot throughout my days of testing I play games watch videos did a bunch of multitasking and messaging and the phone handled all of it quite well it's certainly no slouch it ran smooth like butter and I think you're going to be really happy with the performance you're going to get out of this phone so the biggest story with this year's Z 2/4 is actually going to be the same thing we saw last year with the original C for us and that is moto mods it's all about the motor mod and I think Motorola should be applauded for that the phone uses smart connectors and a series of magnets so that these mods can snap on super easily they're not intrusive they work right out of the box and they work really well and it's pretty cool to both these mods that were released with this new phone as well as last year's mods are all compatible so if you've got new mods this year they'll work with your old phone and vice versa now Motorola has some pretty cool motor mods that'll do just about anything and actually address a lot of foam shortcomings there's a battery mod that'll put all your battery worries to ease there's a JBL sound mod that sounds really good there's even a 360-degree camera mod that we had a ton of fun using in the office but you have to look at this with the bigger picture and understand that these mods are cool but you are buying into the Motorola ecosystem take for example the 360 camera it's a lot of fun but it's $300 and it's only going to work on these moto Z line of phones just take into consideration that when you buy these mods you're limiting yourself to just two the Motorola phones and you are going to spend probably a considerable amount of money on these mods though they can enhance your experience with this phone it's going to come at a price so let's get down to it if you're already invested in the Moto mod ecosystem and you have a phone that already supports these mods or you're really interested in this whole idea of Motorola's modularity I think the z2 force is a no-brainer it's a great phone it's fast it has really good cameras and there are some things I don't exactly like like the battery life but you can forgive that with how cool the phone is as an overall package especially with those mods but if you're someone who's a little bit skeptical of what Motorola is doing and if you really want the best value for your dollar I highly recommend taking a step back and looking at all the current flagships currently on the market and choosing wisely whether or not this phone is worth your hard-earned money and at least a few years in your pocket so what do you guys think is Motorola's idea of modularity enough to get you to jump ship over to the Moto mod ecosystem and there's z-force line of phones or are you going to stick with your current flagship are you waiting for something else to come out leave a comment down below and let us know what you think of this phone it's been a real pleasure thank you guys so much for watching this video I'm Robert Rosenthal Buffalo until next time see you guys later