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| Product Dimensions | 6.04 x 2.96 x 0.2 inches |
|---|---|
| Item Weight | 15.2 ounces |
| ASIN | B01LEL8ABY |
| Item model number | 01076NARTL |
| Batteries | 1 Lithium ion batteries required. (included) |
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| Best Sellers Rank | #106,275 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)#3,892 in Cell Phones |
| Is Discontinued By Manufacturer | No |
| OS | Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow |
| RAM | 64 GB |
| Wireless communication technologies | Cellular |
| Display technology | AMOLED |
| Display resolution | 2560 x 1440 pixels |
| Other display features | Wireless |
| Device interface - primary | Touchscreen |
| Scanner Resolution | 2560 x 1440 |
| Other camera features | 13 MP |
| Form Factor | Smartphone |
| Colour | Black |
| Included Components | Charger, Quick Start Guide |
| Manufacturer | Motorola |
| Date First Available | September 15, 2016 |
Jimmy –
I love my Moto Z. I bought it to replace my older Moto X Pure. I was concerned about the small battery, but it has not been an issue for me. I keep an extra USB C cable lying around if I need some juice at work…etc, but it is rarely an issue. Other than that, the hardware and the functionality is great. I’m very happy with the (nearly) stock Android, and not the crap that Samsung, HTC, LG and others put on their phones. The hardware is great for me, very light weight, excellent screen, fast operating system.
Amazon Customer –
Why this is not spanking the snot out of iphone is beyond me. Apparently, moto z does not advertise much, this is the best phone I have ever had. It is durable, sound is great. The snap on batteries and accessories make it killer. The battery is ok (like an iphone when new) but when you slap that battery pack on the back – holy moly. I only charge this phone once to twice a week and I am seriously heavy user. I cannot tell you how many times I have dropped this phone and it is like a timex watch – takes a lickin’ but keeps on ticking. If you are looking to go to the dark side (android) this should be your go to device. Once you have it you will wonder why you ever had an iphone in the first place.
Jeff W –
Moto Z battery lasts about a day. I bought the Moto Mod battery pack and keep it attached all the time. I now can go 2-3 days between charges. Planning to buy the Moto Mod speaker.
Shrek –
I’ve been a Motorola owner since the original Moto X in 2013. I switched from the Galaxy S3 because the X offered features I really cared about, not useless gimmicks. The Moto Z thankfully continues that idea with legitimately innovative mods.First the design; whenever I first see a new Moto phone, I think, “My God thats ugly! Why would they change what works?” But then I actually start using the phone and that opinion changes. The Moto Z is (in my opinion) one of the most beautiful smartphones ever made, right up there with the iPhone 4 and HTC One M7. The glass and aluminum feels just as good as the Galaxy S6 and the style shells you can get for it provide that customization Motorola is famous for. However, I must admit, I hate the way the front of the phone looks. The giant fingerprint sensor combined with huge top and bottom bezels with NO stereo speakers is a step back from something they’ve been doing since 2014. I really wish the fingerprint scanner could have been placed on the back or made smaller, anything.As for the rest of the hardware, there is unfortunately no headphone jack. I personally don’t mind this since I use bluetooth, but its disappointing that its gone. The phone is crazy thin and that makes it feel unique without feeling fragile. (look up bend tests to see what I mean). The camera hump is huge and annoying, but putting a style shell fixes that. The screen is one of the best I’ve ever seen, only surpassed by the S7. I wish wireless charging came standard without Moto mods, but thats probably not a big deal for most people.The software is simply put, the best Android has ever been. (I haven’t used the Pixel so I can’t comment on that). As many others have said, “This phone does Android better than Google” and they’re right. Features like Moto Display and Moto Voice have become things I’ve really got used to over the years, and the gestures like the quick camera launch should be on every phone. It’s also super slick and responsive, as stock Android usually is, and its nice to already have Nougat.The camera is great by Motorola standards, good by all else. It takes a while to focus and tends to overexpose in certain scenes, and low light is just not on par with the iPhone 7 or S7. In well lit areas, it performs well, with my only issues being a little bit of over sharpening on edges and some digital noise. The camera software on the other hand is far better than previous Moto phones. There are more controls available with a manual mode included. 4K video is included, but I don’t have a 4K screen so I just stick to 1080p, which can be shot either at 30FPS HDR or 60FPS regular. Slo-mo is included with 720P at 120FPS, which kinda sucks. The iPhone 7 can shoot at 240FPS and has time-lapse modes as well. I’m sure these can be added with updates, but there’s no guarantee of that.The Moto Mods are a great idea, but a little expensive. I love the idea of being able to add functionality to the phone “in a snap”, but they really do require an investment. I bought a battery and the camera mods shortly after the phone, and they do come in handy. (I have full reviews of both products on my profile) Using the mods is dead simple. You snap them on the back and they instantly connect and react, it just works. Some fun ideas for Moto mods might be something that can dock your phone so you could use it like a computer, a game controller, or how about a solar charger on the back?Battery life is OK. If you aren’t using it too heavily, you’ll end the day with 10-15%. You won’t get two days out of it, at least without Mods.Overall, I’m happy with this phone. I wish it had a better camera and battery along with some design changes, but I can’t deny how well it does other things. The mods perfectly integrated into the main experience and the software is quick and responsive with some fun features. Great job Moto.
