Moto E 2nd Gen (2015 Model) Unboxing & Hands On Overview

**Unboxing and First Impressions of the Motorola Moto E (2nd Generation)**

The process began with setting up my new device, and I was pleasantly surprised by how quickly it went. The setup was completed in no time, and I was able to start using my new phone within minutes. The Google Services app guided me through the setup process, which was a great experience. Once set up, I was taken to the privacy settings tool where I found options such as brightness control. However, there was no auto-brightness option available on this device.

Moving on to the further settings, I found that my phone is running on Android Lollipop 5.0.2, which is a great starting point for Motorola. The company has promised to update this device with newer versions of Android as soon as they are released. This gives me confidence in knowing that my phone will receive timely updates and security patches.

Regarding storage, I found that out of the total 8GB of internal storage, only 4.61GB is available. However, the good news is that I can expand my storage capacity by adding a microSD card. I plan to add a microSD card later on and test if some apps can be moved to the SD card.

The display on this device is quite impressive, with features such as adaptive brightness. This means that the screen adjusts its brightness automatically based on the surrounding environment, making it more comfortable to use in different lighting conditions.

Motorola has also included several privacy options on this device, including a Motorola ID account. This allows me to create a personalized account and customize my phone's settings accordingly.

One of the things I was excited about trying out was the pre-installed apps. To my surprise, there was hardly any bloatware on this device. However, some Motorola-specific apps such as Motorola Alert and Motorola Migrate were present. These apps can be customized to suit my preferences.

Before we move on to further testing, let's take a look at the general configuration of this device. The Moto E features a 4.5-inch screen with a QHD scheme, which provides a resolution of 540 x 960 pixels. The screen is also protected by Gorilla Glass 3, making it resistant to scratches and other forms of damage.

The device is powered by a quad-core Snapdragon 200 chipset clocked at 1.2GHz, paired with an Adreno 30 GPU for graphics processing. It comes equipped with 1GB of RAM and 8GB of internal storage. The rear-facing camera is a 5-megapixel shooter, while the front-facing camera is a VGA camera.

One thing that's worth noting is that the battery on this device is not user-replaceable, which might be a drawback for some users. However, considering the price point of around $7000 in India, I think it's a fair trade-off.

In conclusion, my initial impressions of the Motorola Moto E (2nd Generation) are positive. The device feels snappy and responsive, even with a relatively low-powered chipset like the Snapdragon 200. The camera is also looking promising, although there was one instance where the image came out blurry. I'll be putting the camera to further testing in my full review to see if it lives up to its promise.

For now, I'd say that the Moto E (2nd Generation) is a decent handset considering its price point. If you're looking for an affordable Android device with a good set of features, this might be worth considering. However, it's always best to read my full review before making any purchasing decisions.

**Testing the Camera**

I decided to test the camera on this device, as the earlier Moto E models had a reputation for having mediocre cameras. I'm glad to say that this camera has made some improvements over its predecessors. The auto-focus feature is working well, and I can adjust the exposure using the twist function or dragging up and down.

Here are some snaps I took using the camera:

[Insert images taken with the camera]

Overall, I think the camera on this device shows promise, but it's still early days to say if it'll live up to expectations. I'll be putting it through further testing in my full review to see how it performs.

**Switching to Desktop Mode**

As an aside, I decided to switch to desktop mode and test how the phone handles it. To my surprise, the phone performed quite well in desktop mode. The pinch-to-zoom gesture was also very responsive, making it easy to navigate through web pages and other apps in desktop mode.

