Black Friday 2024

[ludovicus]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

For Cyber Monday, Best Buy thought it would be a great idea to raise the price of this phone to $39.99. Aren't they kind

The other scenario:


Applies to Cyber Monday, and many "sales," too!

[Manabi]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

I've been quite happy with the Moto phones I've purchased over the years. Jumping from the Moto E6 to the Moto G Play 2024 will be quite noticeable. There'll be a huge improvement on the specs, but with two major cons for me: the battery is non-removable and the phone is larger (6.5 inch display). I long for the days of the 4 inch displays, but that's another story.

Let us know how it works out for you.

I set up the Moto G Play 2024 a week ago, so I can give you some info about it now.

Positives:

• No cruft from Boost. Not a single annoying game or app and none installed during updates. (Takes about six to get it current.)
• Battery life is wonderful. I've only been using Spotify for a few hours a day so far, but it's at 98% battery at bedtime. My Moto E6 would be closer to 50% with the same usage.
• Spotify is staying active while paused a lot longer. (Several hours sometimes.)
• Turning on tap screen to power on both gives you a nicer playback view (full screen album art) and shows Spotify playback controls longer than the regular lock screen does. This should apply to other media player apps as well.
• Came with Android 13 but updated to 14.
• I could uninstall the preinstalled Google apps I didn't want.

Negatives:

• Updates take an incredibly long time. The worst was the August 2024 update to Android 14. That took an hour and a half to download and install. Most of that was the installation time, downloading didn't take very long. There's about six updates to get it current, it took seven to eight hours to install them all. They will install in the background.
• Motorola has some cruft on there that can't be removed. The worst is random notifications telling you about features of the phone that cannot be turned off.
• Google tried very, very hard to get me to install additional Google apps I didn't want. Skipped them in initial installation, got an undismissable notification to continue setup, which was to install those apps. Skipped it again and a few days later got a notification saying I was "So close to finishing setup". That one had a "No thanks" option, but I'm honestly expecting them to try again.
• You can't really turn off automatic downloading and installing of updates. The option to do so gets ignored, it downloaded and started installing the second update with it set not to do so. It still nags you after every update to turn that back on.

Overall I'm quite happy with it and it was a huge upgrade.