so moto g impressions/thoughts, It's a nice phone overall, I still prefer physical/capacitive buttons and I don't like not having a menu button but here are some overall impressions
+this thing feels really snappy in terms of preformance given its price
+ its pretty friendly for one handed use
+ motorola had the common sense to add a 'dump anything that isn't an app onto the SD card. Basically the company formerly owned by Google has the best implementation of the sd card ironically enough.
(Observation) The way the sd card slot is placed implies they were planning to have a different battery cover cover that would have an opening so you could quickly access it but that at some point they just decided to use the regular moto g cover.
Now I have some nits to pick so let's go.
- holy **** this thing is a pain in the ass to remove the cover from if you want to access the sd card or sim.
- this thing is almost too thin, like I feel like it just doesn't have the heft it feels like a device of that size should.
- holy **** that camera is horrible,
- the usb cable is white despite being included with a black version of the phone. Said cable is like 2 inches long and doesn't come with an ac adapter
what kind of cheap, greedy company would be so desperate to avoid irrelevancy as to not include a ac adapter with their new gizmo in order to cut a few pennies off the costSoftware
- I absolutely positively hate the way the notification/quick settings menu is set up. Samsung had it right by having the quick settings toggle things as a little sidebar (except it's on the top but work with me) on the notification menu and many other companies have been doing it that way since gingerbread.
- by god the transparent notification/digital buttons on the home menu just looks ugly to me, luckily I found a wallpaper that is cropped in such a way that the black borders on the top and bottom cover them perfectly so it looks like they aren't transparent but on the fucking home menu that really should be a setting.
- the google keyboard is an abomination.
- I wound up disabling like half of the preinstalled apps
- I officially hate the stock google launcher, switched to nova in 24 hours