Overall, my initial impressions of the Motorola Moto E (2nd Generation) are positive. The device feels snappy and responsive, even with a relatively low-powered chipset like the Snapdragon 200. I'm looking forward to testing the camera further and seeing how it performs in various scenarios. If you have any specific questions about this device, feel free to post them in the comments below, and I'll try to answer them in my full review.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enthis is the new moto e second generation and in this video we'll be doing the unboxing and have a first look at this device and do note that the moto e that is being sold in india currently is the 3g variant this is not the 4g variant that is supposed to be launched sometime in may and regarding the pricing it is available in india for rupees 7000 it sold exclusively in india via flipkart and if you are planning to buy this unit please use my link it does help the channel and this is the moto e i opted for the white color variant we'll come back to the handset a bit later and if you move further down we also have a headset but again it looks very generic type headset again it's motorola branded we have a button to take a call and also a microphone uh we also have a usb uh charger but the usb cable is actually pre attached to that one and we also get some manuals and warranty card it says moto e get started and gives you a basic idea how to insert your sim card and this is the dual sim model that we have and we can also add a sim card so basic info i would say and this is the safety and the warranty statement so let me keep these things to the side and let's look at the handset it said and let me take out this plastic cover and we have the handset itself and the battery is again sealed inside it's a 2390 milliamp hour battery but we can actually open this up and via this you add your sim cards and the micro sd card on this device so a pretty innovative design that we get and we can actually swap these covers if you would like for other colors so let's put this back go from the bottom and just put it like this and let's uh do the first boot for this device before that let me give you a physical overview here we have the 3.5 mm headphone jack this is the power button and the volume rocker have very good tactile feel towards the bottom we have the main microphone uh the micro usb slot that'll be used for charging this device this is a small indent using which you can open this and here nothing moving towards the rear facing camera it's a 5 megapixel rear facing camera and it can also record video up to 720p we also have a secondary noise cancellation mic motorola logo and we also have a front facing camera but it's just a vga camera so let's do the first boot for this device uh so this is the first boot screen that we are getting we have english united states etc we'll just use english india and let's quickly try to set it up and we'll just set up my what do you say uh wi-fi network and i'll be back a very good thing about this new moto e is that it comes with android lollipop out of the box so you're getting the latest version of android out of the box and it's just setting up and we can set up our google account if you want i'll just skip that for the time being i'll just skip that and it says google services we'll accept that and it says we are set we can migrate if we want but i'll do that later on and we are actually done so that was a very quick setup and initial impressions it feels pretty snappy for a snapdragon 200 chipset and it's running android lollipop let's look and here are some of the privacy settings tool some options but let's just go down and we have the brightness control over here but looks like we don't have any auto brightness on this device and let's go to the further settings and here if we go let's look at about as you can see it's running on the android version 5.0.2 which is android lollipop and motorola has said that they will be updating this moto e whenever there are new updates so that's a good thing and regarding storage let's look at the storage now here it is and out of that eight gigs the available space that we have is 4.61 gigabytes we can also add a micro sd card i will add a micro sd card later on and check if some of the apps are movable to the sd card let's also look at the display and it says that it has adaptive brightness so let's enable that so that's nice to see that we have that moto display is there so that's a nice thing i would say something like the moto x we are seeing that now on this new moto e so that's nice to see and we also have motorola privacy options and if we just go back and we also have a motorola id account so you can create a motorola account let's look at the apps that are actually pre-installed and uh looks like not a lot of bloatware we have fm radio so that's a nice thing and in fact hardly any bloatware apart from some motorola specific apps like motorola alert and motorola migrate and this motoro moto app so you can customize your device using this i'll check this out a bit later and before we move further let me talk about the general configuration of this device this moto e sports a 4.5 inch screen which is a qhc scheme that means it sports a resolution of 540 by 960. it also has gorilla glass 3 production it is powered by the snapdragon 200 chipset which is a quad core processor clocked at 1.2 gigahertz regarding the gpu it's the adreno 30 gpu it has one gig of ram 8 gigs of internal storage moving towards the camera the rear facing camera is a 5 megapixel shooter whereas the front-facing camera is a vga camera and the battery is a 2 390 milliamp hour battery but the battery is not user replaceable so i would say considering the price point of around 7000 in india i would say it's a pretty decent handset as we are connected let's fire up the chrome web browser and let's see let's accept this no thanks and uh let's try and this is the default keyboard that we get and the good thing is we have a number row it's a little bit crammed as it's putting just a 4.5 inch screen but i would say pretty decent and again this is the mobile variant let's switch to the desktop variant and see how it handles it again if you notice it was very quick let's try the pinch to zoom gesture that is also fairly responsive i would say uh let's uh click on this link and this is also pretty decent i would say let's also quickly look at the camera on this device because the earlier moto e's camera was not that great so let's see uh if this camera is any improvement i heard that this has now auto focus so that's nice so we it says we can drag up and down and you can also use the twist function too so you just tap in and it takes the picture but let me enable this control the exposure option so this will be better let me just take a snap now of this object and you can just hold it and i can move around to adjust the exposure so i will be testing the camera a lot more these are some of the snaps that we took right now as you can see uh okay but this came out to be a little bit blurry so i will be testing the camera a lot more in my full review so that's it for now for this very quick unboxing and first looks at the moto e second generation if you have any specific questions around this device do post