Android Marshmallow now rolling out wide for Moto G 2014

Posted on by Stephen Schenck

Motorola wasted no time getting Marshmallow updates going for its latest smartphones when Google’s latest platform revision landed last fall, and by November we were already seeing updates hit multiple Moto handsets. And while the manufacturer was quick to start the flow of updates, it’s taking a while to make sure that Marshmallow’s ready for as much Motorola hardware as possible. One handset that’s taken a little while to get its taste of Marshmallow has been the 2014 edition ...

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Motorola Moto G (2nd gen) gets updated to Marshmallow in India

Posted on by Adrian Diaconescu

Without a doubt, the champion of Android 6.0 software promotions thus far is Motorola, despite its relations with Google understandably cooling after Lenovo’s acquisition. But the Illinois-based smartphone manufacturer maintains the OS as clean as ever, adding little to no bloat in the equation, and therefore, completing optimization work way ahead of the competition.While Samsung, for instance, is yet to make the Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge Marshmallow updates truly global affairs, Moto’s ...

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Moto G 2015 vs Moto G 2014 (Video)

Posted on by Michael Fisher

The Moto G is about to get replaced … by the Moto G. As we saw during our initial hands-on earlier this week, the 2015 model brings a few hardware bumps and much more customizability to Motorola’s best-selling smartphone of all time, and it packs some serious software improvements as well. While we’ll have complete impressions in next week’s full review, first let’s take a look at what’s changed between last year’s Moto G and this year’s. You may be surprised at where the new phone ...

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Moto G 2014 hits price low in Amazon one-day deal

Posted on by Stephen Schenck

Motorola’s Moto G has always been a very affordable handset. Its specs and configuration options fall short of big brother Moto X, but dollar-for-dollar it may be an even better value, especially if you’re not sweating the loss of luxuries like LTE speed. When the 2014 edition premiered last September, its $180 price tag really helped the phone to stand out: it was better-equipped than other extreme-budget smartphones, while still coming in respectably short of the $200 mark. In the months since, ...

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Motorola Moto G Lollipop update rollout begins for some

Posted on by Anton D. Nagy

We recently found out that Motorola is planning on updating all 2013 and 2014 devices to the latest version of Android 5.0 Lollipop, thanks to Motorola’s Luciano Carvalho and one of his social network posts. That “really soon” Carvalho was talking about is happening now for some users in certain regions, as the Moto G Lollipop update process has been commenced.According to a tweet on Motorola ...

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Motorola Lollipop update prepared for all 2013 and 2014 phones; coming “really soon”

Posted on by Anton D. Nagy

There is absolutely no need to recap Motorola’s efforts related to the Android 5.0 Lollipop update; instead, we’ll just praise the company for being among the first ones to deliver Google’s latest and greatest to its current devices. However, those who own older models are not enjoying the Lollipop dessert just yet, but the company is getting there, according to Motorola’s Luciano Carvalho who took some details on the progress to his Google+ page (embedded below).According to the post, Carvalho reassures everyone that Motorola is working hard on updating 2014 and ...

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Second-gen Moto G shows up in LTE form on Brazilian Motorola site

Posted on by Rithvik Rao

One of the omissions with the second-gen Moto G that we weren’t so happy about was LTE access. The device caps out at HSPA+ speeds and isn’t capable of accessing the best networks US carriers have to offer, which made it an even worse buy for some than last year’s LTE Moto G model (first-gen). Now, it looks as though the second-gen Moto G may be getting the same treatment, considering the fact that Motorola’s Brazilian site seemingly leaked information about a 2014 Moto G LTE variant.According to the specifications that were briefly live on the website, two things ...

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Motorola formally announces Android Lollipop updates: 2014 Moto X Pure Edition, Moto G

Posted on by Stephen Schenck

Motorola is not wasting any time when it comes to making Android 5.0 Lollipop updates available for its might-as-well-be-stock-Android smartphones. Last week we first got word that updates for certain of the manufacturer’s handsets were already coming out – and specifically the 2014 Moto X Pure Edition. Moments later we learned of Lollipop release notes on the company’s site for the 2014 Moto G, but all this excitement quickly hit a wall when it started looking like this was all just a ...

