What's going on everyone Mitesh here and today
I have for you guys my full review of the Android one edition of the Moto X4. Now in this review
I'm going to be mainly covering the
performance of the phone the
Cameras and then the things that I found, after using it for a couple weeks, the things that I really liked and disliked about this
phone. If you guys are looking for more the specs and all that stuff I did in another video about it so you guys can
Check it out. I'll have a linked up here in the card, so yeah without further ado. Let's go ahead and get started
All right, so let's start off by talking about the performance of this phone
And if you're like me and you've never used a budget phone before I think you would be pleasantly surprised at how good
This phone is in terms of performance
So I think it's a combination of the Snapdragon 630 in this and the stock Android that just lets this thing
fly through everything you do on a day-to-day basis
So whether that's reading social media posting social media browsing the web watching YouTube videos watching Netflix all of that is just
Seamless on this I've never had this thing slow down when I'm trying to do any of that stuff in fact even doing things like
multitasking so having split screen on this phone works
perfectly so I had YouTube videos and
Was browsing the internet and everything just worked perfectly when I touch either one of the apps there was no slowdown
Whatsoever so yeah in terms of performance. I have been really impressed by this thing in fact
The only time I even noticed that it was a little bit slower than my pixel two was when I had them next to each
Other and I was trying to open up apps at the same time
I could tell that the Moto just did not open them as fast and that's
Gonna be due to the Snapdragon 630 versus the Snapdragon 835. But yeah, I think if you're getting this in for performance. It's fantastic
Now of course the fact that it's running Android 8.0. Means you don't have to worry about being behind
You don't have to worry about security patches and all that because it's up to date
Being an Android one phone is I think a huge plus in just having the latest features on your phone
So even coming from the pixel - I could definitely see myself switching over this phone full time and have no issues whatsoever
except for the camera and more on that in a little bit
But before that I want to talk about the battery life on this so
Because of the Snapdragon 630 and the three gigabytes of RAM. This as a great battery life
It's much better than my pixel 2 anyways the battery life on this can last easily over a day
It also supports quick charge 3.0
so it charges much faster than my pixel 2 does so
Yeah in terms of that
I actually much prefer using this phone because I know it won't die out on me and finally before moving on to cameras I want
To talk a little bit about the display so the display on this is of course LCD now
It's almost always a better to have an OLED display, but honestly
I would rather take a good LCD display over a bad OLED, and this is a great LCD display, so it's a 1080p screen
It's 5.2 inches and the colors on it aren't the most accurate, but there are a couple different modes
You can pick if you like the phone to be a little bit warmer color you can do that or cooler
And then you can also boost the colors if you prefer that look so it's nice to be able to at least have those options
The only place you're ever gonna notice that it's not an LCD display is at night when you have the Moto display turn on
The nice thing about it on the pixel, too
Is that when you have the always-on display?
It's just those pixels lit up, but on this thing the entire screen lights up so even though. It is a very dark color
It's still you can see that the entire display is lit up. So that's the only place
I really noticed and it's an LCD vs.
An an OLED display and actually there's one other place that I noticed it's an LCD display
And it's the fact that when I have my polarized sunglasses on when I put this thing in landscape
I can't treat the screen at all now
This is something that I didn't particularly know about I had to do a little bit of research
But it turns out that although CDs put out polarized light
And then if you have polarized sunglasses at certain angles the polarized light will meet it, and then yeah
You won't be able to see anything on it, but it's the case with all LCD displays
So if you have polarized sunglasses yeah, and certain angles this display may not work out for you
But but really I don't feel like it's something that comes up that much and then this is the case with all LCD display
So I'm not really gonna knock it down for that alright
So finally let's talk about the cameras on this thing so there are three cameras on this total
so there's two in the back and the front-facing camera so
I'll be honest all of the cameras on this phone are just okay
They're actually pretty good, but when you're comparing some like the pixel two
It's a little hard to find these to be that great now
I will be honest they take great pictures when you have good lighting, but when you have a bad lighting
They all tend to struggle a little bit
So let's wrap up by talking about the main camera so the main camera is a 12 megapixel sensor
It's got a regular focal length and that one does
really well especially the HDR when a chair turns on this thing actually takes some pretty pleasant pictures even with the wide-angle lens but the
HDR on you get some really really nice pictures even indoors if you have good lighting you can get some fantastic
pictures out of this
But when you get to low light situations it starts to break down quite a bit and another thing
I want to know is the camera system on this is not the fastest the shutter lag it can be
Quite high especially if you're taking a bunch of HDR pictures in a row the Snapdragon 62 just can't quite keep up with it
so on my pixel 2
it's just like you can just keep touching a button as many times as you want and just
constantly taking pictures whereas on
This phone it takes a second to take it if you take three pictures in a row with that our HDR
It takes a while before it lets you take another picture so that's something to definitely note now
Let's talk a little bit about the wide-angle sensor, and I'll be honest
I really prefer the wide-angle sensor to having a telephoto sensor
But I'm really usually trying to get more things in the shop versus less
And this thing really helps in doing that indoors, though
You are gonna see a lot of lens distortion
