Motorola Moto G (Gen 1) Dual SIM 16GB

Overview

Entry-Level Smartphone By Motorola

By Natasha

Motorola Moto G is an Android smartphone by Motorola Mobility LLC owned by Google Inc. which was unveiled in November, 2013. It has a dual SIM configuration that lets you differ your personal and professional life by having two different numbers. The handset comes in a pack with a charger, battery, headset, USB cable, user manual and warranty card. Let's take a closer look at its specifications.

Design and Display

The Moto G is an extremely stylish phone that grabs attention of masses. The compact form factor and gently curved edges of phone will amaze you. It has a height of 129.9mm, width of 65.9mm and thickness of 11.6mm as its dimensions along with a weight of 143gms. Motorola Moto G has a 4.5-inch LCD, multi-touch, capacitive touchscreen with a HD resolution of 720x1280 pixels and 326ppi pixel density. It has the ability to display 16 Million colors and is protected by Corning Gorilla Glass 3. The front panel also features three feather touch keys for back, home and options along with some recent apps at the bottom of display.

Hardware and Software

The Motorola Moto G has got a 1GB of RAM along with an internal memory of 8GB or 16GB which depends on the model you choose. It is an Android version 4.3, Jelly Bean OS based smartphone. Powering the device is a Quad-core 1.2 GHz Cortex-A7 processor accompanied by a Qualcomm MSM8226 Snapdragon 400 chip-set and an Adreno 305 GPU. There is no memory card slot available in this phone.

Telephony and Messaging

The device operates at network frequencies of GSM 850/900/1800/1900 MHz and HSDPA 850/900/1700/1900/2100 MHz. The user can store an unlimited number of contacts to its phonebook memory. The Moto G is featured with SMS, MMS, Email, Push Email and IM services for messaging.

Camera

The 5 MP rear camera comes loaded with a number of features that includes digital zoom, Geo-tagging, touch-focus, face detection, auto-focus, high dynamic range and panorama. It has the ability to capture 2592x1944 pixels resolution shots. The smartphone also has a 1.3 MP front-facing camera which allows the users to make a video call. One can also take 1280x1024 resolution selfies from the secondary camera.

Multimedia

Its other features consists of a HTML5 browser, stereo FM Radio with RDS, a loudspeaker, a 3.5mm jack, Java via MIDP emulator, turn-by-turn navigation, free 50GB storage on Google drive for two years, active noise cancellation with a dedicated mic, an organizer, a document viewer, a photo viewer or editor, voice memo and dials, tethering, computer sync and OTA sync, predictive text input, Google search, maps, YouTube and many more incredible ones.

Connectivity and Battery

For connectivity, it has a GPRS, EDGE, WLAN with Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n and Wi-Fi hotspot, Bluetooth v4.0 with A2DP and a micro USB v2.0 port along with 3G speeds of HSPA+ 21.1Mbps and HSUPA 5.76Mbps. Backing up the device is a Li-ion 2070mAh battery which offers a talk-time of up to 24 hours.

Shades and Price

The Motorola Moto G is available in a Black front panel with seven beautiful color options for the back panel. You can purchase this Android flagship at an exclusive offer from Flip-kart which is offering a mouth littering price on this amazing smartphone. The 8 GB variant is priced at Rs 10,499 while the 16 GB for Rs 11,999 which is a limited period offer. So, hurry up and grab the deal.