Motorola Moto X - Specifications. Motorola Moto X - Specifications Mobile technologies and data transfer speeds
Motorola Moto X is an iconic phone no matter how you look at it. With its appearance, it marked the beginning of closer cooperation between Motorola and the search giant Google.
A smartphone that is positioned as a flagship in terms of price, but in terms of hardware it is more similar to last year’s flagship. Smartphone, appearance which can be customized to suit you even before it leaves the factory assembly line. A smartphone that does what no other phone can do. What is this Motorola Moto X really like?
| Motorola Moto X | |
| CPU | Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro (MSM8960Pro) 1.7 GHz Motorola X8 System (SoC+NLP Processor+Contextual Processor) |
| Screen | 4.7 inches AMOLED (RGB) 1280×720 |
| RAM | 2 GB LPDDR2 |
| WiFi | 802.11a/b/g/n/ac, BT 4.0 |
| Storage device | 16/32 GB, 2 years 50 GB Google Drive |
| Interfaces | microUSB 2.0, 3.5 mm, NFC, Miracast |
| OS | Android 4.2.2 |
| Battery | 2200 mAh, 3.8 V, 8.36 Whr |
| Dimensions / Weight | 65.3 x 129.3 x 5.6-10.4 mm, 130 grams |
| Camera | Main 10 MP Clear Pixel (RGBC), Front 2 MP 1080p |
| Price | $99 (16 GB), $149 (32 GB) with 2 year contract |
Design
Describing the design of the Moto X is extremely difficult, despite its simplicity. By the standards of 2013, Moto X can be classified as a compact phone. Although, I am sure that during the first Samsung Galaxy it would be classified as a “shovel”. Almost the entire front part is occupied by a 4.7″ screen with incredibly thin side frames. At the top of the screen there is a speaker grille, a front-facing 2 MP 1080p camera and light and proximity sensors. On the bottom indentation there is only a microphone hole: physical or touch buttons are missing. On the right side there are power buttons and volume keys, and on the left there is a nanoSIM tray (as in the iPhone 5/5s/5c), which can be removed using the included “clip” tool. The entire front panel appears to be one solid piece thanks to the seamless welding of the screen and front frame. If you look closely, you can see small ridges on the top and bottom of the bezel that prevent the screen from touching the table surface when the phone is lying face down.
The back cover is non-removable and has a curved shape. The seam between the front and back panels is clearly visible, apparently, this is how ease of assembly of “custom” Moto X designs is achieved. The front and back parts are connected with latches and glue, depending on the buyer’s choice. The curvature of the back of the Moto X is difficult to describe. The smartphone looks very natural, has excellent ergonomics and fits very comfortably in the hand.
It is noteworthy that the entire space under the complex bend is occupied by a non-removable 2200 mAh stepped battery, made using Lg Chem technology. The material from which the back cover is made, although visually it has the texture of Kevlar, feels more like soft-touch plastic. The phone does not slip in your hands, and it collects smudges and fingerprints much worse than its glossy counterparts. Also on the back cover there is a 10 megapixel camera, an LED flash and the Motorola logo in a round recess. At first glance, this recess should not have any functions, but during a conversation it is very convenient to place your index finger in it, and when you take the phone out of your pocket, it is good to determine what orientation it is in now. The Moto X has three microphones: one at the top, next to the headphone jack, a second at the bottom at the back, and a third under the screen. To charge the Moto X, use the microUSB connector located on the bottom.
In your hands, the Moto X doesn't feel like a cheap phone, that's all. Nothing creaks or crunches in it. It also doesn't feel fragile. I don’t want to quickly put it in a case and protect it. This paradoxical feeling, for example, is caused by the iPhone 5s, which is assembled very firmly from high-quality materials, but at the same time you want to immediately protect it with a case. I had completely the opposite feelings with the Moto X - it looks durable and stylish enough that even a thin case would ruin its exterior. Given the current trend of larger flagships, the Moto X seems like a real treat for compact phone lovers.
Regarding assembly, after two weeks of very hard use, my copy of Moto X began to creak slightly in the area of the power and volume buttons.
Screen
The smartphone has a Super AMOLED panel with a diagonal of 4.7″ and a resolution of 1280×720. I don't like AMOLED screens, but the Moto X doesn't have the worst screen I've seen with this kind of technology. Firstly, in terms of RGB arrangement, this is not PenTile, but the so-called S-stripe (officially, this term is not used by companies to describe such an arrangement of pixels). This type of pixel arrangement was first used in Samsung screen Galaxy Note 2. The Moto X screen is essentially a smaller version Galaxy screen Note 2. Due to the difference in diagonal, the Motorola screen looks better than the Galaxy Note 2, but its brightness reserve is noticeably greater (318 Nits). Despite this, on a sunny day, almost nothing is visible on the screen, and you need to look for the shadow to see at least something. Automatic brightness works very smoothly and adapts to the ambient lighting almost imperceptibly to the eye. The screen looks very good indoors, with excellent viewing angles, rich colors and high contrast. Speaking of colors: traditionally for AMOLED they are obscenely oversaturated, but at the same time the color temperature remains at a reasonable level. The screen does not fade into blue, red or green shades - everything is within the acceptable limits. True, there are also traditional AMOLED artifacts - at minimum backlight, gray appears a purple tint, and if you arm yourself with a microscope, you can see colored halos around white letters on a black background. But if on the Galaxy Note 2 this flaw was clearly visible without a magnifying glass, here it is successfully hidden by the smaller screen diagonal. 1080p screens are becoming a hallmark of modern flagships, and in this regard, the Moto X looks lackluster with its 720p.
But the presence of honest three RGB sub-pixels with a 4.7″ diagonal gives us a density of 312 ppi, which is certainly not the crazy 450+ that we are used to seeing in the latest new products, but this is quite enough not to complain about the lack of screen clarity. Don't get me wrong - there is a difference, and it is not in favor of the Moto X, but from the point of view of everyday use it is absolutely not critical and is not as obvious as it seems when directly comparing the numbers. In any other situation, I'd prefer nicely rendered 1080p IPS screen, but Motorola was faced with the task of balancing hardware power, autonomy, physical dimensions, and also implementing proprietary “Active Notification” technology, and in this case similar choice quite justified.