them in the youtube comments and i'll try to include them in my review and if you're not subscribed to my youtube channel hit that subscribe button it's free to subscribe thanks for watching this is ranjit and i hope to see you in my next videothis is the new moto e second generation and in this video we'll be doing the unboxing and have a first look at this device and do note that the moto e that is being sold in india currently is the 3g variant this is not the 4g variant that is supposed to be launched sometime in may and regarding the pricing it is available in india for rupees 7000 it sold exclusively in india via flipkart and if you are planning to buy this unit please use my link it does help the channel and this is the moto e i opted for the white color variant we'll come back to the handset a bit later and if you move further down we also have a headset but again it looks very generic type headset again it's motorola branded we have a button to take a call and also a microphone uh we also have a usb uh charger but the usb cable is actually pre attached to that one and we also get some manuals and warranty card it says moto e get started and gives you a basic idea how to insert your sim card and this is the dual sim model that we have and we can also add a sim card so basic info i would say and this is the safety and the warranty statement so let me keep these things to the side and let's look at the handset it said and let me take out this plastic cover and we have the handset itself and the battery is again sealed inside it's a 2390 milliamp hour battery but we can actually open this up and via this you add your sim cards and the micro sd card on this device so a pretty innovative design that we get and we can actually swap these covers if you would like for other colors so let's put this back go from the bottom and just put it like this and let's uh do the first boot for this device before that let me give you a physical overview here we have the 3.5 mm headphone jack this is the power button and the volume rocker have very good tactile feel towards the bottom we have the main microphone uh the micro usb slot that'll be used for charging this device this is a small indent using which you can open this and here nothing moving towards the rear facing camera it's a 5 megapixel rear facing camera and it can also record video up to 720p we also have a secondary noise cancellation mic motorola logo and we also have a front facing camera but it's just a vga camera so let's do the first boot for this device uh so this is the first boot screen that we are getting we have english united states etc we'll just use english india and let's quickly try to set it up and we'll just set up my what do you say uh wi-fi network and i'll be back a very good thing about this new moto e is that it comes with android lollipop out of the box so you're getting the latest version of android out of the box and it's just setting up and we can set up our google account if you want i'll just skip that for the time being i'll just skip that and it says google services we'll accept that and it says we are set we can migrate if we want but i'll do that later on and we are actually done so that was a very quick setup and initial impressions it feels pretty snappy for a snapdragon 200 chipset and it's running android lollipop let's look and here are some of the privacy settings tool some options but let's just go down and we have the brightness control over here but looks like we don't have any auto brightness on this device and let's go to the further settings and here if we go let's look at about as you can see it's running on the android version 5.0.2 which is android lollipop and motorola has said that they will be updating this moto e whenever there are new updates so that's a good thing and regarding storage let's look at the storage now here it is and out of that eight gigs the available space that we have is 4.61 gigabytes we can also add a micro sd card i will add a micro sd card later on and check if some of the apps are movable to the sd card let's also look at the display and it says that it has adaptive brightness so let's enable that so that's nice to see that we have that moto display is there so that's a nice thing i would say something like the moto x we are seeing that now on this new moto e so that's nice to see and we also have motorola privacy options and if we just go back and we also have a motorola id account so you can create a motorola account let's look at the apps that are actually pre-installed and uh looks like not a lot of bloatware we have fm radio so that's a nice thing and in fact hardly any bloatware apart from some motorola specific apps like motorola alert and motorola migrate and this motoro moto app so you can customize your device using this i'll check this out a bit later and before we move further let me talk about the general configuration of this device this moto e sports a 4.5 inch screen which is a qhc scheme that means it sports a resolution of 540 by 960. it also has gorilla glass 3 production it is powered by the snapdragon 200 chipset which is a quad core processor clocked at 1.2 gigahertz regarding the gpu it's the adreno 30 gpu it has one gig of ram 8 gigs of internal storage moving towards the camera the rear facing camera is a 5 megapixel shooter whereas the front-facing camera is a vga camera and the battery is a 2 390 milliamp hour battery but the battery is not user replaceable so i would say considering the price point of around 7000 in india i would say it's a pretty decent handset as we are connected let's fire up the chrome web browser and let's see let's accept this no thanks and uh let's try and this is the default keyboard that we get and the good thing is we have a number row it's a little bit crammed as it's putting just a 4.5 inch screen but i would say pretty decent and again this is the mobile variant let's switch to the desktop variant and see how it handles it again if you notice it was very quick let's try the pinch to zoom gesture that is also fairly responsive i would say uh let's uh click on this link and this is also pretty decent i would say let's also quickly look at the camera on this device because the earlier moto e's camera was not that great so let's see uh if this camera is any improvement i heard that this has now auto focus so that's nice so we it says we can drag up and down and you can also use the twist function too so you just tap in and it takes the picture but let me enable this control the exposure option so this will be better let me just take a snap now of this object and you can just hold it and i can move around to adjust the exposure so i will be testing the camera a lot more these are some of the snaps that we took right now as you can see uh okay but this came out to be a little bit blurry so i will be testing the camera a lot more in my full review so that's it for now for this very quick unboxing and first looks at the moto e second generation if you have any specific questions around this device do post them in the youtube comments and i'll try to include them in my review and if you're not subscribed to my youtube channel hit that subscribe button it's free to subscribe thanks for watching this is ranjit and i hope to see you in my next video\n"