Having experienced two-day life from the huge 3,400mAh battery in the Moto X Play, I’d have loved to see something similar here. In our battery burn test, which loops an HD video with brightness set at 75% – the Moto X Style managed nine hours before it died. Streaming an HD episode of House of Cards from Netflix eats through 7% – which is actually pretty good I normally expect to see a 10% drop – and a 30-minute Monument Valley gaming session took the battery from 70% to 63%. It hasn’t managed to go much beyond a day – and if I forget to charge it at night, it will die out by lunch. Tucked inside the phone is a 3,000mAh cell that can just about make it from an early morning alarm call to bedtime. Not because it’s bad, but because I want it to be so much better. My biggest frustration with the Moto X Style is battery life. It outperformed the Nexus 5X once again in AnTuTu, with a 52,333 score compared to 41,353. In the multi-core Geekbench 3 it scored 3,597, beating off the LG G4 (3,260) and Nexus 5X (3.543) it fell short of the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge+, however (5,014). In my usual suite of benchmark tests, the Moto X Style performed admirably. Asphalt 8 and Hitman: Sniper play as well on the Moto X Style as they do on any Snapdragon 810 device, without generating anywhere near as much heat. Swiping through menus, scrolling down web pages, flicking between apps – you’ll experience not even the slightest hint of lag. Although not a fan of the cliché phrase “buttery smooth”, this really is the best way to describe it. The Moto X Style’s overall performance is fantastic. Having used devices with 4GB of RAM, there’s isn’t a noticeable difference here. Paired with the processor is 3GB of RAM, more than plenty for a phone. It provides the grunt for LG’s G4, Google’s new Nexus 5X and the Microsoft Lumia 950. It’s a beefy octa-core chip and currently the CPU of choice for the majority of mid-to-high-range phones. Thankfully, the Snapdragon 808 tucked inside the Moto X Style is an admirable performer. This left me with the impression that Motorola’s software optimisation isn’t quite as good as it should be, considering the Snapdragon 615 processor should easily be able to handle Android Lollipop. The Moto X Play is a great phone, but it suffers from some odd performance issues. Software, speaker, connectivity, storage and verdict Review.
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