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Thanks for the details Z.
I'm on Verizon, contract ends sometime in January. Will not be switching per their coverage maps.
One MAJOR app I didn't bring up is the MLB app. Does it still only stream video on certain droid devices? I have to have the vid streaming. Does it do so on the Flagship devices you've mentioned?
Do all of those devices allow for the 64gb microSD cards?
Why the Moto X #1?
I'll hit the questions I can answer. Since you're up in January, the deals will switch but right now motorolas, either X or the Droid line are the best smartphone deals on Verizon.
As far as I know barring some weird glitch all of these phones will run MLB video app. The requirement is that it's on Android 2.2 or newer, all these are android 4.2 and newer.
Only high end Android smartphones that allow for a MicroSD on Verizon are the Galaxy series and the HTC One Max. Most manufacturers are ditching the Physical data for cloud data. Would you be using it for photos? If so I'd recommend instead just exporting your photos off your phone onto your computer once in awhile. If you're using it more short term (shooting videos say) you can get an adapter for phones like the iPhone or Android that lets you basically load an SD card as an external hard drive. It's too cumbersome as a permanent solution.
I love the Moto X for a handful of reasons. I'll preface this by saying I've owned 4 android device. The Original Droid. Droid X, Galaxy Nexus, and now the G2. The Droid and the Nexus ran on stock Android. What stock android is, is a very vanilla experience.
For a screen shot comparison of the home sscreens
That's obviously just the tip of the iceberg because you can change your homescreen, but it lets you know the design difference between the 2. Smasung is big and out there , Motorola is more minimal. Another sweet feature that you get wit hthe Motorola devices that you don't get with the GS4 is actually more space for apps with the Google searching. Both phones support a 4X4 app setup. But Motorola gives you a static google bar, meaning it's always at the top of your homescreen. Samsung you have place it. That means 4 potential app shortcuts or another widget you lose on your home screen.
Second thing this is comparing it to all biut the G2, I'm not a fan of physical or static buttons like Samsung uses. Some people like them I'm not a fan. I can't tell you the number of people who don't know there's a menu button on their GS4 because it lights up for a second than goes away. Google has a very simple UI set up and I think that Motorola takes most advantage of it and I think that ccoming from an iPhone the Moto X would also be the most similar experience since you're used to things like not having to press a menu button and instead pressing an on screen little icon.
All the phones have their killer features. The Galaxy has their air gestures, HTC has Blinkfeed and Boomsound. LG has Knock On and Motorola has touchless control, smart notifications (forget the real name) and connect. To quickly describe them, air gestures allows you to control your phone without touching it, Such as hovering your finger over a folder to open it or a video to preview it. Or it tracks your eyes to scroll while you read. Blinkfeed and Boomsound I figured including both since neither are amazing but both are cool to the right person. Blinkfeed basically turns your homescreen into a news and social media ticker. Updating you immediately when you turn your phone on. Boomsound is ingenious but lends itself to the bigger build of HTC models in that they put the speakers on the front of the phone. So if you're big on watching videos or listening to music without headpThe notifications on all of the devices are largely the same but motorola. What motorola does is limit the amount of stuff that pops up on your lock screen and helps save your battery. To compare the 2 with the motorola notifications first vs every other android
So you can see the potential power savings there.
And again I like the design of the X better than any Android. For starters, you can go to motomaker.com and customer build your device at no extra charge. Of course you can often find deals on the black and white 16 gig but if you want more memory or if you want to design your phone (say you want a blue and white or red and black) then do it through motomaker. Second is the hand feel. The other phones to me are large. I have large hands so for me they fit fine but moto X is at like the brink of one handed touch. It's not quite as large of a screen as the G2 or S4. But it's much smaller. To compare to the iPhone 5 and GS4 (with the old Razr HD)
As you can see it's not too much bigger than the iPhone 5, but it has a way larger screen and it's noticeably smaller than the GS4 with a only slightly smaller screen (4.7 vs 5)
This last part is purely my opinion, but to me the Moto X and the G2 are the most revolutionary design changes of this year. GS4 is the same designa s the GS3 but with a larger screen. Moto X conversely is the first phone designed to feel unibody, where you can't feel the edge of the screen and the edge of your phoen, same with G2. It has a specially designed back with custom battery to optimize battery life and make it's design more ergonomic. G2 has what some people will love and has the buttons on the back. I'm in between on it i like it sometimes (with my case on I've never accidentally raised the volume like I usually do with phones I rush into my pocket. but more than once I've reached to turn the volume up and touched the camera or down and turned the screen off. I'm sure over time that will happen less though.
By january we may know more about the GS5 and if it will be worth the wait. I don't think it is based on current info. But we'll see.
