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[Q] Jumping ship from the Nexus 4

I have been hyped for this phone since I heard about it and ive been extremely tempted to get rid of my nexus 4 and grab this phone, the camera issues seem to be over exagerated from what i can see and some say that the nexus cam is bad and I thought it was okay. Any thoughts from anyone using this phone coming from the nexus 4? The main draw for me is battery life, Im lucky if I can get 15 hours of battery life total, with maybe 1-2 hours of screen on time..

If you're OK with the nexus 4 and its lack of LTE, stick with that. This camera has been frustrating me with its lack of exposure control/focus. I'd wait to see how they're going to improve the camera before ditching the N4. If had both and I think the only reason the Moto X wins is Verizon's LTE coverage.
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I never had the Nexus 4, and I'm certainly no camera junkie, but I love this phone. I came from the Galaxy Nexus, so any phone is an upgrade, really. I was happy with the gnex camera, and I'm even more happy with the Moto X camera.

Get the Moto x and never look back. My n4 is now an mp3 player. Moto x battery life is insane and the phone is much smoother than the n4.
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My main concern is battery life, what were you guys getting on the n4 vs the x?

I can double screen on time versus my nexus 4
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I'm a N4 owner and just like you, my main concern is battery life.
I haven't yet decided whether I should go for the Moto X or wait for the next Nexus and see what's coming up.
Tough decision

Im very much leaning towards getting one on sprint tomorrow if best buy is going to pricematch amazon when I go to get rid of my old iphone tomorrow. I just have one last question, does the moto x have a notification LED or is it purely done with the active notifications?

It is done through active notifications no LED
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Battery life on the Moto X is beyond good. 6 hrs screen time. A bit less if on LTE instead of wifi, but still way better than the Nexus 4

gunnyman said:
Battery life on the Moto X is beyond good. 6 hrs screen time. A bit less if on LTE instead of wifi, but still way better than the Nexus 4
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I have a N4 and my TMO Moto X is getting delivered today, I already took the plunge and so should you

gunnyman said:
Battery life on the Moto X is beyond good. 6 hrs screen time. A bit less if on LTE instead of wifi, but still way better than the Nexus 4
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I haven't been getting that at all. Yesterday I was at 13 hours on battery 2 hours of screen time with 3% left. It is almost exactly the same as my Nexus 4. I don't play games or watch videos either, pretty much just texting, hangouts, whatsapp, Reddit.

I had to go pick one up today, So far I think this thing is amazing, I love the feel of it and I actually like the vibration on it. If this battery is as good as everyone says ill be thrilled.

I'm a n4 owner thinking of going to moto x too, for the battery life and better optimization and amoled screen non pentile.

Just pulled the trigger on eBay for 495.00 with a case and protector. The moto website kept placing holds on my credit card but not putting the purchase through so I gave up on Motorola selling it to me. My n4 is going to the wife and she is a happy camper to be switching from her nexus s. Looking forward to checking out this device soon

Have a nexus 4, should i upgrade to moto x?

I actually have a nexus 5 but my gf has a nexus 4, (my old one). I got the promo code for the X (150 off) that i havent used yet. I am curious if I should upgrade her nexus 4 to the moto x for christmas. It doesnt seem like its really an upgrade cept for a few small things. With the moto x also being 350 after the rebate i am wondering if I should just wait and order her a nexus 5.
I am hoping someone that has used the n4 and moto x can shed some light and your thoughts. Thanks!

newtonfb said:
I actually have a nexus 5 but my gf has a nexus 4, (my old one). I got the promo code for the X (150 off) that i havent used yet. I am curious if I should upgrade her nexus 4 to the moto x for christmas. It doesnt seem like its really an upgrade cept for a few small things. With the moto x also being 350 after the rebate i am wondering if I should just wait and order her a nexus 5.
I am hoping someone that has used the n4 and moto x can shed some light and your thoughts. Thanks!
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I just did exactly this switch...and I'm really glad.

