Moto G

Got your eye on a new Moto X or Moto G smartphone? Motorola will give you up to $300 on a cash card when you trade in your old smartphone. Hypothetically, that means you could buy a subsidized Moto and make money, if you trade in a desirable phone in perfect condition. [Motorola via Cnet]

Moto G 2014 Hands-On: Bigger Bang For the Same Buck

Guess what Motorola’s top-selling phone of all time is? Nope, it’s not the Razr, it’s last year’s Moto G. For 180 bucks off-contract and unlocked, it was a hell of a lot of phone. Well, the 2014 model is here, and it’s bigger and better, and it costs just the same. The new Moto G…

Motorola Adds LTE to the Moto G and Launches Budget Moto E

The Moto G is Motorola’s best-selling smartphone ever, and it just got a little bit better: there’s now an LTE version available, as well as budget version called the Moto E. The original Moto G was, and still is, a wonderful phone the money—we said that it was a “solid smartphone to help you improve…

The Cheap Moto G Gets a Stock Android Google Play Edition

The Motorola Moto G is a wonderful phone for the money. And the deal just got a tiny bit sweeter for people who would rather run stock Android KitKat than Motorola’s very lightly skinned Android UI. It now comes in a Google Play Edition. You know, for the nerds. https://gizmodo.com/moto-g-review-the-best-cheap-phone-but-still-a-cheap-1479588299 Even if you’re a stock…

A Droid Apart: Motorola’s Rick Osterloh on Google, Moto, and More

The last five years have been full of reinvention for Motorola; it’s gone from being kind of a dinosaur, to launching the super-popular Droid line, to being swallowed up by Google, to making some of the best, easiest-to-use smartphones out there. It’s been quite a roller-coaster. Yesterday at CES, I had a chance to sit…

​Moto G Review: The Best Cheap Phone, But Still a Cheap Phone

Cheap smartphones—we mean really cheap, off-contract smartphones—are terrible. They’re tormented by horrid, pixilated screens, they’re slower than your grandma, and they feel like they’re held together by Scotch tape. The $180 (off-contract!) Moto G is none of those things. It definitely has significant shortcomings, but put simply, you can’t get a better cheap phone. What…

Moto G Available For Pre-Order On Amazon, $180 Unlocked

The extremely affordable Moto G is now available for pre-order on Amazon for $180 unlocked. As Gizmodo noted, this handset has a guaranteed upgrade to Android KitKat, and the difference in price between the 8GB and 16GB versions is only $20. Ships out December 4. [Amazon] https://gizmodo.com/the-super-cheap-possibly-rad-moto-g-is-available-way-e-1471844968 We’ll also remind you here that the Moto…

The Cheap, (Possibly Awesome) Moto G Is Available Way Early In the US

A few weeks ago, we got our first look at the Motorola Moto G. For $180, you get a solid piece of hardware running Android Jelly Bean with a guaranteed upgrade to KitKat. It wasn’t supposed to be available in the United States until early next year, but it’s already available fro pre-oder. It ships…

Motorola Moto G: $180 (Off Contract!) of Android KitKat Goodness

For all the super-powerful flagship Android handsets out there, the OS gained popularity because it’s traditionally been a cheaper alternative to the priciness of Apple’s iPhone. With that in mind, here’s the Motorola Moto G, a solid Android phone that’ll be available off-contract for just $180. https://gizmodo.com/android-is-popular-because-its-cheap-not-because-its-g-5977625 So here’s the spec breakdown: $180 gets you…