First glimpse of Moto M

Lenovo on Tuesday launched its upper-mid-range smartphone Moto M in India. The company is saying that the biggest feature of this smartphone is its metal body. Apart from this, the phone looks good due to the curved edges. There is no feature in the phone that is very big in itself like front camera or battery. The screen, battery and camera capacity in this smartphone have been given in a very balanced manner. We spent some time with this phone at the company’s launch event. Know, how we liked this phone at first glance.

This smartphone definitely looks better than Moto’s previous plastic phones. These include the G and The phone is curved at many places but the special thing is that it does not slip from the hand. The Moto M is just 7.85 millimeters thin and feels comfortable to hold with one hand. Overall the build quality of the phone is good. To protect against water, the phone comes with ‘Nano coating’ so that it will not get damaged in case of any kind of liquid falling on it. But the company has not promoted this phone as waterproof.

This phone has a 5.5 inch full HD crisp display and for better sound, Dolby Atmos sound has been provided in the phone. This is the first phone of Moto which comes with Dolby Atmos but before this this technology has been provided in many smartphones of Lenovo. We demoed the Atmos in the short time we spent with the unit, and we liked both the screen and the speakers. We will give the final verdict about the quality of indoor and outdoor photos taken with Moto M camera only after our detailed review.

The power and volume buttons of the phone are on the right side and there is a fingerprint sensor on the rear. There is a camera and flash above this sensor. The battery is non-removable and has a capacity of 3050 mAh. The phone supports fast charging. The phone supports two Nano SIMs but this phone has a hybrid tray which means that you will be able to use two SIMs simultaneously or one SIM and one microSD card.

The phone has a 16-megapixel rear camera with phase detection autofocus while the front camera is 8-megapixel. The phone’s camera app also has a selfie beautification mode. Moto M has a 2.2 GHz octa-core MediaTek Helio P15 processor. The phone runs on Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow without any modification.

Two variants of Moto M will be available for sale – the first one with 3 GB RAM and 32 GB storage is priced at Rs 15,999, while the price of 4 GB RAM and 64 GB storage is Rs 17,999. If you see the difference in price, it would be better to buy another variant.

Moto M will go on sale starting midnight on December 14 and will be exclusively available on Available on Flipkart. Stay tuned to Gadgets 360 Hindi for a detailed review of Moto M’s performance, build quality, camera performance and battery life.