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How are Motorola phones these days?

Watching... my geriatric phone(fast approaching 10 years) should have been replaced 18 months ago with a cracked screen:eek: Bank app crapped out 2 years ago:homer:

I'm looking for a minimalistic phone that is cheap; texts, camera, micro-SD port, and web browser.

Bloatware concerns me. Is it worth shooting for a generic OS install before getting setup?
 
They're owned by the Chinese and they bend over backwards to hide that. They still operate under Motorola but they're basically Lenovo now.
 
Gtrplyr78 said:
Motorola and Samsung are both heavy in bloatware, sadly.

Had Samsung A14 5G for a year, did not care for it. Frequent freezing up and I put it out of its misery :).

Back to my old and trusty Motorola E5 with Android 8 while I am shopping for a new device.

I am debating Pixel 8A vs One Plus 12R, not a gamer but I want to step up my phone game a little, basically want higher performance device.

One Plus 12R 16gb ram and 256gb storage can be bought for $430 with their $100 phone trade in allowance program (any phone can be sent in). So leaning that way for a moment, also thinking if I would be better served with 8gb ram 128gb version as I am not a gamer.

Neither the Pixel or One Plus offer external storage.

One major thing that keeps me from pulling the trigger is the size of these phones, thought A14 I had was too big. These are larger.

Miss the Blackberry Curve, perfect size and very handy device in its heyday...
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I bought this edge plus in 2023.
There's bloat? Other than the stuff that makes shake for flashlight and some other minor Motorola hardware things it's basically vanilla android.
 
DRTDEVL said:
The bloatware depends upon the source of the phone. I buy mine unlocked from either Sam's or direct from the Motorola Store online. They are relatively bloat-free this way. The ones available from the cell providers are clogged with crap; the one I got at work (through Verizon) had TicToc and all the other BS on it on day one, I deleted most of what I could.
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That's good to know, I bought this one unlocked on Prime Day.
 
Roc Doc said:
Yeah, the bloatware including Tik Tok is a big complaint. I'll be dumping as much of that as I can. I don't game, so I'm not what you'd call a power user.
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Only thing I had to remove from mine was TikTok. I buy them unlocked off Amazon.

Bought one through Verizon and it had about 30 things to remove. :barf:
 
rockmup said:
Splain that to me, I'm considering giving up Apple for them.
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Stick to the iphone. Every work samsung smart phone I have had is a flaming POS. They gave me an iphone 8 at work couple years ago, leaps and bounds better than those samsungs.
Personal phone is a pixel. It gets the nod over the iphone for me, mainly I find it easier to type on, and its got much better text prediction and autocorrect. The iphone text prediction and auto correct is for social media whores.
 
Chevy_man said:
Only thing I had to remove from mine was TikTok. I buy them unlocked off Amazon.

Bought one through Verizon and it had about 30 things to remove. :barf:
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I don't get why everyone is so uptight about this. Hold your finger on the app, 'uninstall', repeat 30x, never think of it again. 2.5 minutes of your life you'll never get back. :confused:

If you can't uninstall, put it in a 'Junk' folder and forget it. Just part of setting up a new device.

i guess I've heard of some that have ads built into Settings or something, but I've never seen them.

My 2018 S8 Active does what I need, and is boringly reliable. The 6yo battery is at almost 90% capacity still. I don't like that Samsung keeps removing features (removable batt, 3.5 jack, SD slot), but their quality has always been great for me. I quit Apple back when they didn't believe in waterproofing...
 
subybaja said:
I don't get why everyone is so uptight about this. Hold your finger on the app, 'uninstall', repeat 30x, never think of it again. 2.5 minutes of your life you'll never get back. :confused:

If you can't uninstall, put it in a 'Junk' folder and forget it. Just part of setting up a new device.

i guess I've heard of some that have ads built into Settings or something, but I've never seen them.

My 2018 S8 Active does what I need, and is boringly reliable. The 6yo battery is at almost 90% capacity still. I don't like that Samsung keeps removing features (removable batt, 3.5 jack, SD slot), but their quality has always been great for me. I quit Apple back when they didn't believe in waterproofing...
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Because most of that Verizon bloatware couldn't be uninstalled. So you had quite literally a gig or more of garbage just taking up space. Verizon gets paid to load crap on and then sells you the phone for full price still.