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Moto G Android Lollipop update officially available

Posted on by Anton D. Nagy

Motorola is doing a great job (alongside one or two other OEMs) in delivering the latest Android update. The Moto G Android Lollipop update is available as of now for you to download, if you have the latest version of the handset, which is the 2014 variant.According to this report, unlocked Moto G (2014) devices are getting over-the-air update notifications which, if actioned upon, trigger the download of a 386.7MB file, which is nothing else but the official Moto G Android Lollipop update. Since Motorola ...

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Moto X beats Nexus 5 with Android 5.0 Lollipop update (sorta)

Posted on by Stephen Schenck

Holy crap. We know that Motorola, with the pared-down, close-to-pure-Android experience it’s been delivering for its latest smartphones has been one of the leaders of the pack when it comes to getting out Android system updates, but this… this? Overnight we shared with you news that a rather polished-looking Android 5.0 build for the 2014 Moto X had leaked, suggesting that Motorola wasn’t too far off from formally releasing an update to the public. That might have had you thinking ...

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Motorola posts up Lollipop update tracker

Posted on by Rithvik Rao

Android 5.0 Lollipop is on the way, and we know many of you with those fancy new Moto Xs are just itching to use it on your phone. So instead of being inundated with “ETA please!!!” all day long after the source code for the update drops, Motorola is trying to escape the bombardment by setting up a dedicated Motorola Lollipop update tracker for its most recent phones.Motorola, of course, has been almost-godlike in its delivery ...

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You can now grab a Moto G 2014 at Best Buy

Posted on by Rithvik Rao

One of Motorola’s great successes in the past year has been the Moto G line of smartphones, which (with a low price in tow) created an almost-perfect value in a smartphone – the price was right, and the hardware felt smooth. That’s why, when the Moto G 2014 launched earlier this year, we were yet again quite pumped. If you’re pumped alongside us, you’ll be happy to know that Moto G 2014 sales have just kicked off at Best Buy, and you can pick up an affordable smartphone of your own right now.The Moto G version that Best Buy is offering is the new (2014) one, with ...

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Dropping the iPhone 6, reviewing the Moto X, and drooling over HTC Rumors | Pocketnow Weekly 114

Posted on by Michael Fisher

Updated with the high-quality edited version of the podcast, which you can stream or download down below (or through your favorite podcatcher app). We hope you enjoyed; we’ll check back in with you next week!If you ask us, the first thing you should do on iPhone launch day is take a long, hard look at the competition. Not because the iPhone is a bad product, but because everyone else tends to step up their game when Apple brings a new phone –or two– to the yard. And that’s more true than ever this year.With that in mind, we’ll talk about all kinds of smartphone ...

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The new Moto G vs Moto G (Video)

Posted on by Taylor Martin

Last year, Motorola blindsided everyone by creating an entry-level smartphone that was not only surprisingly great but also extremely affordable. Other smartphones like it had surfaced, but definitely not on Android. The Lumia 520 is a perfect example. But very few Android smartphones before the Moto G were both affordable and worth buying.Last week, while all the attention was on IFA in Berlin, Motorola made some not-so-surprising announcements in Chicago where ...

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iPhone 6, Apple Watch, Moto X & Moto 360 Editorial Roundtable | Pocketnow Weekly 113

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Updated with links to the high-quality, edited version of the podcast. We hope you enjoyed; see you next week!We stayed up all night waiting for an iPhone that (almost) never came. A few days before that, we opined mightily about the smartwatch that’s slated to accompany it come early next year – and a day or two before that, we took a quick look at the latest iPhone and Apple Watch competition from the Motorola camp, with the Moto X, Moto G, and Moto 360. It’s smartwatch and smartphone soup over here at Pocketnow and, generous guys that we are, we want to share the ...

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