I also purchased this phone and experience the restart while charging issue. Update : Fixed signal-to-noise ratio reference. With some EQ help, the Moto E (2nd gen) provides an acceptable listening experience for casual use, but will not thrill music buffs. It’s certainly not fair to expect the same level of audio performance as an iPhone, Sony Z3, or Nexus 6. Overall, the sound is not bad for a phone in this price range. The “Live stage” EQ setting seems to be the best compromise, shoring up the bass and midrange without the rumbling heard with “Home theater.” Activating the “Home theater” EQ setting livens the sound up a bit, but the low-end has too much emphasis and sounds too rumbly. There’s no power behind the vocals and it’s just not really fun to listen to. With the EQ turned off, the output sounds flat and lifeless. Just like with the external speaker, vocals start blending together with instruments when listening to multi-layered electronic music. Relative to the iPhone 6, bass has less punch and the Moto E lacks clarity the signal-to-noise ratio seems lower. Plugging in a set of good headphones provides a similar listening experience. The “Brilliant” EQ setting sounds too tinny, but “Bass punch” helps shore up both the low and high ends a bit, and is probably the best setting. With the EQ turned off, the midrange is strong, which is important for vocals or just listening to someone on a phone call, but trails off at higher frequencies. Folk music, or music centered on vocals, plays to its strengths.īass notes, of course, are soft. At normal listening levels, it’s still possible to hear individual notes and instruments when listening to heavy metal, but sounds start blending together with multi-layered electronic music, making it sound a bit garbled. The external speaker on the Moto E (2nd gen) keeps distortion to a minimum at max volume. This does not seem to make a major impact on the loudness nor the clarity of the speaker compared to the Moto G which comes with two. Audio Performanceįor the new Moto E, Motorola decided to remove the bottom-front speaker, either because the company did not want to pay double for the speakers or it was a design choice meant to streamline the device and make it slightly more compact. Our only complaints are that max brightness falls short of 400 nits and whites display with a slight greenish tint. We were surprised by how well calibrated the display is, easily beating the color accuracy of more expensive devices, including Motorola’s own Moto G (2nd gen) and Nexus 6. For most of the colors, however, the actual color and the target color are very close to each other.įor a lower-cost phone, the display in the Moto E (2nd gen) is actually very nice. The Moto E’s 100% blue is also a bit light like we saw in the color saturation sweep. We can see a slight green tint on the white swatch, as suggested in the grayscale tests. The color palette above shows the target color on the bottom and the color displayed by the Moto E on top.
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