Motorola Moto X Play review: Crowd pleaser

Crowd pleaser

Hristo Zlatanov, 16 October, 2015.

Web browser and other apps

Google Chrome is unsurprisingly the default browser in the new Moto X Play. Its design matches the material look and feel of Android Lollipop.

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Google Chrome

One of the Chrome's strengths is its ability to seamlessly sync with the desktop version, using nothing but your Google account. This allows you to open an article on your PC and finish reading it on your mobile phone. It also syncs your bookmarks and favorite sites.

The usual organizing tools are present as well - there is the massively capable Google Calendar, a neat Calculator, and Clock (alarms, world clock, timer, stopwatch). Oddly, there's no file manager app on board you'd have to get one yourself.

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Calendar • Calculator • Clock

Google's highly capable Office package of Docs, Sheets and Slides comes preinstalled, as well as Keep and Google Maps and Navigation.

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Google Docs and Sheets

Connect is a tool that helps you stay in charge of whatever Motorola accessories you have paired to the phone, and the list includes a Moto 360 smartwatch, headphones, the Keylink, and a powerbank.

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Motorola Connect

Reader comments

  • Gulab
  • 01 Apr 2019
  • v$A

I am using Moto x play from last about 3 years .The problems I an facing is Camera which frequently stops and specially when in need .The Torch stops opening .I gave it to Lenovo ( Moto)service centre twice but the problem still persists. I am really...

  • rohit
  • 18 Jul 2018
  • 7ki

you should try to format your moto x play

  • Anonymous
  • 25 Jun 2018
  • MZx

I had the same problem. It went away when I cleared cache memory...