Now the phone features a 4.5 inch LCD screen, the Google Android Kitkat 4.4 operating system and a Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 quad-core processor clocked at 1.2 GHz, and U.S. pricing of $179 with no contract for 8 GB version.
The phone is closely related to the Moto X that was released three months prior, although there are some key differences despite their similar appearances. The Moto G won't be able to have active notifications, quick capture, and touchless control like the Moto X due to the Moto X using a special processor that would be cost-prohibitive for the Moto G.
Unlike the Moto X as well as most smartphones in general in 2013, the Moto G doesn't support 4G LTE, which is thought to be more of an issue in the United States than the rest of the world due to LTE technology spreading faster there than in other markets. Evolved HSPA would provide the device's fastest mobile data speeds.
Availability
The phone became first available in Brazil and parts of Europe on the day the phone was announced and in Canada and United States on November 22, 2013 and December 2, 2013 respectively. The remaining parts of Europe and Latin America are expected to have the phone available by the start of the Christmas holiday season. The Moto G is confirmed to released in India in January 2014. We do an In-Depth review of it once it got released officially in india
Key Specifications
- Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE; quad-band UMTS/HSPA support
- 4.5" 16M-color 720p IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen with 326ppi pixel density; with Gorilla Glass 3
- Android OS v4.3 Jelly Bean with Android 4.4 update reportedly coming as soon as January 2014 but rumours says that when lt is launched in india we get Android 4.4 out of the box
- Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 chipset with quad-core 1.2GHz Cortex-A7 CPU; Adreno 305 GPU
- 5 MP autofocus camera with LED flash
- 720p video recording @ 30fps with HDR, continuous autofocus & stereo sound
- 1.3 MP front-facing camera
- Wi-Fi b/g/n; Wi-Fi Hotspot
- GPS with A-GPS; GLONASS
- 8/16GB of built-in storage; 1GB of RAM
- microUSB port with USB host
- Bluetooth v4.0 LE
- Standard 3.5 mm audio jack
- Ambient light; accelerometer; proximity sensors
- Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic
- 50GB of free Google Drive storage
- 2,070 mAh battery
- Excellent speaker loudness