So you're gonna see on the edges of the picture that it's just very curved on both sides
Outdoors usually don't have this issue because it's everything so far apart
It's usually fine now in terms of optical image stabilization this thing has none, so
Video wise you're gonna be seeing some pretty shaky videos
It's actually not that bad here so a couple clips so you guys can see from the regular and the wide-angle lens so yeah in
Terms of video I still things it takes a really good video
It does 4k after 30 frames per second, so that's always good in terms of budget phones
I think this camera is really good it
Also has a lot of different modes built into it if you guys are interested in that so it has a portrait mode
And I'll be honest
I have not been able to get the portrait mode to work at all, so I'm not gonna talked about that one very much
But it's got a couple other cool modes that you can try out so it's got this nice cutout mode
So you can take a picture of someone and it will basically cut them out of the scene it works relatively
well
It's also got a spot color one so you can drain the picture of all colors except for one so
That's a nice little feature to have built in I know a lot of people like that filter
And then of course you can do things like slow motion and also have face filters
I don't see many people using this more than like one time, but it was fun to try it out at least now
let's move on to the front-facing camera so the front facing camera is a
16 megapixel sensor, and it's just okay most of the pictures
I got out of it are really
Soft even when I took the beauty mode on which is on by default the pictures just came out really soft
And I'm just not sure why
Especially when you have a 16 megapixel sensor, I think you'd come out detailed and sharp
But no, it's all the pictures were just pretty soft out of it now the front-facing that does have a front-facing flash
and I
Recommend that nobody use that because it will look terrible
Compared to the pixel 2 though when I took it like with nearly no light you're at least gonna get a selfie out of this
Versus with the pixel 2 you're gonna get something that doesn't look that great alright
So this is a look at your front-facing camera and action on the mother 4. It's pretty good
You can in fact turn on a flashlight
Am I exactly sure how oh there you go see?
It's I don't think I can
really hard to tell but you can even have the flashlight on in the front so if you guys do a lot of selfies or
You do a lot of vlogging with the front-facing camera. It works pretty. Well, so yeah, that's it for the cameras
I think for a budget phone these cameras are actually pretty good budget phones
this is the one part where they really struggle is with the camera so if you guys are looking for a great camera if you're
Trying to create content with this yeah
Then you're gonna want to spend the money to get something like a pixel 2 or an iPhone 10 or a Galaxy S 9
Something that has a great camera and at this point all those flagship mobile phones. That's what they're selling you is the great camera
Alright, so let's finish off this review by doing my favorite part of it
Which is all that miscellaneous stuff that I liked and disliked about this device that
Really doesn't fit into a category and I have a list here, so I'm just gonna read a little bit of these off so
Number one is the fact that this thing has a headphone jack you guys it has a headphone jack
It's something that I've missed on my pixel, too
I don't miss it so much that I really complain about on a day-to-day basis
But like once you go to a device that has a headphone jack. You just realize how?
Convenient it is so yeah. I know it's a lost battle, but I like the fact that this has a headphone jack
Next up is the fact that this thing is ip68 water and dust resistant
That's something
That usually see on higher-end phones, and it's good to see that budget phones are starting to get it think of something that should be
Available on most phones and hopefully in the next couple years
It won't because I mean
These things are already fragile as it is the fact that a little bit of rain can mess one of these up is
Just kind of stupid
Next up is the fact that this thing has a single front facing speaker so uh
This this is a this is not so much alike and dislike
It's kind of in between so I would love it if this thing had dual front facing
speakers like my pixel two does but it doesn't but I'm glad that it doesn't that they opted to have a
Single front facing speaker versus having a bottom firing speakers
I really dislike bottom firing speakers because they're so easy to cover up and this one has a really good front facing speaker
Next up is the fingerprint sensor
So I think it complained a little bit about the fingerprint sensor in my first video is the fact that?
It's not a home button
It's just a fingerprint sensor
And then you can also use it to turn off the screen like that
Now the biggest problem that I have with this is that?
Sometimes when I'm getting it out of my pocket my palm will brush against it
And it is trying to register that so my biggest complaint is
I just wish that this thing was a little bit more recessed so that when I'm taking out on my pocket
It doesn't see those as attempted
Unlocks and then sometimes I've had it actually locked me out of the phone before because I just didn't my hand just brush it
Too many times and encountered all those as attempts to unlock
And then finally something that I'm really annoyed by about and it's the fact that this is a glass phone
And there's no wireless charging. I mean seriously
What's the point of a glass phone with no wireless charging like there's absolutely no point?
I don't think anybody can convince me that there is a point to having a glass phone with no wireless charging, but yeah
Those are some of the things that I found in my time using this phone that I really liked and this like alright
So sorry guys. Go that's my full review of the Moto X floor
It's been a really good experience for me, and hopefully this video helps you guys out and make your decision
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Finally I want to know in the comments down below if you guys could let me know
What do you guys think about budget phones cuz I definitely consider buying a budget phone because just it wouldn't get updates
But pull the phone like this you're gonna get updates, and I think for most people a phone like this is good enough
So what do you guys think about that let me know in the comments, and I'll catch you guys in the next one. Bye