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hey what is up guys I'm cabby HD here and this is the Moto G you've probably heard of it by now if you've watched my videos but basically I don't tend to talk about the price of the devices that I'm reviewing in the video review itself first of all prices tend to fluctuate and something that's a bad deal one day could be a great deal in price the next so this is actually not one of those devices this moto G costs starts out a hundred and seventy nine dollars for this smartphone off-contract which is a ridiculously good deal and always will be a ridiculously good deal that's super low in terms of price for an off contract smartphone so why is it that cheap do you feel like there has to be something missing something wrong with it there's got to be a reason why the Moto G is so cheap so that's exactly what I've looked into and if you've watched my Moto X review earlier this year you probably know plenty about that phone already so the easiest way to tell you guys and show you why this phone is so cheap is to compare all the things that are different between the Moto X and the Moto G and that's exactly what we're gonna do so let's go ahead and get into that first off look at the packaging because it actually starts there in order to get a smartphone down to this ridiculous price that's accessible by almost anyone you need to cut every corner possible so the Moto G unboxing is super simple you'll just get the phone on top and a USB cable for charging and data that's it no wall adapter no headphones no SIM card ejector tool nothing fancy just the necessities and the same philosophy of course goes into the phone itself you don't get anything fancy nothing extra over the top at all just the necessities done very well but getting to the outsides of these two devices there are some physical differences between the Moto X and Moto G starting with the way it feels in the hand as the Moto G is just a little bit thicker and a little bit heavier than the Moto X the designs of the phones are of course super similar with the same back design and slight curve and used to hold in the hand and even the same awesome dimple that I love so much from the Moto X but the spec sheet will show that not only is the Moto G a tiny bit thicker and a tiny bit heavier but there's also some internal shortcuts taken for cost first of all Moto maker the customization of all the colors and the accents and built in the USA yet that's expensive so there won't be with moto G but there will be a sort of a do-it-yourself moto maker with a back that snaps off so you can actually take the back off the Moto G and replace it with another back end a number of different colors but something that some ruble back does not allow you to do is add storage or replace the battery so the only thing available is the slot for the nano SIM card otherwise you are locked into your 8 or 16 gigabytes of storage and that battery is non removable but speaking of that battery this is actually one of the most impressive parts of the phone physically it is technically slightly smaller it's a 2070 milliamp hour battery which is smaller than the one in the Moto X but in actual everyday use it's still lasted quite a while with great standby time an average of I'd say three hours or so of screen-on time which is enough to last a full day of regular use and I'm going to go ahead and attribute that to the other internals the operating system and aspects so running near stock Android 4.3 jelly bean here is the quad-core Snapdragon 400 and a full one gigabyte of RAM now these are obviously way lower end specs than the Moto X but in this price bracket a quad core chip is pretty ridiculous it's good to see it's the quad core version of the Snapdragon 400 and performance was also very impressive for the price I mean I was able to play some pretty graphically intensive games not in 1080p obviously but still without dropping any frames and it looks a very playable and I could also you know browse the web and multitask and open and close apps without a hitch now this is definitely not as quick as the Moto X don't get me wrong I mean you can tell that you're working with one gig of ram here it's not unbearable but you'll notice that things will take a little bit longer as if you're working with less ram and slightly less processing power in fact I'd say the biggest bottleneck is actually the processing power and not the graphics because sometimes I had press to open an app and the process would clearly begin opening on the screen but then graphically you'd have to use the processor to catch up to where the graphics had gotten to basically the responsiveness of the Moto X if the most if the responsiveness of the Moto X is a perfect 10 out of 10 the Moto G would give me about us seven so you're working with slightly different specs to get you slightly different performance but when you consider the hue difference in price well that's just something you gotta love now you're also working with a different display here on the front so moto G has a slightly bigger bezel all around the whole device and it's rocking a little smaller 4.5 inch 720p display and it's an LCD display instead of AMOLED now brightness and viewing angles were totally not a problem for this LCD display but colors were definitely noticeably different maybe a bit warmer and a little bit less accurate but definitely not on pleasing at all to look at just a little bit off now because this is an IPS display and a Snapdragon 400 not an X 8 chip you're gonna be missing a few of the biggest software features of the Moto X that rely on those things active notifications the twist to the camera and active listening so the active notifications from the X where you turn over your phone and get those few pixels that light up and indicate the time and your most recent notifications that stuff requires an o le D display to work properly and not kill your battery so you'll have to use the Moto G like a normal phone and the x8 chip in the X has sensors for detecting gestures and voice dictation but the Snapdragon 400 here in the Moto G does not have that so if you twist to try to open the camera like on the Moto G nothing will happen it's not listening for that and no matter how loud you shout ok Google now at it it's not going to respond because it's not listening for that either now I don't know how you feel about these features you may really really really want them or you may not care at all and I think chances are if you're picking up a sub $200 phone like this you probably are in the second category now there are three main things missing with connectivity on the Moto G number one is there's no 5 gigahertz Wi-Fi band kind of a minor annoyance if you ask me if it's such a cheap phone number 2 is there's no NFC and that's a little bit of a bigger annoyance for people and you know an NFC chip is really really inexpensive these days but again they're cutting corners everywhere to get to a price this low and number 3 there's no LTE now the Moto G is an international device and in a lot of the markets where you're gonna see this phone popping up and being really popular LTE isn't a big deal at all so this is actually not that surprising and NFC is sort of the biggest omission I think that you would expect to see in this device now the camera on the back of the Moto G is something that's really interesting it's made me reconsider a lot of the way I think about cameras and smartphones it's a five megapixel shooter so it's way less resolution than the Moto X or a lot of the other stuff we've looked at this year but obviously the quality is not going to be that great but if you care about quality if you care about the photo quality or resolution or video and you have $179 to spend you can go out and buy a decent $179 point-shoot camera on Amazon and it still might not take much better video or photo than the Moto G so if you think about it I'm really impressed that there is even a camera at all in the Moto G I remember the first Nexus 7 in order to hit that magical $199 price point didn't have a camera at all and we kind of dismissed that because it's a tablet but that's one of the emissions they made to cut down on price so the fact that the Moto G even has a camera at all that's even okay for one hundred and seventy nine dollars is incredible so basically at the end of the day what I'm trying to say here is the Moto G is an incredible deal for $179 you cannot buy a better smartphone period and availability is also really good when this device gets Android 4.4 KitKat which if you watch my interview with the CEO of Motorola Dennis Woodside he promised that this device would get it in January and I got the US version so I'd be waiting for that in January well this gets KitKat it's going to be an incredible phone even more than it already is KitKat has lower system requirements and runs better on lower-end devices and this is a prime scenario where you could take great advantage of that if you want to say my top 5 best features of Android 4.4 KitKat I'll have that link right below the like button but essentially there's a lot to love about this phone before KitKat and when it gets KitKat it's gonna be awesome even more awesome so when you need to think about whether or not this is the phone for you to buy for yourself consider the following question is this to you the highest end low end device or the lowest end high end device because if you're looking for a high end device this is not it and this is not really as the way I see it it's not the lowest end high end device I see it as the highest end low end device if that makes sense to you it is an incredible value it gets way better performance than any other device in this price for reference here's another phone that right now costs 179 dollars it's not something you want to buy right now but you can for the same price as you can get a moto G I think the choice is clear but it's up to you let me know what your choice would be in the comment section down below thank you for watching this video and I will talk to you guys in the next one bass you