Price cut to £279 as new model out but you can use the UKWELCOME10 code to take £10 off or use Top Cashback to get just over 5% back making it £266.79 delivered.
Spec is slightly better than the new G5s Plus with optional mods available at additional cost (Love the speaker one) and its been software upgraded to 7.0 and I understand 7.1.1 is on the way.
5.5” Super AMOLED Gorilla Glass 1080p HD (1080 x 1920) screen Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 625 processor - 2 GHz Octa-Core CPU and Adreno 506 GPU, 650 MHz 3GB RAM 3510Mah HUGE battery with TurboPower™ -up to 9 hours of power in 15 minutes of charging
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Torkijo
14 Sep 17#1
Price cut to £279 as new model out but you can use the UKWELCOME10 code to take £10 off or use Top Cashback to get just over 5% back making it £266.79 delivered.
Spec is slightly better than the new G5s Plus with optional mods available at additional cost (Love the speaker one) and its been software upgraded to 7.0 and I understand 7.1.1 is on the way.
5.5” Super AMOLED Gorilla Glass 1080p HD (1080 x 1920) screen Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 625 processor - 2 GHz Octa-Core CPU and Adreno 506 GPU, 650 MHz 3GB RAM 3510Mah HUGE battery with TurboPower™ -up to 9 hours of power in 15 minutes of charging
I know. I bought it at the time. I have been waiting since then till next week when I return to the UK to get it. My Z10 is driving me nuts.
Don_Mega
14 Sep 17#3
For an extra £30 I'd have the Moto Z
Agharta to Don_Mega
14 Sep 17#4
Half the battery life and no audio jack. I'll pass.
Torkijo to Don_Mega
14 Sep 17#5
As mentioned, Half the battery life and no audio jack - but also Out of stock at the moment as thats what i went to their site for in the first place
RedRain
14 Sep 17#7
Terrible company the extras did not show up when i ordered and they refused to send them out had to send the whole order back to germany and then they lost it avoid
abdiman
14 Sep 17#8
The battery is 3510mah not 3150. This is the best feature of the phone.
Torkijo to abdiman
14 Sep 17#11
Cheers, edited.
jazzuk777
14 Sep 17#9
I might've voted hot but I've seriously gone off Moto phones after my last 3... Not voted either way but I really don't think I trust Motorola quality control any more.
rev6
14 Sep 17#10
Looks decent but I can't help think the 625 chipset is a bit on the low side. Tempted but SoC I'd be side-grading
plewis00 to rev6
15 Sep 17#12
Having had one of these in my KEYone (before the screen fell off), I would have to agree, my phone got sluggish handling light loads of emails and browsing. It's good for battery life but performance is a bit underwhelming.
striker33 to plewis00
15 Sep 17#13
That has more to do with the garbage software blackberry phones have.
Lenovo actually did a good job with the software on their 625 phones. Nice and snappy.
Downside to the z play is the poor screen quality. The AMOLED panel used is just as bad in quality as the one used on the pixel.
The back glass scratches easy due to the anti shatter coating (can be removed at painstaking effort and risk), the mods don't secure tight like on the Z, but other than that it's a very good device.
Personally used my £30 code on very to get the G5S Plus for £230. Better build, nicer IPS screen, slight hit on battery but I don't need to get 8 hours SoT per day, 6-7 is fine. Downside is I have to use the old micro USB cables again :disappointed:
plewis00 to striker33
15 Sep 17#14
It runs near-stock Android, there's nothing wrong with the software, this wasn't a BB10 device.
The general consensus is that the Snapdragon 650 is much better being a performance hexa-core rather than a slower octa-core if using 600-series devices. To be honest I don't think I'd get an Android phone with much less than the latest SoC to ensure good performance, I've just seen them degrade over time too much.
sofaclass
27 Sep 17#16
This or Moto G5S Plus? As OP said this has slightly better specs but G5S Plus is a year newer. Same processor, same storage, same RAM, G5S plus is £10 cheaper. Will the Z play be supported longer from now than the G5s plus (in terms of software updates)?
Torkijo
28 Sep 17#17
I went with this in the end, its been updated to August 17 Security patch and Android 7.1.1 and both this and the G5Plus are listed to get Android 8 - motog5.net/mot…te/
Figuring by the time android 9 comes out I will be hunting a new phone so that longevity was/is enough for me - I also love the speaker mod
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Opening post
Spec is slightly better than the new G5s Plus with optional mods available at additional cost (Love the speaker one) and its been software upgraded to 7.0 and I understand 7.1.1 is on the way.
5.5” Super AMOLED Gorilla Glass 1080p HD (1080 x 1920) screen
Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 625 processor - 2 GHz Octa-Core CPU and Adreno 506 GPU, 650 MHz
3GB RAM
3510Mah HUGE battery with TurboPower™ -up to 9 hours of power in 15 minutes of charging
17 comments
Spec is slightly better than the new G5s Plus with optional mods available at additional cost (Love the speaker one) and its been software upgraded to 7.0 and I understand 7.1.1 is on the way.
5.5” Super AMOLED Gorilla Glass 1080p HD (1080 x 1920) screen
Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 625 processor - 2 GHz Octa-Core CPU and Adreno 506 GPU, 650 MHz
3GB RAM
3510Mah HUGE battery with TurboPower™ -up to 9 hours of power in 15 minutes of charging
I know. I bought it at the time. I have been waiting since then till next week when I return to the UK to get it. My Z10 is driving me nuts.
Lenovo actually did a good job with the software on their 625 phones. Nice and snappy.
Downside to the z play is the poor screen quality. The AMOLED panel used is just as bad in quality as the one used on the pixel.
The back glass scratches easy due to the anti shatter coating (can be removed at painstaking effort and risk), the mods don't secure tight like on the Z, but other than that it's a very good device.
Personally used my £30 code on very to get the G5S Plus for £230. Better build, nicer IPS screen, slight hit on battery but I don't need to get 8 hours SoT per day, 6-7 is fine. Downside is I have to use the old micro USB cables again :disappointed:
The general consensus is that the Snapdragon 650 is much better being a performance hexa-core rather than a slower octa-core if using 600-series devices. To be honest I don't think I'd get an Android phone with much less than the latest SoC to ensure good performance, I've just seen them degrade over time too much.
Figuring by the time android 9 comes out I will be hunting a new phone so that longevity was/is enough for me - I also love the speaker mod