It's definitely 1GB RAM. Don't purchase this with the hope it'll be 2GB because you'll be disappointed.

Why is this so hard for people to understand? If your budget is £100, it's £100 - not £120, not £150, not £200... Some people have stricter budgets that some, and while you or I may not be one of those, £30 (30% more in this case) is a lot for specs and dual-SIM functionality they just might not care about. 1GB is fine for basic tasks, it will just complete things slower, this is just like the Windows tablets threads where so called 'experts' turn up saying Windows won't run with 1GB when it is actually fine.

If you are after a new branded handset for under £100, this is a good purchase, end of.

5.5" screen is to big for some, I find even 5" screens a bit to big for my liking.

My Nexus 4 was the perfect form factor imo, cant understand why no one makes an equivalent :disappointed:

1gb ram these days is pretty awful. It wouldn't be long until you have noticeable lag.

If you can afford £20 more get the Moto G 3rd edition. An extra 1gb ram makes a huge difference to performance.

hohoho hahaha hehehe

I don't get a hard on for phones that cost £600 either, my phone is a Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 Pro for £130...

Hahahaha

99% of people see no difference. And don't care about a split second. They care about £100

You are the 1% that pays 100% more for a 10% improvement that no one cares about.


I have the 1st Gen Moto G 1GB ram

I multitask

I play heavy 3D games ( blitz brigade, modern combat)

I don't get a hard-on for £600 phones that are a tiny bit faster hahaha

I just got a notification from HUKD that your mum is now following me! I guess that horse and B&W TV aren't working out too well and she now wants to learn something new! :laughing:

​Thanks mate and the iPhone looks ok, but ordered anyway I can always send back if he isn't happy

That ignore button's working well for you isn't it? :laughing:

Get some help from you mum.

You do know how the ignore button works don't you? It means i can choose which of your responses I can read. Judging by your clear wumming now....I reckon you're about 12. Am I right? :laughing:

Yes it's back in stock now. Was OOS last night

Actually the G4 is back in stock again now at Tesco for £149 and the £25 discount code takes it down to £125 again.

Oh dear. You can carry on trolling my posts all you want, but if you actually bothered to check, you'll see I'm correct - you can't currently buy the Moto G4 from Tesco for £125. Stop making yourself look like a spoilt child

now £89.99 on o2 ... https://www.o2.co.uk/shop/phones/moto/g-play/#contractType=payasyougo

Those horse pills you take have addled your brain.

It says 124.99 for me ?

Get a Lumia 550 for £40 or a iPhone 4s for £70 from O2.
https://www.o2.co.uk/shop/phones/apple/iphone-4s-like-new/#contractType=payasyougo
Or even a iPhone 5c for £105.99
https://www.o2.co.uk/shop/phones/apple/iphone-5c-like-new/#contractType=payasyougo

You are clueless about phones and what constitutes value for money. Hopefully no one with any sense on here will pay you any attention.

Yep - pretty much confirmed what I said earlier. Now where's that ignore button?

Jesus wept! - that was 6 hours ago. Try ordering one now.

Your family still think that their black & white TV is "just fine".

Yes you can, I just bought one about 6 hours ago.

No you can't

No - it's because she (and many others) don't care about performance - as long as it does what they need it to. You don't seem to be able to grasp that - though I suspect from your condescending remarks that you do grasp it - you'd just rather call people clueless, etc.. because you're a smug know-it-all.

Still for £26 extra you can get the non-Play G4 from tesco and that has 2GB RAM, a way better screen, a better camera. This Play model may be fine if you're seriously on a budget but the more advanced model is a big step up for not much money.

That's because she doesn't have a clue about performance. Moto E 1gb is about the crappiest, slowest, worst performing phone you can get from any mainstream manufacturer. She probably thinks lag and lock ups are normal. You are equally clueless.

It's like the guy who said his horse was "perfectly fine" when they introduced the motor car and that he didn't need anything else.

More like 5.25" floppy disk drive and SSD.... :laughing:

Ah....the iPhone. Completely different memory management.

not on iPhone 6

The difference between using a 1gb phone and a 2/3gb phone is like the difference between using a computer with a HDD and one with a SSD. Both work, but one works a LOT better than the other overall and gives a much better experience...

