- Motorolla's reinventing itself in 2017 and
it can't do that with just the Moto G line.
It has to use the top end Moto Z line as well.
And it's anchoring it with the Moto Z2 Force.
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- So the Moto Z2 Force is the absolute top of the line
for Motorola and you see that right from the start
with the pricing, it's about 750 to 800 dollars
depending on where you get it.
But you also start to notice that right when you pick
it up, of course it's got that iconic Moto design
front and back, but this is also,
set up to be durable in a way.
It's got this metal back, 7000 series aluminium
around the sides and shatter shield display.
That's a 5.5 inch display on the front
and it's actually covered to not shatter
or break from drops or accidental damage even.
And it's covered for four years from Motorola.
That's really great.
And you notice that flat back around the back,
now that's not normally gonna look like this
because you're gonna be popping on all of these Moto mods.
This is the brand new Moto 360 camera.
With that big camera sticking up there.
But you also have a power pack, style shells
or G wireless charging shells,
all that kind of stuff as well.
So you're not really gonna be using it naked like this.
Because if you notice it's just six millimetres thick
so you're not really gonna be handling this like that.
The downside of that six millimetre thickness is that
Motorola decided to drop the battery capacity.
We're looking at only 2730 million power inside.
That's down from 3500 in last years Moto Z4.
So it's actually smaller than the Moto Z2 Play
the lower end model that's only about 450 dollars.
We'll have to see how that pairs with
the Snap Dragon 835 and four gigabytes of RAM
that are inside.
With those specs though, you can expect it to push
around Motorolas software as fast as you can push it,
super smooth, super quick, easy to get around
and if you've used a Motorola phone in the last year or two
you're gonna be really familiar with this.
You have all of the Moto actions,
but everything beyond that is really basically stock Android
there are a couple of customised apps.
You see you have the Verizon model here,
it's also got a couple of customised apps as well.
But this is really clean and fast and Motorola adds in
some nice tricks as well.
Like of course you can double twist the phone to launch
the camera.
And that's the last big part of the Moto Z2 Force.
So this is a dual camera on the back,
dual 12 megapixel cameras.
And instead of going with a different focal length
on the two cameras, like some manufacturers have,
like LG for example, you get two 12 megapixel sensors
that have the same focal length.
But you get one black and white and one colour.
So you can actually just switch to the black and white
with one press of a button and now you're taking
a true black and white photo.
So you get really deep blacks and that whole range of greys,
rather than post processing it
to get the blacks and whites later.
But when you're in regular mode, you can also take photos
that take advantage of both of the cameras at one time.
You kinda get almost like an HDR effect when you can use
multiple shots at the exact same time,
rather than layering the exposures.
We still need to play with the camera to see how it all
turns out, Motorola has a bit of a chequered history
with cameras we should say.
But it's very interesting to see them go with a dual camera
set up and it should give us a really good results.
And around front we have a five megapixel camera
that you can switch to and the interesting thing here
it kinda has this, standard for Motorola, but not
a standard for the industry, a dual tone front facing flash.
So rather than lighting up the screen for a flash
it uses the little dual tone flash, so you actually get
a proper skin tone or something closer to a proper skin tone
rather than getting this really unnatural light from
a bright white amulet screen.
The Moto Z2 Force has a lot to live up to
because not only is it replacing the Moto Z Force
from last year but it's also kinda replacing the Moto Z
as well.
It's trying to split this difference between being
rugged and have long battery life
but also be thin and light and appeal to a lot of people.
And at 750 to 800 dollars,
it's gonna be pretty tough to do that.
We'll have to see in our full review how it stands up
and how the experience of the Moto mods also adds to that.
At 750 dollars the Moto Z2 Force is gonna face some really
tough competition from the 2017 flagships
that have shown well earlier this year.
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