Nexus devices cut a few corners to make them the prices they are. The moto X is an extremely well made phone... The only thing anyone could complain about as far as I see is no SD card slot.
Sent from my Moto X cell phone telephone...

Thanks guys

The second thing to complain is the camera quality not just shooting quality, but also I have to install a 3rd party app to get the Photo Sphere function.
I also had a N4...once I used touchless control, impossible to return to N4.

I have a nexus 5, gave my boyfriend my nexus 4, and bought a Dev Edition Moto x on cyber monday. I have been using it all day and i'm loving it so far. I'm going to test drive it for a week. At the end of the week i have to decide if i want to sell this Moto X or My Nexus 5.
While with the nexus 5 for a month, I felt that it was too big sometimes, i had to shift it in my hand all the time to reach the top of the screen. I loved the 4.7 inch screen on my nexus 4. IMO its the perfect size screen for the size of my hands. I'd say i have medium sized hands.

Moto x or Nexus 5

Hey guys,
I sold my nexus 4 a few months back and have been using a galaxy nexus as a get over device. I have seen the reports of the 5.9" nexus 6 and that is too big to fit in my pocket.
I designed my moto x and it came to roughly $600 with tax.
I can find a nexus 5 for about half the cost.
Is the $300 worth it? What do you guys think. Especially if you have had experience with both devices I would love to hear your thoughts.
Thanks.
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I don't care for the nexus 5 (which is what I'm typing on now). Bad signal, bad battery, bad camera, bad speakers. I greatly preferred the 2013 x over the nexus 5. My 2014 x will arrive tomorrow and I'm sure I'll like it more at first. Will have to see if it exceeds the 2013 version but I'm pretty sure it'll exceed the nexus 5. $300 better? I don't know...some people like the 5 and plan to keep it. If you have the money then give both a try and sell / return the one you like less.

Well I can tell you I just made that exact switch, from a Nexus 5 to the Moto X. Is it worth $300 more probably not. But is the Moto X better yes, hands down. The signal I get on the Moto X is much better than I had with the Nexus 5. Battery life is also much better. Camera wise to me they are about the same, which isn't really great, just OK. Software wise Moto X is about 99.9% stock Android and is very fast and smooth. The Nexus 5 will get updates faster but if you get the pure Moto X no carrier version the updates should be very soon after nexus devices. And active display is a really cool feature which the Nexus 5 does not have. You can pretty much send a text, call someone read an email play music etc without even touching your phone. Is all that worth $300 more probably not but only you can decide that I happy I made the switch, I sold my nexus 5 for $250 and the Moto X was $500 so it was a bit easier to pay $250 for it rather than the full price of $500. Oh one more thing the speaker on the Moto X blows away the speaker on the Nexus 5, its much much louder and crystal clear.....

I know there is a $50 off when you have a edu account .

