– Hey, it’s Chaim with The Verge. I’m here at IFA 2018, withMotorola’s new phones. We have the Motorola One,and the Motorola One Power. They’re new bezel-less,mid-range Android phones. They run Android One, andthe big thing is that they have an iPhone 10 style notch display, but, at, like a much lower price point. The Moto One is gonna bemore widely available.It’ll be available in Europe,Latin America and Asia, starting in October, for 299 euros, which works out to like, $350 U.S., which is really cheap for aphone where you’re getting this kind of form factor. And, at that price, it’shonestly pretty great. The two phones are pretty similar. The Motorola One is smaller,with a 5.9 inch screen, and the design is a bit different. It has Gorilla Glass 2.5 onboth sides of the metal frame. On the other hand, you havethe Motorola One Power, which will, again, onlybe available in India. It’s bigger, with a 6.2 inch screen, that’s a bit of a higher resolution, and it swaps out the framefrom the glass on both sides, to metal on the back, andtop, has a headphone jack, which is unfortunatelya little rare to see on phones these days, andextremely welcome here. The rear cameras on theMotorola One are dual, 13 megapixel shooters. The front camera is aneight megapixel selfie cam. The Motorola One Power, for India, bumps those both up a bit. The rear cameras are upgradedto 16 megapixel lenses, and the front-facingcamera is 12 megapixels.Both phones will be shippedwith Android 8.1 Oreo, running the Android One version, which Google promisessecurity updates for, for at least three years. Being Motorola phones,they’re also running pretty close to stock Android, with a couple ofenhancements here and there. But, both phones shouldbe getting Android 9.0 Pie in the near future, whichshould have additional software enhancements especially for those notch bezels on top. In terms of processor, theAndroid One has a Qualcomm Snapdragon 625, while theOne Power has a Qualcomm Snapdragon 636. Again, these aren’t quitetop of the line processors, but for a mid-range Androidphone, at the price points that these are reaching,it’s pretty much in line what you expect withthe rest of the market.Storage and memory are also pretty good. Both phones come withfour gigabytes of RAM, 64 gigabytes of storage out of the box, which can be expanded up to 256 gigabytes with Micro SD cards. So, I’m holding the iPhone10 and the Motorola One, and honestly, I’m reallyimpressed with the Motorola One. Again, it’s not quite thesame level of fit and polish that you’d expect from the iPhone. The screen isn’t quite asseamless with the sides, the screen on the iPhoneobviously has much higher pixel density, it’s brighter,it’s an OLED screen, the colors are a little better, but, for the price that thiscosts, which is again, 299 euros, around $350in America, it’s a really impressive piece of hardware,for a mid-range Android phone, that has this kind of design and polish, Motorola seems to havesomething really impressive on its hands here.And when you add in the factthat it’s running Android One, which is again, nearly stockAndroid, with just a couple of Motorola’s enhancements here and there, it’s really just a greatexperience that you don’t usually see from Androidphones at this price range. There’s no extra, youknow, bloatware installed, it’s just Android the way you want it, and right now, just quickly,it does feel pretty snappy. The Motorola One is set tocome out in Europe, Asia and Latin America, startingin October for 299 euros. The Motorola One Power willonly be available in India, at a later date, and, honestly, if it came to America,I’d probably buy one. On the back, you have alsoa fingerprint scanner, which is useful. The right side of thephone, you have your useful volume and power buttons. Bottom is speaker, USB-Ccharging, which is great. Right side is where the SIM card slot is, and top is a headphone jack..