Sound
I attach quite a lot of importance to this point in phones. Nowadays, when a smartphone acts as a phone for 5% of the total time of use, it is customary to ignore this parameter. Moreover, both from the OEM side and from the reviewers/consumers side. The Moto X, despite its single external speaker, sounds very tight and good. I was pleasantly surprised when I heard it for the first time. The phone may be missing low frequencies and stereo, as in HTC One, but that doesn't stop it from sounding loud and clear. The quality of speech transmission is excellent, both in conversational dynamics and in speakerphone mode. When playing music, the sound in the standard player is also excellent, and the presence of an equalizer (for both headphones and an external speaker) is also nice. In general, the voice quality alone makes me think about purchasing this smartphone as my main device. I make a lot of calls at work, and with the Moto X I feel much less tired from talking.
Design conversational dynamics also contributes to comfort: when other phones are certain time begin to cut into the ear with a sharp edge, Moto X does not cause such sensations. Intricate shape back cover allows you not to block the external speaker when the phone is lying on your back.
Performance
The Motorola marketing department had a difficult task - how to count processor cores so that 2 turned into 8. In the process, the “X8 mobile computing system” brand was created. 8 cores were obtained by adding 2 Krait 300 CPUs of 1.7 GHz each, 4 Adreno 320 graphics processors and 2 auxiliary processors for processing natural language and context dependence. I am sure that if the marketing department gets to know the engineers even more closely, it will be possible to count all 12+ cores. Thus, a buyer who thinks in terms of “cores” should be satisfied with the potential performance of his phone and not suffer from attacks from friends whose phones boast 4-8 cores. In my review, I already said that the industry made the leap to 4-cores too early, without fully revealing the potential of dual-core solutions. The presence of X8 in Moto X does not upset me at all, rather it even makes me happy.
The Moto X's CPU is a Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro MSM8960Pro with two Krait 300 cores operating at 1.7 GHz each; the GPU is an Adreno 320 (400 MHz). The performance of such a combination is not just enough - in most cases it can easily compete with modern quad-core flagships from other companies. All this, of course, contradicts logic, but here you need to understand that the Moto X screen is 720p. Also, “performance is saved” by the relatively high (1.7 GHz) frequency of both cores, which is maintained for a longer period of time than other flagships. While your beloved SGS4 most of the time runs on one core with a frequency of 1 GHz instead of the four 1.9 GHz promised to you, Moto X is trying to keep high frequencies both cores.
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Potentially, this approach has a worse impact on autonomy, since every +100 MHz processor- this is a significant increase in energy consumption. However, we get performance from the Moto X that is close to modern flagship solutions, and in some tasks even surpasses them. The absence of four cores in the Moto X needs to be specifically looked for to be noticed. Personally, I didn’t notice any slowdowns or lags either in the system itself or in the games. Moto X uses file system F2FS, which in addition to improving the overall level of performance is also immune to the number of overwrites and works better in conditions where the drive is very full. All these elements, as well as the lack of a huge number of add-ons in the OS itself, make the Moto X a very fast phone. Not the fastest on the market, but significantly faster than most people would think when reading the spec sheet.
Android OS – Clean, but not fresh
Moto X does not work at its best out of the box latest version Android 4.2.2 JB. Those who say that the Moto X runs on “pure Android” have either not seen pure Android, or have not held a Moto X in their hands. Visually, it really looks like a real default Android, with the exception of a few differences. The panel with on-screen buttons is in most cases translucent (as in Android 4.4 KitKat), and the elements in the notification panel and curtain are arranged slightly differently. Also, quite a lot of items have appeared in the settings menu that relate exclusively to proprietary Moto X technologies. The camera UI has undergone changes in better side. In addition, unlike stock Android, all localizations, including Russian, have been removed from Moto X. This is a completely logical decision, given the complete lack of adaptation to Russian of many proprietary Moto X technologies. But to summarize, the Moto X firmware is truly the most insignificant customization of stock Android that I have ever seen. It is noteworthy that, according to rumors, the Moto X will not be updated to 4.3, but will go straight to 4.4 KitKat.
Autonomy
Motorola beat itself in the chest and stated that the 2200 mAh battery of the Moto X will be able to work for 24 hours without any problems. Quite a loud statement and everyone immediately begins to think that he will work for so long with the screen on. The reality turned out to be much less rosy. In my case, under heavy load in the form of synchronizing two gmail accounts, working as an LTE access point, hours of talk time, the phone offered to charge itself after 8 hours of use. In moderate mode (Internet, Twitter, G+, YouTube, one account and Wi-Fi/LTE) it quite easily survived until the end of the day and showed 2.5 – 5 hours of screen time. Screen brightness was controlled automatically all the time. By the way, in all cases there is a charge leak caused by the “Android OS” process, which makes no sense and sometimes exceeds the power consumption of the screen. I spoke with François Simon (a fairly competent XDA developer) about this and he suspects that this behavior is caused by a bug on the side Google servers, and that recently something similar has also started happening to him on several devices. According to unverified data, this problem has been fixed in Android 4.4 KitKat.
In general, autonomy is not revolutionary, but quite acceptable for a phone that “constantly listens” to the user’s commands.
Camera
The Moto X camera gives me mixed feelings. On the one hand, it is the first to use “clear pixel” technology, which, without going into technical details, allows you to get less noisy photos in low light conditions. On the other hand, Google engineers have not yet been able to make this technology work to its full potential; in the first version of the commercial Moto X firmware, the camera produced completely insane results, and after the update, the sensor seemed to be replaced out of the blue and the number of cool photos began to grow rapidly. Subjectively, I'm happy with the camera. Although it is worse than the one in the iPhone 5s, if you understand its limitations and capabilities well, it is quite capable of producing very beautiful pictures. However, sometimes, in difficult lighting conditions, color artifacts appear in the form of purple halos.
I liked the camera interface. This is truly a step in the right direction from the stock Android camera. It is not overloaded and simple, perhaps even too simple. By default, the camera focuses on the subjects at all times and takes a photo by tapping anywhere on the screen. In the settings menu, which slides out by swiping to the right from the left border of the screen, you can set the focus on the selected object by tapping on it on the screen. With this setting, the photo is taken after you click on the subject and the camera focuses on it. In a fresh official leak Android firmware 4.4 for Moto X there is also the ability to focus by moving a special frame-sight across the screen. In the settings menu, you can set the behavior of HDR (on/off/auto), geotagging, enable slow-motion video mode (720p@15fps), panoramas, and enable/disable camera activation using a special wrist rotation gesture. By the way, this trick of turning on the camera with a similar gesture seemed pretty stupid to me at first glance, but later I started rotating my other phones and didn’t understand why the camera wouldn’t start in them. In a word, turning on the camera in this way is very convenient and intuitive, and in my case no false alarms were noticed.
