Motorola Moto E: People's Phone

Just after super success of Moto G, Motorola is back with another super cheap yet super specification based phone Moto E. 

In India price 6999 rupee ($130), Motorola is shouting loudly to buyers that they will get lot more things by paying this amount of price. But still personally I am disappointed with Motorola's strategy by only putting it on just one online eCommerce site. They used same strategy with Moto G and Moto X by putting it only available on their partnered eCommerce site and succeeded in that but this time I am not very much impressed with their move. If you want to make Moto E a real 'people's phone' then you have to make it available offline with mobile phone retailers. 

Now let's find out that if Moto E live's up to our expectations or not?

Design and Looks:

Motorola used similar kind of strategy with Moto E which they used with it's elder brothers Moto G and Moto X.  By design point of view, it is a bit fatter than Moto G and a little heavier. But still considering it's compact size, it will fit in your hands very gently.

The backpanel is made of plastic but still considering its quality, it will feel like a premium quality. Another plus point is you can get total nine color of interchangeable back panels available. 

Colorful Back Covers

Features:

The phone have a heart of Qualcomm Snapdragon 200 dual core processor which is clocked at 1.2 GHz. Another impressive specification is you will get 1 GB RAM and Adreno 305 GPU, which will make smooth multi tasking and lag free use. In our use, we will be able of Most Wanted and Asphalt 8 kind of heavy games very fluently. This is kind of very good specification at this price range.

You will get 4 GB of internal storage which can be expanded up to 32 GB using micro SD card. Another big thumbs up with storage department is, you are able to transfer app data to memory card. So, it means that you can get upto 32 GB internal storage! 

The phone is available with dual SIM facility which supports 3G networks. 

Camera:

 This is the only feature which avoids this phone to becoming All-In-One package like phone in this segment. The phone features a 5 MP fixed focused camera which performs below average and according to me it's woeful camera. The camera does not even have LED flash.

Display:

Moto E have a 4.3 inch qHD display having resolution of 960x540 because on screen button consumes some amount of display. One plus point, you will get Gorilla Glass 3 protection for display and it is kind of rare for a phone in this price range. 

The display is really excellent in colors reproductions but it is average in sunlight visibility and harsh viewing angles. But still this is the best display in it's price range.

Plus Points: 

• Extremely cheap
• Works of latest Android Kitkat
• Excellent and sturdy body design

Minus Points:

• Bad camera
• Display is not at best
• Only availability on eCommerce site, no offline availabity

LCD vs TFT vs AMOLED : Display Comparision

These days screen size of any mobile phone is benchmark to compare them. The more it will be big, more you will be impressed. But technology behind that screen in not much known for most of us. Even if the persons who know about LCD, TFT, IPS, AMOLED, SUPER AMOLED will be also confused that which one is better. 

These displays are generally having two main types. First one is LCD & second one is AMOLED. We know name LCD because it is used in the wide range of electronic products. But most of us are not aware about AMOLED. So let's discuss about it. 

LCD:

LCD, liquid crystal display is made of wondrous liquid crystals. In which these crystals are combined between two couple of glasses with the use of the light source. They produce most realistic colors, but they does not represent much wider contrast ratio if we compare them with AMOLED.

TFT & IPS are also based on same LCD technology. TFT which is Thin Film Transistor & IPS is In Plane Switching. 

TFT makes LCD much efficient by making it's wiring reduced and also reduces electrodes per pixel. TFT improves image quality of LCD display.

IPS is improved from TFT by offering much better color reproduction and more accurate viewing angles. 

LCD is used in most of Sony, HTC, iPhone., etc. 

AMOLED:

AMOLED stands for Active Matrix Organic Light Emitting Diode. 

It is old technology but gained popularity in recent days. In this technology, a thin layer is made from thin layers which is zapped by an electric current. One major advantage of this technology is, it can create much thin layers and also do not require back light. This means it can create much better black colors and reduces battery usage because the back light is not used. 

Here three major colors Red, Blue and Green are divided in sub category like RGBG color. This is called as a 'pentile display'. But this have a disadvantage also, they can represent lower resolution because of much larger and visible sub pixels. 

Now a days, Samsung is known for their Super AMOLED, HD Super EMOLED displays. But this is nothing but simple AMOLED which is used with just prefix 'super'. They are traditional EMOLED. So do not fooled by these type of names. 

These are the devices which uses AMOLED technology: HTC ONE S, Galaxy series by Samsung.

Conclusion:

Now let's come to the answer that which one is better? So my answer is both LCD and EMOLED have their own strength and weakness. So it is totally dependent on you which one is like by you personally. If you try and phone and you get good resolution, better color reproduction and good viewing angles, then definitely that display is good for you. 

Moto X Review

Motorola is the first company which introduced first mobile phone to the world, and they were the leader in this industry before some years. But after that they leg behind and Apple,Nokia,Samsung  surpass them. But now Motorola have new owner in big name of Google. Thus their new phone is making big news and lets review this latest phone.

moto x with random cutomizable color covers

Because of the ownership of Google,it has a stock version of Android. But unlike Nexus phones, this phone have many customization and more importantly Motorola claims that they can ship you totally customized phone as per your requirements. And that special feature with comparison of other phones. It is something like desktop computers, for which you go to Dell or Lenovo and tell them your required configuration and get desktop according to that. So that's cool but it doesn't make much sense when you have heavy competition with Apple,Samsung etc.

specially Wooden made cover for Moto X

Personally I didn't found any other wow factor in this phone. So I am just sharing its configuration and specification. Watch out for that below.

• Chipset: Qualcomm MSM8960Pro Snapdragon
• CPU: Quad Core 1.7 GHz with Krait architecture
• GPU: Adreno 320
• RAM: 2 GB
• Display: 4.7 inch EMOLED 720x1280 capacitive display with protection of Gorilla glass
• Camera: 10 MP auto focus camera
• Battery: 2200 Mah

Now from these specifications, you can easily conclude that its not special from the others. But if you are a Motorola fan and want to buy something latest then you may buy it at $200 with 2 year of a contract. In India the price is still undisclosed.