jmtjr278 said:
Hey guys,
I sold my nexus 4 a few months back and have been using a galaxy nexus as a get over device. I have seen the reports of the 5.9" nexus 6 and that is too big to fit in my pocket.
I designed my moto x and it came to roughly $600 with tax.
I can find a nexus 5 for about half the cost.
Is the $300 worth it? What do you guys think. Especially if you have had experience with both devices I would love to hear your thoughts.
Thanks.
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what did you get to bring price up to $600 on your moto x? I had the nexus 5, loved that phone but the moto x is better in almost every way. Build, speaker , call quality, bigger screen but about same size device and faster. The Motorola added software is nice and doesn't hinder the stock android experience. Is it worth 300 over nexus 5? No but the x is better. I'd go for a pure edition and maybe spec it out a little cheaper if the $600 is bothering you. The plain moto x with soft touch plastic back is still a nicer build phone than the nexus 5 for $499.
I have the a&t model but might sell so that I can get a pure edition.
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cjpp78 said:
jmtjr278 said:
Hey guys,
I sold my nexus 4 a few months back and have been using a galaxy nexus as a get over device. I have seen the reports of the 5.9" nexus 6 and that is too big to fit in my pocket.
I designed my moto x and it came to roughly $600 with tax.
I can find a nexus 5 for about half the cost.
Is the $300 worth it? What do you guys think. Especially if you have had experience with both devices I would love to hear your thoughts.
Thanks.
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what did you get to bring price up to $600 on your moto x? I had the nexus 5, loved that phone but the moto x is better in almost every way. Build, speaker , call quality, bigger screen but about same size device and faster. The Motorola added software is nice and doesn't hinder the stock android experience. Is it worth 300 over nexus 5? No but the x is better. I'd go for a pure edition and maybe spec it out a little cheaper if the $600 is bothering you. The plain moto x with soft touch plastic back is still a nicer build phone than the nexus 5 for $499.
I have the a&t model but might sell so that I can get a pure edition.
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It was that price with taxes and everything added in.
And the plain version is nice but if I'm spending that much I'm going with exactly what I want.
I did spring for the white body bamboo back and blue accents. Pure edition. Should arrive Thursday.
Pretty psyched.
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I've had around 11 replacements when I had my N5.
-Call quality was awful as noise cancellation never worked properly
-Got dead pixels on 3 of the replacements
-Small particles of dust began to generate between the screen and the bezel due to bad design
-Poorly optimized for it's hardware as benchmarks prove

So signal is way better with the Moto X. I would lose service entirely with my n5 at times in my house. The dB are consistently stronger with the Moto X.
It also handles multitasking better. The most intensive thing I do is run a dash cam app while navigating. The n5 (and 2013 moto x) both struggled with this and would lag while unlocking, or while scrolling around the map, or when turning off the dash cam. So far with my new 2014 x it acts almost like the background dash cam app isn't running at all.
Without the signal issue I may have kept the n5 and dealt with the camera. Not sure if it's "worth" $300 over the n5 but it is an improvement for sure.

When I had a 2013 X, I bought the Nexus 5 to play around with. After about five minutes, I packaged up the N5 to go back to google. And that was comparing it with my 2013 X!

Definitely don't get the nexus 5. The 6 will be out probably November 1st. People have beat this horse dead. Read one of the thousand comparisons between the 2014 moto x, nexus 5, LG G3, and galaxy s5 and make your decision. At the end of the day no one on here is going to say anything to sway you, you know what you want, so just get it. It sounds like you want the nexus 5 to me because of the price point. I say to that, still wait for the 6 because it is essentially a larger dev ed. moto x and will probably only be $100-$200 more depending on what storage size you get. I went with the x because a 5.9 inch screen is way too big for me. even the 5.2 on the x is borderline.

Want a good phone with great features.... The X.
Are a flashaholic and like many options... N5 or 6.
That's the biggest decision in my eyes. ?

Why did you get the moto x instead of the nexus 6 ?

The nexus 6 was just announced and it looks to be a beast. Why was the reason you pulled the trigger on the moto x instead of waiting for the nexus 6 ? My reason is I knew it was going to be expensive... Second off all 5.9 is too big. I understand the 805 chip is better, but the 801 is really not that far off ? Do you regret buying your moto x ? I would like to know every ones opinion

I went with Moto X because I wasn't sure whether the Nexus 6 was going to be 5.2" or 5.9". I figured that with the delivery and the return period that I could check out the Moto X and return it if the Nexus 6 was a 5.2" phone. I love everything about the Nexus 6, except the size. I'll be keeping the Moto X. 5.2" is almost too big, 5.9" as your only offering is just completely stupid imo. I understand that there are some people out there think that bigger is better, but I'm willing to bet that a majority aren't interested in a phone that large. Polls have shown this.