My mum has a Moto E. She uses it for calls, whatsapp and Facebook. It has 1gb of RAM and she loves it. I offered to look at an upgrade for her recently and she wasn't interested.

how do you equate the above to your "obsolete" comments and me being "clueless"? Your comments are just laughable

You are seriously clueless.

You're right, it has been discussed about a billion times, and many people disagree with you (even some in this thread who actually own this phone!). If 1gb was "obsolete" then why are so many still being produced? Think I'd rather trust the phone manufacturers than your sweeping statements. Some people refuse to accept that many smartphone users only use a couple of light apps and don't mind a bit of lag now and then.

That has been discussed about a billion times on here. I've already posted lots of messages about the feasibility of 1gb on a smartphone in 2016 and how Android (inefficiently) handles apps in memory. Anyone who knows anything about smartphones knows that 1gb is pretty obsolete these days. If he doesn't believe me and can't be bothered to Google the answer (when it's the first bloody link on Google), and instead wants to waste £100 on what's going to turn into a super slow and laggy phone, and listen to someone who doesn't have a clue like yourself, then be my guest....

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=1gb+ram+on+a+smartphone

Yes, it works, but you have to get rid of all the background apps (like Facebook). And I wonder whether they will stop this in the next version - they already blocked rooted phones in 0.37, so that would be the next logical step. Requirements clearly state 2GB of RAM...

TL;DR do not buy, not enough RAM.

Stock answer for someone who doesn't want to admit they're talking s hite

Yes! It's good for £99
If your boss has £150 though he'd like standard Moto G4 with 2gb ram

Thanks for posting, reasonable price. But does this 4th gen suffer the same gyroscopic jitter that renders the 2nd gen version unusable when using Google Cardboard VR?

[EDIT]: OK so just checked, seems it's fine: https://m.reddit.com/r/MotoG/comments/4qif2o/moto_g4_google_cardboard_experience/

My Moto G (2nd Gen) with 1GB RAM sat at about 700MB in use. My 2GB Xiaomi running the same stuff sits at 1.4GB in use. Sure the Xiaomi can conceivably run more in the remaining memory but personally I'll never max either out. I don't game but doubt I could run enough concurrently to max either phone out.

Not yet,I'll bite at £80

Amazing - the poor 1gb version, and still one of the days hottest deals...

I've said it before, has everyone who WANTS a Moto G not already now got one??

Why are so many saying you need more than 1GB RAM to do anything, or run more than 1 app? Earlier I was using my 1st gen Moto G to stream Deezer via Bluetooth to our car stereo, act as a WiFi hotspot for our daughter's phone, and surf the net. No slowdown or anything.

Yeah works great for all that

Motorola Moto G4 Black - SIM Free 16GB £125.00 with code @ Tesco Direct

Just don't ask if it has a compass... :wink:

Thanks very much, someone that knows what they're talking about.:smiley:

My boss at work wants me to get him a cheap but decent phone just for calls, emails, taking pictures and the odd internet browsing, I told him this would be ideal as he doesn't know anything about phones, do you think it's worth a punt ?

It depends what you do. If you want to multitask, 1GB will be a pain. Having a browser open, with multiple tabs, while doing other things like listening to music, a lot of the times the media player will force close to free up memory. If you don't do more than single tasks then 1GB is OK. One thing you need to remember is that the phones GPU uses memory so thats 200MB or so reserved. 2GB is fine.

Will be nigh on unusable at 1GB of RAM, they shouldn't be allowed to sell them at that spec...

These days you should be looking at 3GB as the standard unless you are someone who only uses the phone for making calls and sending texts!

I'd rather you told me.

​Google is your friend.

Pray tell us where its for sale at £130 ???

Its more like £150 or more!

Please explain why.

TIA

1gb is a waste of time for a smartphone.

Cold.

1gb ram these days is pretty awful. It wouldn't be long until you have noticeable lag.

If you can afford £20 more get the Moto G 3rd edition. An extra 1gb ram makes a huge difference to performance.

The Moto G4 Play's camera is inferior to the other Moto G4's

​Managed to get this for my wife for £109 last month. The personalised one direct from Motorola

This would've been my ideal phone if it was 2gb.

