Software
When it comes to software testing the MotoX and the Droid Turbo, frankly the differences were very small when I started my testing. I was originally only going to cover a few features that are exclusive to each device but when the MotoX dropped the 5.0 update I went ahead and got more photos to just show some of the small changes. So let’s hit those first. Starting off here are the home pages for each of the phones. The Turbo uses an interesting circle gadget that shows your battery life, time, and weather/temperature when you have the location set (and I did not).
MotoX
Turbo
The new 5.0 app screen is a lot brighter as it is set on a white background where before it was transparent.
MotoX
Turbo
While the phone screens have similarities, the floating phone icon on 5.0 was new. They also worked on the speed dial page a little, but I don’t think the people whose numbers are in my speed dial would appreciate me posting them up for everyone lol.
MotoX
Turbo
5.0 brought in new settings pages as well, especially the initial quick settings page that you get with the button up in the top right corner on both phones. I like that the brightness control is easier to get too and you will also notice that 5.0 has a built in flashlight on this page. The main settings page is now much brighter just like the app screen. The quick on the off switches are gone but you can turn all of those on and off quickly on the quick settings page. Other than that the menu options are basically the same.
MotoX
Turbo
One of the interesting features I found on 5.0 was the option to be able to set priority to notification sounds. From there you can manual set this, set times or even locations to prompt different notification settings to kick in or you can let the phone automatically figure it out on its own. Why is this important? Well if you are like me you might get emails through the night, I can set it to turn those off at night but still let me know if family reaches out. You could also use this to try to keep you from checking your phone all of the time when you get home or if you can’t use your phone at work you can automatically turn off sounds when you at work.
Speaking of notifications, the lock screen now shows your notifications more clearly. You can double click to open them or swipe them away without unlocking your phone.
The running apps screen is a lot more fluid with larger images that you scroll through.
Both phones included full office software with Quickoffice but the MotoX also has one called Sheets and one called Slides. It’s nice to be able to open and edit files that are emailed to me without having to install third party apps.
For the turbo I have just one main feature I wanted to touch on the Droid Zaps app that you get. Once set you can transfer files to people within wireless range. The second screenshot I have is just my initial battery life experience, during normal use the phone ended up on the charger only after two and a ¼ days of use and as you can see I spent a lot of time on Reddit in that time.
