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Pity, I'm very pleased with my first-generation Moto G, even if it's not powerful enough for Pokemon and seems to have suffered from Android bitrot slowing it down.

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I've been super happy with my Moto X Pure Edition. I loved that I could customize the back (from the factory) and that I got unadulterated Android with it. So far, it still performs well. iOS updates on the iPhones I had would severely affect performance.

How's it not powerful enough for Pokemon (if you mean GO)? I've played it for a good week (before getting bored) after the release and didn't notice any problems.

Well he/she does also talk about Android "bitrot" which I have not had an issue with since Android 4.4 so I wouldn't take what he says seriously.

My G doesn't have a compass, so the AR portion of the game doesn't work at all. Could be that's what GP is talking about.

It's tremendously slow. It takes ages to load. Tapping on things often has over a second delay. The phone doesn't have any spare RAM, so if you switch to another app it will immediately get ejected. The AR works, but at a few frames per second.

The "bitrot" is simply that it doesn't feel as fast as it did when I bought it, before upgrading to Android 5.1. And the storage is perpetually full with only a few apps and as many as possible moved to the SD card.

I had that problem with my Moto G 4G. Found out that it wasn't the 1G of RAM causing this issue but the firmware. This was fixed in an update and seemingly broken again in another update.

I still use a 2nd gen Moto G as my main phone. With a 1 gb additional RAM and a slightly better camera it would be the perfect phone for me.

Non-expandable storage is the big miss for the 1st gen Moto G.

At least in europe there was an LTE version that had an SD-card slot, an actual compass and gyroscope and the eponymous LTE support. My girlfriend still uses it and is a really nice phone (except for the, by now, ridiculously bad camera).

I am in Europe, and bought mine from a European Amazon, but no SD-card. I still use it, and yeah the camera is definitely quite far behind. I'll probably go for a Xiaomi soon.

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