If there is one smartphone company that has made a great comeback after facing near-total defeat, it has to be Motorola. The brand has come a long way since it reinvented itself with the Moto X (Review | Pictures) in the second half of 2013.
In India, Motorola now has models that cater to every budget. Are you looking for a budget smartphone? You have the stellar Moto E (Gen 2) [Review | Pictures]. Do you want a phone that costs no more than Rs. 15,000 yet offers stellar performance? Look no further than the Moto G (Gen 2) [Review | Pictures]. Do you want a premium smartphone that costs less than most flagships in the market today? The Moto X (Gen 2) [Review | Pictures] fits the bill perfectly.
With the launch of the Motorola Moto Turbo, the company has gone one step further than the Moto X (Gen 2) and created a smartphone that boasts of a stellar set of specifications. It also uses an interesting new material in its build. We are more than intrigued by what Motorola has on offer. Let's get down to brass tacks.
Look and feel
It feels as though companies have given up on trying to improve the candybar design of smartphones, so we really appreciate those that introduce some sort of distinction - like Motorola, and its parent company Lenovo. The company introduced its Moto Maker customisation tool with the Moto X, and later took it to another level when it announced the Moto X (Gen 2). Unfortunately, the tool never made it to India. Even so, the rate at which Motorola has been coming up with innovative materials, designs and textures on its smartphones is worthy of applause. From the distinctive chin on the original Moto X to the bamboo back of the Moto X (Gen 2), Motorola has managed to distinguish itself.
With the Moto Turbo, Motorola introduces a new material - ballistic nylon - which is essentially a thicker, tougher variant of synthetic nylon. Quick trivia: ballistic nylon was used in the flak jackets worn by World War II soldiers. The criss-cross black thread runs across the rear of the phone, which looks elegant to say the least. The trademark dimple with the Motorola logo has been replaced by a metal plate on the Moto Turbo. The primary camera is above this metal plate, flanked by two LED flash modules.
The front of the device is quite ordinary, at least when compared to the design of the rear. A metal frame runs around the edges of the screen and the phone has a small chin on the lower front. Below the screen, Motorola has used capacitive buttons, which is odd considering most of its other phones use on-screen buttons. Considering this phone runs Android Lollipop, the KitKat-style icons look out-of-place. A single slit of a speaker curves across the plastic above the display, with a front-facing camera in between. The Micro-USB port can be found on the bottom of the phone whereas the 3.5mm audio jack is on the top.
Thanks to its large battery, the phone is a fairly thick 11.2mm. Moreover, the weight of 166g is on the heavier side when compared to other flagship smartphones. Thankfully, the sides of the phone are only 8.3mm thick and it slopes gently to its thickest point. This makes handling the phone that much easier, though we still think that the smaller bezels on the Moto X (Gen 2) are more ergonomic.
The volume rocker and the power button are both on the right edge of the phone. Interestingly, the Nano-SIM tray is attached to the volume rocker using a mechanism with springs. At first, this seems like an ingenious piece of design but in case a user fidgets too much and damages the tray, the SIM card and volume controls will both be lost.
Just like the Moto X (Gen 2), the Moto Turbo sports a 5.2-inch Super AMOLED screen with Corning's Gorilla Glass 3 for protection from scratches. The only difference here is the Moto Turbo has a resolution of 1440x2560 pixels (QHD), which translates to a whopping pixel density of 565ppi. This is one of the crispest screens we 've seen on a phone, and spotting pixels is impossible. Being an AMOLED screen, the colours do tend to pop but not as much as the screen on the Moto X (Gen 2). Also, there is a weird yellow cast which is visible when viewed from an angle. We noticed that the screen doesn't get as bright as we'd have liked it to get, but thankfully the sunlight legibility is not affected. Motorola also adds a unique water-repellant nano-coating to the Moto Turbo which can protect it from liquid spills.
Specifications and software
Quite expectedly, Motorola has gone with premium components inside the Moto Turbo. It rocks a Qualcomm Snapdragon 805 SoC with a quad-core processor clocked at 2.7GHz and an Adreno 420 GPU. There is an ample 3GB of RAM, and Motorola has launched the phone with 64GB of internal storage, which should be enough for most practical purposes. In any case, there is no microSD card slot to increase storage capacity.
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