Okay. I have some splaining to do. I got all caught up in the wave of Motorola news and when I saw that the Moto G 2015 was at best buy, I ran out without thinking and grabbed it. Threw my 640 in the closet and spent about 3 solid days using Google again after a few months on WP. I gotta say, its.... not great...
1. Android 5.1.1 might have a little box that says "Move app to SD card" in every app settings page, but when 99% of the apps I have can't actually be moved, 3.5GB of usable space becomes an actual problem. By the time I got OneNote, Office, Outlook, ect. installed and added one 300MB game. I was out of space... (side note: the guy at best buy actually said when I returned it "You should have gotten an SD card and put the apps on it." I was like "I did....")
2. Google Services feeds on battery life. Feeeeeeeeeeds on it. I was getting a very impressive 7 hours SOT over a day of use for the first day, then 5 hours the next. Then 4..... The more I actually used google apps, the more battery Google Services started creeping up in the percentage of battery use. I opted to turn off Google Now, Location, and disabling Google search. That worked for the most part, but rendered the phone pretty useless...
3. The camera is advertised as "The same sensor that in the Nexus 6" for some dumb reason I thought that meant it would be good. And on a clear Arizona day with plenty of light, Its great! Then again, what phone isn't? But at night, indoors, anywhere that isn't optimal lighting conditions, this thing is GARBAGE!!!! with the 640, I usually just reduce the shutter speed while resting the phone on something and get a pretty good shot at night, but the Moto G's default camera app has nothing of the sort. You can adjust exposure. That's it...
4. And this is the really tough one to judge, but its a real issue. Fragmentation. No, not the android kind, but the Specs kind. Best buy is selling the 8gb model with 1gb of ram. that's equal to what I have in the 640. its $179. I paid $80 for the 640. pretty big gap that I had to deal with, but I was told by a friend at work that the real one to get the 16gb/2gb version. its $219 at Motorola.com. I dont wanna.... I dont want to hunt down the real one. I got the one offered to me in person as I do with every phone I buy. the Lumia 640 is at Walmart right now. I didn't have to hunt it down to get a good one. they're all good. But when a Moto G at one place isnt as good as the Moto G at another, someone done goofed. That's just confusing and a rather big hassle for the consumer walking into the Best Buy/Walmart asking for a new phone.
TL;DR Its not that great.
With all the talk of WP being put out to pasture, I got a little antsy and ran off to Android, but if this is the norm for Android; different specs, prices, availability for a single device, I would rather stick with a dying OS than one that can't figure itself out at all.
1. Android 5.1.1 might have a little box that says "Move app to SD card" in every app settings page, but when 99% of the apps I have can't actually be moved, 3.5GB of usable space becomes an actual problem. By the time I got OneNote, Office, Outlook, ect. installed and added one 300MB game. I was out of space... (side note: the guy at best buy actually said when I returned it "You should have gotten an SD card and put the apps on it." I was like "I did....")
2. Google Services feeds on battery life. Feeeeeeeeeeds on it. I was getting a very impressive 7 hours SOT over a day of use for the first day, then 5 hours the next. Then 4..... The more I actually used google apps, the more battery Google Services started creeping up in the percentage of battery use. I opted to turn off Google Now, Location, and disabling Google search. That worked for the most part, but rendered the phone pretty useless...
3. The camera is advertised as "The same sensor that in the Nexus 6" for some dumb reason I thought that meant it would be good. And on a clear Arizona day with plenty of light, Its great! Then again, what phone isn't? But at night, indoors, anywhere that isn't optimal lighting conditions, this thing is GARBAGE!!!! with the 640, I usually just reduce the shutter speed while resting the phone on something and get a pretty good shot at night, but the Moto G's default camera app has nothing of the sort. You can adjust exposure. That's it...
4. And this is the really tough one to judge, but its a real issue. Fragmentation. No, not the android kind, but the Specs kind. Best buy is selling the 8gb model with 1gb of ram. that's equal to what I have in the 640. its $179. I paid $80 for the 640. pretty big gap that I had to deal with, but I was told by a friend at work that the real one to get the 16gb/2gb version. its $219 at Motorola.com. I dont wanna.... I dont want to hunt down the real one. I got the one offered to me in person as I do with every phone I buy. the Lumia 640 is at Walmart right now. I didn't have to hunt it down to get a good one. they're all good. But when a Moto G at one place isnt as good as the Moto G at another, someone done goofed. That's just confusing and a rather big hassle for the consumer walking into the Best Buy/Walmart asking for a new phone.
TL;DR Its not that great.
With all the talk of WP being put out to pasture, I got a little antsy and ran off to Android, but if this is the norm for Android; different specs, prices, availability for a single device, I would rather stick with a dying OS than one that can't figure itself out at all.