The memories tend to be distorted — since then, Motorola has left the Russian market, it has remained in the memory of our compatriots manufacturer futuristic “clamshells”, and the rest, as they say, water under the bridge. What’s more — over time Moto deeper sinking to the level of rarity, and our fellow citizens was divided into the army of those who already don’t remember this manufacturer, and also those who found the American in his decrepit state (2006-2010) and I sincerely do not understand why unremarkable overseas manufacturer “ogrodow” still causes some stir.
And even among the IT journalists is multiplying, the opinion from the category of “can be thought, can be nothing?”. And the national average all of these “may” is exacerbated by the angry, stingy in crisis tech lovers and slower technological progress in smartphones. So needed in our harsh environment, the cell phones with the emphasis on style instead of technical characteristics — the big question that we currently have and we will investigate on the example of the middle class Moto.
Motorola Moto X Play
Features
Motorola X Play
Operating system
Android 6.0 Marshmallow
Screen
A 5.5”, 1920×1080, IPS, 403 ppi
Processor
Qualcomm MSM8939 Snapdragon 615 with 8 cores (4x Cortex-A53 at 1.7 GHz + 4x Cortex-A53 1.0 GHz)
Graphics
Adreno 405
Operational memory
2 GB
Permanent memory
16 GB, slot microSD
Link
4G (LTE Cat.4), 3G, Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11 b/g/n), Bluetooth 4.0, GPS, GLONASS, NFC
Camera
primary: 21 MP, autofocus, capture 1920×1080 video,
front — 5 MP
Battery
fixed, 3630 mAh
Sizes
148×7,5×10,9 mm
Weight
169 g
The price at the time of publication
30 000 rubles
Where to buy
Design and management
Strange sensations in all parameters “on paper” and affordable way to measure line characteristics X Play fit to scold: the front stretched speakers (not stereo speakers, and separate spoken and speakerphone) and took on their absurd needs a lot of space at the back I do not know why there is a plastic insert with the logo Moto is better on this point was the fingerprint scanner. This in itself is quite chubby X Play, and by the standards of a 5.5-inch gadgets heavy. And the “icing” among ridiculous solutions looks at the removable back cover is non-removable battery. And all this deliberate for the sake of rustic glamour models-“fatties”?
The back cover is very high quality and pleasant to the touch
Actually, if you have not heard sugary stuff marketers about the target audience and not to compare ourselves with resilient youth in advertising, as X understand the most important Play — the smartphone with simple made from very high quality materials convenient and trite. Plastic cover with texture “under the rubber” though borrowed from the handle of the toothbrush, but this detail looks good, soft and pleasant to the touch, and resists scratching better than any other material in the housing. And, importantly, the framework on the sides of the display quite adequate in size.
Very good plastic or the most “plastic” metal?
Thick smartphone can be a convenient and beautiful — the Moto X Play proof
The right side and Motorola Moto X Play
The frame is made of… which is not clear: judging by the weight of the smartphone, the metal is present, but something silver has not properly cold in February and behaved like a thoroughbred kind of plastic. And yet, according to the criteria of “expensive-rich”, our hero looks and feels nicer than the “bucket” to the touch Huawei Honor 7 and Meizu MX5, if not unattractive-plastic Sony Xperia M5 and ASUS ZenFone 2. Only serious battery capacity is not given for nothing, so if not elegant “building a boat”, a Moto X Play would have gone for a fat smartphone longevity.
The keys on the right side resupinata not without difficulty, and sit in their seats perfectly (small gap there) but ribbed key lock — nice stuff to use. But bilateral the tray with one hand — a pair of Nano-SIM, with the other microSD — off of clean water, in such and such an amount of free space under the back cover.
Removable cover only for the sake of beauty
Color options Motorola Moto X Play
Color options Motorola Moto X Play
By the way, about the cover — in a set of test smartphone includes lid orange and green colors. It is unlikely that many buyers will hesitate to use them constantly (smartphone “acid” color tires-music over the ear), but walk for a while “as that guy with the Lumiya” sometimes it will be exciting.
