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Animations were also janky more often than not, particularly in the multitasking menu.
Swiping between apps usually caused the Z4 to stumble. That said, other areas were almost always smooth. The animation for this feature rarely stuttered. However, the is more than capable when it comes to the things most people use their phones for. Whether I was streaming music, answering a phone call or checking Twitter, it got done what it needed to get done. If it dropped a few frames or had to pause for a second or two while it loaded, so be it. At a certain point, the difference in speed becomes apparent, and the experience with the device suffers for it.
That said, the is gentle on the battery, and I often found myself ending my day with between 30 and 40 percent battery remaining. More important, in my opinion, is the Screen on Time SoT , which can really show how well a phone holds up. The Z4 often got me about five hours of SoT. One last note on the hardware: the speaker placement is just weird. The Z4 has a top-firing speaker that can get decently loud, but by no means offers a great audio experience.
It sufficed for watching the odd YouTube video, but that was about all. One part of the Moto Z4 that Motorola made a big deal of was the camera.
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What that actually means is the rear camera combines four pixels into one large pixel, so your photos come out as megapixel photos. Motorola says this helps capture more information, and the logic makes sense — larger sensor means more light is getting into the camera and it can capture more detail.
In most of my tests, which were outdoors on sunny days or in well-lit rooms, the Z4 produced some reliable results. I found in some cases, the photos lacked detail, and often the colours were far more saturated than I would like. When I did take the camera into more challenging situations, it still held up, but not as well as I hoped it would.
Colours aside, you can see more and sharper details in the 2 XL photo. None of this is to say a Z4 is a lousy camera — it often took shots that surprised me with their quality. However, I think other smartphone cameras will better serve anyone who cares about photography. The Z4 is good, but not the pinnacle of smartphone photography. For starters, the Z4 camera offers a relatively full manual mode that lets users tweak focus, white balance, shutter speed, ISO and exposure.
While some of the ideas behind the suite of software bonuses were good, I seldom found a reason to use them. Take the Cinemegraph mode, which lets you record a short video, and then select an area that will move while the rest of the photo remains still. It did brighten up my low-light photos quite a bit, but often scrubbed out details and made areas of my pictures incredibly noisy.
Portrait mode also produces decent results, but again, other phones do it better, especially with the special effects you can add on to each shot. Moto Z4 portrait mode effects using selfie camera. I found it incredibly aggressive in its smoothing features, especially on the megapixel Quad Pixel front camera.
Supposedly, it restores detail and makes zoomed photos look more crisp. One thing I must give Motorola credit for is its largely untouched Android software. Android has come a long way since and, in most cases, is more than good enough on its own. Plus, in my experience, most manufacturer skins try to do too much and cause more significant issues down the road, like reduced update frequency and slower phones. The Moto Z4 avoids all this by offering stock Android with some Motorola tweaks that elevate the experience.
In my use, these all worked reasonably well, excluding the on-screen gestures which sometimes got confused. The screenshot gesture was particularly unreliable.
Another Motorola add-on that the Chicago-based company absolutely nailed is the gesture navigation system. The Moto Z4 gives users a single line that acts as the home button — tapping it takes users to the home screen. However, users can flick up on the bar to open multitasking, or swipe on it to go back and switch between recent apps.
By default, swiping right switches apps and left goes back, but I preferred it the other way — thankfully you can swap the swipe function in settings. Motorola was one of the companies that pioneered the always on display. Early implementations on Moto phones felt great — the ambient display felt integrated with the lock screen. Users could efficiently check notifications and jump directly into an app by swiping on the display.
That integration is gone now. Where past iterations felt like the lock screen, and ambient display worked as one, this time around it feels like the two are fighting each other. The addition of the in-display fingerprint scanner is the primary culprit, in my eyes. For starters, the Z4 presents the fingerprint scanner on the Peek display, much like the OnePlus 6T does.
The circle where the fingerprint scanner was before becomes a circle with an unlocked lock icon. Pressing the circle again would open the device, or pressing the power button would bring you to the lock screen, and swiping would unlock the device. In all other instances, the scanner operated as expected, and was surprisingly fast.
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