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this is David with Verge and this is the new moto G so this is the follow-up to Motorola's best-selling smartphone ever which was last year's Moto G it's super cheap it's designed to be like a high-end smartphone for everyone all over the world there's a few big changes to this phone the biggest one literally and figuratively is the five inch screen it's now five inch 720p display it looks really good it's an LCD it has nice viewing angles there's nothing terribly special about it but it's a good screen the other thing is all sort of small changes to the way that this works Motorola says they've spent a lot of time with customers talking about what they want in a phone and then built all that into here so one of them is these two speakers there now front-facing and they're much louder they actually sound really good the other big thing behind their removable back here this is another important thing for Motorola is having interchangeable backs they have 15 of them now and they tell me that there are actually people who buy all 15 and changed them all the time but anyway behind that is now an SD card slot motorola says it found that people use the SD cards to trade information to send things back and forth between devices and not having a slot in some developing markets was a real problem for this device so now it's here so really this now has most of the trappings of your average smartphone these days it has a lot less than the Moto X it doesn't have any of the cool voice features it doesn't have some of the always-on display stuff but it's just a very standard stock Android smartphone it seems to work really well it's pretty fast it has a quad-core processor these are the amazing things that you can get with a hundred and $79 smartphone now it works pretty well it's there's nothing terribly special about it again it's just basic sort of stock Android but it's a solid smart phone and for $179 which is what this costs and it's all over the world and it's hugely popular in a bunch of different markets this is about as good as you're gonna do for the price it's the new Moto G it's coming all over the world and it's pretty interesting for Motorola you