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(3rd Gen) The popular smartphone from Motorola has got the much needed upgrade with 2 GB RAM and the Snapdragon quad core processor — Swaraj Sourabh

he latest Moto G impresses us on looks and even though it is not so slim yet it carries an elegant form factor. It comes Twith front speakers and and the same 5-inch IPS display with Corning 3 protection. a 5 inch display, but still has a slightly bigger bezel. Since it uses on-screen buttons, you don’t find touch buttons. On the back side it has a slant matte- finished design with chrome-finished Moto logo at the center which looks decent. On the right edge it has power and volume rocker keys, a 3.5 mm audio jack on the top and a micro USB charging point at the bottom edge. The smartphone has a chrome finished rim on the sides. This smartphone feels perfect in hand, perfect in pocket and easy to use with a single hand. The matte- finished design provides grips to avoid slipping of the phone. This is the first Moto G which is waterproof to IP67 standards, so it can drop into 1m deep water for 30 minutes without any harm. Good visibility in sun light and fluid touch response: The multi-touch screen supports a resolution of 1280 x 720 and a density of 294 ppi which is visible clearly even in direct sun SCORE light. While playing movies and games we found that the phone does Price: 9/10 not lag even while viewing from extreme angles. The Moto G(3rd Price: `11,999 for 1 Performance: 9/10 gen) has the same fluid touch response as the previous iterations. GB RAM/ Rs 12,999 Features: 10/10 Camera still needs some work to be done: Moto G has a 13 for 2 GB RAM version MP rear and 5 MP front camera. It can record videos at Overall: resolution. The camera is supported by autofocus dual-LED (dual 9/10 tone) flash and has features like Geo-tagging, touch focus, face detection, panorama, auto-HDR which is not so impressive on Key Specs: 5.0 inches IPS LCD (720 x 1280 pixels) ~294 practical note of taking a picture. ppi, Quad-core 1.4 GHz processor, 1 /2 GB RAM, 8/16 GB storage We used the various modes of camera and found the camera is (expandable up to 32GB), 13 MP rear camera and 5 MP front camera, lagging on taking a low light image, and produces noise on taking Android OS v5.1.1 (Lollipop), 2470 mAh battery selfies. One more issue with front camera is it takes more shutter Pros: Waterproof, good performance, superior features time to process the clicked images. Although the rear camera is good for taking pictures in day light, the camera has one good Cons: Font camera could have been better, Earphone are not loud feature that when you focus on any object you can rotate the focus Write to: Motorola circle that appears on screen to adjust the exposure directly. The Ph: 1-800-102-2344, Website: www.motorola.com/in Motorola camera app can be rapidly activated by a twisting gesture even when the phone is locked. Good hardware and performance: It is powered by a Benchmark performance: Antutu-24951, 3D mark-4473, 1.4 GHz Quad-core 410, The performance Quadrant-15536, Vellamo -1564. is smooth without any lags. This smartphone runs on Android 5.1.1 Why you should buy this phone: 1. Waterproof body, 2. Gesture (Lollipop),which has been customized by Motorola for superior control to light up the flash directly, 3. 10 colorful replaceable back notification and usability. It also has a microSD card slot which is covers for the smartphone at Rs. 999 and 4. The Motorola Migrate expandable upto 32 GB. You can also move apps to the SD card, but App lets you easily migrate media, contacts, text messages from it doesn’t have the option to install apps in the SD card by default. your old phone. On call connectivity it supports 4G which works great and there Moto G smartphone bundled with 2,470 mAh built-in battery. In is no lag in it like call drop or low voice in crowded area. Talking our video test (playing a continuous HD video online through WiFi on about the functionality it has some good apps of Moto that work well full brightness and volume) the Moto G battery lasted for 9 hours. like Moto Migrate. It supports good multitasking and you can run Bottomline: A mixed package considering other phones in this heavy games like Asphalt 8 and Dead trigger 2 without any heating price segment such as Mi 4i and K3 Note have a issues. However, it doesn’t have the single touch button to kill all the better display and a faster processor. However, they are not water running apps together, which is a slight drawback. resistant like the Moto G (3rd Gen). pcquest.com twitter.com/pcquest facebook.com/pcquest linkd.in/pcquest [email protected] SEPTEMBER 2015 PCQuest 85