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."

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Gay for Google

[tuppe666]

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.

Well that didn't help

[SuperKendall]

Having twice the RAM and a somewhat faster processor does little for you if you need 4X the RAM and 2X the CPU to operate with the same level of performance.