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Moto G review

Motoro?la's latest is the best cheap Android phone you can buy, by a surprisingly wide margin Outside of Google's Nexus line of products, good, inexpensive Android phones have been hard to come by. Instead, the word "cheap" has frequently gone hand in hand with "nasty" when describing handsets in the £100-150 (or $160-200) price range. That's outright, with no contract signed. But with its new budget phone, the Moto G , Motorola is seeking to change this. In its recent presentation from Brazil , the new, fully Googlified Motorola took aim at both the low-cost competition and rival Android device manufacturers in general. The former, it said, typically consisted of compromised, out-of-date hardware that in turn delivered a lackluster user experience. And the latter had a wrongheaded approach to smartphone design, according to Moto VP Punit Soni, loading Android down with unnecessary bloat and features that compete with Google's ecosystem. Inste...

Moto G now available in Canada

Low-cost Motorola phone arrives on TELUS and Koodo Mobile Following its launch in parts of Europe and Latin America last week, Motorola's new low-cost handset, the Moto G , has arrived on Canadian shores. The device has gone on sale today at TELUS and Koodo Mobile — on TELUS you'll get the Moto G for free on a 2-year contract, or for C$200 outright; on Koodo it's between C$200 and C$50 on the carrier's sliding "tab" payment system. The Moto G delivers a 4.5-inch, 720p display and a quad-core Snapdragon 400 CPU, and runs near-stock Android 4.3 Jelly Bean with a handful of Motorola software additions. Stay tuned to Android Central later today for our full review of the device. Source: TELUS ,  Koodo Mobile ; via: MobileSyrup        

Apps of the Week: Harmony, Soul Calibur, Lightpaper and more!

Sit down this Saturday afternoon and find a few new apps to try Its our third of four Apps of the Week column posts for the month of November, and we're bringing you yet another great list of apps. As usual, we carve out this little bit of space each and every Saturday afternoon to gather up an app pick from each of the Android Central writers. These aren't always brand new, best-selling apps, but if they're on this list then they work for us. This week we have a couple different games to take a look at, a way to manage certain games, and a couple utilities to round it out. Stick around after the break and see if you can find an app that piques your interest. read more        

Android Central 162: Moto the Great!

Podcast MP3 URL:  http://traffic.libsyn.com/androidcentral/acpc162.mp3 Thing 1: Mighty Moto Motorola makes it official: Verizon's Moto X first to get Android 4.4 KitKat T-Mobile's Moto X getting Android 4.4 KitKat today AT&T Moto X soak test is starting, let the KitKat begin Motorola to offer factory images for Developer Editions, no longer void warranties Motorola puts Motorola Assist in Google Play, adds custom autoreply option Motorola Connect hits the Play Store as well, compatible with Moto's KitKat devices Moto G now available in Canada Moto G review Thing 2: KitKat finally rolls out for Nexus devices Google pushing a bugfix for Android 4.4 KitKat [KRT16S], new factory images available for Nexus devices Nexus 4's Android 4.4 KitKat OTA download links now available Thing 3: Other stuff Sprint Spark: theoretical speeds are theoretical HBO Go Android app updated with Chromecast support Chromecast app gets a redesign G...