Moto X video records in 1080p@30fps without options for choosing compression and quality, stereo sound is 128 kbps. “Slow motion” is recorded at 720p@60fps and then played back at 15 frames per second, the iPhone 5s is much better in this regard. Everyone can evaluate the quality of the photo for themselves by looking at the examples.
Touchless Control
You may have already read how much I appreciate this innovation of Moto X. If not, I recommend reading it. It is worth adding a few technical details to what has been written. Moto X doesn't respond to anyone else's voice. And it responds only to the English phrase “Ok, Google Now”, moreover, it does not recognize words, but rather reacts to the amplitude of vibrations. This is how they achieved a reaction only to the owner’s voice, which, by the way, Moto X needs to be “accustomed” to during the initial setup. Why did I decide this? Because a couple of times while listening to music without lyrics, I noticed how the Moto X reacted and turned on the screen to receive commands. Perhaps certain fluctuations in the composition were similar to a code phrase. However, this is just a theory. I got used to the feature of a constantly active microphone and now other phones seem somehow “dead” to me. Even despite the rare recognition and response errors, it is incredibly convenient when the phone just lies nearby and you can ask it for any information. Let's say you're playing a game and can't complete a certain episode. Without being distracted from the process, you can command the phone to search for the passage of the desired game. When you wake up to your alarm in the morning, you can tell Moto X to wake you up half an hour later. Often, when I am sitting at a computer and having an active correspondence with someone, I can ask for related information by voice on the phone without being distracted from the process. If you don't know where you left your phone in the room, you can say “Find my phone” and Moto X will light up the screen and make a repeating sound to help you find it.
For me, the “Touchless Control” feature represents a much greater innovation than the fingerprint scanner. And only for this alone can I forgive the Moto X for all its shortcomings. To be fair, it is worth noting that for exclusively Russian-speaking people the value of this function tends to zero, but such technology has potential and soon we will distinguish phones by whether they can listen or not.
Active notification
This function is based on a very simple idea - to use the feature of the AMOLED screen not to consume energy when displaying absolutely black color. Thanks to it, a notification system was developed that displays information about them in the form of a small monochrome icon. In other words, if there is a notification about any event, the screen will pulsate, displaying a clock and an image of a ring with an application icon inside it. If you touch the ring while it is highlighted, a small preview of the most recent notification will be displayed. Further options are possible: if, without releasing your finger, you swipe up to the notification, the phone will unlock and transfer you to the application that displayed that same notification; If you swipe to the side without releasing your finger, all notifications will be reset; if you let go of your finger, the phone will continue to pulsate with notifications, changing them if new ones arrive.
Moto X uses its context-aware engine to determine the state of the phone in space and therefore display those notifications more intelligently. By collecting data from the gyroscope, light sensors and other sensors, Moto X determines the location of the phone and its condition. If it is picked up from a table or taken out of a pocket, it will show the time and the screen unlock ring. If you turn it face down or put it back in your pocket, the notifications will stop pulsing.
Motorola Connect, Migrate and Assist
Three nice software additions that, despite their simplicity, can do a lot. Motorola Connect- allows you to see the phone’s charge level, manage your call log and SMS directly from the window Chrome browser after installing the extension of the same name and logging into your account. In my case, the chip began to unpleasantly eat up the battery and I turned it off, but if they fix it, it’s nice to answer SMS and reject or receive calls without leaving the computer, even if the phone is nearby.
Motorola Migrate- allows you to transfer all data (including files) from your previous Android phone to Moto X using a simple QR code scanning operation. It works quite well and transfers everything including SMS and call logs. And just recently, for future Moto X users who order a smartphone through the MotoMaker service, the company offered a new service - transferring contacts and calendar from the Apple iCloud service. Thus, the former iPhone owner receives his “X” with all the necessary data.
Motorola Assist- perhaps the most frequently used feature by me and the one I'm starting to miss in other phones. The application has only three points: do not disturb, in a meeting and while driving. In “do not disturb” you set your sleep hours and the phone goes into silent mode and stops displaying the “active notifications” pulsation during this period of time. “In a meeting” does the same thing as “do not disturb”, only it is based on the times of various events on your calendar. “Driving” is the most interesting point - using the context dependency core, Moto X determines that you are moving in a car, and in the case of incoming calls, it will offer you to answer or refuse them. If you allow the call to be answered by voice, the phone will put it on speakerphone. When incoming SMS Moto X will read its contents aloud to you and offer to reply to the person who wrote to you that you are driving a car in this moment and you cannot correspond. Any of these modes displays a notification in the curtain that it is activated, and you can always cancel it there. This can be useful, for example, if you are not driving a car, but are in the passenger seat.
Moto Maker
One of the coolest things that makes the Moto X different from other smartphones is the ability to customize its appearance before purchasing. On the corresponding website you can customize the color of the front (white/black) and back (18 colors) panels of the phone, specify the color of the buttons (7 colors), select the amount of available memory (16/32 GB), add text engraving on back panel, choose custom wallpaper and greeting text when loading your phone, and also purchase a Sol Republic headset of any color and form factor. Within 4 days, your custom phone will be assembled at a factory in the US and sent to the specified address. So far, such luxury is available only to residents of the USA, and only under operator contracts, but a Russian person cannot be stopped like this and I personally know a person who bought and sent to Russia such a Moto X. Perhaps he will find the time and write to us on RN how he accomplished such a feat. I had a Canadian version of the Moto X, but secretly I now dream of my own version of the Iron Man-style Moto X.
Conclusion
There is such a wonderful property that our smart devices- context dependence. The device knows what we are doing and when we do it, it restructures and transforms the flow of information depending on our type of activity. This is exactly what the future should be like, in which cars fly themselves and devices know what you think. Moto X may not have made this future a reality, but it showed what is possible to achieve today. I was very skeptical about this phone before writing the review - 720p amoled, weak/outdated (on paper) hardware and high price contributed to this. But after finishing writing this article, I completely changed my attitude towards the Moto X and am quite ready to make it my main phone. You don’t immediately understand the value of all the technologies of this device, but at the moment when you come home, tired, from celebrating a birthday/New Year/Halloween, you throw your phone in an unknown location and fall asleep, after a while you come to your senses in a completely dark room and You don’t understand what time it is, or what day of the week, or where your phone is. Into the void you say: “Ok, Google Now, what time is it and what day is it today?” and your phone obediently answers you with a voice from the far corner. At such moments, you absolutely don’t care how many cores it has or what kind of screen it has, the only important thing is that it helped you identify yourself in space as painlessly as possible without getting out of bed.
