[X Style (Pure) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zodwraith:
@ oneandroidnut

Every Andriod I've bought since the OG Droid shows a grip of issues across forums. Most people that buy a product and have zero issues don't scour forums looking to praise it, but you damn sure do if something is wrong. 2 XT 1575s here. Neither is abnormally warm but are noticeably warm while on the TURBOCHARGER. God I wish they would find a name for that that doesn't sound like it belongs in a sentence with BRAH. Both are silky smooth after bogging down with apps. Call quality is absolutely superb but that's heavily carrier related too. After coming off an HTC One M8 this thing is amazing. I've used a Note 4 but not a Note 5. After owning Samsung 4 times, HTC thrice and Moto 6 I'm probably going to stick with Moto. I've owned 4 Nexus devices and have grown accustomed to clean Android so the added Sense and Touchwiz is VERY obnoxious to me. Sure there's usable features in there but nothing that can't be tacked on yourself. I love Samsung's approach to hardware but can never feel comfortable in the touchwiz world. To each his own.

As far as your experience, you should absolutely return it. I've never had even mediocre call quality on any moto ever and it's really noticeably clear coming right off the HTC. First runs always have the highest fail rates before the bugs are worked out. I've never had zero issues on a new phone/tablet but I've only had these for about 10 days. I'm sure something will come up.

It really sounds as if you didn't want to like the phone in the first place and if you're used to TW, truly clean Android probably feels horribly gimped. My first Nexus device felt like that to me but when I got used to it I stopped thinking of it as barren of features and started to love the lack of crapware. Nowadays when the inevitable Samsung gets shoved in my hands for tech support I cringe when I punch the settings icon. If I could get my hands on a Note 5 Pure Edition with real CDMA receivers I'd happily pay $750 for it but since Sammy doesn't often go the PE route and never for Verizon that's not likely to happen. It's obvious you've already made your mind up and want an N5 so just buy it and stop bashing the people with no XPE issues cause you got a bum unit. The "everyone I know had horrible call quality" statement is the one that makes you really look like a troll. The night my wife's showed up I talked to her for 10 minutes then told her to put me on speakerphone so I could talk to the kids as well. To which she replied, "umm... You've been on speakerphone the whole time, the kids can already hear you". Horrible call quality the XPE does not have. It's typical Moto and I've missed it these last 18 months I've been on the One. If I had one complaint? There's too little bezel so I often misclick the edges with my palm as I'm reaching for a far corner but that's an issue on the Notes as well since I don't have gorilla hands. I'd hate to think how often I'd misclick on an Edge+. Shame cause that was my planned purchase before the XPE was announced. I rarely pushed the snapdragon 801 to it's limits so I wasn't concerned with losing 2 cores from the 810, especially when real world tests show even the newer iteration is still having throttling issues. I just couldn't ignore the $400 price and upon realizing it supported SD it wasn't a question. I pack far too much music on my phone and really NEED SD support. A $50 card is stupidly cheaper than opting for a 128GB galaxy.

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<~~~happy customer here. One from Moto direct and one from Amazon. Early Moto preorder showed up real fast and Amazon airmailed the 2nd although they're having stock issues now. YMMV with stocks being sketchy so soon after launch.