Motorola and their Moto Z, opinions

In June 2016, Motorola presented their new device Moto Z

Body and color variants

Moto Z is very slim, Motorola engineers could make this, and yes they could to design it with width 75.3 and height 153.3, and with thickness 5.2mm!.

3 colors are available for Moto Z, black/gray, black/rose gold, black/gold and lastly white.

Screen on Motorola Moto Z made using tehnology AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors, on that point Motorola Moto Z was ahead from 71% devices available by screen size, which is 5.5 inches, 83.1 cm2 (~72.0% screen-to-body ratio) display with resolution 1440 x 2560 pixels having proportions 16:9 and having density 535 PPI multitouch is supported, about screen protection I can note that used corning Gorilla Glass 4.

Camera

This time Motorola engineers decided to empower with 13 MP lens and camera has f/1.8 aperture. Few another additional info are laser autofocus, OIS, dual-LED (dual tone) flash. Video recording on main camera of this device is available with 2160p@30fps, 1080p@60fps, HDR variants. This is not bad for example one of available devices at the moment, Oppo A59, This devide has 13 mega pixels camera and opening is f/2.0. And another additional traits are phase detection autofocus, LED flash. Video recording on main camera of Motorola Moto Z is available with 1080p@30fps modes

This time Motorola designers decided to empower with 13 million pixels front facing camera and camera has f/2.2 hole. Some another extra traits are 1.4 µm pixel size, LED flash, 1080p.

Motorola Moto Z features

Additional features on this model are - Fast battery charging - MP3/AAC+/WAV/Flac player - MP4/H.264 player - Photo/video editor - Document viewer.

Let`s talk about battery , battery is most frequent asked thing on device at the moment Non-removable Li-Ion 2600 mAh battery.

Fingerprint (front-mounted), accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass sensors are supported on Moto Z by Motorola.

Communication

Moto Z supporting bands EDGE, GPRS, 2G, 3G and LTE band 1(2100), 2(1900), 3(1800), 4(1700/2100), 5(850), 7(2600), 13(700) - USA. Performance is HSPA 42.2/5.76 Mbps, LTE-A (3CA) Cat9 450/50 Mbps, EV-DO Rev.A 3.1 Mbps - USAHSPA 42.2/5.76 Mbps, LTE-A (2CA) Cat6 300/50 Mbps - Global, GSM / CDMA / HSPA / EVDO / LTE, LTE band 1(2100), 2(1900), 3(1800), 4(1700/2100), 5(850), 7(2600), 8(900), 12(700), 17(700), 19(800), 20(800), 25(1900), 28(700), 38(2600), 40(2300), 41(2500) - Global.

Communication types on this model are GPS Yes, with A-GPS, GLONASS, USB Type-C 1.0 reversible connector, USB On-The-Go; magnetic connector, WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, dual-band, WiFi Direct, hotspot, Radio FM radio, Bluetooth 4.1, A2DP, LE, aptX, NFC.

Few words about performance

Motorola Moto Z owed core Quad-core (2x2.15 GHz Kryo & 2x1.6 GHz Kryo) - USAQuad-core (2x1.8 GHz Kryo & 2x1.6 GHz Kryo) - Global, with chipset Qualcomm MSM8996 Snapdragon 820, Video card on Motorola Moto Z is Adreno 530.

Storage on Moto Z is 32/64 GB, 4 GB RAM, card slot is supported microSD, up to 256 GB (dedicated slot), OS is Android 6.0.1 (Marshmallow), 7.1.1 (Nougat), planned upgrade to Android 8.0 (Oreo).