DC123 Critique: Motorola MotoG4 Android Phone

Syed Ibrahim joins Tim Keirnan for a critique of the Motorola
MotoG4 smart phone. While the G4 was touted as an affordable,
"pure, clutter-free version of Android", Tim's experience was
anything but pure Android. Syed's expert Android wisdom provides
a counterpoint to Tim's confusion and disappointment as the
discussion ranges from the pluses and minuses of the G4 to the
shortcomings of various reviews of the phone when it came
out.
Our conclusion is that, if the botched implementation of the G4's
so-called "pure" Android experience is bad, the coverage of the
phone in the traditional tech media was even more sloppy. How is
one to shop effectively for a good Android phone in light of
reviews like this? Syed has suggestions.


Thanks to Tom Merritt for his report on Lenovo switching all its
phones to "stock Android". The link to that particular episode of
Daily Tech News is at
http://www.dailytechnewsshow.com/dtns-3088-left-to-their-phone-devices/


and the license for distributing this excerpt, unmodified,
is
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/


We won't waste your time linking to all the crappy reviews of the
G4 that missed the point in so many ways on this unfortunate
phone.