Product Review: Motorola Moto G: A Good Deal At 13K And Here Is The Reason Why

In my opinion Motorola Moto G, the newest version of Moto G in Motorola family is a good deal at approx Rs 13,000. Moto G has a very successful history and probably when its demand was at peak in India, the company vanished for some reasons from India. It has resurfaced itself now and the credibility of its products will definitely give desired stability in competitive market in India.

Flipkart is the sole selling point for Moto G. Moto G has 5-inch HD display with maximum resolution of 729 x 1020 pixels. Corning Gorilla Glass, the latest development in display glass technology provide real like appearance on its screen. Thickness of the device is less than 11 mm. Being lightweight, it is less than 150 grams. With such thickness and weight it is quite comfortable to slide in the pocket and carry. Moto G has a special kind of coating thereby making it water resistant. Operating system is latest variant of Android - Android 4.4 KitKat. So you have a bouquet of Motorola apps bundled with the device.

Moto G's processor is 1.2 GHz quad-core from Qualcomm. RAM is 1GB (which in my opinion should have been 2 GB). The phone supports dual-sim with internal storage of 8GB. The storage can be increased with the help of microSD card. Rear or primary camera is 8 megapixels (good) and front or secondary camera is 2 megapixels (again good!). Battery has 2070 mAhours of charge storing capacity. Moto G support 3G, B/T 4.0 and GPS. It has two inbuilt front stereophonic speakers.

Nokia X2: Not A Good Value for Money

Nokia X2 has been launched by Microsoft last week in India and the price band is ranging between Rs. 8500 to Rs. 9,999. Obviously being the fresh launch, at some online portals the price is exaggerated. It is better to check its best price here. The model comes in Orange, white and Black colors. The difference between earlier Nokia X series and this one is the front buttons in this model. App list is the new feature in this model that assists you to use multiple apps simultaneously quite easily. 

It has 1.2 GHz dual core processor which is Qualcomm Snapdragon. RAM is 1 GB and display is 4.3". 1800mAH battery is almost standard these days in most of the smartphones. Primary or rear camera is 5 megapixel and the front camera is .3 megapixel. It supports dual SIM. It runs on Android. You get 15 GB of space on cloud on OneDrive from Microsoft on registering your smartphone.

Micromax Gains Top Slot In Total Mobile Shipment In Q2 of 2014 in India

If total count turnover of any kind of mobile phone is looked into, Micromax has grabbed the top slot in Quarter 2 of year 2014 which was earlier with Samsung. So we have seen some major shuffles in quarter 2 of 2014. First it is Motorola that has taken over the fourth slot in overall smartphone sales in India in Q2 and moved Microsoft down the ladder. This has happened withing a year of the re-entry of Motorola in India.

Overall share of Micromax as per Q2 figures is a little over 16% and Samsung that is on second slot now holds 14.5%.  If only smartphones shipment is taken into account, Samsung is still singing aloud at the top slot with a market share of over 25%.

Product Review: Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 8 T331: A Superb Value for Money in Reality

A Quad Core processor is always a better option if you are using your mobile for more than talking. Obviously when you are buying a smartphone you would definitely have a number of apps and features in mind that you would keep running on your mobile. All applications are not written keeping utilization of multiple cores of a processor. So if the applications that you are using use only a single core of a processor, it would not be a drastic enhancement for you.

On the other hand, most of the latest apps are developed keeping mid range to high end smartphones in mind - which means - dual core to quad core. Hence multitasking and multi core definitely is the demand of time.

For 24k you are getting a 1.2 GHz quad core processor along with latest Android kitkat operating system. Some features though are overhyped and are there just for the sake of increasing the tally of features for the phone but overall Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 - 8" T3331 is a good value for money in terms of performance, appearance and features. 1.5 GHz of RAM, Android 4.2.2 kitkat OS, etc is all good. The low side is its below par 3 megapixel of rear camera whereas its peers from other brands are reaching to 12 megapixels of cameras these days. The front camera also fine - being 1.3 megapixels. Screen size is 8". Battery life is excellent - 10 hours.

Overall not more than 3.5 on a scale of 5. The product is ready to launch and would be released on 12th June 2014. Pre-release orders are available online.