This is a very nice phone, with very nice hardware. The Moto X has solid specs — like a 316 ppi 1280×720 display, a 1.7GHz dual-core Snapdragon processor, a 10-megapixel rear camera — but they aren’t what makes it special. The back is slightly curved, made from a grippable material that’s easy, and a pleasure, to hold onto. The 4.7-inch screen is in Goldilocks territory, at least for me. It feels just enough bigger than an iPhone screen to be useful, without going overboard like the Galaxy S4, which I find hard to hold and operate with one hand.
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But what I did like, very much, is that none of this is gimmicky. Smartphone technology has matured so much in the last two years, and reached such a level of hardware parity that some manufacturers have responded by vomiting up useless application clutter all over their devices — like Samsung’s eye tracking “smart scroll” which is perhaps the stupidest goddamn feature anyone has ever put into anything. The Moto X doesn’t waste time with this nonsense.
Rating: 8 / 10
