Product Review-
Motorola Moto E was quite a popular phone when it had launched last year. In fact, it was the best phone under Rs 10,000 till other phone makers started offering affordable price points. While the Moto E had been released at a time when Xiaomi was yet to debut in India, the second generation Moto E surely isn’t the only affordable device in the segment. In fact, Lenovo started the trend this year by introducing the 4G enabled A6000, and this was quickly followed by Xiaomi’s Redmi 2; both of which come at the same price point as the Motorola Moto E (2015).
The second generation Moto E has undergone some design changes as compared to its predecessor. For starters, the new Moto E has done away with a removable back cover and in its place you have a surrounding plastic band which covers the microSIM and microSD card slots. The ribbed design along the band helps with grip.
You can even add on colourful Moto E bands (Flipkart is selling 3 for Rs 999). Just like the original Moto E, the new one also feels quite sturdy. I particularly liked the rubbery feel on the rear side, which helps with giving the phone a good grip.
The Motorola logo dimple is present just beneath the 5MP camera which again comes without any LED flash unit. On the front face you only have the earpiece speaker on top which also acts as the speaker unit. The display comes with the Corning Gorilla Glass 3 protection.
Unlike the original Moto E, there isn’t any speaker element at the base of the phone. The bezel on the new Moto E, specially on the top is quite large. You have the volume rocker button placed below the power/standby button on the right hand side. The microUSB charging power is at the base and the 3.5mm audio jack is on top.
Considering this is Motorola’s entry level phone, the new Moto E sports a 4.5-inch 960 x 540 pixel display. It must be considered that competition has already added on HD displays at the same budget. The phone runs Android 5.0.2 and houses the Qualcomm Snapdragon 200 SoC which has a quad-core processor clocked at 1.2GHz along with an Adreno 302 GPU. This is paired with 1GB of RAM. While testing the specifications on the CPU-Z utility, we were shown the SoC as Qualcomm Snapdragon 410, which is not the case. On the storage front, you get 8GB of storage of which 5.03GB is available for use. There is a 5MP rear camera without an LED flash unit and a VGA front-facing camera.
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