{"id":3445,"date":"2014-09-08T11:09:41","date_gmt":"2014-09-08T01:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=3445"},"modified":"2014-09-08T11:09:41","modified_gmt":"2014-09-08T01:09:41","slug":"bigger-isnt-always-better-motorola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/bigger-isnt-always-better-motorola\/","title":{"rendered":"Bigger Isn&#8217;t Always Better, Motorola"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\n  And last year\u2019s Moto X is pretty damn great, in a way that this year\u2019s build can\u2019t be. The jump from 4.7 inches to 5.2 inches might not sound major, but it\u2019s the difference between comfortably navigating the entire display with one hand and having to stretch your thumbs or double-fist it. It\u2019s the difference between disappearing in your pocket and being a bulge. Most of all, it\u2019s just an inexplicable rethink of what was a near-perfect build. It\u2019s as though Toyota suddenly decided the 2015 Camry should be an SUV.<\/p>\n<p>  What\u2019s most frustrating is that the reasons for the gargantuanization aren\u2019t technological. That better camera, those better speakers, those faster guts all would have fit snugly in last year\u2019s design. The reasons Moto gave us for the switch were \u201cmarket research\u201d \u2014 hopefully not from the same source that gave us these ads \u2014 and the desire to fit two IR sensors on the front, so that you can wave at your phone to make it shut up. Given the choice between perfect phone and disposable gimmick, I choose perfection. Or would, anyway, if I could.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sing it, sister.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"And last year\u2019s Moto X is pretty damn great, in a way that this year\u2019s build can\u2019t be.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3445"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}