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It has a useless thing that you have to touch the phone and it will briefly light up the screen to let you know if there are any notifications but if I'm across the room and I just want to look over at my phone to see if I need to attend to it or not, I can't. Maybe there is an app that I'll find that will push the notification onto the screen to blink or something like that. I didn't know it didn't have this feature and if I had known I probably would not have bought it. I had a Moto E 1st Gen and the only other thing I notice about the 2nd Gen is that the speaker volume is much lower than my 1st Gen. Otherwise, I like the 2nd Gen very much. I finally have enough room to keep all the apps I use. On the 1st Gen I kept having to uninstall apps to keep the storage from getting down to 250mb or less. That was the main reason I left the 1st Gen but I liked it's size and everything else about it. I looked around and did a lot of comparison shopping and finally decided to just go with the 2nd Gen. The size, speakers not being on the back and having 8 G of storage were why I chose it. I'll learn to live with the notification issue or solve it one way or another.Read full review
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: New
This phone is fine, considering the relatively low price. However, it is slow, and prone to freezing/crashing, even with built-in programs like Google search. It keeps all applications running, even ones that haven't been used in days, which means the phone gets slower and slower unless you manually force quit. There are some quirks in the user interface. For example, the lock screen has three options: swipe up to unlock and go to home screen, swipe right to go directly to phone, swipe left to go directly to camera. It took me a while to get used to this (previous phone was a swipe right, so I kept ending up at the phone screen when I wanted the home screen), but I see the value in it now. Especially since trying to unlock and THEN go to the phone or camera takes a pretty long time. Like I said, this phone is slow. A less helpful feature: the photo gallery always returns you to your most recent image, which means if you want to switch between folders, you have to go back two levels before you can get to the folder you want. Although it's slow, the phone does seem capable of handling most of the latest apps. Howver, it does not support activating the LED, which means you cannot use the LED as a flashlight with any of the popular flashlight apps. The only way to use the phone as a flashlight is to put the screen at maximum brightness. Overall, this phone is clunky, but it does what a smartphone is supposed to do: makes calls, sends texts, and browses the internet.Read full review
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
I purchased this phone to use with WAZE or Google Maps on long trips. Internal memory is adequate, and is externally expandable. Phone OS can be upgraded to Android 5.1, but apparently not 6.x (in the USA). The well-advertised "one-click" rooters are not successful. While using the phone for any length of time, the battery gets quite warm ... sometimes hot, in fact. This is not conducive to long battery life. Hibernating all unnecessary apps helps a little, but the screen and map software tend to keep the battery warm, whether it is plugged into a charger or not. Price was quite good, cosmetics excellent, and (generally) a decent phone with a 4.5" display
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Refurbished
This little phone is smooth and sleek, small enough to fit comfortably in a woman's back pocket. The software is intuitive and easy to use straight out of the box. I put my sim card in and it worked immediately, Runs FB, whatsapp, email, google traductor. You can move photos and videos, and even some of the apps to an SD memory card. The only down side is that the camera is fixed-focus, and forget about closeups or macro shots. But for standard snapshots and landscapes it's serviceable. All in all, well worth the price.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: New
**8Mo. In Phone always says it is full, every update you need to move anything with a box to tic over to SD card and it is still full. Never-mind games, the basic services upgrade past RAM. You can with some, uninstall all updates, go back to basic and let it reinstall updates sometimes it can save you 25-050mb over the phone, Turning off unwanted features makes the phone act Wonky!** The AT&T, has extra features, some will work on Wi-Fi, some are automatic, I like the New Moto features as well. A bit sensitive and if you have big paws you may need a pointer. The screen is better than the E1. The back does NOT come off, do not try, instead the outer ring pops off and snaps back tightly. The flick on camera will sometimes take you right past the password, but only rarely. Cameras are fair and the dual mics are nice for a semblance of stereo, at least if you use headphones to listen. Still only 4x zoom, but for under $80... Get yourself a good case and you will not lose your investment on the first drop. I am using a Beyond Cell Trishield with added tempered glass screen cover, the last one protected my Moto-E1 from everything but a car accident. Should last a year or so before you'll want to upgrade if like previous model. Always use the Motorola Charger, it takes a long time with anything less, I get about 4 hours of onscreen time until I reach 28-32%, I have had 30+ 'tabs' open, it got slow, locked and had to be restarted. I closed the ones I did not need and it was good all day. I am using a High end 128GB SD card, I really recommend a good file manager for this phone though you can view some files with built in software. The call sound quality is good on your end but depends upon the other person's mobile, direct calls from landlines sound better than voicemail from the same line. I use T-Mo PP and Wi-Fi so do not get all of the features but I am happy and bought another for GFs line. I have actually bought 3 of these now. The Wi-Fi is about the same as the old Moto-E1(fair) and the usual apps are simply upgrades to the ones android users would already know, simpler cleaner for the most part. If this is your first Android read the paperwork and some online info but if not it will only take a few days to learn the slight differences from the older Android OSs and subsequent app updates. *If you are a mobile gamer this is not for you, but if you want a good phone that can run a few smaller games and hold a reasonable set of apps for $40-80ish depending upn sales, this may be for you, especially if you are on a budget and using a PP line. One further thing, the newer phones have yellow/green screen, the color are not as hot, the text not as crisp and easy to read. This is something that many phone handset Manufactureres are doing, it is horrible, but some are better than others. I have read that it is a software not hardware issue and may be fixed in the future if enough people complain, who knows. I bought two others before my current one and both of those were so yellow/green I could not read the text in the daylight so had to be returned, yet my GF loves her yellow/green screen.Read full review
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
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