1) size - 5.9 is outside of my consideration
2) personalization - loving my teak back
Though I do wish moto would've added Qi charging to the X.

dia_naji said:
The nexus 6 was just announced and it looks to be a beast. Why was the reason you pulled the plug on the moto x instead of waiting for the nexus 6 ? My reason is I knew it was going to be expensive... Second off all 5.9 is too big. I understand the 805 chip is better, but the 801 is really not that far off ? Do you regret buying your moto x ? I would like to know every ones opinion
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I believe you meant pull the trigger. Pulling the plug implies taking somebody off life support to kill them.
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mattjacobson said:
1) size - 5.9 is outside of my consideration
2) personalization - loving my teak back
Though I do wish moto would've added Qi charging to the X.
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You just nailed it! If the new nexus was 5.2", it would be competing directly with the Moto X. You chose the option best for you, and for that, you are a good cat!

Size
Seriously, Motorola has 3 new devices. They only needed one.
Moto X design language and customization. Droid Turbo hardware including screen size and resolution, Nexus 6 pure android support and the 65 GB memory size availability. Put those elements of the phones together and the single device would be better than any one of the three.

Size, phablets are a blight on society :laugh: If the Nexus 6 were <5.2 I would've considered it, although it would be tough to give up my leather back
And the fact that, while Android L will add most of these, I find that the moto additions to stock android to be extremely value add.

Size is the true factor. In hind sight I would have likely gone with the turbo.
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Size and Bamboo!
Once I started reading that the Nexus would be designed based of the X, I figured why wait and also the bamboo back is just awesome.
You do lose quick Android updates, but to be honest, this thing stock is just as good as any phone I've ever used.
I've been spoiled by CM ever since I've had an Android device, but couldn't be happier with my choice to get the Moto X.

I went with the X for the size and close to stock Android feel. That nexus 6 is just too damn big.

5.9 too much, too expensive compared to the X, dont need all that battery, too much screen on QHD
The X is all i need, enough battery and moto maker.
And yes the 805 and the 801 are pretty much the same

I went with the Moto X since I needed a new phone. With today's announcement, I'm glad I bought it. The N6, being 5.96 inches in screen size is so darn big. The price is too high. For 64gb, I would be spending probably $700. I could get a financing plan through T-Mobile but still, that's expensive. Being a tech geek though, it's still tempting
The thing n6 has is the better camera sensor, imx214. Moto X has imx115 or whatever (older). N6 has OIS also. Also, the fact n6 has a 64gb option is good. Let's not forget lte band 12
I'll wait until 64bit chips and 4gb ram phones are out. QHD will probably be the standard next year
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As someone earlier said, the Nexus 6 is essentially a Moto X Note. You have multiple size options and price points, Motorola played this one well. Moto G, Moto X, Nexus 6
For us crackflashers/hackers/wannabe Developers it is a bummer since the Moto X is not unlockable and rootable (atleast not yet). However Motorola was smart not to make a phone that would compete directly with the one they just created....with better specs.

Verizon. Need I say more.
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GatorsUF said:
As someone earlier said, the Nexus 6 is essentially a Moto X Note. You have multiple size options and price points, Motorola played this one well. Moto G, Moto X, Nexus 6
For us crackflashers/hackers/wannabe Developers it is a bummer since the Moto X is not unlockable and rootable (atleast not yet). However Motorola was smart not to make a phone that would compete directly with the one they just created....with better specs.
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You could even say that theres the Moto X 2013 for someone looking for a cheaper, smaller and still very very good flagship phone.
So you have the Moto E & Moto G for budget/entry devices, the X 2013 for cheaper and smaller flagship, the X 2014 for the new flagship device and the Nexus 6 for a phablet
After all every Motorola phone its pretty much a Nexus device

For those who want woodback for their Nexus 6, ToastMade will eventually release a woodback for it, so no worry there.
I actually was looking forward to buying the Nexus 6 as backup device for my Moto X, to use as a tablet and backup phone. At $649 I would get it as my primary device, which I will not since it's too large, but not as a backup device. So I bought a used Nexus 7 for ablet instead.
For back up phone, I think I will just get the Sprint Moto X 2013 and GSM unlock it, or a Nexus 5.

