Motorola Moto X (2nd generation) XT1097 GSM Unlocked Cellphone, 16GB, Black Soft Touch

Everything from the packaging to the phone was just amazing. I got it when it said that it was going to be back in stock at a later sate bbut then the shipping was bumped up to the same week so don't be afraid of the in stock later date.The phone is amazing. Depending on your internet speed, it will take a while for the four updates to take places; it goes from Kitkat, to the latest Lollipop and Marshmallow is expected soon.Apart from that, everything is great from the screen (super bright and vibrant) to the performance (which is impeccable for the price - I got 44000 on Antutu after downloading some apps. It got 30 - 50 FPS in the game region which is great. The phone is just really fast and can compete with the big flagship phones) to the gameplay (which is very fluid with no lag issues on arcade games, haven't tried frame intensive games) to the camera (absolutely amazing especially in apps like Instagram and Snapchat) to the microphones (I could talk to it from a good few feet away in the ideal conditions). The only thing is no SD card slot but everything else is great. Not to mention the cool Moto features and NFC support.3 days updateThe phone is still holding beautifully.It better than ever with around 5GB left in storage (after downloading a lot of games and social media apps). Just monitor your storage so you don't use it up all at once. But as it is, the phone is functioning beautifully and it working like a charm.It still doesn't lag and functions beautifully and the more graphic intensive games like FIFA 15 and easily handles games like Crossy Road with ease. Day to day tasks are even smoother with no stuttering, just fluid actions from opening apps to using them for long periods of time to jumping from one to another; the RAM is holding up spectacularly.I would highly recommend getting a quick charger with it so you can keep it charged. You'll need it if you use your phone alot.All the Moto Actions still work and as time passes, the phone gets to know you better so it appears to work better over time (just make sure all the apps are up to date).Just a really great phone overall. If I had a Micro SD card slot, there'd be nothing stopping it but it does support USB OTG (so to some measure, the phone is perfect).

This is a good phone, but know its limitations and your usages. I know at this point I am speaking to people looking for a slightly "old," < $200 phone. You could do worse than the Moto X. This is optimized for phone use; this 16gb item is not a proxy tablet or a hand-held entertainment center. The "feel" is high-end in the phone's weight/balance, materials, and rigidity. The software is nice. As many reviews point out, this is basically a no-BS, stock, android with a very few and almost always clever and useful accessories (like a minimalist, motion sensitive lockscreen; a twist-to-activate camera; and Motorola-tweak for using OK Google to operate the phone, make calls, etc.). It has one front-facing speaker, which I think is smart. It has the best speaker-sound I have ever heard in a phone; great for speaker-phone use. (Oddly, the conventional receiver speaker may be below average, or just not volume-optimized; it is weak at max volume, even). The phone's drawbacks are a) it has no SD card, and Marshmallow [the OS] takes up 6gb of the hard drive. This means that if you have a few apps on the phone that are sizable, you will likely store photos or music on a cloud or micro SD stick. That doesn't sound onerous, but it could be, and most apps will not read directly, except in very limited ways, from an accessory card or cloud. You would need to move files onto the native drive, and then move them back to conserve space, etc. and: b) The camera is fine in broad daylight--but only in broad, blazing daylight or super-close flashes of still-life circumstances. People are not nit-pickling when they criticize this camera. Under the best of circumstances, it composes images of Georges Seurat-like impressionist blobs. Indoor photography is hit-or-miss, and usually a miss; the Moto X camera struggles to focus or attain light balance and surprisingly the camera takes almost no advantages of flash (?!) to correct its low-light, indoor difficulties; one indoor shot out of four will look "pretty good" but I can do nothing to control this outcome. But if you only take close-up flash shots or outside sunshine shots, it is still functional and acceptable. I tried using other camera software, and the original equipment software seems best. The Moto locks down ISO and exposure time settings, in any case, so that no software can control those features (my old LG-G2, which sadly developed crazy-screen syndrome, allowed these adjustments from the start). I like the saturated colors on the screen--on a bigger screen (tablet or bigger), I likely wouldn't, but this painterly, color-popping screen is an audacious detail to put on the phone. I think it's cool, but one dubious benefit of the saturated screen is that it makes the camera's sketchy work seem much better than it will on a large, normally saturated and balanced screen. Bottom line: great feeling, great looking, minimalist phone; reasonably fast processor. Don't get the 16gb model if you have many music or image files to store: no SD card. The camera is weak.

Even in 2016, this is a great phone. I bought it for $199, making it an especially good deal. Internally, this phone packs a 2.5 GHz Snapdragon 801 processor. Applications open quickly, and there is no lag within the phone. The AMOLED screen produces vibrant colors, albeit a little over saturated. With the Adreno 330 GPU, gaming is smooth. The FHD display is more than adequate for the 5.2" screen, and I believe that using a WQHD screen would be pointless. The visuals are crystal clear. The phone does not have stereo speakers despite its appearance, but the sound quality is still extremely loud and clear. The matte black finish is quite smooth, soft, and pleasant to hold.As a Motorola phone, this phone should receive quick updates to the newest version of android extremely quickly. Furthermore, the operating system is not full of bloatware that Samsung and LG install with the phone, but rather a few apps that allow for hands-free gestures and other shortcuts. These apps can be easily disabled at the users discretion, but I find them extremely useful.One thing that should be pointed out it that this phone DOES NOT have full support for T-Mobile's network. You will be able to text, call, and browse online, but the data speed and coverage will not be optimal.