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hey what is up guys in qHD here alright we have some pretty great smartphones already like the Moto X style and the oneplus 2 that are under 400 bucks off contract but then the market for even less expensive smartphones under 300 bucks has heated up a lot in the past couple months Alcatel OneTouch Idol 3 Asus zenfone 2 the oneplus one has come down in price so Motorola's response to all this is actually really important to them moto G is like their baby to the point where Moto G was their best selling smartphone of all time so this is Motorola's real flagship sure the Moto X style and the play will have higher end specs on paper but the Moto G is the most important phone on Motorola makes right now so this is the Moto G 2015 attempting to up the quality from last year and keep the price low so to get it out of the way the price actually there's two models but starting at 179 so there's a $179 8 gigabyte model with 1 gig of ram or the $220 16 gigabyte model with 2 gigabytes of RAM I recommend the higher-end model that's what I've been testing so technically a little over $200 so to keep the quality high and the price low moto essentially has a stripped-down version of their more premium phones so there's plastic around the edges where there used to be metal it's a little bit thicker and more rounded than other flagships and it's missing little things like 5 gigahertz Wi-Fi or AC Wi-Fi and NFC now if this thing was being labeled a flagship killer or if it had a huge price tag then those would be pretty head scratching but it's not so it can forgive it it still has some premium parts though because these are things that come down in price over time so the Moto G has the exact same camera sensor from the Nexus 6 a 13 megapixel sensor no optical image stabilization and no 4k video though so I wouldn't expect a lot from it but still not bad you also get a little dimple on the back of the phone which yes again I'm a really big fan of and the whole back is actually pretty nice it's textured in a nice way where these ridges aren't so deep that they catch dirt or anything but they're enough to give a nice grip in the hand and the phone doesn't slide off the table or out of your pocket like some other flagships out there it also has a removable back and while the battery is sealed in you do get a micro SD card slot again pretty good and if you make sure to click down all the spots on the back of the phone correctly every time the Oh G is also ipx7 water-resistant so for up to one meter of water for 30 minutes which means it's good basically the handle splashes or rain which is convenient it's also rocking a front facing speaker now it's not the stereo speaker that I love from the Nexus 6 it's only on the bottom grille but even at that it's a front facing speaker if big it's loud it's hard to block by accident and it's much better than anything rear-facing or downward facing so I'll still take and other parts of the phone are more expected for this price so it's rocking at five inch 720p display pretty sure it's the same panel as last year's Moto G so it's not the brightest thing in the world but has okay viewing angles and it's an IPS display nothing noteworthy here and inside is a Snapdragon 410 which is a quad-core chip and a 2470 milliamp hour battery which is absolutely its best feature the battery life on the Moto G is absurdly good first of all it might have the best standby time of any smartphone I've ever used and that's saying something and on top of that I've never even gotten close to killing in a day and that's with my normal mkbhd use I don't take it easy I'm on Twitter all the time I get a lot of email plenty of video watching you can expect six hours of screen on time easily out of this phone no problem and the best part is if you have a light usage day which let's be honest a lot of Moto G buyers will have sometimes you can just not charge it that night and have enough juice to go the entire next day without any worries I basically love the battery on the Moto G this is also pretty promising I think for the Moto X Styles battery given it has the same software situation and didn't go the Snapdragon 810 so now the lightweight OS and the Moto G keeps the battery and the performance great and while this phone doesn't exactly bench much a performance is just fine again I'm speaking for the higher-end model here with the 2 gigabytes of RAM and handles normal use some multitasking having a couple apps open etc all without really hitching or stuttering Motorola is added a few features that may be useful if you decided to turn them on but you can also disable them although I didn't since they pretty much never triggered accidentally so there's the double chop to light up the LEDs on the back here for a flashlight which by the way really shows off the plastic build and the classic double twist for Motorola to open the camera other moto stuff flies in the app like recognising when you're sleeping or driving or like at a certain location and changing your settings accordingly honestly this moto G is a complete phone for the price tag it has LTE it has active display even though it's not an oled display with no hit to the battery it has an interchangeable back and of course if you want a little bit more color you can change out for a new one it doesn't have any major glaring things that you can point to and say okay well that's why this phone is so cheap I mean I think the display is I guess the lowest end part of the phone it's pretty dim and it's only 720p but beyond that you're getting a lot of bang for your buck here especially being a water-resistant and having a front facing speaker and a decent camera and a legitimately incredible battery life so basically what I'm saying is if I can use this 200 ish dollar smartphone as my daily with my use when I'm used to like five six seven hundred dollar smartphones and get away with it then it's more than enough for people who are only looking to spend 200 bucks so yeah do you have it this guy is basically top of the class for bang for the buck right now turns out you can't really go wrong with moto G thanks for watching guys and I'll talk to you guys in the next one peace