6 inch screen is way too big. Super happy with my moto x and leather back and green accents. As everyone else said, I will miss the unlocked boot loader and all that but I can live without it. Stock moto x is a great phone.
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The design of the Moto X just really appeals to me more than the Nexus 6 did, from what I could tell of the many leaks and teasers. There's something wonderfully different about having a high-tech phone with a visibly wooden back. The Nexus 6 is just another plastic device. As soon as I found out the Nexus was going to be closer to phablet size I knew it wasn't for me. Moto X is a great size for me.

jzaslice said:
You do lose quick Android updates (...)
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No, you don't!

Previous phone was a Samsung Galaxy S 3 International, originally decided to wait to see what the next Nexus was all about.
Saw that it was a phone for whales, bought Moto X.
Speaking of which, whats this Pure edition stuff people keep mentioning about?

Moto X 2014 or Nexus 5x

I'm planning to buy a new phone, I currently have a Moto g and I really happy with it, I used a Nexus 5 but I didn't like the build quality of it and I dropped it and the screen was cracked so....
I'm planning to buy a custom made 64GB Moto X for $299 or a 16GB Nexus 5x.
Is the Moto worth the money?
I really care about the speaker, the build quality and the screen-to-body ratio.

cpvm said:
I'm planning to buy a new phone, I currently have a Moto g and I really happy with it, I used a Nexus 5 but I didn't like the build quality of it and I dropped it and the screen was cracked so....
I'm planning to buy a custom made 64GB Moto X for $299 or a 16GB Nexus 5x.
Is the Moto worth the money?
I really care about the speaker, the build quality and the screen-to-body ratio.
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Personally, I would go for the Moto as the 16gb of storage on the 5x will fill up quickly. Aside from that the device runs fine to this date, has a wonderful speaker and has a good build quality in my opinion.

Kevin_Desousa said:
Personally, I would go for the Moto as the 16gb of storage on the 5x will fill up quickly. Aside from that the device runs fine to this date, has a wonderful speaker and has a good build quality in my opinion.
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Thank you, I already buy a 64GB Moto X Pure Edition.

Well, the 2014 Moto X probably won't see another (major) update after Marshmallow - assuming you have the Pure Edition. Because otherwise you won't even get that (in the US at least, not sure about other countries). Plus the 5X has a better camera and much better battery life - though I do agree it's bezels are HUGE compared to the Moto X and its build quality is probably a bit worse. The Moto features are nice though.
Storage is very important though, so you probably made the right decision.

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Well, the 2014 Moto X probably won't see another (major) update after Marshmallow - assuming you have the Pure Edition. Because otherwise you won't even get that (in the US at least, not sure about other countries). Plus the 5X has a better camera and much better battery life - though I do agree it's bezels are HUGE compared to the Moto X and its build quality is probably a bit worse. The Moto features are nice though.
Storage is very important though, so you probably made the right decision.
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All the Xs from "other countries" (the rest of the world) are getting 6.0.
I think the "much better battery life" on the 5x is only because of Marshmallow... Have you tried it on the X? I have and I'm consistently getting 4 h SOT at least.

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All the Xs from "other countries" (the rest of the world) are getting 6.0.
I think the "much better battery life" on the 5x is only because of Marshmallow... Have you tried it on the X? I have and I'm consistently getting 4 h SOT at least.
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I get better battery life on my moto x pure than my nexus 5x. I'm in the 4.5-5.25 SOT range with the pure. The 5x I get 3.75-4.5 sot.
But OPs sticking points all lean towards the Moto X. Speaker is no comparison. Moto x kills it. Holding the 5x and the moto x side by side it is incredibly disappointing that the bezels are so large on the 5x. With all the reviews calling it a "compact device", it is terribly unwielding. Screen sizes are out of control. 5.2" is the upper echelon of one handed usability. The moto x bezels and form factor allow it to be used semi comfortably. However the 5x feels like such a larger phone, and using the 5.2" screen feels like trying to use a 5.5" screen compared to the moto x.

I was just going off reviews and the fact that the 5x has a larger battery. And no my Moto X hasn't gotten Marshmallow so battery life isn't too great.