Do you think Motorola made the G camera look worse then the X's on purpose?

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madman

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x92 said:
Nope, SoC and 1080p are examples that help bring out my point:
"It could be the same for picture quality, they try to distinct their flagship and their budget phone by making Moto G looks worst."
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I think custom firmware such as cyanogenmod can enable 1080p recording.. I have seen such things.. So you can hope and switch to it.. And 1.4 or 1.6 will also be available there

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x92 said:
I am suspecting this as well.
The MSM8226 processor is supposed to be 1.4 GHz but in our Moto G it is underclocked to 1.2GHz.
5MP camera is good enough to take 1080p video, but for moto g the maximum is only 720p.
It could be the same for picture quality, they try to distinct their flagship and their budget phone by making Moto G looks worst.
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Usually chipmakers like Qualcomm have several variants of same chipset with different operating frquency. So motorola might have bought 1.2ghz variant of MSM8226 to reduce cost.
 
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Motorola have a history of cripple phones with software; like motorola defy; underclocked below its specs; i hope this is the case with moto g camera and someone fix this

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x92 said:
Where is your evidence that processor clock at 0.2GHz slower will actually save much battery? how many percent?
It might be smooth for now but that doesn't mean it will be smooth after major android update in the future.

Really? do you mean that those phone out there that can take 1080p cannot shoot in 720p? there wasn't any option for that?

I didn't say Motorola try to make Moto G terrible, I'm just saying they try to distinct their flagship and non-flagship.
In fact, I think Moto G is a terrific product for under 200 US dollar but by looking at the capability of Moto G hardware, I wish it could be better.
Back to topic, what do you think Motorola is trying to "save" here by having excess noise reduction for the camera?
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And when that happens, they can do a kernel update to clock it at 1.4 or 1.6ghz to make it smooth again
 
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zack.1988 said:
Could somebody please "up" this thread with any comment? I forgot my account password on motorola forum xD They still didn't answer. Thank you
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Ok, I just posted, but I hope there are a lot more people out here that will do the same thing...........It's worth it! :)

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wolfen69 said:
Explain how Motorola would benefit from this.
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Maybe because of the Moto X ?
 
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A new updated is avaliable at google play today. Not sure if it has any improvement.

- Now you can take photos using volume button
- Compatible with android 4.4 (????)
- Bug fixes
 
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Eventually would it be possible to extract the driver from another phone or from the devkit on the aptiva website?

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hellzapoppin said:
A new updated is avaliable at google play today. Not sure if it has any improvement.

- Now you can take photos using volume button
- Compatible with android 4.4 (????)
- Bug fixes
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Focusing is better, but that's just the app. You need a firmware update to fix the camera's excessive noise reduction.
 
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    pisherthefisher
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    x92 said:
    I am suspecting this as well.
    The MSM8226 processor is supposed to be 1.4 GHz but in our Moto G it is underclocked to 1.2GHz.
    5MP camera is good enough to take 1080p video, but for moto g the maximum is only 720p.
    It could be the same for picture quality, they try to distinct their flagship and their budget phone by making Moto G looks worst.
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    What's the point of having it clocked to 1.4 when 1.2 is already smooth as butter? It will just waste battery life.

    What's the point of having it record 1080p videos when it only has a 720p screen? It will just waste memory.

    I think you guys should start thinking about this logically before assuming moto is out to purposely make the moto g terrible. Optimizations of battery life and file size are important, especially on a phone that has a non removable battery and no SD card slot.

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    jaspreet997
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    CADude said:
    Exactly. I don't see how somebody at Motorola can look at a sample image and thought that is acceptable for production unless they wanted it to be that way. Every Moto G seem to look like a oil painting when zoomed at 100% and they have to know by now but for some reason they haven't even acknowledged it despite this phone being one of the best phones of 2013 and every single publication and user online saying the camera is the single flaw in this phone.

    If they never deliver a firmware update, its got to be intentional. Hopefully I'm wrong and they are just dragging their feet since its not a very profitable device.
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    Haha conspiracy theory!.... Let's flood them with emails?

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    CADude
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    jaspreet997 said:
    Haha conspiracy theory!.... Let's flood them with emails?

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    Hopefully people have already been doing that along with posting on their forum.
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    ananth_9106
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    Here the flyer says sensor is capable of Shooting 1080p videos

    https://www.aptina.com/assets/downloadDocument.do?id=929
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    BarnOwl
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    ManBearrrPig said:
    if the camera and soc support full hd video recording why would motorola not implement it?
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    So which keen developer here at XDA does pick it up to do something about it................;)
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