what's going on everyone Mitesh here and today I want to talk to you guys about
what I think is the best budget smartphone you can get right now in
April 2018 and it's the Android one edition of the Moto X4. Now there are
two main reasons what I think is the best budget phone you can get and the
first one is the fact that it's really not a budget phone, it's actually very
much a mid-range phone and number two it's on sale through project fi so you
get two of them for $250 which is an amazing price. Now of course there are
some caveats to it and I'm leaving a link down below so you guys can check
out the full deal for yourself, but suffice it to say I think it's actually a
really good deal. It doesn't have any of those hang-ups that you get with plans
from like AT&T and t-mobile and all that, where they have to activate a new line
and all that stuff, this is actually a really good deal for what you're getting
and yeah, like I said, I'll leave a link down below, you guys we should definitely
check it out if you guys want a new phone or want to change service to
Project fi. Now in this video what I want to go over is 5 things you
should know before buying the Moto X4, because I know the phone hasn't gotten a
ton of attention so you guys may not know that much about it so these are
five things considered before buying the Moto X4. Now this is not a full
review because I haven't had enough time with the phone, but make sure you guys
are subscribed because that will be coming very soon. So with that out of the
way let's go ahead and get started
all right so at number one we have the fact that this is the Android one
edition of the Moto X 4 so what that means, for those who don't know, is the
fact that this phone gets updates directly from Google so this thing's
already on android 8.0 Oreo it doesn't have 8.1 for some reason, I'm
not completely sure why that is, but it has security updates through March and
will be getting the April one very shortly. So yeah if you guys value good
software and you don't want to spend the $500 extra to get the pixel 2 this is
probably the best phone to get on the Android side, so you know that you're
getting get timely updates from Google so as soon as the next version of
Android comes most likely this phone will get it before most
other phones well so if you guys value software updates this may be the
cheapest way to get them on Android side. And at number two we have the fact that
even though this is stock Android you still get Motorola's useful
customizations. So you get things like moto display which is like the
precursor to the always-on displays you see nowadays and you also get the
awesome gestures like the double chop to turn on flashlights the double twists to
go quickly to the camera which is way more useful than like adding a hardware
button to for things that you don't ever use
moving on let's talk about the cameras at number three and that's perfect
because there's three total cameras on this phone. We have two in the back
one is the regular main sensor that one that has a 12 megapixel sensor it was an
aperture of F2.0 and it's got the regular focal length but the other one
is an 8 megapixel sensor with a wide-angle lens and an aperture of f2.2
and I personally think it's great to do a wide angle lens versus telephoto. It's
just something that I would use more often usually I'm trying to get more
things in the shot versus less, but yeah I think that's a great choice versus
going with the telephone like everybody else is and on the other side we've
got a 16 megapixel sensor for the front-facing camera and a flash now
you don't see that on many devices and yeah so for the cameras themselves they
are pretty good they don't Wow me like the pixel 2 normally does
but I can't really complain about the pictures I'm getting out of this phone
either and especially at this price point I don't think you can get anything
better than this. I'm holding off my full judgement for the full review because I
still need more time to test it to see with limitations and it has a pro
mode and I want to test out some more, so definitely be sure that you're
subscribed so you guys don't miss the full review of the camera when that
comes out. Alright so since we're talking about cameras let's go ahead and talk
about the rest of the hardware number four and so with this phone you're
getting very much a mid-range device for 2017 so you're getting a Snapdragon 630
which is a great processor has a great balance between battery life and
performance you're getting three gigabytes of RAM you're getting 32 gigabytes
of storage, thankfully it is expandable via microSD card and then
you're also getting a fingerprint reader on the front. Now the fingerprint reader
is really fast but there is one problem with it and it's the fact that it very
much looks like a home button, but it's not. So if you try to push the button
it's not gonna take you home at all, you're gonna instinctively think as a home
button, but it's not you actually have virtual buttons on the screen and you'll
have to tap that to go home. One neat thing that they did with the fingerprint
reader is the fact that if you long press it it turns off the screen now
this would be great if you didn't think it was a home button because I found
myself constantly trying to reach for it but then just ending up turning off the
screen it's once you get used to it I don't
think it'll be that bad but yeah it's kind of a weird choice that it didn't
make it a home button it is nice to be able to turn off the screen right by
touching the fingerprint reader so you don't have to reach for the buttons on
the side but yeah it is what it is now all of this hardware comes
sandwiched between two glass pieces so this phone is very very slippery and the
one model that I have the black version gets fingerprints like crazy so I highly
recommend getting a case on this and I've been using the Tudia merge case
and yeah it's really great for just giving a lot of decent amount protection
if you guys saw that I also had this case for my pixel 2 and I've been liking
it there and definitely this thing helps a lot on this phone too because yeah
this thing is super slippery and like I said gets a ton of fingerprints on it
it also has a huge camera hump which luckily the case hides so if you guys
are buying this fold and make sure you budget at least ten extra dollars for
getting as yourself a decent case you're not gonna want to keep this phone
without a case trust me it doesn't ever stop becoming slippery. Alright and at
number five we have the fact that this is an unlocked phone that works on
almost every carrier in the world so unlike most other budget phones which
are stuck to GSM only so t-mobile and AT&T in the United States this thing
works on every single carrier so you can get around Verizon Sprint AT&T t-mobile
what-have-you if you decide you're tired of Project Fi you want to cancel you
can do that and just pop in another sim and you're good to go. Not only that but
if you travel outside of the country and you want to use a local carrier therem
you can do that, that's the benefits of having an unlocked phone and getting
that flexibility with an unlocked phone it's definitely one of the best parts
about it alright so there you guys go five things you should know about the
Moto X port before buying and as a bonus six thing you should know the fact that
this deal ends May 2nd so you guys should consider buying it very soon if
you want to and I will try to have my review out before then but yeah if you
guys are interested in this deal you should definitely jump on it now and
like I said I will have my review out very soon make sure you're subscribed
and yeah that's pretty much it thank you guys so much for watching I'll
catch you guys in the next one bye