Since Motorola’s return back into the limelight with their smartphones and smartwatch, they have mainly focused on delivering a phone with an affordable price tag that’s accessible for most people. Following on from the Moto G, their brand new phone, the Moto E (released at today’s event in London and Delhi) is by far the cheapest as of yet.
Usually a phone coming in at such a cheap price tag means that many cutbacks have to be made, however on the whole things seem to have maintained Motorola’s standard, even in terms of design.
The Moto E has a very similar shape to both the Moto X and G, and there’s even that familiar dip on the back which contains the Motorola “M” logo.
Even down to the OS, the Moto E does not fail to follow the Motorola trend. At release the phone will be shipping with Android 4.4.2 KitKat and Motorola states that updates of the OS are guaranteed. Since it does run close to stock Android, pushing out updates when they release will take no time at all.
When purchased, the Moto E will come in just black or white. However since the backplate is interchangeable, Motorola will have nine different colour varients on sale (black, white, purple, green pink, blue, turquoise, yellow and red). We’re sure that 3rd party options will soon also be available online as well.
Motorola released a video on their Motorola Mobility YouTube channel demonstrating how to remove the backplate on both the the Moto E and Moto G.
Motorola Moto E US Ordering Website
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Motorola Moto E US Ordering WebsiteThe Motorola Moto E will come in at £89/$129 and will be launching this week. Within the next couple of weeks it will be on sale in 40 different countries.
US buyers can pre-order the Moto E online today here.
Specs:
- 4.3″ 540 x 960 pixels (256ppi pixel density)
- Qualcomm Snapdragon 200 (Dual-core 1.2 GHz Cortex-A7)
- Adreno 302 GPU
- 1GB RAM
- 4GB Internal storage (Upgradable to 32GB via microSD card slot)
- 5-Megapixel rear facing camera (2592×1944 stills/854×480@30fps video)
- Non-removable Li-Ion 1980 mAh battery
- Android 4.4.2 KitKat
