With Moto X's flagship name, it uses a non "flagship" core. Is Moto X Play a flagship phone, or is it originally a smart phone for positioning the middle end?
The new Moto X model at Motorola's new product launch this year arrived as scheduled, but unlike in the past, Motorola has brought two Moto X phones this year, one is Moto X Style and the other is Moto X Play. After reading the press conference, I believe most people have this idea. Moto X Style is positioned as a high-end flagship, Moto X Play is positioned as a mid-range mobile phone, and the new Moto G series is Motorola's low-end entry model for sales.
However, Motorola's senior management did not think so. After the introduction of the press conference, Motorola's senior management said that Moto X Style was not a high-low sales strategy. It was just to choose different models for different markets. Their selling points were different. Moto X Style has been officially launched in China, but the version of Moto X Play for the Bank of China has not arrived yet. However, at present, foreign media Gsmarena has got this mobile phone. Next, we will follow their hands-on experience to see what kind of mobile phone Moto X Play is.
appearance
Moto The appearance design recognition of the X series is still very high among most current Android phones, and it has also been well continued on Moto X Play. The front panel adopts the design of double speakers. Although it has affected the screen share of the whole machine to a certain extent, it is still acceptable compared with HTC's "anti human" multi chin design. The glass edge of Moto X Play is slightly lower than the outer frame, which is a bit awkward. Fortunately, the screen is covered with 2.5D glass, which feels good.
The back of Moto X Play is a plastic design with waterproof nano coating, which can resist some rain and splash. However, Motorola officially said that it is not waterproof, which means that users must not completely immerse it in water. Another impressive thing about Moto X Play is its body thickness. The thickest part has reached 10.9mm, which is almost the thickest smartphone on the market. In addition, the weight of Moto X Play is not light, reaching 169g.
screen
Moto X Play uses a 5.5 inch 1080P screen. Unlike the previous generation of Moto X, Moto X Play does not use the AMOLED screen, but instead uses the IPS LCD screen used by most mobile phone manufacturers. The impressive thing is that the screen brightness of Moto X Play can reach 620 nits, and even 760 nits under strong light.
In addition, Moto X Play's screen color rendition is also very good, which is even better than iPhone 6 in the sunlight readability test. In general, although the 2K resolution screen is not used, the pixel density of more than 400 ppi, good color restoration and brightness performance make the display effect of Moto X Play good.
Battery life
Motorola generously gave Moto X Play a battery with a capacity of up to 3630mAh, which is much more than the 3000mAh of Moto X Style. It also supports Motorola's turbo fast charging technology, but only if you have a TurboPower fast charger that supports fast charging. This product is not cheap, and the price is $35.
Facts have also proved that Moto X Play equipped with super large batteries can perform well in terms of battery life. Under the condition of full charge, Moto X Play can realize 26.5 hours of 3G calls, 11 hours and 52 minutes of web browsing under the WiFi network, and 12 hours of continuous video viewing. This endurance performance is equivalent to that Moto X Play can be used for 83 hours under normal conditions. This achievement is absolutely second to most smartphones on the market, and there are very few phones with similar endurance.
performance
Unlike Moto X Style, which uses Qualcomm Snapdragon 808 processor, Moto X Play uses an eight core Snapdragon 615 processor, ARM Cortex A53 dual quad core architecture, and the highest frequency is 1.6GHz. The frequency of the other four processors is 1.1GHz. With Adreno ™ 405 GPU。
The performance of Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 has been reflected in many other mobile phones before. It is not famous for its strong performance. Compared with Qualcomm's own Snapdragon 810 and Snapdragon 808, it has a long way to go, and even its performance is not as good as some MediaTek processors, such as MT6795. But the Snapdragon 615 with 2GB of memory is still enough to run most games and large applications. The fever performance is also good.
photograph
Photography has never been Motorola's strong point, and the quality of Moto X imaging before is also relatively poor. However, in the recent photo evaluation of DxOMark, the foreign media, Moto X Style ranked third only after Galaxy S6 Edge and Galaxy note 4, ahead of Sony Xperia Z3+and iPhone 6p. This makes people have great expectations for the imaging quality of Moto X Play.
Moto X Play uses Sony's image sensor, 21 million pixels and f/2.0 lens. Different from the prominent design of many mobile phone cameras, the camera of Moto X Play is recessed, which may be related to the ultra thick body design of Moto X Play. The photo size of Moto X Play can be selected, 4:3 and 16:9. The camera's operation interface is close to the native Android system, and there are few places that can be manually set. However, the operation is relatively simple and easy to use, and the imaging speed is also satisfactory.
In terms of the performance of the proof, the 21 megapixel camera really gives a very rich presentation of the details of the photo, and also performs very well in brightness and white balance. And a good balance is found between noise reduction and sharpening. In terms of color restoration, it also has a very obvious progress compared with Motorola mobile phones before. HDR mode also presents more dark details.
In terms of front camera, Moto X Play provides 5 million pixels for 16:9 and 3.7 million pixels for 4:3 shooting. Although Moto X is equipped with a front camera flash, it does not provide the current popular intelligent skin beauty function.
Finally, in terms of video, Moto X Play does not support 4k video capture for performance reasons, which requires high hardware performance of the processor. Moto X Play only supports video capture at 1080p/30 fps, and also supports slow motion capture. The overall quality of the video is good in terms of anti shake and color restoration.
Summary
Back to the question we raised at the beginning, whether Moto X Play is a mid tier smart phone or a flagship. In some aspects, such as appearance design, screen display, battery life and even photography, Moto X Play has a good performance, which is a flagship standard. However, in terms of performance, Moto X Play can only compare with the domestic 1000 yuan machine, and there is no doubt that it will be killed by the domestic 2000 yuan machine. Moto X Play can give you a super long endurance standby experience, but it can not meet your ultimate performance audio and video requirements.