I don’t think about what else I could buy for that money and how much bigger/faster/beautiful it would be. I just got freedom that I don’t want to part with now. Even all its shortcomings in the form of a controversial screen and autonomy that did not live up to expectations, I can completely forgive it.
Life in HD standard.
The Moto X Play's 5.5-inch Full HD 1080p display delivers high-quality images for videos, photos and gaming. Incredibly realistic...
The device works with Nano-SIM cards from all GSM operators.
The battery lasts as long as you do.
The rhythm of life never slows down. And the phone should not lag behind. Watch movies, surf the Internet, play for up to 48 hours without recharging.
Water-repellent coating. N...
The device works with Nano-SIM cards from all GSM operators.
The battery lasts as long as you do.
The rhythm of life never slows down. And the phone should not lag behind. Watch movies, surf the Internet, play for up to 48 hours without recharging.
Water-repellent coating. No worries.
Water is the phone's worst enemy. Moto X Play is reliably protected by a water-repellent coating. Spills, splashes and light rain will no longer be a threat to your phone.
Charge your device in record time.
A little energy at the right time. Moto X Play is equipped with a fast charging function that guarantees up to 8 hours battery life in just 15 minutes of recharging.
Life in HD standard.
The Moto X Play's 5.5-inch Full HD 1080p display delivers high-quality images for videos, photos and gaming. Incredibly realistic images. Films with the effect of full presence. This is what a premium display should be.
Get everything done. Together.
The device has the computing power necessary to complete games, play streaming video and multitasking incredibly high speed. The Qualcomm Snapdragon processor improves battery life and speed.
Storage of all your files.
Thanks to the support microSD cards(optional) you can increase the internal memory to store a huge number of photos, videos, music and applications (up to 128 GB).
Consistently high-quality photos and selfies in any lighting.
The 21 megapixel camera allows you to take clear, realistic pictures. Fast focusing, auto mode HDR and dual LED flash for the most natural color balance ensure high-quality photos. There is also a video recording function High Quality in HD format with a resolution of 1080p. Front-camera 5 megapixels allows you to take high-quality selfies and provides a clear image in video chat.
Get it maximum performance with a "clean" version of Android.
Get a clean, uncluttered Android OS. There is no unnecessary extra software to slow you down.
Use your phone effortlessly.
Moto X Play makes life easier. Operate your phone, ask questions and search for information while keeping your hands free. Shake your phone to preview notifications, then go to the desired application or leave it for later. Play or pause music without unlocking your phone.
Your phone will do this for you.
Moto Assist detects the time when you are at home, in the car or in the office, adapting your phone to your needs. The application will read messages out loud if you are driving, or mute the ringer while you sleep.
Two tariff plans. One smartphone.
Having one device doesn't mean you have to use just one tariff plan. Take advantage of freedom of choice.
Add protection and style.
Make your Moto X Play colorful with interchangeable panels.
Moto X features a 4.7-inch display with a resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels (316 ppi), 2 GB of RAM, 16 or 32 GB of internal flash memory (no microSD support), main camera from OmniVision with a resolution of 10 MP (matrix size - 1/2.6 inches) and a front camera of 2 MP, both of which support Full HD format, support for Bluetooth 4.0, USB 2.0, 802.11a/b/g/n /ac, NFC, GPS and GLONASS, has a standard headphone jack and a slot for nano-SIM SIM cards. Moto X is equipped with an 8-core processor developed by Motorola - X8 Mobile Computing System. The processor includes 2 Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro cores with a frequency of 1.7 GHz, 4 Adreno 320 graphics accelerator cores and two Motorola own cores, one of which is responsible for speech recognition, and the second for controlling the sensors built into the smartphone.
| Peculiarities | |
|---|---|
| Type | smartphone |
| operating system | Android |
| Version | 4.2.2 |
| CPU | Qualcomm MSM8960 Pro Snapdragon |
| Frequency | 1700 MHz |
| RAM | 2048 MB |
| Flash memory | 16384 MB |
| Screen | |
| Diagonal | 4.7 " |
| Permission | 1280 x 720 |
| Digital camera | |
| Camera | 10 million pixels |
| Nutrition | |
| Operating time | 24 hours |
| Dimensions and weight | |
| Width | 65.3 mm |
| Height | 129.3 mm |
| Depth | 10 mm |
| Weight | 127 gr. |
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After Google acquired the Motorola Mobility division (now “Motorola - a Google Company”), the release of the Motorola Moto X was perhaps the first significant step of the veteran mobile market. For a long time, the mysterious Google X Phone was shrouded in many rumors. The situation became clearer at the D11 conference, where the company's chief executive Dennis Woodside not only confirmed the release of the flagship, but also said that Moto X will be the first smartphone assembled in the United States. Note that they are sold in the USA Moto smartphones X, assembled in the United States, but in other countries, for example in Canada, devices assembled in China are sold.
On August 1, the Motorola Moto X was officially presented, and it turned out that the details highlighted on the D11 are by no means the most interesting side of the device. Other features of a top-end smartphone look much more interesting. Firstly, it is possible to purchase Moto X in your own design, combining various elements housings. Secondly, built-in voice control, which is always active and awaits commands even when the screen is off.
Key Features of Motorola Moto X (XT1058)
- SoC: Motorola X8 Mobile Computing System based on Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro MSM8960T
- CPU: 2 Krait 300 cores @1.7 GHz (ARMv7)
- GPU: 4 Adreno 320 cores @400 MHz
- operating room Android system 4.2.2 Jelly Bean
- Display: AMOLED, 4.7″, 1280×720, 312 ppi
- RAM: 2 GB
- Inner memory: 16/32 GB
- Communication GSM GPRS/EDGE 850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz (AT&T version)
- Communications 3G UMTS HSPA 850, 900, 1900, 2100 MHz (AT&T version)
- Communications 4G (LTE) Bands 2, 4, 5, 17 (AT&T version)
- Bluetooth 4.0 LE+EDR
- Wi-Fi 802.11a/b/g/n/ac (2.4 + 5 GHz)
- NFC, MHL (?)
