Guest dj9928 Posted August 9, 2015 Report Posted August 9, 2015 I was actually reading reviews for the new Moto G and someone mentioned this phone, I'm not sure how I missed it, not well advertised? Anyway what is the catch? for £125 there has to be something wrong with it. Lack of support maybe?
Guest deaglecat Posted August 9, 2015 Report Posted August 9, 2015 No gyroNeed to unlockWill not get android version upgradeStill not too bad
Guest ohyesman Posted August 9, 2015 Report Posted August 9, 2015 (edited) Sounds just like the moto g lol (suppose they did give us an update, just no patches to sort out there issues)@dj9928 same here mate, never heard of this phone until looking into the Moto G gen 3, I think I am going to pick one up Monday and unlock it. I think the 5' screen is the perfect size and think the iPhone 6+ looks stupid, this is the same size, but I am sure my mind will change after having used it for a whileMy current Moto G gen 2 is crap with the memory leak issue which Motorola still haven't resolved along with the poor memory management. I was going to pick up the new Moto G 3rd gen - 16gb version with 2 GB ram - with the hope that they firstly patched the issues with their lollipop 5.1 version and that the exta storage space and ram will make it seem a good upgrade but at just over £200!!! Not so sure! Be more likely to root it go back to custom ROMs which I haven't felt the need to do since back in the day with the zte blade (orange San Francisco) Then I saw this!!!Oh and BTW the new new Moto G has no gyro either. Edited August 9, 2015 by ohyesman
Guest PaulOBrien Posted August 9, 2015 Report Posted August 9, 2015 The Moto G 3rd gen with the 2GB / 16GB is just too expensive for what it is, particularly compared to this imho...P
Guest macbreakweeklyfan Posted August 9, 2015 Report Posted August 9, 2015 (edited) No gyroNeed to unlockWill not get android version upgradeStill not too bad"will not" - please substantiate this claim, I'm sure you can't, no one can. It's a matter of playing the waiting game, and to be honest, there's better things to occupy one's mind with than phone updates. Meh. Great phone, update or not. Edited August 9, 2015 by macbreakweeklyfan
Guest ohyesman Posted August 9, 2015 Report Posted August 9, 2015 The Moto G 3rd gen with the 2GB / 16GB is just too expensive for what it is, particularly compared to this imho...PCompletely agree. "will not" - please substantiate this claim, I'm sure you can't, no one can. It's a matter of playing the waiting game, and to be honest, there's better things to occupy one's mind with than phone updates. Meh. Great phone, update or not. I think it's unlikely, if they do push 5.1 that would be awesome, M is highly unlikely IMO, but like u said great phone regardless and for the price u shouldn't expect anything other than what u got when purchased.
Guest deaglecat Posted August 9, 2015 Report Posted August 9, 2015 "will not" - please substantiate this claim, I'm sure you can't, no one can. It's a matter of playing the waiting game, and to be honest, there's better things to occupy one's mind with than phone updates. Meh. Great phone, update or not. ok to be pedantic. will most likely not get android m (based on vodafone previous track record)agree the phone is good. but we need to be realistic
Guest dj9928 Posted August 10, 2015 Report Posted August 10, 2015 What about stagefright? I noticed other manufacturers scrambling to get updates out to fix the issue, even Motorola are doing something and they are next to useless with updates.
Guest ohyesman Posted August 10, 2015 Report Posted August 10, 2015 Well an ota update has already been released previously so I think it's likely another will be sent to resolve stage fright.
Guest Frankish Posted August 10, 2015 Report Posted August 10, 2015 What the stage fright issue I've not seen anything so far?
Guest PaulOBrien Posted August 10, 2015 Report Posted August 10, 2015 A security vulnerability... details: https://blog.lookout.com/blog/2015/07/28/stagefright/P
Guest Frankish Posted August 10, 2015 Report Posted August 10, 2015 Wow seems pretty major. They can't hurt me though. NOT WITH MY TINFOIL HAT ON!We will probably never get a patch. :)
Guest macbreakweeklyfan Posted August 10, 2015 Report Posted August 10, 2015 Steve Gibson of GRC, discusses stage fright vulnerability on "Security Now" on the TWiT netcast network (I listen religiously, every week to this network, and especially to "Security Now", "The Tech Guy" and "Windows Weekly" - Steve Gibson coined the phrase "Spyware" and is the author of "Spinrite" hard drive recovery tool, so he's THE "go to guy" for security exploits and VERY detailed, in-depth explanations of security technology): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfKZZa41LB8&t=0h12m20s (link jumps to relevant segment)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Gibson_(computer_programmer)Security Now (weekly) show: https://twit.tv/shows/security-now
Guest deaglecat Posted August 23, 2015 Report Posted August 23, 2015 A security vulnerability... details: https://blog.lookout.com/blog/2015/07/28/stagefright/PTurn off auto download MMS in your messaging app - that should fix it
Guest LiNe171 Posted August 23, 2015 Report Posted August 23, 2015 They only can "attack" you by MMS-Video, with images they can't.Tested that with Textra SMS, Textra has a option "Stagefright protection" for MMS.
Guest eLJay Posted August 26, 2015 Report Posted August 26, 2015 I don't take MMS and blocked everything, so that's easy. What we aren't mentioning here is that it also has NFC, at least mine does, and that's impressive on a budget phone.
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