One tray for two SIM cards and memory cards — the original decision
Ribbed on / off button pleasant to use
This place could be a fingerprint scanner
The bottom line the Motorola Moto X Play
The screen and sound
Display in Motorola X Play cool. Not even so — he was suddenly cool and is a very high quality Full HD IPS matrix by the standards of modern smartphones.
Judge for yourself — a huge stock of brightness and good contrast levels keep the image readable even on a Sunny day. The color reproduction is close to ideal, except that the white balance slightly shifted to cool shades. But look at this world and these pants are the value DeltaE — color matrix displays so correct, if its specially calibrated measuring instruments under! But we just chose “Normal”mode in system settings.
One of the most quality IPS displays in modern cell phones
Since the days of Nexus 6 smartphones Motorola learned how to display the information without unlocking the display. Due to this, Moto X Play costs even without the notification light on the front panel. Get the smartphone out of your pocket/take it off the table/bed — and on the display within 2-3 seconds displays time, date and the number of missed notifications. Previously, the function was tied to the light sensor, now focused on moving the phone in space. Such works for automatics, by the way, is better than the new Nexus, but without false positives is not complete, and they are:
- Once again “plagued” the battery (it’s not AMOLED, which spends energy only on the displayed information)
- Intriguing and makes to unlock the display when the owner did not have time to see the number of notifications
Display characteristics of the Motorola X Play mode (“Normal”)
The maximum brightness level
580 CD/m2
Contrast
1400:1
Color gamut (sRGB)
94% sRGB
DeltaE
1,03
Gamma
2,1
Color temperature
7000K
Sound quality Bluetooth Motorola “horoshist” and resembles the LG G4, only the modified foreign mesh filter. Like and the volume is enough, and frequencies note more than usual (even the speaker is trying a little “subnet”), but the tone of the dirty sound, like a phone made by Chinese aluminum. With headphones the sound is mundane and flat, and smooth so much so that I want to fix this feature of the EQ to your taste.
Iron
On hardware we have two news: good and bad. Let’s start with the bad. As we noted earlier, the smartphone looks expensive and impressive display quality, but the processor he got extremely dull by the standards of the device for 30 thousand rubles. Not even taking into account that over 35 thousand now sell the Samsung Galaxy S6, whose cosmedent just tear any competitors of the middle class, it is worth noting that the much more powerful LG Nexus 5X today worth 30 thousand. And the real price of Full HD display of 5.5 inches with a budget of eight cores — 16 thousand that is asked in the official retail M2 for Meizu Note. So where is your Chinese generosity, the gentlemen of the Union Lenovo-Moto?
Processor speed test (Geekbench 3)
30 thousand rubles for mass consumption and not fast CPU — a rather arrogant proposal
But the good news is that, at least, a block of productive cores in the Snapdragon 615 running at the full 1.7 GHz. Today it is rare many manufacturers of this chip “rustling” 1.5 GHz and not to say pleased with the performance. But the Moto X Play is great optimized and not overloaded with frills Android, so for everyday use smartphone good. Just keep in mind that de facto is our Moto not weaker that last year, and even pozaproshlogodnego flagship models, and from time to time it is felt in practice.
Gaming performance (the test 3DMark Ice Storm Unlimited)
The performance of the entire system (test Antutu Benchmark 5.7)
Software
Some time ago Motorola had its own proprietary shell, but current models cost minimally modified version of Android 6.0. In addition to the above-mentioned “live” display was symbolically redrawn “Gallery”, and complete software program for connecting to smart watches and advanced voice assistant “Moto Voice”, which, however, does not support Russian language.
The interface of the operating system Motorola Moto X Play
6.0 standard Android, Motorola engineers improved
Some things in the standard Android irritate even more than the criticized journalists “self-made” shells manufacturers. For example, in the absence of a fingerprint scanner system has to be password protected, but there is one unpleasant nuance: if you want something urgently to photograph, without dialing an access password to the camera you get. For comparison, the Samsung camera launches from the lock screen without entering password/contact with the fingerprint scanner, and something really urgent you can always remove on your smartphone.
