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The best part: Shouting out my launch phrase to find out where in the house I left the damn thing.Īll of these can be managed from the Moto app, a central hub for the phone's contextual smarts. You'll have to set up a launch phrase to issue spoken voice commands, but it's well worth it I spent my week of testing by asking the phone to play my voicemail messages, add reminders to an already huge list, get the weather forecast and launch apps without a hitch. And now, 12 months' worth of improvements to Google Now have made the experience even more useful.

I loved talking to last year's Moto X as though it were a pseudo-personal assistant. You can now also lift the phone to your ear to issue a Moto Voice command, and any response will route straight through the earpiece for subtlety's sake. Motorola's tried-and-true gestures are back too, so you can twist the X a few times to fire up the camera and karate chop with it to turn on the flashlight. Swiping a notification icon down unlocks the screen and pops the phone right into the app you wanted to be in. Waving your hand over the phone's face like some Jedi extra from The Clone Wars rouses part of the screen to tell you what time it is and what notifications have rolled in.

With that foundation laid down, Motorola once again set out to make the Moto X as thoughtful and responsive as possible.

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Even better, the unbundling of apps like Google Plus and Newsstand from Android proper means we've got an even cleaner version of Android than usual. All of Lollipop's finer touches - that nuanced take on sounds and notifications, multiple user accounts - are all where you'd expect to find them and work the same as always.

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There is, thankfully, little to say about the Pure Edition's software it's an almost-completely stock build of Android 5.1.1 with just a few Motorola apps preinstalled. You'll get a modest sense of channel separation when the X is sideways, so your tunes will sound slightly fuller, more expansive.

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Pro tip: If you're watching a video or listening to music through these speakers while holding the phone vertically, you're doing it wrong. They're still a far cry from, say, HTC's BoomSound speakers, but I'd still take these over a wimpy single speaker any day (here's looking at you, Note 5). We could say almost the same thing about the Pure Edition's pair of front-facing speakers. The Pure Edition's screen isn't a clear winner compared to some of its biggest rivals, but it's meaningfully different in a few key ways. The display's auto-brightness can be slow to react - think three or four seconds - especially if you're pulling the phone out of a dark bag and into a well-lit room. Be prepared for an occasional wait, though. Trust me: You won't have any trouble taking the X for a spin outside. On the bright side, though (ha!), whites are much crisper on the Moto X and the display itself is noticeably brighter too, especially with adaptive brightness turned off. It's a mixed bag, really.Ĭolors that seem bright and mostly natural on the Moto X's screen take on a cooler, almost washed-out cast next to the Galaxy Note 5. All that said, it doesn't stand out in the same way that Samsung's super-vibrant Super AMOLED screens do. The fact of the matter is, we have a solid performer in this 5.7-inch IPS LCD, with crisp visuals (at 515 pixels per inch, no less) and good viewing angles. Motorola finally made the leap to a Quad HD (2,560 x 1,440) panel with this year's Moto X, and I'm not about to start a debate on whether or not we actually need such high-resolution screens on smartphones.