- A-GPS/GLONASS
- Temperature and pressure sensors
- Rear camera: 10 MP, autofocus
- Front camera: 2 MP
- Battery: non-removable, 2200 mAh
- Dimensions: 129.4×65.3×10 mm
- Weight: 132 g (weighed in edition)
You can find out more about the Motorola Moto X hardware in our news. The version with 32 GB of flash memory officially costs $530 in the US (without a contract).
| Google Nexus 4 | Sony Xperia SP | LG Optimus G | HTC One | ||
| Screen | 4.7″, AMOLED | 4.7″, IPS Plus | 4.6″ | 4.7″, IPS Plus | 4.7″, S-LCD3 (IPS) |
| Permission | 1280×720, 312 ppi | 1280×768, 317 ppi | 1280×720, 319 ppi | 1280×768, 317 ppi | 1920×1080, 469 ppi |
| SoC | X8 Mobile Computing System @1.7 GHz (2 cores, ARMv7 Krait 300) | Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro @1.7 GHz (2 cores, ARMv7 Krait) | Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro @1.5 GHz (4 cores, ARMv7 Krait) | Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 @1.7 GHz (4 cores, ARMv7 Krait) | |
| GPU | Adreno 320 | Adreno 320 | Adreno 320 | Adreno 320 | Adreno 320 |
| RAM | 2 GB | 2 GB | 1 GB | 2 GB | 2 GB |
| Flash memory | 16/32 GB | 8/16 GB | 8 GB | 32 GB | 16/32/64 GB |
| Memory card support | No | No | microSD | No | No |
| operating system | Google Android 4.2 | Google Android 4.2 | Google Android 4.1 | Google Android 4.1 | Google Android 4.1 |
| SIM format | Nano-SIM | Micro-SIM | Micro-SIM | Micro-SIM | Micro-SIM |
| Battery | non-removable, 2200 mAh | non-removable, 2100 mAh | non-removable, 2370 mAh | non-removable, 2100 mAh | non-removable, 2300 mAh |
| Cameras | rear (10 MP; video - 1080p), front (2 MP; video - 1080p) | rear (8 MP; video - 1080p), front (1.3 MP) | rear (8 MP; video - 1080p), front (0.3 MP) | rear (13 MP; video - 1080p), front (1.3 MP) | rear (4 MP; video - 1080p), front (2 MP) |
| Size | 129×65×10 mm | 134×69×9.1 mm | 131×67×9.9 mm | 132×69×8.5 mm | 137×68×9.3 mm |
| Weight | 132 g* | 139 g | 155 g | 145 g | 143 g |
| Average price (Ya.Market) | 32 GB: T-10451529 |
16 GB: T-8490976 |
8 GB: T-9328668 |
32 GB: T-8461088 |
32 GB: T-9281443 |
| Motorola Moto X offers (Ya.Market) | L-10451529-10 | ||||
*weighted by the editors
Motorola has another model in its range, very similar in characteristics to Moto X - Droid Ultra, presented a week before our hero. Its main difference is the 0.3-inch larger display diagonal. The resolution is the same.
And it is precisely because of the resolution that we cannot put the Motorola Moto X on a par with the flagships of other manufacturers. One could turn a blind eye to a small difference in diagonal, but when 1080p has already established itself as the standard of top models, 720p immediately throws our hero on a par with representatives of the middle class.
Equipment
Motorola Moto X comes in a white cardboard box with a pattern of multi-colored triangles and a hinged lid.
The smartphone package includes only the essentials: a network adapter with two USB inputs, a cable, as well as a tool for installing a SIM card and an information booklet.
The spartan set of accessories is diluted by the presence of two USB connectors network adapter. With an output current of 1150 mA, it is quite capable of charging two mobile devices. You can expand the Moto X package by ordering a smartphone with your own design.
Moto Maker
When purchasing a Motorola Moto X with an AT&T carrier contract, users can design a smartphone with their own design and configuration.
The greatest variety is provided when choosing the color of the back panel - there are 18 colors available (including two fabric textures). Then, from seven shades, the buyer chooses an “accent” - the color of the rear camera rim and mechanical keys. In addition, you can choose the color of the front panel, but here we are not spoiled - black or white.
The screen has good viewing angles. Is it true, White color When deflected at relatively large angles, it takes on a slight tint, but the black color is just black at any angle (although the reflection from the black areas at some angles has a blue “metallic” tint). So black that the contrast parameter is simply not applicable in this case. When viewed perpendicularly, the uniformity of the white field is excellent. Switching the state of the matrix elements is actually instantaneous, but at the switching edge there may be a step (or two) with a width of 16.7 ms (corresponding to a screen refresh rate of 60 Hz). In some conditions, the presence of such a step can lead to plumes trailing behind moving objects, but in normal use these artifacts are almost impossible to see. Quite the contrary - dynamic scenes in films on OLED screens are distinguished by high clarity and even some “jerky” movements.
The gamma curve constructed from 32 points did not reveal any blockage either in the highlights or shadows, and the index of the approximating power function is 2.30, which is slightly higher than the standard value of 2.2, while the real gamma curve deviates little from the power dependence:
Note that due to the dynamic adjustment of the backlight brightness in accordance with the nature of the displayed image (on average bright images, the brightness decreases slightly), the resulting dependence of brightness on hue (gamma curve) does not correspond to the gamma curve of a static image, since the measurements were carried out with sequential displaying shades of gray on the entire screen.
The color gamut is much wider than sRGB:
The spectra show that the primary colors are well separated:
As a result, the colors this screen oversaturated and somewhat unnatural. The balance in color temperature is good: shades of gray have a color temperature close to 6500 K, which changes little throughout the entire significant part of the gray scale (the range close to black can be ignored, since color rendering in it is not so important, and the error in measuring color characteristics is high ):
The deviation from the blackbody spectrum (ΔE) is less than 10, which is considered a good indicator for a non-professional device, and also varies slightly from shade to shade:
Shown above best result Internet connection tests, which we received in places with excellent LTE reception on the Megafon network. The ping value and transmission speed clearly do not correspond to the 4G LTE band; at best it's HSPA+. Further searches on the Internet confirmed that the 700 MHz frequency is not yet available for Russian LTE, and at best in our country we can hope for HSPA+.
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For calls and SMS, Moto X uses standard interface Google. It is complemented Google apps People and AT&T. The reception quality is good, we did not notice any sudden “dropouts” from the Network during testing. Crystal Voice technology and two almost invisible microphones are responsible for the quality of communication. They do their job perfectly.
