Motorola Moto E

Good phone at a cheap price. Doesn't have the bells and whistles of more expensive phones but is ideal phone for kids.

Worst Mobile I've ever purchased! – Even with minimal apps installed the hang time is pathetic! 25 sec to open a mail app from the home screen about sums it up! Should never have been made it to market. Show details

Decent Budget Phone – All round the phone is decent and I have had no problems with it as of yet that would make me buy another. Pros: Value for money - this is a really decent smartphone with stock Android OS at an affordable price Durability - Phone has stood up to a few drops with no problems and I don't mind if it gets a little scratched as it was cheap Battery… Read more

- battery life is fairly good as the phone is not that powerful

Cons:

The included memory is abysmally small and you have to purchase a separate SD card if you want to have more than a few apps

The camera is basically a potato. It will not focus properly and the quality is terrible, I dont use it at all if I can help it.

The processor is quite slow and very noticeable lag when apps are using high CPU like maps etc.

If you just want a basic smart phone then I think it is fine, however have realistic expectations of what you can have at this price. The trade off on this phone is CPU, camera and memory. If you dont mind waiting when you use CPU intensive apps, don't need a phone camera and are prepared to purchase an SD card - this phone is fine.

An okay phone – Owning 2 of these phones for more than 2 years. Both of them having exactly same problems. Here follows the list of pros and cons. Pros: 1) Affordable price 2) Durable 3) Full-featured smartphone 4) Impact resistant (to a reasonable extent of course) Cons: 1) Headphone jack gets worn out during 1st month of use. With time it is getting… Read more

even worse as it starts misdetecting the headphones randomly. You are speaking on the phone and suddenly the jack is detected and you stop hearing the person on the other side. Or you can't hear the phone ringing because the phone thinks the headphone is plugged and reduces the ring volume.

2) Spontaneous reboots on Android 4 and Android 5. It depends. May happen from once a week to few times a day. Very annoying

3) Internal memory finishes quickly. Even with an SD card. You have to unlock the bootloader, install a custom recovery, root the device, create 2 partitions on your SD card (namely fat32 and ext2) and then tweak your phone with Link2SD app to get some extra space for your apps.

Great Phone for the price – I bought one of these for under $200. 4G, dual sim, memory card slot.fantastic Android phone. Best I've had. 1drawback, only 5mp camera, big deal, takes photos good enough for me. Fast, reliable, simple to use, so good I bought another. Why pay $900. Well done Motorola keep it up.  Show details

Utterly disappointing – This phone is neither a good smart phone or a good basic phone. I bought it wanting a good basic phone to make calls, read emails and use FB and messenger. I had good memories of using Motorolas and assumed it would be basic, but functional. Its not. Its bad at all of those things that I needed - phone calls, checking emails and using Messenger.… Read more

The sensors are so clunky that answering a call is luck, with half the time the sensor not responding. FB and Messenger won't work, despite trying two memory card upgrades, and you can't open more than one app at a time without the whole thing becoming as slow as dialup. The call quality is bad, both for me and receivers of my calls. And it ships with too little memory to function. Really disappointing.

Samsung Galaxy died. RIPOFF to fix !! Very happy with this selection – My Samsung Galaxy was treated like baby. New battery would not fix. It died. Samsung service ( Nunawading, Melbourne) quoted $450 to fix or $700plus to replace. What ?? RIPOFF!! Bought Motorola from Officeworks. It has same Android OS. BUT be warned it DOES takes a few days to get used to. Let's call it querky BUT you do get it after a few… Read more

days !! And wow it has HUUUUGE battery life. Like 5 days mostly ! Also bought a neat RUGGED case from geeks2you. THis is a great tough phone if you mainly want phone +text +some internet. I'm not techie !! Don't do all that 'stuff' . Screen size is OK. If I want bigger screen I use tablet anyhow. Very happy customer !!

Shipped out of the box with app errors and bugs - once fixed a good phone and lasted 5+ years in ser – Straight out of the box with existing google account migrated from previous Motorola smartphone, once all the Android updates happen (leaving you with almost no internal memory) the phone refuses to ring when calls are incoming. Not such a smart phone after all. Rebooted in safe mode and incoming calls ring properly so looks like an app bug with a… Read more

crucial fail that is disabling all ringtones.