SF Danner –
Best.Moto.phone.yet! If the luscious detail and color pop of the display doesn’t grab you, the speed of operation may well do the trick! For example: this thing flies through updates. As an indicator; a 22M update for Google Docs will take approximately four to six seconds to perform. On the Moto X2 I upgraded from, the same install process for that single update would have lasted well over 20 seconds. To me this is a huge step forward in processing power. It takes AT&T LTE longer to download the updates than it takes the Moto Z to install them.The fingerprint detection is fantastic, once you go through the set up process. I chose to bind the phone’s detection system with a finger from each of my hands, which is very helpful. The reader is really nimble, virtually instant, and the reader square is easy to find with one’s fingertip in the dark. Like I said, the fingerprint reader is super responsive; more so than my recent vintage laptop’s fingerprint reader. I think the verbal interface is beginning to shine, and gets most of my speech right. Commands spoken to the phone, initiated by a key phrase (default is “Google Now” to ‘wake up’ its ears, Example: “Google Now set timer 8 minutes”. The phone will reply: “okay, starting timer 8 minutes.” I think the default wake-up is cheesy. I changed my wake-up phrase to something uniquely my own.For adventures in the power of this phone’s features, run an Internet search for “15 first things every Moto Z Droid and Moto Z Force Droid owner should do” and read through what phandroid put together. The tenth point: ‘Activate Google’s secret menu and speed up your device’ is one such gem. I would have never come across it otherwise.Speaking of update downloads. This is about when I first brought up the phone (after I took it to AT&T store to get the sim changed. Note: while I had the sim tray open I added the SanDisk Extreme 128GB microSDXC card I brought along from another Amazon purchase I made when ordering the phone. 192GB of storage with a fast quad core CPU – yes!! I reconfigured the camera app to use this storage instead of the phone’s onboard.) The nitty gritty of first set up: there was a verrry long, drawn out series of mammoth updates to the initial build of the phone as shipped. First the screen prompted me to okay a system upgrade to version 7. (Android Nougat). Sure; why not. 1.5GB of download and one or more reboots later… then several rounds of Motorola’s updates, totaling over 200M… and more reboots. Then Google joined the party to announce it had ANOTHER 250MB+ of updates, for apps. Well, better to have all this done up front than sometime later. I should add that you will also need a Wi-Fi connection for the phone during this procedure – because some of these updates won’t run over the carrier, and the phone will tell you when you must connect to Wi-Fi in order to continue. Come to think of it, after all this updating I began to get a battery low indicator even though I had it connected to the charger. I found that by unplugging the cord and turning it over (USB-C is a symmetrically shaped plug) the phone suddenly woke up to ‘charger connected’. Call me superstitious, but I put a sharpie marker dot on the top side of the plug so I would always plug it in that way, if it was a problem? Maybe I didn’t have it pushed all the way in tight. That’s just as possible. The metal plug should completely disappear into the phone port or it isn’t securely connected.The charger I received with this Moto Z is considerably different than the charger that came with the Moto X2. For one, its now “turbo” (15-watt) which speeds up charging to three times faster than the Moto X. You can get a 40% charge in 25 minutes, or from 0-100% in about 80 minutes. The AC plug end of the charging cable is now quite large (2″H x 1.75″W x .875″D) and it is permanently attached to the cord. That means if you want/need a way to cable-connect your Moto Z to another computer you will need to purchase a separate cable: a USB type A to type C male-male.There’s only one quirk (con?) I can think to point out about this phone. Perhaps it’s related to or has something to do with the security posture? Security I enabled by activating its fingerprint reader, which also prompted me to establish an access pattern from an array of dots arranged on the screen like a touchtone phone key pad. (In fact, those dots ARE numbers on a touchtone key pad. Memorize what the number string associated with your saved access pattern equates to. I have read that there are certain instances where people have found themselves stranded facing a password prompt they didn’t know they had input. However, they did – as a pattern! which is numerical under the hood.) Anyway, to the point of my gripe: when I power on the phone after shut down, it boots up with a spiel of graphics, then screen prompts me for the access pattern I set the phone to, and then it boots all over again! Some research indicates that this is because the first time is to access Android and the 2nd time is to access the desktop. However, it seems to me this process could be streamlined not to look like two complete boot ups. I have gotten over the much-lamented lack of a 3.5mm audio plug – for which the phone comes packaged with an 5″ long adapter/dongle which converts the phone’s type C USB port into a 3.5mm stereo audio jack for wired headphones or speakers.
