Motorola users accuse company of refusing to issue under-warranty replacements

Posted on by Stephen Schenck

Modern smartphones may offer some fantastic value for their price, but when even a moderately expensive handset can still set you back several hundred dollars, this isn’t an investment to be taken lightly. That’s why we carefully research our options before buying, hunt around for a good deal, protect our handsets with durable cases, and take solace in the knowledge that even if the hardware turns out to be faulty, our ...

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Moto G (3rd gen) discounted to $150 at B&H, microSD card and $20 coupon also included

Posted on by Adrian Diaconescu

Even though the low-cost Android smartphone competition is heating up like crazy by the day, and the 2015 edition of the wildly successful Motorola Moto G will turn one in the summer and thus probably spawn a sequel, deals on the 5-incher have been few and far between.In fact, we can only remember the mid-range handheld being bundled with

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Why the Moto X Pure Edition is the most giftable smartphone of 2015

Posted on by Jules Wang

In the spirit of holiday commercialism, let us remind you of our holiday shopping guide. Okay, also that we’ve been out two weeks since Black Friday and that we are another two from Christmas. Whether or not you view that glass as half-full or half-empty, if you do have a mobile tech shopping list you feel like riddling with check marks, you still have time to grab a smartphone for one of your best first degrees of separation.Yep, that’s what I call friends & family.So, why ...

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The Pocketnow Holiday Shopping Guide 2015

Posted on by Jules Wang

Step back from the food court, I repeat, step back from the food court. Move away from the deals. Seriously, though, you might be on a sales safari come this weekend or a cyber chase on Monday. If you’re the type of person to give away phones and smartwatches for the holidays, though, it helps to actually consider what you’re getting and how it fits the person you’re getting it for.Like a sommelier does with wine, we’re given you our suggestions on what phones to look for when you’re talking about your dorky cousin Jane or your stylish uncle Jebidiah. Well, at ...

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Motorola Moto G Turbo Edition upgrades screen res, processor in Mexico

Posted on by Adrian Diaconescu

It’s not quite like Motorola to flood the market with marginally distinct configurations of the same phones headed to different regions, but for some reason, Mexicans seem to get preferential treatment in the form of the Moto G Turbo Edition.Granted, America’s neighbors have last year seen the Moto G Ferrari Edition and G Forte exclusively launched within their borders, but the G Turbo is a whole new ball game. It may look identical to

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Canadian carrier confirms Marshmallow upgrade dates for Moto G 2015, HTC One M8, and M9

Posted on by Adrian Diaconescu

And so it begins. Several hardware manufacturers have revealed the names of their Android devices due to swap Lollipop software with Marshmallow goodies over the next months, and now carriers start filling in timing-related blanks.Guess what, 2014 HTC One M8 and

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Google admits to Moto G issues with Android Auto

Posted on by Stephen Schenck

It’s only been a few weeks now since Motorola introduced the latest generation of its Moto G family, offering shoppers an affordable, minimally skinned Android experience. Despite the conservative hardware, we came away from our review feeling quite fond of the new Moto G, and no doubt a few of you have picked the phone up for yourself. Unfortunately, despite everything the phone has going for it, it’s not without a few hiccups, and this week we’re finally seeing acknowledgement of ...

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Moto G 2015 review, abridged: what’s hot –and not– in 60 seconds (Video)

Posted on by Michael Fisher

There are folks out there who don’t have the time for a ten-minute video or a 4,000-word review, and they certainly don’t have an hour to absorb a meandering podcast (no matter how many awards it’s won). These people might be sneaking a quick YouTube fix on a bathroom break, trying to make a point to a rival smartphone owner at a bar, or even standing in line at a wireless retail ...

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Motorola Moto G 2015 review: wallet-friendly and water-resistant

Posted on by Michael Fisher

Motorola calls it the “Moto G (3rd generation).” We call it the “Moto G 2015.” Some people call it the “Moto G3″ … but that’s confusing. Whatever you call it, the newest iteration of Motorola’s best-selling smartphone is more fully featured than ever before, and its affordable price tag has barely seen a bump. The Moto G is the product that redefined what an affordable smartphone could be, and ...

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Motorola already sells out: 2GB RAM Moto G no longer available for order

Posted on by Stephen Schenck

It hasn’t even been one week now since Motorola introduced its most recent crop of smartphones, including this year’s refresh to the Moto G. While the handset isn’t officially arriving as a pair of new editions like the Moto X is this time around, Motorola did introduce one key hardware option for this year’s Moto G that effectively splits the phone into two different tiers: the 8GB storage version with its single gigabyte of RAM, and the 16GB Moto G that doubles its RAM ...

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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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Can the new Moto G survive in the world it helped create?

Posted on by Michael Fisher

Two years ago, the original Moto G redefined the concept of the affordable smartphone. In a world where even midrange devices commanded $300-$400 unlocked, Motorola’s game-changer debuted at just $179. It brought much of the pocketability and visual appeal of the contemporaneous first-gen Moto X, and thanks to the pairing of near-stock software and a solid processor, it ran Android almost as smoothly as the day’s top-tier flagships. We called it “a surprising pleasure to use” in our full review, ultimately concluding that it was a

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Moto G 2015: hands-on with the affordable-as-ever mid-ranger (Video)

Posted on by Stephen Schenck

While Motorola is trying something new with the Moto X this year, splitting the phone into the Moto X Style phablet flagship and the more dialed-back Moto X Play, the new Moto G is very much a refresh of last year’s model. That’s not to diminish what Motorola did here, and instead of forcing the phone to go in an untested new direction, the manufacturer saw itself returning to what’s worked in the past. Today at Motorola’s launch event in New York, we checked-in with this ...

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Moto G 2015 specs: hardware on a budget

Posted on by Stephen Schenck

Motorola’s family of Moto-series smartphones has always been defined by its price points. From the Moto E at the most affordable end of things, options extended all the way up to the Moto X, leaving the Moto G squarely in the middle.But this year Motorola’s complicated things with the addition of a new Moto X option, the Moto X Play. With slightly less capable hardware than the Moto X Style (and a correspondingly lower price tag), the Play creates a new rung on the Moto phone ladder; so where does ...

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All the new Moto phones pick up Moto Maker custom options

Posted on by Stephen Schenck

For a series of phones that leaked as heavily as they did, the new Motorola Androids still managed to deliver one decent surprise, as the new Moto X turned out to be two phones: the Moto X Style and the Moto X Play. With the addition of the new Moto G, the three handsets offer shoppers a nice spectrum of performance and feature options, across a range of price points. And this year, Motorola’s welcoming its new family of Moto phones with a special treat, allowing users to customize all three in the Moto Maker.It used to be that if you wanted the best customization choices for your ...

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