The new Moto X looks and feels like the premium smartphone it should Fortunately, the power key has a new texture that makes it easy to find by feel. The volume rocker and power button are metal too, but like last year’s phone, they are still a little too small. But more importantly, it makes the new Moto X feel like the premium smartphone it should and not some mid-range, lower-cost device. Sure enough, the new Moto X grabbed onto AT&T’s LTE network better than other phones in the same area. The metal frame is thinner, harder, and nicer feeling than the plastic one, and it actually serves more than one purpose: Motorola is using it to boost wireless signal strength and quality. The other reason the new Moto X feels smaller than it should is because of the new, metal frame that replaces the plastic on last year’s model. (All of those things make the front of the white model look rather busy, but the black version hides them quite well.) The speaker isn’t the same stereo setup as HTC’s One M8 (it’s located at the bottom, the earpiece occupies the top grille), but it’s clear and loud and better than any speaker mounted on the back of a phone. Even so, it’s still managed to find room for a camera, light sensors, a new speaker, and new infrared sensors on the front of the phone. Part of that is because Motorola has maximized the screen’s footprint and shrunk the bezel surrounding it even further than before. It’s big, but not nearly as big as I normally expect a 5.2-inch smartphone to be. But even though it’s not the same one-handed ergonomic miracle as last year, the new Moto X is shorter than the HTC One M8 and the Galaxy S5, while still having a larger display than either of them. Motorola couldn’t increase the screen size of the Moto X by a full half-inch and not make the phone itself bigger. It’s everything the display on a flagship smartphone in 2014 should be. It has tremendous viewing angles, punchy colors, and can be seen in bright sunlight without issue. And it’s a high quality screen: it’s sharper, brighter, bigger, and just nicer to look at than the previous model. It has a 5.2-inch, 1080p AMOLED display that’s bigger than what the latest from HTC and Samsung offer. But the new Moto X is a different animal. Last year, the Moto X’s smaller display made the phone great for one-handed use, but it didn’t stand out against the Samsungs and HTCs on store shelves.
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