Motorola are still quite relevant in the Android market, despite some critics claiming that the company has been losing ground lately. Sure, it might be true that they have stopped innovating so ambitiously with their designs, but there are still plenty of good offers coming from Motorola, and lots of good reasons to invest in one of their devices.
The Moto G and Moto G2 are among their most recent entries into the smartphone market, and the company has managed to attract a large number of customers with the devices, as they offer a great balance between power and features, while also coming at an attractive price. The launch of the Moto G about a year and a half ago was met with a lot of positivity from customers, and reviews about the device have been pretty much universally positive.
After that, the Moto G2 became known as one of the first smartphones to receive the famous Android Lollipop update, highly anticipated throughout the Android community – it was in fact the third smartphone to get the update, right after Google’s own Nexus 6 and Nexus 9.
With the Moto G2, the company gave its customers a better screen with higher quality pictures, even though they kept the resolution the same. The two screens have different pixel densities on the other hand, with the Moto G2 offering a slightly bigger screen, which, even though it has a lower pixel density compared to the Moto G, actually still looks noticeably better than its predecessor.
Motorola also upgraded the device’s camera with the release of the G2, increasing its sensor size by 3 megapixels, bringing it up to 8. While it’s still nothing remarkable, the picture quality in the Moto G2 saw a noticeable improvement, which some reviewers noted was also related to better post-processing on the software side.
The one thing that barely changed between the G and G2 is the hardware powering the phone, as both offer more or less the same specifications, with a 1.2 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 processor, 1 GB of RAM, and a dedicated GPU. Still, some users have noted that the Moto G2 seems to handle Android slightly better than the Moto G, but it’s not known if there are any actual differences or if this is just a “placebo” effect. It is pretty apparent that Motorola have done some extra work on the device’s physical design to make it a more attractive handset though, but that’s a different story and something that was completely normal. What will we see if they continue the line? The G3 is already rumored to be coming, and it could very well be a popular entry into the smartphone market for 2015.