The list of wireless communication protocols also includes dual-band Wi-Fi, which works not only in standard b/g/n protocols, but also ac. Unfortunately, in our office the smartphone did not see the 5 GHz network; it seems to support other channels. The connection speed of 2.4 GHz shows that the smartphone has one antenna for Wi-Fi, operating in single-channel mode. In addition, Motorola Moto X has support for GPS and Glonass, as well as NFC.
Camera
Motorola Moto X is equipped with two cameras. The front has a resolution of 2 megapixels (1920×1080). A sample photo of her can be seen below:
The 10-megapixel rear camera is activated by a gesture that's complex enough to avoid accidentally triggering in your pocket—you need to twist your wrist twice and return it to its previous position. At the same time, the smartphone will emit an increasing vibration signal.
The list of camera options is short: HDR, flash, manual focus and panoramic shot. They appear if you move the screen to the right. The opposite gesture opens the gallery. Up and down movements are responsible for zooming; 4x magnification is the maximum.
Anton Soloviev commented on the performance of the Motorola Moto X camera:
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Many of the inscriptions are quite readable. In general, the foreground and middle plans are well done. |
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In HDR mode, the camera does not take pictures very smoothly, so the sharpness “walks” across the field of the frame at random. However, the license plates of nearby cars are clearly visible. |
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For distant shots, the sharpness drops a little. |
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The effect of walking sharpness is especially good in the camera in low light, although overall the picture doesn’t look that bad. |
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But in good lighting the camera copes well, noise appears only in the shadows in the background. |
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There is no noticeable drop in sharpness towards the edges, but the sharpness in the center is not that good either. |
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Macro photography in low light is ruined by noise. |
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The flash improves the situation significantly. |
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The text is processed well, without noticeable damage. |
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The camera handles night shots quite well. |
In addition to "field conditions", we also tested the camera in the laboratory:
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≈1300 lux. The camera does a relatively good job. |
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≈460 lux. The camera is already very weak when it comes to shooting finely detailed objects. |
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≈240 lux. Contrasting objects still work well, but everything else is spoiled by strong noise. |
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≈240 lux, flash. Flash allows you to achieve the original resolution. |
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<1 люкс. В темноте камера не справляется. |
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<1 люкс, вспышка. Вспышка по-прежнему значительно улучшает ситуацию. |
The camera turned out to be quite balanced. She is not outstanding, but there are no significant failures in her work either. The program as a whole works reasonably, but in some places there is noticeable color noise, which is only half suppressed. In some places it even processes, as a result of which, when lighting deteriorates, the camera demonstrates an improvement in resolution. However, these are only numerical results; visually, the resolution drops very quickly.
The camera module is clearly not the best, as evidenced by the results of shooting the stand, but the optics and matrix are quite consistent with each other. Special attention should be paid to the performance of the flash, which copes well with its task even in macro photography.
Perhaps the camera is not so bad, especially if the requirements for it are low. It is suitable exclusively for documentary shooting, and when shooting texts and macro in low light, do not forget about having a good flash.
Motorola Moto X is capable of shooting video, and in two modes - normal (MPEG-4 AVC video ( [email protected]), 17.1 Mbps, 1920×1080, 29.929 fps; audio AAC LC, 128 Kbps, 48 kHz, 2 channels) and slow motion, without audio (MPEG-4 AVC ( [email protected]), 5002 Kbps, 1280×720, 15,000 fps). The video quality is at a good level, the camera adapts well to lighting conditions and demonstrates a good fps level.
Software
Motorola Moto X runs on Android 4.2.2 operating system. We tested an unlocked version of the AT&T operator with the latest firmware version at the time of writing, 139.12.54.ghost_att.ATT.en.US. By the way, it recently became known that Google is preparing an Android 4.4 update for Moto X.
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Motorola didn't add much variety to the operating system. In addition to a wide range of standard OS creator programs, the smartphone has only a few Motorola and AT&T utilities on board. Among them, we note Motorola Assist. It puts the phone into a customizable “Meeting” mode (if it is in the calendar), into “Driving” mode (if the GPS signals active movement) and into “Sleep” mode (at a specified time every day).
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By default, the user has access to 26.33 of the 32 GB of phone memory. In relative terms, this may not be too little, but the fact that the mobile OS takes up more than 5 GB is not encouraging. It will be difficult to improve the situation, since root rights are not granted to the user. It takes approximately 20 seconds to turn on the phone.
There is no Russian in the list of available languages of the system, but on the Internet you can easily find instructions for Russifying a smartphone.
Voice control, active display and PC integration
Let's move on to the most interesting part. Motorola Moto X, along with Droid Ultra, Mini and Max, supports controlling the phone using voice, including when the screen is off.
The Touchless Control function is activated by the phrase “OK Google Now,” which must first be recorded in order for the smartphone to recognize your command.
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The set of commands perceived by the phone is very extensive, and the phone picks them up sensitively. We had no problems with recognition within the same room. It is possible that a voice can be easily picked up from the next room, but changes in timbre prevent Moto X from identifying the phrase heard as a key phrase. Under conditions of normal audibility, the smartphone detects the owner’s timbre quite well and responds to the voice, even if the command was pronounced slightly differently. But deceiving a smartphone is not so easy: during testing, ten people tried to do this unsuccessfully.
Recognition does not work perfectly, but overall it works well. Alas, Touchless Control does not understand Russian: currently the list of supported languages includes American English and Spanish, Canadian French and Brazilian Portuguese. But the application is constantly updated, learning at least new commands. For example, in the latest version at the time of writing, the smartphone has learned to understand the cue “Find my phone”, in response to which it begins to emit shrill signals.
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For Touchless Control to work, of course, you need to be connected to the Internet. And if you also take into account that in this mode the microphone is always on, power consumption immediately becomes an acute issue. In the corresponding section, we will definitely evaluate how wireless control affects the operating time of the smartphone.
Due to the fact that AMOLED matrices consume little power when displaying black color, the Moto X uses the display rather than LEDs for notifications in sleep mode. This feature is appropriately called Active Display. While in sleep mode, the smartphone periodically displays the time, and with it icons of events that deserve attention. In the Active Display settings, you can limit the list of applications that can send alerts in this way.
Active Display also uses the phone's sensors. As a result, the time and notifications only pop up on the black display when the user picks up the phone. The indication is triggered quickly, even before the finger reaches the unlock button.
