Motorola Moto G Official Specs and Price

The new Motorola Moto G smartphone is now official, the company announced its new phone at its special event today and the Moto G has been placed in the mid-range smartphone sector.

The official Moto G specs include a 4.5-inch 720p edge-to-edge Gorilla Glass 3 display, it is being powered by the quad-core 1.2GHz Cortex-A7 Snapdragon 400 processor, water-resistant nano-coating, 1GB of RAM, Adreno 305 GPU and will NOT run Android 4.4 KitKat, it will instead have 4.3 Jelly Bean. The handset will get KitKat OS update in January 2014, so at least we know it is coming.

It will come with an unlockable bootloader and no SIM lock, which means no contracts, you simply pay the once and you get the handset.

Other features include 5MP camera on the rear capable of 720p video recording with LED flash, on the front is a 1.3MP camera. It also comes with a 1950mAh Li-Ion battery; even though the batter is not massive it will apparently give you kife for a whole day, and comes with FM Radio.

The back cover of the Moto G is removable and will come with a variety of back covers such as yellow, black, pink, dark, light blue, red and of course white. Motorola will be offering Moto G accessories as well such as JBL wireless speakers, colored protective cases and flip covers.

This week the Moto G will go one sale in some parts of Europe and Brazil, and within a few weeks it will go on sale in Canada, Latin America and some parts of Asia. It will go on sale in the US, Middle East and India in January 2014, so Europe will get before USA. Prices will start at $179 for the 8GB and $199 for the 16GB version.

In the UK the price will be around £135 for 8GB and £159 for 16GB and will be available with O2, Orange, T-Mobile the networks according to one of our sources. Please do watch the official Moto G video below, have fun. Looks like the US have to play the waiting game for a few months.

It seems to be lack a microSD card slot and for some this is a problem – Will you purchase the Moto G?

Customize Android lock screen with apps

If you own an iPhone, you’ll know that it is very hard to customize, something that is not a problem for Android owners. You can make changes to many features of your Android device, even the lock screen. Some of you may feel as though the Android lock screen is boring and could do with being less plain.

How to customize Android lock screen – We’ve come across an informative tutorial, which helps give you the necessary steps to change the lock screen, and you’ll go from just briefly looking at the time on your handset to spending time admiring it.

From the start of the tutorial, it suggests that this task will be easy to set up, although its doesn’t seem it at first. We say this because you’ll need a number of things first, including three apps, UCCW, Widgetlocker and ES File Explorer.

You’ll then need to copy some files to your Android phone, which you can get here and here. Once you have these, your next step is Widgetlocker Setup. Firstly, you’ll have to remove any widget or icons and then go through the seven different steps explained in the video.

Once you have done those steps UCCW setup comes next, followed by Custom Slider, which is the final part of this task. Okay, we know it sounds hard at first, but trust us, once you watch the video it will all become clear at just how easy it really is.

If you have other ways in which to customize your Android lock screen, then please feel free to share it with our readers.

EVGA Tegra Note tablet cheaper than Nexus 7 2

The new EVGA Tegra Note tablet powered by the Nvidia Tegra processor has now got its release date and price, and this 7-inch Android tablet is cheaper than the Nexus 7 2 (2013) and the Kindle Fire HDX.

The not so bad looking EVGA Tegra Note tablet comes featuring a 7-inch display with 1280 x 800 pixels, 1GB of RAM, quad-core Nvidia Tegra 4 processor and 16GB of internal storage, which can be expanded thanks to the microSD card slot.

It also comes running the Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean operating system, and has the DirectStylus technology, which you can watch in all its glory on the video we have for you below this article.

The stylus is great for browsing, playing games on the responsive display and navigating the device UI is apparently very good, the stylus is great for drawing and taking notes. The EVGA Tegra Note 7-inch tablet has a 15.17wHr battery good for 10 hours on one single charge, its size comes in at 199mm x 119 mm x 9.6 mm and weighs 320 grams.

Other features include a 5MP camera on the rear and a VGA on the front, Techno Buffalo reports that Newegg will sell the EVGA Tegra Note 7 from November 19 for $200, you can pre-order from today apparently.