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iFixit Tears Down the New Moto X, So You Don't Have To
iFixit's been breaking devices and voiding warranties for years now; latest on their chopping block is the new Moto X from Motorola, a phone hawked as much for its customizability and place of manufacture (the U.S.) as for anything else. You might expect a highly hyped, ultra-customizable phone to be made of high-end components and ultra-repairable as well. iFixit's teardown commentary has both some good and only-middlin' things to say about the innards, but very little bad. They call out the highly modular headphone jack, and say "a considerable amount of effort went in to the internal design of this device; the number of clips and contacts we've found so far is a great testament to that."
They do teardown reports all the time. The site is oriented to people who want to repair gadgets. So what they're showing here is largely how to take the phone apart. It's also interesting to those of us who want to know how things are made and what components are in our stuff.
Will you ever stop sucking Googles cock? It's a remarkably average phone
To put the Moto X some kind of perspective
The iPhone 5
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1.3Ghx dual-core CPU
GPU (three cores) @325 MHz
1GB LPDDR2-1066 RAM
4 in (100 mm) diagonal 640 × 1,136 pixels (326 ppi)
The Moto X
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1.7Ghz dual-core
GPU (quad-core) @400 MHz
2 GB LP-DDR2
4.7 in (120 mm) diagonal 1280x720 (316 ppi)
To put it in some kind of perspective it destroys Apples Flagship Phone. You are right though its not the fastest or has the most cores or is the largest *Android* Phone, but then it made the choice to focus on customising the phone and desirable features such as active notifications , focusing on what was important, and making an elegant phone...if they got their research right.
You are not wrong, I have seen many features things on for example Nokia phones before they became another "Designed in" company, but then I like the old features like hardware keyboard(back on the droid), waterproofing(On the latest Sony Z), IR (on the HTC One)....now where are those Internal FM transmitters.
Only a fanboy will overlook at the fact that the specs are more of a requirement of the OS than actually something useful .... and the OS still manages to be SLUGGISH and UNSTABLE.
And that is ignoring the fact that Android was designed to be spyware for Google.
Except Adobe abandoned Flash on mobile devices - the latest you can get is 11.1 for Android 4.0.x. You can probably install it on Jelly Bean, but it isn't supported and given the way the default browser is Chrome...
And they abandoned it because of the iPhone.
The real question is - how does this phone compare to the Androids sold today. As in what Androids are currently selling. Is it going to move as many as the SGS3 (60M - best selling Android phone model) out of 900M Androids? It seems the vast majority of them aren't the flagship devices that we keep seeing, but all the various free ones (including the SGS*2* derived ones).
Then there's the whole screen thing - if you want any Android phone with a screen smaller than 4.5", you're SOL. Poor processors, poor screens, poor memory... seems like no one wants a flagship phone with a smaller screen for those of us who prefer to use phones single-handedly.