5.5" is too big :man:

For people who are looking for a 5" phone with >=2GB RAM There's also the Lenovo K6 (and K6 power, out next month) as well as the Redmi 3s Prime Global ROM with 800MHz LTE (band 20) on honorbuy (euro stock, no tax issues)

Shame there'll seemingly be no Moto E3Power for the UK.

sorry for this but - THIS IS MOTOROLA MOTO G4 PLAY (new 4th gen series) WITH 1GB RAM AND 16GB INTERNAL STORAGE. Done. Stop confusing other people.

It has two versions 1 and 1 gig ram with 8 and 16 gig storage

Exactly - Motorola are including the generation number in the model name now, to stop all the confusion. For example, the new Moto E 3rd generation will be the Moto E3. So it's the opposite of misleading! G4 cannot be anything other than 4th generation.

Oh I've just noticed, the title says Moto G4 Play 4th gen which is extremely misleading. This is the 1st gen (the only one). People will think it's Moto G4 4the gen going by the title

The Sony E5 may be another option to look at? Marshmallow, 1.5GB RAM, 16GB storage, NFC, 5" 720p IPS, etc. All specs available online and it can be had for £100 at CPW

I cannot understand why would anyone want to buy this if you could easily get the Motorola 4G full version (not Play) for around £130.00.

Motorola 4G full version (not Play) has hetter specs and the white version is even come with dual sim card. More over this play version is 1GB RAM version make it unusable for a more serious task apart for simple surfing.

Is it the same form as the Moto E? I bought one of those for my mum. It's not as flat but seems ok

Thanks Jason, i have also looked at the lenovo k5 looks pretty good too.

Great price op

I can recommend the moto G 3rd Gen (2GB/16GB version), its marginally bigger but you get used to it. Although I limited my budget to under £150 so if your willing to spend more you might get something better.

Biggest problem with this deal is the number of folks who will not read the description properly, think they're getting a Moto G4 for £99.99, and realise too late that it actually says Moto G4 PLAY - an inferior phone to the G4 in a number of ways.

The Sony Z compact are decent eg the 3 and 5

I'm with you on this. My Nexus 4 is eventually due for replacement. I cannot find anything comparable for the price. Great phone.

Would my son beable to use this for pokemon go i was about to buy it but then on reading I was thinking not.

Negative. Will give memory problems all the time. Some people only look at brand name, not the old rubbish it is selling.

As a user of this phone I must defend its lack of ram. For a 1gb of ram phone, it is surprisingly responsive. Can run most apps without a problem but obviously some of the more labour intensive apps do lag. I've had it since it was released and found it to be quite the good little Android.

I was tempted to get it at £90 from CPW on upgrade because I wanted a stock Android phone with NFC but with 1GB RAM it's no good to me. Although saying that the Moto E 2nd gen I've been using for the last month has been wonderful. It's really surprised me how well it performs and it doesn't hang at all. Pokémon Go works too, although that's the only app that can be open at the time.

If we talking about UK model please refer to Motorola UK website, not GSMarena.

this is no deal with 1gb ram.

It's definitely 1GB RAM. Don't purchase this with the hope it'll be 2GB because you'll be disappointed.

There are many different versions of the G4 Play for different markets. Unfortunately the UK version is 1GB RAM paired with 16GB Storage.

no point in buying a phone today with only 1gb at 99.99+.... although Amazon description suggests 2gb. if that's wrong I guess u can send it back or ask for a, let's say, £30 refund, then at £70 would be w for deal

Moto G4 Play has 1GB RAM with 16GB storage and there is no other variants of Play (otherwise you mean X Play or Moto G 3rd Gen with 2GB RAM and 16GB Internal memory)

Model for UK market only comes with 1GB RAM as confirmed by the few user reviews for the Play version.

http://www.gsmarena.com/motorola_moto_g4_play-8104.php

Suggests 2gb :neutral_face:

They emphasise this:

Note:The device comes with 1GB of internal RAM

I'd say it's 1GB

Hmmmm description states only 1GB of ram, but doesn't the 16GB model come with 2GB ram?