I have a Moto G on Republic Wireless, on the Talk/Text+WiFi plan. For $10/month I can't imagine why I paid Verizon close to 10x that for years.

This company deserves more recognition.

I have my mother on a Moto G on freedompop, since she rarely uses her phone. So it was about $55 all things considered to get her on a $0 a month phone plan with a great Android device. Insane value.

Never tried a G model but Moto X is the best phone I ever had. The 1gen is about 140 usd unlocked in amazon and it runs lollipop flawless and in some specs is superior to current iPhone not to mention that the software feels quite better.

I also think that the apps bundled by Motorola to android where all excellent. The first time I actually didn't want to uninstall these kind of thing.

I hope Motorola continue to produce things with this quality level.

I've got the second gen (bought to replace my Nexus 5 when I broke it). It cost me $200+ less than the equivalent iPhone or Galaxy, came with minimal OEM customizations and the ones it did have were actually useful, and the hardware customization options were a very nice touch in a world of black slabs.

The 2014 Moto X was basically the Nexus 5 successor that could've been. It's visually just a more reasonably sized and reasonably priced version of the Nexus 6 and was my first foray away from the Nexus line in several years.

My Moto 360 has also been mostly good as well. It flaked out at one point and I swapped it under warranty but the experience with customer service was a troubling sign of the state of the company. Their website had a lot of issues and I couldn't follow the normal process for requesting a warranty exchange until I managed to get hold of someone who knew what they were doing on the phone.

I really hope they don't start to go downhill now that they've left the Google umbrella because it seemed that they were really turning it around after years of poorly designed and annoyingly branded "DROID" phones.

It used to be, but the 1GB RAM is really becoming a bottleneck, especially after the Lollipop update. The rumors are that the 2015 model will also have 1GB, which would be a capital mistake.

Anyway, you can nowadays get an Asus ZenFone 5 with 2GB RAM and 16 GB storage for nearly the same price as a Moto G in Europe.

Of course, no near-vanilla Android ;).

I bought a Moto G 2nd gen for my daughter last year. I dropped my phone recently and am desperately holding off for the Moto G 3rd gen being released in the next couple of weeks.

I really don't know how it has such good value, did they sell it at a loss?

The only problem I've found on it is its lack of a gyroscope, and subsequent lack of ability to use the Cardboard.

They cut all the right corners, did minimal custom software, and still built it as a quality piece of hardware. Instead of keeping all the features but sacrificing quality

The 2nd-generation Moto G does have a gyroscope, and a micro sd-card slot.

Wow, good to know I'm not the only one appreciating the moto g. If it had slightly longer battery life it would be perfect but I'm not complaining for how much I paid which was roughly $199 CAD. Everything is butter smooth, durable & tough, I almost gave up on Android after my last Nexus phone but this one restored my faith. Pains me that all of the Motorolla services like tracking my phone in case it gets stolen and such will probably be shut down.

Install Device Manager from the Play store. It's Google's official solution for the same thing (which also has the advantage of probably being on other people's phones when you lose yours).