The Apple iPhone 5C has a toned-down hardware compared to the Apple iPhone 5S. More than that, benchmark tests have confirmed that it is also a tad slower than the old iPhone 5. As a result, this is the perfect phone to be compared with the entry-level Motorola Moto G2 from a different price bracket. Take a look at their features below.
Apple iPhone 5C:
Available in many quirky colors, it weighs 132g and supports a Nano-SIM. It has an LED-backlit IPS LCD, capacitive touchscreen with 16M colors. It features a screen size of 4.0 inches with a display resolution of 640 x 1136 pixels and an impressive pixel density of 326ppi. The device does not come with an expandable memory slot.
It comes in 8/16/32 GB variants, all running on the same 1GB RAM. It has an 8MP rear camera with autofocus and an LED flash, supporting a maximum photo resolution of 3264 x 2448 pixels. Other features include a 1/3.2” sensor size, a 1.4 µm pixel size and simultaneous image and HD video recording. The device supports all other basic features like geo-tagging, smile detection and HDR.
The rear shooter can record full HD 1080p videos while the 1.2 MP front camera supports 720p. It was released with iOS 7 but can now be upgraded to the latest iOS 8.1. Spec-wise, the device runs on an old Apple A6 chipset with a Dual-core 1.3 GHz Swift (ARM v7-based) CPU. For your graphics-intensive tasks, Apple has provided a PowerVR SGX 543MP3 GPU.
Motorola Moto G2:
The Motorola Moto G2 has an IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen with 16M colors that supports a resolution of 720 x 1280 pixels on a 5.0-inch screen. The device has a pixel density of 294ppi, significantly lower than the iPhone 5C. It is protected by Corning Gorilla Glass 3 and supports multi-touch input.
The device is available in 8/16GB variants and runs on 1GB of RAM. Unlike the iPhone, you can upgrade this with a micro SD Card. It has an 8MP primary shooter, which supports a maximum image resolution of 3264 x 2448, same as the 5C. It has an inferior lens aperture but comes with LED Flash and autofocus. The other basic features like Geo-tagging, face-detection, panorama and HDR are included as well.
Although, it has the same 8MP camera, it can record videos at a lower resolution of 720p. It has a secondary 2MP front camera. The device runs on the latest Android OS v4.4.4 and will be upgraded in the future to Android L. It runs on a Qualcomm MSM8226 Snapdragon 400 chipset with a Quad-core 1.2 GHz Cortex-A7 CPU. It has an Adreno 305, capable of smoothly running your basic games and other visual tasks.
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