The mark of well-researched journalism: telling you who is probably to blame.
Sigh, they couldn’t have waited until after the grapheneOS phone?
I had a 3rd Gen Moto G in 2016. It was IPX7 rated, was snappy, Snapdragon CPU, and a perfect size.
Bought a 2022 Moto G Power. Worst phone I’ve ever owned. The MediaTek Helio G37 ridiculously underpowered.
There’s no way I would pay these new prices for a Motorola G anything.
I don’t know how good Motorola phones came to be with the years, but my first “smart” phone was a Motorola Atrix 4G. You know, the one with a fingerprint sensor in the back, at the top edge. One year exactly after I bought it its wifi/bt card died all of a sudden. Never have looked into their phones ever since.
Not the same company, the Motorola Atrix 4G is from 2011, back when Motorola phones were an American owned company.
Lenovo bought Motorola smartphone division in 2014.12 years with another company, and I think the difference will be quite significant.
You might as well compare to a completely different brand.They are pretty decent these days. There’s only a handful of options where I live, but I have gone through all of them and Motorola is the only one I don’t really have much to complain about.
Their modern hardware is largely nice. But their lack of software updates is awful. I had a budget moto phone that got 0 major android updates. It got an update from 7.1 to 7.1.1. Pulling up random phones on GSM arena it still seems to be the case.
Oh boy they were really good deals. I use one and have thought of getting another. I might get a carrier locked one super cheap since I only want it for local apps anyway.
I mean also blame Motorola it’s probably still not necessary for them to do so to keep their profits even.