It's just annoying, and it drives me to insure Verizon doesn't get to sell me phones. One of those "vote with your wallet" things for me. Why would I let Verizon make extra money on a phone that I can buy outright for the exact same price without all the garbage?


And the 3.5mm Jack and SD card slot are a lot of the reason I keep buying G powers. Gotta be able to plug into my 2004 era stereos from the pre Bluetooth era and hold lots of downloaded music for offline use in the mountains.:flipoff2:
 
Chevy_man said:
Because most of that Verizon bloatware couldn't be uninstalled. So you had quite literally a gig or more of garbage just taking up space. Verizon gets paid to load crap on and then sells you the phone for full price still.

It's just annoying, and it drives me to insure Verizon doesn't get to sell me phones. One of those "vote with your wallet" things for me. Why would I let Verizon make extra money on a phone that I can buy outright for the exact same price without all the garbage?


And the 3.5mm Jack and SD card slot are a lot of the reason I keep buying G powers. Gotta be able to plug into my 2004 era stereos from the pre Bluetooth era and hold lots of downloaded music for offline use in the mountains.:flipoff2:
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I had the same experience with my work phone through Verizon. 30+ apps, more than half can't be uninstalled, so I disabled them instead. As I said earlier, it is noticeable slower than my personal phone, the same was true when I had a Moto G Stylus as a personal phone (same model), my personal one without the bloatware was many times faster at loading what I needed than the bloated Verizon version.
 
Motorola still makes cell phones?

That said (and a Samsung pitch), I've been on Samsung since the S4. S4, S9+, and now S22 Ultra. Didn't need to update either of them, but the trade in offers were too good to pass up. Even turned on the S4 the other day to stream something as I was using the 22 for a game. Similar experience with deleting or disabling apps as I purchase through the carrier. My only complaint with the updates is them installing a couple games and apps with it. Delete and move on. I have not noticed any performance decreases. Without a laptop or PC, it is my main source for internet related things. Streaming UFC/MMA/boxing, YouTubes, regular browsing, auctions apps, game(s), etc. I have not kept up with who has the best camera recently, but I have taken some pretty good pictures with whatever the factory settings are and the zoom is unparalleled. I believe one of the adds for the newer Galaxy said it has more optical zoom and even a digital zoom out to 200x. The 100x on this one can be hard to get a decent shot since I don't have the steadiest of hands and don't buy tripods and such.
 
I have the edge plus. Had to order it to get it but it is exactly what I want and works very well.
 
Roc Doc said:
Yeah, the bloatware including Tik Tok is a big complaint. I'll be dumping as much of that as I can. I don't game, so I'm not what you'd call a power user.
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once i got this new moto g up and running i went through all the apps and deleted a lot of them. probably 50%. :laughing: tiktak included. they sure push it on you though. one of the first things it wanted to do once i had all my info and saved pics moved over was activate my tiktak account. thats a hard nope.
 
Chevy_man said:
Because most of that Verizon bloatware couldn't be uninstalled. So you had quite literally a gig or more of garbage just taking up space. Verizon gets paid to load crap on and then sells you the phone for full price still.
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Oh, yeah. I've got a couple ATT apps that I couldnt delete. Verizon sounds crazy, though.
 
Kids and I are rocking the cheapie Motorola stuff, wife has a Samsung that replaced a Motorola and she wants back to a Motorola. My last upgrade was from moto to Samsung and the Samsung was so bad it went back after a week for another cheapo moto.
I don't go for the flagship stuff, just the sub-$200 stuff, which for the price point, is IMO quite good, and not $$ catastrophic when something like my daughter running hers over (stupid thing still mostly worked, but lost enough mic/speaker to functionally make it Bluetooth only) happens and we need to replace it.
 
Update,

Purchased Motorola G Power 5G 2024 earlier today at Best Buy for $250. Picked up a case for it as well...

Phone has RAM boost option, basically you can double the processor RAM by using some built in storage memory (up to 8GB).

This will be put to work, as I tend to run YT or a movie in the background as I use other tabs for surfing web etc...

Setting it up for my preference, so far so good.
 
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