Motorola Moto X was the flagship device for Motorola back in 2013. It is a wonderful device with fresh new features that were a sensation back then. The Moto X is a premium device which shows that a lot can be accomplished even without having a large number of cores in your smartphone.
On the other hand, the Nokia X is one of the newest devices from the Finnish manufacturer running on the Nokia X platform. Let’s take a look at how these two devices fare against each other.
Motorola Moto X:
The Moto X released back in August 2013 has a 4.7inch display with 312ppi pixel density. It features an AMOLED capacitive touchscreen with a display resolution of 720×1280. It supports Multi-touch input and is protected by Corning Gorilla Glass 3. It features three different types of variants with internal storage capacities of 16/32/64GB and runs on 2GB of RAM.
Like the newest smartphones in the market, it makes use of a Nano-SIM. Similar to flagship devices last year, The Motorola Moto X has integrated support for NFC. It has a 10 megapixel rear camera with a maximum resolution capability of 4320 x 2432 pixels with autofocus as well as LED flash. It makes use of a 1.4 µm pixel size, has Geo-tagging, touch-to-focus, HDR, face detection, and panorama.
It can record full high definition 1080p videos at 30fps with stereo sound recording and HDR. It has a 2 megapixel secondary camera with 1080p support. It runs on Android OS v4.2.2 (Jelly Bean) which is further upgradable to v4.4.4 (KitKat) and will receive a v5.0 (Lollipop) update as well. Under the hood, it has a Dual-core 1.7 GHz Krait CPU running on the Qualcomm MSM8960Pro Snapdragon chipset.
Nokia X:
Also known as the Nokia Normandy, the Nokia X has an IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen with 16M colors. It features a 4.0 inch display with a display resolution of 480×800 pixels with 233 ppi pixel density.
It works on the Nokia X platform 1.0UI with a planned upgrade to 1.1.2.2. The internal storage capacity is quite low at 4GB but is upgradable to 32GB using a micro SD Card. It runs on a 512MB RAM. It has a pretty basic camera at 3.15MP, 1/5” Sensor size, supporting panorama and face detection.
It can record videos at 480p at 30fps and has no secondary camera. It is powered by the Dual-core 1 GHz Cortex-A5 CPU running on the Qualcomm MSM8225 Snapdragon S4 Play chipset. It has an Adreno 203 GPU compared to the Adreno 320 on the Moto X.
Verdict:
Spec-wise, the Motorola Moto X is way more superior to that of the Nokia X. The Moto X beats the Nokia X in every aspect.