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Moto X Cons/Pros IMO

Hi, this can be a base for new Moto X users coming from other smartphones.

Pros

1. Moto X has one of the smoothest and fastest Android experience you'll have with any smartphone today.

If you're coming from a non-nexus smartphone, you'll definitely feel that. Everything just works in Moto X. It's the smartphone with the nearest experience of an iPhone in terms of speed and smoothness.

2. Moto X feels great in hand. It has the perfect size for a smartphone.

3. Screen size is perfect, you can reach every corner without a hassle.

Although some users might feel the difference coming from a bigger screen, you'll definately get used to it in no time.

4. Good materials, it feels like you're holding a really well made product. Not just plastic stuff.

5. Twist to fast access to camera is great.

I'm still getting used to it, but accessing the camera without even touching the screen is very handy. I thought it would be too much of a hassle to do that movement every time, but it turns out you get used to it very fast, and that's pretty easy.

6. Touchless Control.

Although it's almost useless here in Brazil, I'll include that because is it's really useful for the main languages that it includes. I still use it to showoff though. :victory:

7. The speaker is one of the best I've listened so far.

It's one of the loudest, its quality is pretty good. Basses are good too.

8. Battery life is superb.

It lasts for your entire day and even a little bit more. Compared to my last phone, a S3, I can really feel the difference.

9. Battery charges really fast.

Within 2 hours or so, my Moto X charges from 0% to 100% with stock wall charger. Considering its battery time, it's an amazingly fast charge: 2 hours charge for a 24h+ usage. My S3 used to charge in 5h+

10. Fast updates.

This is not something that will certainly happen, but it seems Motorola is committed to bring us Android OS updates and improvements updates really quickly. Although it has not been released for my Moto X here in Brazil yet, it's been released for the Moto X faster than the Nexus devices. Let's hope they keep it like that for some years, and not just because it's the momentum smartphone.

11. Active Notifications.

The best thing invented after the wheel, don't have to say anything about this.

Cons

1. Onscreen buttons takes too much space.

Although Moto X screen size is perfect, its virtual buttons takes a lot of that space, and you might feel a big hit when coming from a 4.8/5" phone that has its entire dedicated screen.

2. Camera is terrible.

Coming from a S3, I definitely felt a big hit here. Camera takes a big time to shoot photos; it takes too long to focus; it takes pics with different tonality every time, it's even hard to shoot 2 similar photos from 2 different angles. Below is an example of that.

Camera software is not the best aswell. We don't have night mode, quality/px choice, effects, and so on.

Those 2 pics are not edited and were shot with the Moto X camera in practically the same moment.

3. Touchless Control doesn't work everywhere.

For example in Brazil, not all the commands are available and it's just useful to call for someone and check weather predictions. Despite using it to call for someone, we don't get audio feedback for any of the commands.

4. Too thin for 2 hands usage?

That's a real real personal thought, but although Moto X has the perfect size for a one-hand feel, I'm really having a hard time typing in the keyboard and I wouldn't blame if it was a little wider. The phone is thinner than the S3, that I used to rest both hands and type, and wider than a smartphone that we can rest one hand and use the other sidewards.

But I'm really sure it's something I'll get used to within some time.

5. No sdcard slot.

I'm yet to see if this will be really a down vote to me on Moto X, but at least in my old S3, I had to use a 16gb sdcard to store some extra musics and pics. The default 16gb was not sufficient.

Well, that's it. It's a really great phone and it was for sure a great improvement coming from a S3. I do miss S3's camera and physical buttons, but despite that and the listed above, there's nothing else I can blame this phone for.

Feel free to add your own opinions, cons and pros.