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Hidden in the Active Display settings is a third know-how that deserves no less attention - Motorola Connect. It allows you to view call and SMS history through a Chrome extension, send messages, and receive sound and graphic notifications in a pop-up window for incoming calls and SMS. Of course, Motorola Connect requires you to be signed in to the same Google Account on Android and the Chrome browser on your PC.
By the way, if the capabilities of the Motorola Moto X are impressive, but you are not going to purchase it for some reason, some of the special functions of the new product can be used on another Android smartphone.
Performance
The Motorola Moto X is based on the Motorola X8 Mobile Computer System platform. It consists of three elements:
- Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro MSM8960T single-chip system:
- CPU: 2 cores Krait 300 (ARMv7) @1.7 GHz
- GPU: 4 cores Adreno 320 @400 MHz
- Contextual computing processor that works with sensors and cameras, but can take over the functions of the main processor in standby mode
- Natural language processor, which works with audio and, in particular, with noise reduction and voice control
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We came across a similar filling during testing Sony Xperia SP - the only difference was the absence of an additional pair of processors. And the Sony smartphone had half as much RAM.
Let's move on to the benchmarks:
Synthetic tests show that the Motorola Moto X outperforms mid-range smartphones based on similar platforms. Based on the fact that the advantage disappears in Geekbench 2, which does not use graphics, we can assume that in the corresponding scenarios the additional processor of the Motorola platform is used.
Antutu X Benchmark:
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In new tests, we compared the Moto X to several competitors based on Qualcomm's more advanced platform, the Snapdragon S4 Pro APQ8064. Despite the fact that they all have twice as many cores, the Motorola smartphone is only inferior to them in Geekbench 3.
In the MobileXPRT test suite, we also pitted the Moto X against the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 N900, which is significantly more powerful than our hero. Logically losing in performance tests, Motorola snatched victory in working with the interface. The status of “a Google company” is obvious.
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Let's move on to gaming benchmarks. Here, for a more indicative comparison, we included the top-end LG G2 on the Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 platform:
Yes, modern smartphones are gradually growing out of the Epic Citadel test. But we note that in this case the Moto X outperformed the LG G2, and even in the most difficult mode it fell short of the VSync frequency by only 2 fps. It will be much more interesting to look at the results of the demanding T-Rex HD scene:
| LG Optimus G | HTC One | Samsung Galaxy Note 3 N9005 | ||
| GFXBenchmark T-Rex HD (C24Z16 Offscreen) | 15 fps | 8.3 fps | 15 fps | 26 fps |
| GFXBenchmark T-Rex HD (C24Z16 Onscreen) | 26 fps | 11 fps | 13 fps | 26 fps |
| GFXBenchmark T-Rex HD (C24Z24MS4 Onscreen) | — | — | — | — |
| GFXBenchmark T-Rex HD (C24Z16 Fixed time Offscreen) | 14 fps | 8.0 fps | 14 fps | 25 fps |
| GFXBenchmark T-Rex HD (C24Z16 Fixed time Onscreen) | 24 fps | 10 fps | 13 fps | 25 fps |
| GFXBenchmark Egypt HD (C24Z16 Offj screen) | 41 fps | 21 fps | 37 fps | 68 fps |
| GFXBenchmark Egypt HD (C24Z16 Onscreen) | 51 fps | 29 fps | 33 fps | 54 fps |
To summarize: Moto X in its 720p resolution is capable of producing the same number of frames per second as the mighty Samsung on the top-end Snapdragon 800 at 1080p.
Browser tests were conducted in Chrome, as there are no other browsers installed on the Moto X. In a competition on the same platform, the standard Android browser suffers a crushing defeat:
Finally, let's try a couple of games: the dynamic slasher Dungeon Hunter 4 and the demanding racing simulator Asphalt 8. No problem.
Playing video
Despite the fact that on some resources on the Internet there is a mention of the presence of an MHL interface, we did not find either it or Mobility DisplayPort in this smartphone, but perhaps we needed to make more attempts. As a result, we had to limit ourselves to testing the output of video files on the screen of the device itself. To do this, we used a set of test files with an arrow and a rectangle moving one division per frame (see “Method for testing video playback and display devices. Version 1 (for mobile devices)”). Screenshots with a shutter speed of 1 s helped determine the nature of the output of frames of video files with various parameters: the resolution varied (1280 × 720 (720p) and 1920 × 1080 (1080p) pixels), as well as the frame rate (24, 25, 30, 50 and 60 fps). In the tests, we used the MX Player video player in the “Hardware” mode, since the “Hardware+” mode did not work entirely correctly. The results of this test are summarized in the table:
| File | Uniformity | Passes |
| watch-1920x1080-60p.mp4 | not playable | |
| watch-1920x1080-50p.mp4 | Badly | a lot of |
| watch-1920x1080-30p.mp4 | Great | No |
| watch-1920x1080-25p.mp4 | Fine | No |
| watch-1920x1080-24p.mp4 | Great | No |
| watch-1280x720-60p.mp4 | Great | No |
| watch-1280x720-50p.mp4 | Fine | No |
| watch-1280x720-30p.mp4 | Great | No |
| watch-1280x720-25p.mp4 | Fine | No |
| watch-1280x720-24p.mp4 | Great | No |
Note: If both the Uniformity and Dropout columns are rated green, this means that when watching movies, there will most likely be no or no amount of artifacts caused by frame spacing or dropouts visible. will not affect viewing comfort. “Red” marks indicate possible problems associated with the playback of the corresponding files.
According to the frame output criterion, the quality of playback of video files (except (1080p with 50 and 60 fps) on the screen of the smartphone itself is high, since frames (or groups of frames) are output with a more or less uniform alternation of intervals and there are no skipping frames. However, uniform alternation of frames is a relatively unstable state, since some external and internal background processes lead to periodic failure of the correct alternation of intervals between frames. When playing video files with a resolution of 1280 by 720 (720p) on a smartphone screen, the image of the video file itself is displayed along the borders of the screen, one to one pixel by pixel, so the real clarity exactly corresponds to the original resolution. The brightness range displayed on the screen slightly deviates from the standard 16-235 range, since in the shadows the few shades of gray closest to black are indistinguishable from black, but in the highlights all shades are displayed.