The firmware is optimized perfectly — all “flies”, but look not for that catch. It is assumed that the buyer on the remaining 10 GB of standard 16 will be equipped with a system to taste.
Camera
When it comes to photos and videos — Moto X Play can be called a smartphone middle class brand in all disciplines. Because, on the one hand, our hero is equipped with high quality cameras, still shows a good photo on a Sunny day, and at night it doesn’t “drop” the frame rate to a slide show last nuance found in “inept” producers and just “raw” smartphone with pretensions to luxury.
On the other hand, praise our hero in comparison with “classmates” especially not for that.The interface for shooting is terrible — instead of focusing on the touch of the smartphone is taking photos, and you can control the focus and exposure you have by using f, which is located in the submenu of the camera. It’s important, because otherwise the camera is very slow, where it should look.
Example photos taken with rear camera Motorola Moto X Play
Management came out as ridiculous, as if the desktop PC took the keyboard and mouse, and forced to control the system via a touch screen.
Moto X takes pictures and shoots video, in whole, at the level of the new Samsung Galaxy A5/A7 2016, sometimes a little worse. However, to the coolest of cameraphone in the range of 30 thousand rubles (Nexus 5X) our hero is infinitely far away, and even “low-cost flagship” Sony Xperia M5 is making more quality shots. But ASUS ZenFone 2 ZE551ML produces lower quality photos/videos, and Huawei P8 at this part will not name radical best cameraphones.
Original gestures (two times turn your wrist to launch the selfie-camera), of course, interesting, but not work in 100% of cases, so it is easier to fabricate and click the icon to switch cameras on the display.
Camera corresponds to its price tag, but to manage it very uncomfortable
Example photos taken with the front camera Motorola Moto X Play
Front camera is also ordinary: not the best choice for portraits because of regular mistakes with white balance, but generally amiss.
Good quality video during the day, but at night the camera simulates the vision tipsy, or just near-sighted person focusing live their lives and turns the video into something vague.
Autonomy
“Lopatina” dimension from 5.5 inches and above rarely get a decent size of their batteries — the manufacturers put in the phones as much capacity, so they “stretched to overnight charge once a day.” Motorola made differently, so plump X Play sports a border between “civil” and long-lived smartphones 3630 mAh.
Use (brightness 200 CD/m2)
The duration of work hours
Video from a memory card
13 hours
Game
5 hours 10 minutes
Reading
14 hours and 10 minutes
Cost-effective processor and capacious battery do the trick — Moto X Play is very hardy
Paired with cost-effective processor and a good battery pack even energy-consuming 5.5-inch IPS display do not interfere with our hero to work long — Play Moto X is damn near impossible to defuse for day use. In moderate mode, the autonomy of the smartphone is enough for at least 3 days.
Power-saving modes the standard for Android 5.0/6.0, fast charging is supported, but not supplied, and from the standard “5V 2A” X Play charge for three hours.