I brought this because I wanted a 'vanilla' out of the box Android experience without all the bloatware or bugs of some other brands. I just want a simple stable non-upgradable and something that app developers (whom mostly still seem to be wearing their nappies) can't screw up.

I don't know if it has crossed these app developers mind that maybe people want to be able to receive phone calls, I know - it sounds absolutely insane when you say it, but believe me - some (actually most) people whom buy a smart phone actually do want to know when their number is being called. My 20 year old Nokia could do it, my 25 year old Motorola analogue phone could do it - why can't a $300-ish smart phone manage that feat of technology that manufacturers managed to sort out decades ago?

I will be using the Motorola help online tool and they did have a fix for this that didn't involve me factory resetting and losing all my phone contacts and settings.

On the plus side - the phone has a very long battery life but is not user replaceable, we will see how the life of this batters goes in the future, after almost 5 years the phone still has enough charge for normal use for a day and a half. Web browsing fairly smooth and fast both on WiFi and 3G and 4G networks.

Great Phone – The phone is amazing value for money. It has a very good and fairly large screen. The camera and the auto-focus works fine. With Android 5 the task switching is so easy. The phone is very responsive. Very happy with the phone and highly recommended if you have a budget around $200.

Functional phone without the bells and whistles – A simple functional phone with great battery life and durability. The fixed camera lens is a point of pain at times, but for those that don't require this functionality it has excellent features for the price. Size and weight are also a plus, it can actually fit into a human sized pocket. Great value for those looking for a simple reasonably sized phone.

Disappointed that it won't get updates to fix flaws – Motorola has confirmed this is a dead-end device and will not get any updates three months after launch. No marshmallow 6.0 and not even the much needed 5.1 update to lollipop. The best you can hope for is 5.0.2 stage fright fix. Rather pathetic from Motorola. The phone is OK and works as a phone and as basic android device with very good… Read more

battery life. Good a car navigation system when travelling. Screen is good enough for the size and can be easily read in a car as a GPS.

The standard messaging APP is pretty ordinary and I need to get something better to match my old real mobile phone. Ambient display doesn't work. Smart unlock doesn't work for faces or location (worked for a day then stopped working). Unlocking phone requires too much activity to be user friendly. Using the power button is quicker than the moto unlock rubbish.

Definitely need micro-sd card if doing anything with phone, especially maps.

Choosing which SIM is 3g/4g and which is 2g is rubbish and mostly a game of chance. I still can't get it to do what I want without removing SIMs and doing a few reboots. Very frustrating for something that should be easy in software.

The other crazy annoying thing is that there is no way to do landscape on the lock screen or the homescreen like my tablet does. Has no-one at Motorola every used their phone in landscape? Auto-rotate works in apps etc....

EDIT: 19Mar2016

Amazingly it actually got a crippled update to Marshmallow 6.0. Original excitement was soon lost when I found nothing had really changed. This appears to be the final update for this phone.

No ambient display. No ability to rotate lock or homescreen. No ability to customise "Moto display" to add things I actually want to see. Didn't add back the ability to turn a SIM card on and off from the quick setting pulldown.

At least it fixed USB OTG so now it can read USB sticks.

A negative (probably courtesy of google, but not fixed by motorola). The google search bar/widget that cannot be removed or modified now looks like the circus. Multi coloured with a bright white background. Much preferred the subtle B/W semi-transparent version. How insecure and lame are google developers?

Battery life is good if mainly used as a phone (five days easy) and can last most of a day with GPS navigating offline (way better than my old tomtom).

After a lot of use I have now updated my rating from 2 to 3.

Top phone for the price – For $250 mark i am wrapped with this phone .. its slightly slower then my samsung s5 mini but its only $250 and does everything very well .. Iv been using the moto for over 3 months now and without any issues at all .. 5 star mobile phone in my opinion :)

Moto E is a good buy – Screen is so crystal and sharp. Battery life is really good. I found that the phone was set to accessibility options which forced me into a painful tutorial that I could not exit. It was like a very bad joke that went on too long. The camera has no flash. That would have gained them an extra star.