Moto G Is A Must Have For Students

If you understand value than I'm pretty sure you'll be interested in the Moto G ($179.99). It is considered, in my eyes, as the best bang for your buck product on the market. Smartphones are ridiculously pricey, in fact too pricey, if I wanted to get the galaxy S4 without being locked into a contact that would be $640. If I wanted an iPhone 5s that would be $650 off contract. I could go on and on but any high-end smartphone I tell you about will be in the $600 range. I can get a laptop with more functionality for less, I can get one of the next-gen consoles (PS4,Xbox One) for less. Which is why most people are locked into cellphone contacts, it allows them to have a smartphone for around $200. That price is a lot easier to swallow up front than $600, but in the long run you end up paying these cellphone carriers a lot more than what that $600 phone was worth. But that is just how it is done in the US, and I'm here saying we can do better.  The Moto G is a good start, off contract the phone is $179.99 now it doesn't boast the same specs as a high-end smartphone; Snapdragon 800 SoC, Adreno 330 graphics processor. But what the Moto G does have is fast enough especial this January when it updates to Android 4.4 KitKat.  The Moto G has a 1.2GHz Quad-Core Snapdragon 400 SoC (that's good for a phone at this price point), a Adreno 305 graphics processor (your games will still run smoothly) and there is 1GB of on-board RAM (which again won't really matter much once the phone is running Android 4.4 KitKat). The Moto G also has a 4.5 inch high resolution screen (720p) with 329 pixels per inch (if you care about ppi).  The image quality on the Moto G is more than acceptable, it is good. So for a student who runs a lot of media through their smartphone the quality is beyond passable. Now I am not saying that the Moto G is perfect, there is no LTE support (but it does have HSPA+), the camera is a 5 mega-pixel camera (decent, but its no S4 or iPhone and you shouldn't expect it to be), no expandable storage (but most cellphones of late don't have expandable storage). Those are the drawbacks of the Moto G, but the pushing points are price, build quality, price, screen resolution, price, battery life, and do I have to say price one more time. Its hard to interact with today's world without a smartphone, but being locked into a carrier for two years is outdated and not very affordable or reasonable, especial for a college students whose budgets are ramen noodle soup and three-day old pizza.