 I'd like to open this up by saying, yeah, I know, I'm really late on this one. The Corsair Flash Voyager Go is the easy way to move photos, music, and videos between your Android device and your PC. Click now to learn more. Yes, everyone in North America is drooling over the Samsung Galaxy S5, the HTC M8, etc. But, honestly, the Moto G was never about being the best phone available in North America anyway, so why don't we approach this from a bit of a different perspective? Let's consider its importance in another market, one that Motorola talked about back when they launched it, India. The 16GB version launched earlier this month, Android 4.4 KitKat rolled out there on it about a week ago, and at the time of filming this, the Moto G has 2,300 user reviews on Flipkart.com, more than the Galaxy S4 and HTC One combined. So as interesting as the successors to those products are, I would actually argue that even today, you know, four months later as I am, the Moto G is a more important product overall for the world's move towards smartphones than either of those two successors. So the main difference between the Moto G and the Moto X are as follows. Performance is lower in every way. Slower CPU and GPU with a quad-core A7 processor at 1.2 GHz and Adreno 305 GPU, 1GB vs. 2GB of RAM, NWI vs. AC wireless, and 3G cellular data maximum vs. LTE being available on the X. All of that, though, actually sounds worse than it is. More on that later. The build quality is very solid. It is thicker and uses noticeably cheaper plastic, but you do get a removable and customizable, replaceable backing now, however difficult it might be to get off. It's got a regular 720p LCD display vs. the OLED display on the Moto X that enables the display to power on only the pixels that are needed, a great power-saving feature. It lacks the always-listening voice activation, and this actually bothered me a lot more than I expected. The camera feels straight out of 2010. Megapixels and gigapixels aside, my iPhone 4, to my eyes anyway, actually takes similar quality pictures and does it with a faster response on the shutter. But that's me losing track of the product positioning of the Moto G. I'm complaining the camera is competitive with the iPhone 4. But that still passes for Apple's value option in India. That is what the Moto G is up against. And on Flipkart.com, the 8GB iPhone 4 actually costs about 50% more than the Moto G, whose other advantages vastly outweigh that one disadvantage, in my opinion. Let's talk physicality and everyday use. She don't have many buttons, Cap'n. I like the top 3.5mm jack. It's easy to pocket, but I found the positioning of the camera lens a bit awkward for taking pictures in landscape mode. The onboard speaker is suitably loud for watching YouTube videos in the backseat of a moving car, which is all I really asked for, but it's got that awkward positioning that requires the now classic hand cup maneuver to achieve optimal performance. Bwah. The volume rocker is another thing that bothered me a fair bit throughout the time I used the phone. It's short, cheap feeling, and hard to differentiate from the lock button when you're not actually looking at the phone, when you're just trying to feel it. I don't have much to say about the software that I didn't already say in my Moto X or Nexus 5 reviews. It's Android 4.4, and it's pretty much stock Android with no real bloatware. There are only a few things that really drove me crazy. I also don't like the dialer at all. Dialing by name is something that I take for granted now and is conspicuously absent here. And switching to the address book is up at the top of the phone, where it's not really convenient to reach one-handed. And finally, Hangouts still just plain sucks as a messaging app. The chip in my head, though, tells me that much like the YouTube comments, our Google overlords will address it at some point in the future, so it's a minor concern, but it's definitely something that's bothering me for now. But negativity out of the way, let's get into the first of my top four Moto G advantages versus cheaper and even similarly priced phones from off-brands and other premium brands like Samsung alike. Software, updates. Motorola promised and delivered Android 4.4 in a timely manner on the Moto G. Many of the devices in this price range are still running 4.1 or even earlier versions of Android. And when you consider Google's focus on making their OS run faster and lighter with each iteration, you could argue that software updates are even more important than getting better specs on your phone in the first place. Advantage number two, performance. Other stuff in this price range like the Samsung i8260 is just plain laughable compared to the Moto G. Even coming from a premium phone, games ran fine at native res and I only noticed slowdowns while multitasking or while installing apps in the background. I also suspect that any of the stutters I did feel were because the flash storage was almost completely full the entire time I had the phone. That will hamper the performance of even the quality flash storage in the Moto G. I used an 8 gig, but I would really recommend the 16 gig for another 20 bucks if you plan to put lots of apps or even a small to medium music collection on your phone. Advantage number three, that screen. Where most of its competitors are still advertising their screens as TFT LCD without even specifying a resolution on the product page, the Moto G's 4.5 inch 720p IPS screen is a design choice that even made me forget sometimes while I was reviewing it that I was holding a device that costs a third of my daily driver, the HTC One. The viewing angles on it are excellent, the colors are vibrant without seeming over saturated and unnatural like some OLED displays and it was even easy to use outside. Nice and bright, excellent contrast. My only complaint here is that the touchscreen seemed to lack the pinpoint accuracy of some other products I've used which was noticeable in things like typing very quickly. Advantage number four is, well, the other stuff. The all day battery that got me almost through two light usage days last weekend. The Gorilla Glass 3 front cover and the lip on the front of the phone that means I can put it down without worrying about scratches. The customizability, you can replace the backing with the color of your choice or a flip starting at 15 bucks and these are all little things that maybe don't merit individual advantages but they add up to make the conclusion for this video very simple. At 179 to 199 dollars, this is the only phone that really matters. In much the same way that at 350 dollars, the Nexus 5 is the only phone that really matters. Yes, you can find imperfections in both of them but the only way to fix those complaints is to spend more. So I believe what I said stands. I wouldn't consider recommending something else to my mother if she had 200 dollars to spend which is about the strongest praise I can give a product. Oh wait, right, sorry, the part of a phone review where I talk about call quality. It's good, actually better than expected. The Moto G has an extra mic for background noise suppression which at this price point is a very compelling value add just like everything else about this phone. 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