Flashback: the Moto G was one of the best $200 smartphones you could buy in 2013
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- Anonymous
- xq5
- 30 Jan 2022
Had Moto G4 Play. Was pretty good. Now have Samsung A52. It is another world. Superb phone and not super expensive.
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- Anonymous
- 39x
- 30 Jan 2022
This phone had no limits, used this for flashing Cyanogenmod & kernels, installing theme overlays, and using titanium backup to remove bloatwares.
- Nexus One
- IbE
- 30 Jan 2022
A 2013 phone that aged really well is the iPhone 5S. Only 1 GB RAM but iOS and WP aren't as RAM hungry as Android is. Nexus 5 also aged well but only 2 GB RAM and battery life is atrocious.
I wouldn't go back using an HTC One M7 because Snapdragon 800 was a big jump from Snapdragon 600. And M7's 2300 mAh for a 1080p display was atrocious. That needed 3000 mAh like the LG G2 to last long.
Best Qualcomm chips to me
800
801
835
845
865
870
I know people hate the 888 but I love it. Plays GameCube games really well. The 765G is also a decent performer for the price but I still prefer the 800 series. Will never go back using a phone with a Snap400. Was bad enough by early 2015.
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- Anonymous
- JT5
- 30 Jan 2022
Nexus One, 30 Jan 2022I wouldn't say Motorola is totally killed by Lenovo. T... moreMoto by Lenovo has become cheap brand.
Not much better than Doogee, Cubot, Ulephone etc ...
Phones with Unisoc CPU, Tiamna screen, Omnivision cameras etc ... Not even Moto E should be using these ...
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- Acorns
- 7WK
- 30 Jan 2022
Absolutely loved my Moto g 4g, it was my first android phone after finally conceding defeat and admitting windows phone was dead and couldn't believe just how good it was for its price and having Google play store made me realise what I'd been missing on windows phone. Great for its day definitely
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- yaygya
- Ix7
- 30 Jan 2022
Anonymous, 30 Jan 2022Moto X and G are pretty much the exact same size as iPhone ... moreI can confirm. My iPhone 12 mini has mostly the same physical footprint as my Moto G. It doesn't have the same ergonomic hand-feel though.
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- yaygya
- Ix7
- 30 Jan 2022
I love the Moto G so much that I have 2. It's my favourite smartphone of all time.
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- Anonymous
- 3SI
- 30 Jan 2022
Lido, 30 Jan 2022That was very good along the X which I owned and was small ... moreMoto X and G are pretty much the exact same size as iPhone 12 mini and 13 mini. And I think that’s good
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- Rob
- YbD
- 30 Jan 2022
Last year I threw a new battery in the old MOTO G. It worked for about 6 months as a replacement phone while my regular cell phone was being repaired. Still a solid phone, but now it does not seem so smart.
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- Lido
- nSc
- 30 Jan 2022
That was very good along the X which I owned and was small too . Do we really need more ? Yea cos today we can post our very interesting stories on 20 more social useless networks .
And every year we are told to have better camera performance but not chance come on. There s not real innovation just jokes for make us spending money and get more addicted so one day we will agree for the next generation of tec. We love phones cos we don't have better things to do. And now they cost 1000more quids. Many people would spend money for phone instead for house rent...like me!!! Save meeee
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- Anonymous
- xq5
- 30 Jan 2022
Good old days. But now we have many cool phones. So no need to cry.
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- Anonymous
- JT5
- 30 Jan 2022
DMX, 30 Jan 2022Even so, it resisted more than any garbage from the Chinese todayObviously. I agree that is better than 12 pro
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- DMX
- 8xr
- 30 Jan 2022
Anonymous, 30 Jan 2022Plastic. No IP rating. Bad for photos. Bad fot videos. ... moreEven so, it resisted more than any garbage from the Chinese today
- Nexus One
- IbE
- 30 Jan 2022
Moto G was a great budget phone for its time in 2013 but Snapdragon 400 was an awful chip by the time it was 2015. I owned 3 phones with the Snap400 including a Windows Phone and they all lagged or stuttered. The WP was the least to have it. It didn't help they only had 1 GB RAM when Android needed 2 GB minimum in 2013.
Most of the praises for this comes from nostalgia. We have better phones these days even if some people are saying they're all looking the same and losing features like microSD slot, removable battery, IR blaster, headphone jack, and no charger in the box, etc.
I would never go back using phones with eMMC and only 1 GB RAM. I believe 8 GB RAM should be bare minimum these days. The oldest I'll go is 2017 when Snap835 came out. That was one of the best chips Qualcomm ever made. The 845 was excellent as well. Bare minimum is 845 to use AetherSX2 to play PlayStation 2 games.
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- Anonymous
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- 30 Jan 2022
I'm getting such nostalgic feelings for the Moto G 1st gen! I'd say it was the best $200 phone I owned, it was very reliable and the 720p display was ahead of most sub-$200 phones. This phone is the reason I have a soft spot for Motorola despite the terrible software update policy.
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- Anonymous
- JT5
- 30 Jan 2022
DMX, 30 Jan 2022Its price was primiun, it cost almost 500 dollars at that t... morePlastic.
No IP rating.
Bad for photos.
Bad fot videos.
Low quality oled and poor calibration.
M7, Z1 and G2 were better ...
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- Anonymous
- i84
- 30 Jan 2022
I had the Moto G 2nd gen as my secondary phone and it was a good device, it lasted for year but the next one I bought, the Moto G6 Play was terrible mostly from the software side, I guess the OS was poorly made, the device was lagging all the time!
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- DD Cat Barksdale
- Ibx
- 30 Jan 2022
2013 is underrated as fuck when it comes to the impact of smartphones - Prior to that, smartphones in the budget range were mostly dogshit and didn't even have a working FM radio to compensate for it's shittiness for the budget phones mainly in North America - Moto G was a OG phone, a killer of a budget phone
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- Anonymous
- JaL
- 30 Jan 2022
Cheap to buy, performed well, colourful, compact and fitted in your pocket. If only we could have a phone like this now. Everything nowadays is massive sized and lack character.