Amazon India says "Shoot crystal-clear photos with an 8 MP camera in back—it features a fast ƒ/2.2 aperture and a camera sensor that uses larger-than-average pixels." My bet would be a 1.5 um 8 MP setup. Hope this helps.
People dont understand the point of a budget phone? Really? What year is it?
Dude, what on earth do youneed 802.11ac for? Most people's internet connection cant even saturate 802.11g FFS. saturating 802.11n single channel is going to take decades. Even the, what on earth do you need 1Gbps for in a phone, especially a budget phone?
AC has beam forming, and believe it or not, it works wonders as long as you have a AC router. There are other underlying features exclusive to AC, that is not in N, it's not just about speed.
Missing AC isn't as puzzling as a 1x1 2.4ghz radio. I can't believe you can get that low spec of a radio with Bluetooth LE 4.1 support (one being a decade old technologically the the latter being relatively new spec.)
5Ghz N is good enough for me, not for performance but just to free up my crowded 2.4Ghz network. Between my Sonos speakers, Dlink wifi cameras, smart garage door, and some other smart home accessories...all on the 2.4Ghz spectrum, it seems every additional device I add to it causes new inconsistencies especially with the cameras that need real time availability, all the time.
So I try to keep as much as I can on 5ghz like my tablet, phone, pc's, anything that supports it, often at the expense of range.
most people keep the same router for 10 years or until they change ISP, and they don't use LAN to exchange files anyway, so they don't saturate whatever old standard they have. Public wifi is even worse.
I was all set to "BOO" this phone until I saw the $100 Amazon Prime price tag. If you are going to use ancient A53 cores, $100 is the right price point.
Do you foresee any actual performance problems with that CPU? I had thought about getting this for my (older) father, who doesn't know what a CPU is and probably can't even see 1280x700 pixels ;) 2GB should be more than fine but I saw some reports of g4play appearing with only 1gb in some markets????
4 carrier phone by the way. Got all your LTE bands for the big 4. Also has 2100 UMTS, 1, 3, 7 and 8 for international roaming. (Looks like there will also be an AT&T branded phone too.)
GSM Arena says the battery is removable, but Motorola's website doesn't say one way or the other. What gives with this battery, is it removable or not? Can you get spare or replacement batteries for it?
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osxandwindows - Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - link
Mean while in the world of the HTc 10 review.osxandwindows - Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - link
meanwhile*kaidenshi - Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - link
Trollololol.http://www.anandtech.com/show/10238/hands-on-with-...
K_Space - Wednesday, September 7, 2016 - link
That was a hands on - 2 page preview not a full review.fanta666 - Wednesday, September 7, 2016 - link
In that review the author said another review with more details will be published soon. Been 5 months now.WorldWithoutMadness - Wednesday, September 7, 2016 - link
A wizard is never late, nor is he early, he arrives precisely when he means to.I think the review would come out 6 month before htc announcing the next flagship
evefavretto - Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - link
Btw, the G4 Play was already avaliable in Brazil since early August.Ryan Smith - Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - link
Right you are. I think we didn't do a good job communicating that, so I've updated the text to be more explicit.zeeBomb - Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - link
Someone let me know the camera sensor used on the G4 Play...I'm desperateAritra Ghatak - Wednesday, September 7, 2016 - link
Me too.Aritra Ghatak - Wednesday, September 7, 2016 - link
Amazon India says "Shoot crystal-clear photos with an 8 MP camera in back—it features a fast ƒ/2.2 aperture and a camera sensor that uses larger-than-average pixels." My bet would be a 1.5 um 8 MP setup. Hope this helps.zeeBomb - Wednesday, September 7, 2016 - link
It helps...a little. Still don't know if it's a Sony or Omnivision... gah trying to look for an AIDA64Hrel - Wednesday, September 7, 2016 - link
no 802.11ac? Really? what year is it?TheinsanegamerN - Wednesday, September 7, 2016 - link
People dont understand the point of a budget phone? Really? What year is it?Dude, what on earth do youneed 802.11ac for? Most people's internet connection cant even saturate 802.11g FFS. saturating 802.11n single channel is going to take decades. Even the, what on earth do you need 1Gbps for in a phone, especially a budget phone?
Morawka - Wednesday, September 7, 2016 - link
AC has beam forming, and believe it or not, it works wonders as long as you have a AC router. There are other underlying features exclusive to AC, that is not in N, it's not just about speed.Samus - Saturday, September 10, 2016 - link
Missing AC isn't as puzzling as a 1x1 2.4ghz radio. I can't believe you can get that low spec of a radio with Bluetooth LE 4.1 support (one being a decade old technologically the the latter being relatively new spec.)5Ghz N is good enough for me, not for performance but just to free up my crowded 2.4Ghz network. Between my Sonos speakers, Dlink wifi cameras, smart garage door, and some other smart home accessories...all on the 2.4Ghz spectrum, it seems every additional device I add to it causes new inconsistencies especially with the cameras that need real time availability, all the time.
So I try to keep as much as I can on 5ghz like my tablet, phone, pc's, anything that supports it, often at the expense of range.
Murloc - Wednesday, September 7, 2016 - link
most people keep the same router for 10 years or until they change ISP, and they don't use LAN to exchange files anyway, so they don't saturate whatever old standard they have.Public wifi is even worse.
fanofanand - Wednesday, September 7, 2016 - link
I was all set to "BOO" this phone until I saw the $100 Amazon Prime price tag. If you are going to use ancient A53 cores, $100 is the right price point.hojnikb - Wednesday, September 7, 2016 - link
A53 are not ancient cpu cores but are pretty much current go to for budget arm cores.xchaotic - Tuesday, September 13, 2016 - link
Do you foresee any actual performance problems with that CPU? I had thought about getting this for my (older) father, who doesn't know what a CPU is and probably can't even see 1280x700 pixels ;)2GB should be more than fine but I saw some reports of g4play appearing with only 1gb in some markets????
stardude82 - Tuesday, September 13, 2016 - link
4 carrier phone by the way. Got all your LTE bands for the big 4. Also has 2100 UMTS, 1, 3, 7 and 8 for international roaming. (Looks like there will also be an AT&T branded phone too.)Joe Chemo - Wednesday, September 14, 2016 - link
GSM Arena says the battery is removable, but Motorola's website doesn't say one way or the other. What gives with this battery, is it removable or not? Can you get spare or replacement batteries for it?Oubadah - Thursday, September 15, 2016 - link
The battery is removable. I saw a video review, and the battery was in a separate plastic bag when the phone was unboxed.