Brad Murchison –
This phone is phenomenal, even in 2019. I’ve been using mine for about 8 months now and have grown to love it.The build quality is superb. A metal band that goes around the entire exterior of the phone. Metal, textured volume rockers and power button for easy identification. Metal back plate with two glass pieces, assumedly for the Moto Mods functionality. The Gorilla Glass 3 screen that can take an absolute beating.The speaker for music, videos, etc is the same as your earpiece, which is nice. Front firing speakers are the way to go. The fingerprint scanner works well enough, but it’s plastic surface can have issues detecting your finger if it gets greasy. The camera takes great pictures, even in low light. The 1440p OLED screen looks fantastic, and makes movies and videos very enjoyable. I haven’t even filled the 64GB of internal storage, but the expandable storage is good to have. Currently I am running Android 8.0, offered as a factory update.And then of course there’s Motorolas gimmicks, which are actually quite useful. Karate chop twice and your dual LED flashlight will turn on. Flick your wrist lick your opening a door knob and you’ll quickly activate your camera. The big selling point of the “Z” line is the capability to use Moto Mods. JBL speakers, projectors, extra battery, a 360° camera, and a few other odds and ends really helps set this phone apart. While these may seem gimmicky and cumbersome, they are actually quite useful.This phone is not advertised as being waterproof, only “nanocoated” water resistant. This does work quite well, as I’ve been caught in a few rain and snow storms and still have been able to make calls and texts with no issues. The only thing to keep in mind here is that the screen will have issues detecting your finger if it’s considerably moist.The only real issue with this phone is the battery life. The thin size (thinnest out there at the time) does not leave much room for a large battery, leaving you with just a 2600mAH battery. Now, the USB C “Turbo Charger” does a great job of powering the phone up quick, but a full charge during a day of regular use typically only lasts me about 6-8 hours. This can be relieved with a Moto Mod, there are a variety of batteries and battery cases available, but keep that in mind.If you’re prepared to deal with battery life headaches, then this phone is fantastic. Quick, responsive, durable. And at a fair price these days.
theMountinman –
I chose this phone as a replacement for a Moto X Pure (which I really liked but can no longer find from trusted sources), and I’m pretty pleased with it. It’s display is crisp and clean, I barely notice that it’s smaller than the X Pure, and it is running Android 8, which I like better than 7. I like the convenience of the fingerprint authentication, which the Pure didn’t have, and it seems be decently fast. It’s turned out to be an more than adequate replacement for about the same price.
Ryan McClane –
Total step up from the Honor 5X. I love that phone, but it was getting to be really sluggish I’ve I decided to Uber and Lyft. The Moto Z blows it out of the water in terms of performance. 4GB RAM, 64 GB internal memory, SD 820 processor, Adreno 530… All good upgrades, except the battery capacity is lower. 5X has 3000 mAh battery, this is at 2600. I’m sure with the SD 820 there’s better energy management, but still, a higher capacity would be nice; however, due to this aspect this phone is super thin and light in comparison. The camera isn’t something worth oogling about. It’s not bad, just not as good as some of the others in it’s price range. I actually got this for $185 on Prime Day (super awesome deal on something that never came out of the box since it was manufactured). When using the camera, I can’t tell if I’ve been drinking or if the phone is drinking because it’ll follow in whatever direction you move and sway. Lag or adaptive tech, hard to say.Bottom line, this phone is a really good upgrade if you’re into speed and simplicity, not so much if you’re one of those selfie posers.
H. feingold –
Best phone I’ve bought, especially for the price. Works perfectly with Google fi. All specs and functionality seem perfect. Didn’t fully expect the phone to work this well at this price. All apps services and features seem to work perfectly. The option of dual sim cards and the option of an expandable memory with an SD seem really useable. Really fast speeds for web browsing and apps.
Soumyajit Paul –
The phone is great. Sleek and smart look. The finger touch lock is great! It lasts for 8 hours without battery backup for moderate workday use. (I expected more battery backup though!)The camera is great.Point to be noted: It does not have an inbuilt 3.5mm plug but comes with a separate 3.5mm pin holder within the box itself.However, the product does not have USB cable along with its package. You need to buy a separate one.