Price should be 79+10 compulsory top-up= 89.

Thank you, got it sorted now.

​Interesting. How do you access 'auto set up'?

I used the phone's auto set up for my micro SDHC card and it moved all my photos, videos and some apps to the card. Whatsapp photos appear in a separate album to the camera photos, but they are on the SD card (including newly taken ones after adding the card). My internal memory now has over 1GB free and my card has 27GB free, so should last me for a while.

Just got one from in store. Do I have to first put the Vodafone sim before I can do unlock from eBay? Also any eBay links please.

Switch the phone off, put the memory card (ideally a fast one) in, switch it back on and it automatically sets up. I chose to add it as internal storage and it is working well.

Cheers Mark - I bought a memory card but no idea how to set this up as storage - I will see if google can help

Each to their own. For the stronger specs I'm happy to take the risk - the difference in features is vast - 3gb/32gb v 1gb/8gb and Snapdragon 616/650 v 410, Adreno 405 v 306, metal unibody v plastic, fingerprint scanner, 4100 mAh battery v 2470 mAh battery etc.

I'm more than happy with my Xiaomi Powerbanks etc but won't chance a phone until I can send it back if it goes wrong without it costing me about 30% of the cost price

I'm actually a Samsung Galaxy person by background - owned the S2, S3, S5, and S7. Had a brief dalliance with the iPhone 4 a few years back. Bought a Redmi 3 Pro out of curiosity because it was so cheap, gave it to my wife, and then bought 5 of the larger Redmi 3 Note (3gb / 32gb) to use as a dual SIM work device for my staff and kept one for myself as a spare. I even like the UI which is pretty Apple like. I'm honestly amazed by the quality of the Xiaomis. The're a really well known brand in China and India. The build is better than the Samsungs and I honestly can't tell much difference in the manufacturing quality between that and the iPhone. The only weak point is the quality of the camera but that's the case with all phones around the £100 mark. Apart from that they're just terrific value for money given the hardware you're getting for the price.

It's a strong argument you put forward there, but I prefer the build quality of Motorola phones. Owned a couple of the 'branded' Chinese phones & they slightly lacked what I wanted in a phone. They didnt do anything very well, just adequate, despite having knock-out spec.

All 4G/LTE networks are fine except O2 which relies entirely the 800mhz band.

"make sure your 4G network is supported" !! hmm well there is the reason not to consider this, your new phone might not even work properly in the UK.

​I haven't had one go wrong (I've got two). Phones like these just don't tend to malfunction within their expected lifespan - I've even got an original S2 which works perfectly fine (apart from being very slow) and that's been dropped about 100 times. Tempered glass protector protects the screen and if you were to do something silly with it like drop it off the top floor of a building, it's covered by my mobile phone insurance which I get as part of my bank account account benefits.

Obviously, it isn't economically feasible to send a phone back to China (£30-40 postage perhaps?), but build quality on the Xiaomis is incredibly impressive. Replacement parts including batteries, screens, metal bodies etc are also readily available. I'd rather use a phone like that than put up with a sluggish phone like the Motorola 1gb/8gb for the next few years which is toe curlingly slow and gets even slower over time.

If it were to suddenly give up the ghost in say 3-4 years times, that's fine by me as it will be time to upgrade anyway. I'll buy whatever model they're selling at the time for £100 and it will be faster and even impressive than the current generation. Mobile phone technology and developments just move at a lightening pace.

People would be mad IMO not buy the something like the Redmi 3S over the Moto G for only £7 more (make sure your 4G network is supported):
http://www.aliexpress.com/store/product/Original-Xiaomi-Redmi-3S-3-S-Mobile-Phone-4100mAh-Battery-Fingerprint-ID-Snapdragon-430-Octa-Core/311331_32682680027.html

1gb/8gb is a complete waste of time. The phone is practically obsolete.

Why pay £80 for this when you can get the vastly better Xiaomi for only £10 more?

Xiaomi is as a big a brand as Lenovo in the phone market (not that it means that much). It also has better build quality and reliability and is as a big a phone manufacturer as Lenovo. As for guarantee, sure, but by the time the phone eventually breaks down, the tech will be obsolete.

Locked to Vodafone??

I bought 4 of the Moto G 3rd Gen (8GB) last year for family. Outstanding phone, really well made - has a premium feel to it. Only 9 months on have they started to become a little sluggish. They've taken a hammering.

If you are willing to go into settings, say once a month, and ' clear cache' of the most used apps, it will fly again.

Havinng gone instore to touch/feel the new G4, I'm not impressed. No textured back cover, and 5.5" screen is too big.

I'll snap up the 16 GB 3rd Gen if & when it drops down to a sensible price

out of stock, too late . i wanted to buy it

actually a good deal

just got this from Vodafone yesterday for my son, great mobile for the money.

Interesting, thanks. I have an 8GB Moto G first gen with no memory card option and cope okay space-wise with that as I don't have that many apps, so the third gen seems a reasonable upgrade for the sake of £69.99. Most phones under £100 have some negatives, but the Moto G third gen seems better than most in terms of spec and reviews.

Be careful of "ghost touch" problems. I got a Moto G3 a few weeks ago, and apparently alot of G owners experience it. It's very annoying and Motorola are pretty useless in helping you.

YOu can configure your camera to send photos or videos taken straight to SD Card but images or videos sent via social media/Whatsapp etc stay on the phone unless you physically transfer them.

8GB is simply not enough despite having Marshmallow & an SD Card

It makes little improvement. The Marshmallow update is way overrated in terms of the storage issue

​In my experience I've found that it barely helps at all. Even though the phone supposedly 'adopts' the card as internal storage, the majority of apps still cannot be installed to the card, and will only install to local storage.

It's no different to the 'move to sd' option that was present in Lollipop, apart from now it encrypts the card so that it can only be read in the phone that formatted it.

I managed to get a whole 3 extra apps installed thanks to adoptable storage, before the phone was complaining about a lack of space again. And those apps crashed and hung all the time, despite the card being fast enough.

Good Price! - I paid £129 in John Lewis about 5 months ago - albeit would not say its the best phone I have ever had, runs out of space very quickly and tends to run really slow! but suppose that's on the individuals usage of it and what apps your downloading.

Or 'like new' from O2 for £69.99.

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/moto-g-3rd-generation-8gb-grade-a-refurb-good-new-69-99-o2-2471828?p=28471578

You can get a 32GB micro SD card for it for well under a tenner.

Hasn't this been oos online for weeks now ?

OOS

Great phone But I'm desperate to get hold of the 2GB/16GB version of this at a sensible price.

5.5" G4 not for me

Price should be 79+10 compulsory top-up= 89.