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out of all the phones we've been playing with for 2017 the moto z2 force seems to be one of the more controversial internally here at pocket now I've spent my first twenty-four hours with this slim sexy smartphone and I've got some early thoughts to share cracking this thing out of the box it definitely gives off a startling first impression this definitely recalls that first hands-on I had with the original moto Z motor roll is only releasing one phone this year there are separate Z and Z force devices with different focuses for different audiences as far as Motorola is concerned the killer feature of the original Z force wasn't the larger battery was the shatter resistant display ultimately I think Motorola is correct in taking the most impressive features of those two phones and cramming them into one device but it wouldn't be a pocket now video if we didn't point out that that combination will come with a few compromises we shot some unboxing footage just so you can see what actually comes in the packaging and I am a little disappointed to see that there are few moments just like last year's Moto Z the two force does not have a headphone jack so we're going to have to depend on this little dongle here it seems to be the same audio hardware as what we had with last year's phones we're going to be running a real audio review just to test this out - but unlike HTC you're not going to get a pair of earbuds in the box and compared to last year's phone the other omission it's kind of bumming me out more than I think it really should last year's moto Z came with this faux wood panel back you could slap on didn't provide any functionality but it at least obscured these pogo pins you didn't have to worry about the sort of techie er guts of your moto Z being shown off no I shouldn't be too cranky there are a lot of deals out there to get yourself a moto mud in addition to the phone a lot of these pre-sales and pre-orders but there was just something really nice about a simple backplate covering which you know we've got this 360 camera that we're going to be cracking into and playing with also and I just don't see where I've got to take this piece off right there like get rid of that but I just don't see where I'm going to be keeping my phone like this all the time that's not to say that the z2 doesn't deliver a cleaner look than the original Z this brushed metal finish on the backplate this definitely looks nicer from an engineering standpoint it is impressive when you can hold this one up against an iPhone and it's significantly thinner and it feels thinner and it's not some trick of just bending glass but I'm not going to play that game is it too thin it feels good in the hand it feels sturdy and it's definitely going to impress when you hand it to someone else the Moto setup process is blissfully easy not a lot of extra stuff to turn through just one extra permission that you need to grant Motorola's custom software on board you're off and running and it's a very pixel like experience it's crazy snappy just sliding through the UI moving through home screens pulling up the Google now side bar I mean it populates really quickly and just buttery smooth and getting you from page to page obviously before I've waited it down with all of my various social media networks and multiple email accounts let's wrap up a few more of my concerns though this version of the plastic screen seems to have a little bit more of an oil slick like coating on top all of Motorola's shatter shield products have had a similar effect but this is a bit more pronounced than what I remember from the g-force last year and I hadn't been using the phone more than a couple hours before I already have a little nick in the upper left hand corner of this top bezel here that's disappointing I hope it's not indicative of this screen experience this is fresh out of the box it's one day old and I already have that one little thing that I can't unsee on the front face in this first day I also haven't figured this out yet the separation between the home button and the on-screen controls I was really hoping there would be an easy system to employ like on the Moto G 5 where you can use the home button as a multi-purpose button swipe it long press it double tap it and that would double as your back your home and your multitasking keys but I haven't found a way to activate a setting like that on this phone and I'm sure someone's going to school me in the comments and it's really easy to find and I just don't know where to look really early impressions but I'm already impressed by the dual camera system on the back of this phone this is already a noticeable improvement over my experiences with the first moto Z I'll be curious to see how it compares against the original Z force improving the clarity and contrast of every single photo you take as opposed to trying to implement kind of zoom or wide-angle feature and I got to say Motorola's camera app has been nicely simplified and refined very easy to get to your basic settings the viewfinder is free from a lot of distracting clutter and it's super easy to navigate very well done there I'm actually really looking forward to taking this camera out for a spin for our real camera review over 24 hours though I am already concerned about the smaller battery capacity while I was wrapping up another video this phone sat unused for almost six hours I was connected to Wi-Fi just updating a single email address I hadn't installed any other apps or logged into any other services and the phone drained about 10% of its battery now this is very early usage as his first day usage but that's not very confidence inspiring right off the bat there's a lot to like about this phone but I'm having a hard time shaking one of those core questions that I've had with every idea of the modular phone and there is something really cool about that idea for those times that I want to change the functionality of my phone I pop off the battery mod I slap on this camera mod and now I have a different device I have different capabilities when there are times I think I might want a 360 degree camera this takes up more space when I'm thinking about what I need to carry in my pockets or what I can throw on my wife's purse I absolutely trust that Motorola software game is on point that they're going to have some great features to use with this camera but when I want to carry an additional accessory with me just have a hard time not thinking that I could just pop in something in the USB port that could achieve very similar functionality and hopefully also take up just a little less surface area I have a lot of questions that I need to answer over the next week as we produce our full review on this phone and if there's anything that you want to know about this device definitely drop us a comment down below this video so you can get the full scoop on the Moto z2 force as always thanks so much for 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