Competitors
Motorola X Play
Samsung Galaxy A7 (2016)
Meizu MX5
Operating system
Android 6.0 Marshmallow
Android 5.1 Lollipop
Android 5.1 Lollipop
Screen
A 5.5”, 1920×1080, IPS, 403 ppi
A 5.5”, 1920×1080, Super AMOLED, 403 ppi
5.5 inches, 1920 x 1080, Super AMOLED, 401 ppi
Processor
Qualcomm MSM8939 Snapdragon 615 with 8 cores (4x Cortex-A53 at 1.7 GHz + 4x Cortex-A53 1.0 GHz)
Samsung Exynos 7580, 8 cores (8x Cortex-A53 1.6 GHz)
MediaTek MT6795T “Helio X10” 8-core (8x Cortex-A53 2.2 GHz)
Graphics
Adreno 405
The Mali-T720 MP2
PowerVR G6200
Operational memory
2 GB
3 GB
3 GB
Permanent memory
16 GB, slot microSD
16 GB, slot microSD
32 GB
Link
4G (LTE Cat.4), 3G, Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11 b/g/n), Bluetooth 4.0, GPS, GLONASS, NFC
4G (LTE Cat.6) , 3G, Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11 b/g/n), Bluetooth 4.1, GPS, GLONASS, NFC
4G (LTE Cat.4), 3G, Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11 b/g/n/ac), Bluetooth 4.1, GPS, GLONASS
Camera
primary: 21 MP, autofocus, capture 1920×1080 video,
front — 5 MP
primary: 13 MP, with autofocus, capture 1920×1080 video, front — 5 MP
main: 20.7 MP, with autofocus, video recording 3840×2160, front — 5 MP
Battery
fixed, 3630 mAh
non removable 3300 mAh
fixed, 3150 mAh
Sizes
148×7,5×10,9 mm
144,8x71x7,3mm
150x75x7,6 mm
Weight
169 g
155 g
149 g
The price at the time of publication
30 000 rubles
31 000 rubles
30 000 rubles
Where to buy
Call vertelki:Samsung Galaxy A7 (2016)3inline
Call vertelki:Meizu MX53inline
Samsung Galaxy A7 (2016)
To create a new image of Samsung smartphones came with love: the A-series now looks even better than the Galaxy S7 and “under the hood” of the new models manufactured by Samsung same processor and the displays.
In comparison with Moto X Play Korean smartphone more productive, much more subtle and about as hardy. The display and the housing in both the smartphones are equally good and here the question is already “religious” — someone like IPS and “rubber plastic”, AMOLED and glass and metal design.
Meizu MX5
Strictly speaking, with a budget of 30 thousand, you can take 5X more powerful Nexus with the best quality (for the money) camera, but he’s not “laptopon”, right?
So it makes sense to consider Chinese metal phablet. Basic “chips” in a few Meizu MX5 — quality audio (dedicated audio chip helps), processed beyond recognition Android and fast processor in everything except games. The quality of case and autonomy “Chinese” inferior Motorola and Samsung, power — exceeds the camera quality and display is about equal.
The main problems of model — curve adaptation for Russia, with the result that the smartphone is not able to work with the overwhelming majority of 4G networks in the country. Not to get into trouble with “3G only”, it is useful to check, whether a compatible Chinese exotics specifically with your service provider.
Conclusions
*Voice Zadornov*. “Get ready — now is the strange phrase”. And the thing that sad the Moto X Play results in benchmarks does not spoil the impression of our hero. From the mouth of obzorschika that does is turns the gadgets in the tests, this will sound unusual, but in fact our Motorola remains pleasant to use the smartphone even with the power of “butt”.
Because X throws Play carefully details every time get it out of your pocket; because its body is very different from vulgar metal and glass competitors, and in this case there is even more expensive. Because the display quality and does it without any toxic colors, and autonomy is such that you can walk with two SIM cards and “no steam”.
But contra, of course, also have smartphone very massive, burly, and in cloudy weather and in the dark the camera is stupid. Play the game X turns with difficulty even at medium graphics detail, and in operating the lack of power with varying degrees of success perfectly offset by the polished Android.
Moto X Play is the device is not geek. It’s just a nice-to-use alternative to the Korean and Chinese pop’s, one of the most solidly manufactured and sturdy phablets of today. Anyone who is looking for a “normal smartphone” with a good autonomy and a case is recommended. But more demanding fans of Motorola, it makes sense to wait for the models of joint production of Lenovo-Moto — Chinese promise to provide these smartphones before the end of 2016.
Motorola X Play
Advantages:
Disadvantages:
- Quality display
- Stylish, quality materials
- Good autonomy
- Latest Android with no frills
- Weak processor
- Impressive dimensions
- Average quality camera with inconvenient controls
- There is no fingerprint scanner