To evaluate decoding capabilities, we traditionally use five files of the most common formats on the Internet:
| Format | Container, video, sound | MX Video Player | Standard video player |
| DVDRip | AVI, XviD 720×400 2200 Kbps, MP3+AC3 | plays normally | plays normally |
| Web-DL SD | AVI, XviD 720×400 1400 Kbps, MP3+AC3 | plays normally | plays normally |
| Web-DL HD | MKV, H.264 1280×720 3000 Kbps, AC3 | Hardware+ | |
| BDRip 720p | MKV, H.264 1280×720 4000 Kbps, AC3 | plays fine with decoder Hardware+ | The video plays fine, but there is no sound¹ |
| BDRip 1080p | MKV, H.264 1920×1080 8000 Kbps, AC3 | plays fine with decoder Hardware+ | The video plays fine, but there is no sound¹ |
¹ MX Video Player only played sound after switching to software decoding or a new mode Hardware+; The standard player does not have this setting
Battery life
The Motorola Moto X smartphone is equipped with a non-removable battery with a capacity of 2200 mAh. To begin with, we tested the phone's performance in three modes:
How does voice control affect battery life? We tested the smartphone for two hours in reading mode, both with and without Touchless Control enabled. Touchless Control had virtually no effect on the results: the difference was a few minutes (calculated from the battery charge). Therefore, the power consumption of the natural language processor is a negligible part of the total power consumption of the smartphone.
Fully charging the phone using the supplied AC adapter takes approximately three hours.
Conclusion
Moto X is the first fruit of Motorola's work, completely grown in the rich soil of Google. Juicy, ripe and delicious. Those who like to chase numbers can pass by: today is not their day. By creating Moto X, “a Google company” was able to comprehend the magic of its main competitor and released a smartphone that you want to own. And this desire does not arise out of nowhere. Interesting and convenient design, original additional functions, a very good display, excellent sound and call quality, as well as logically excellent operation of the operating system - the list of advantages is truly pleasing to the eye. Although the battery life does not break records, it looks decent compared to smartphones in the mid-price segment. As for the camera... if it has a very high priority, then, of course, it is better to join the “chasing numbers” in search of something better.
Separately, it is worth noting the possibility of creating your own design. Motorola has become a pioneer in this area, which looks very interesting and promising against the backdrop of monotonous "faster, higher, stronger" updates. But...
But, unfortunately, the overall picture will be incomplete without factors that fall on the other side of the scale. Motorola Moto X does not support Russian LTE bands. Convenient voice control does not support Russian language. And most importantly: the smartphone is not officially supplied to Russia, and there is no news on this yet. However, if you are fluent in English, are not afraid of thematic forums, and are also willing to sacrifice additional time/money to purchase a smartphone, then the new Motorola product can be safely recommended for purchase.
As you know, in 2014, Lenovo acquired the Motorola brand and already in the next year, 2015, showed the world new functional models of the X series.
On this page we will take a quick look at the Moto X Style, Moto X Play and Moto X Force.
These devices have large high-resolution screens, high-quality cameras and fairly powerful batteries.
Motorola Moto X Style
The Motorola Moto X Style smartphone is one of the first devices in the series to come from the pen of Lenovo engineers. Note that the device also has the name Motorola Moto X Pure Edition, used in the US markets.
This model has some of the highest characteristics among the smartphones reviewed on this page.
It is enough to mention the large 5.7-inch IPS display with a high resolution of 2560x1440 pixels. The screen is protected from external influences by glass Gorilla Glass 3rd generation.
The device is supported by a 64-bit chipset Qualcomm Snapdragon 808, which includes a pair of 2-core and 4-core processors. Graphics tasks in the model are processed by the accelerator Adreno 418. The installed 3 GB of RAM position the smartphone as a truly top-end model as of mid-2015.
It’s impossible not to ignore the 21-megapixel camera installed in the Moto X Style, which has an f/2.0 aperture and is capable of shooting video in 4K resolution. Note the presence of a dual (and having a different backlight tone) LED flash. However, we invite you to evaluate the quality of the resulting photographs yourself.
The front camera of the model has a resolution of 5 megapixels, as well as its own LED flash. It is possible to record video with a resolution of 1080p.
The smartphone in question is also interesting for its high-quality sound, the presence of stereo speakers, as well as a fairly powerful non-removable battery with a capacity of 3000 mAh.
The water-repellent coating (IP52 protection) will protect both this smartphone and all models in the series in various “wet” situations.
Moto X Play
Do you want to have the same high-quality camera as in the flagship discussed above (except without support for 4K video recording)? Don't chase screen size, but value your device's battery life more?
Then we invite you to get acquainted with the Motorola Moto X Play model, which has a slightly smaller size and more modest characteristics compared to the Moto X Style.
A special feature of the model is the ability to choose about 200 different color combinations for the front and rear panels, frame and camera highlight (not available in all countries).
We will show the differences between the devices in the table at the end of the article; here we note that the Moto X Play has an FM receiver (perhaps this is important for some), as well as a really powerful battery with a capacity of 3630 mAh.
Motorola Moto X Force
The Motorola X Force smartphone (aka Droid Turbo 2) has a unique, ultra-durable display made using Moto ShatterShield.
The display protection (the manufacturer can give a 4-year warranty on it) is provided by five levels, including a protective lens, two layers of touch control, and a hard aluminum case.
Note that the phone has as many as 5(!) microphones, ensuring high-quality transmission of your voice even in very noisy conditions.
This device has the highest characteristics among the Motorola X series phones under consideration and is also characterized by the presence of the most powerful battery with a capacity of 3760 mAh.
Differences between Motorola X smartphones
We show the fundamental differences between the Moto X Play, Moto X Style and Moto X Force smartphones in the table
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 Moto X Play |
 Moto X Style |  Moto X Force |
| Screen | 5.5 inches, IPS, 1920x1080 points |
5.7 inches, IPS, 2560x1440 points |
5.4 inches, AMOLED 2560x1440 points |
| Display protection | Corning Gorilla Glass 3 |
Corning Gorilla Glass 3 | Moto ShatterShield |
| CPU | Snapdragon 615 4 cores 1.7 GHz |
Snapdragon 808 2 cores 1.8 GHz |
Snapdragon 810 4 cores 1.5 GHz |
| Graphics accelerator | Adreno 405 | Adreno 418 | Adreno 430 |
| RAM, GB | 2 | 3 | 3 |
| 4K video recording | - | Eat | Eat |
| Front flash | - | Eat | Eat |
| Stereo speakers | - | Eat | - |
| FM radio | Eat | - | - |
| IR port | - | - | Eat |
| Battery, mAh | 3630 | 3000 | 3760 |
| Dimensions, weight | 148x75x10.9mm, 169 g |
153.9x76.2x11.1mm, 179 g |
149.8x78x9.2mm, 169 g |