The Moto Z3 is the latest flagship from the Lenovo-owned Motorola. So what does the Z3 accompany to the table? Let’s booty a look.
Some bodies ability booty a attending at the Moto Z3’s blueprint area and anticipate it’s asleep on arrival. A Snapdragon 835? Isn’t this Motorola’s Pixel 2 and Galaxy S9 competitor?
Yes and no.
It is Motorola’s top-tier flagship phone of 2018, so it will be accepted to go arch to arch with the added Android flagships on the market. But the Moto Z3 has a big ambush up its sleeve: the affiance of actuality the actual aboriginal 5G-capable phone. Coupled with Motorola’s new 5G Moto Mod, the Moto Z3 will be able to run on Verizon’s 5G arrangement aback it’s formed out ancient in 2019.
“Sometime in 2019” is important to remember, here. If you adjudge to acquirement the Moto Z3 on August 16 — aback it goes on auction alone at Verizon — you’ll accept to delay to acquaintance all that 5G goodness. The 5G Moto Mod isn’t accession in the U.S. until aboriginal 2019, and we still don’t apperceive how abundant Motorola will allegation for it. Plus, aback it comes to market, it’ll alone assignment with Verizon’s arrangement at first. Motorola tells us it will eventually be able to assignment with added carriers’ networks.
The 5G Moto Mod itself works aloof like any added Moto Mod — it’s a modular accent that snaps assimilate the aback of the Z3, and you can booty it off whenever you’d like. The Mod has an added 2,000mAh array central to advice with the assured array cesspool from abutting to the accelerated network, too. It makes the phone appealing bulky, and there’s a little antenna that sticks up aloft the top-right bend of the phone.
Not a accomplished lot.
The Moto Z3 isn’t so abundant a followup to the Moto Z2 Force. It doesn’t accept that cool scratchable artificial display, it doesn’t accept the fastest processor on the market, and it doesn’t accept an crazily aerial amount tag, either. Anticipate of the Moto Z3 as a higher-end Moto Z3 Play — Motorola’s aboriginal 2018 mid-range phone.
It’s about the aforementioned architecture — it’s thin, glass, and feels like a high-end phone. It has a big 6.01-inch Abounding HD+ AMOLED display, the aforementioned dual-camera bureaucracy as the Z3 Play, 4GB of RAM like the Z3 Play, and a 3,000mAh battery, aloof like the Z3 Play. The better aberration beneath the awning is the Snapdragon 835 chipset — the aforementioned SoC that’s begin in the Pixel 2, Galaxy S8, and Moto Z2 Force. It’s not a apathetic processor by any amplitude of the acuteness (my Pixel 2 still works wonderfully), but it isn’t the fastest, and will absolutely abort barter who were attractive advanced to a Moto phone with the new Snapdragon 845.
The fingerprint sensor is army on the side, aloof like with Play edition, and the advanced of the accessory appearance the Motorola logo on the button area fingerprint sensor or home button acclimated to be. Really, the Moto Z3 and Moto Z3 Play are the aforementioned phones as far as appearances go.
For a abounding briefing of the specs, booty a attending at the official Moto Z3 specs table below:
The best part? Motorola isn’t charging an arm and a leg for this phone.
It’ll be accessible alone on Verizon’s arrangement in the U.S. on August 16, area it will go on auction for $480 abounding retail or $20 per ages with 24 months of payments. That’s absolutely a fair amount for aggregate you’re accepting actuality — a accelerated phone, a high-end design, and appropriate cameras.
However, it’s adamantine to be aflame about the amount aback we don’t apperceive how abundant the 5G Moto Mod will cost. If the new Mod is alone a $50 add-on, that ability be a abundant value. If Moto affairs on charging over $200 for it, that brings the Z3 appropriate up into Pixel 2 and Galaxy S9 area — not a abundant attending for a phone with earlier specs and Verizon exclusivity.
Next: Motorola Moto G6 and Moto G6 Play review
We’ll be abiding to acquaint you alike added in our abounding review, which is advancing soon. For now, I absolutely appetite to apperceive your thoughts on this phone — does the affiance of 5G accept you absorbed in the Moto Z3, or are you casual on this one?
What is 5G, and what can we apprehend from it?
Moto Z3 architecture and specs: What’s new?
Pricing, availability, and final thoughts
The Motorola Moto Z3 is a smartphone with a 2018 architecture abounding with 2017 specs.
| Motorola Moto Z3 | |
|---|---|
| Display | 6.01-inch Cool AMOLED 2,160 x 1,080 resolution 18:9 aspect ratio Corning Gorilla Bottle 3 79 percent screen-to-body ratio |
| SoC | Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 2.35GHz, octa-core |
| GPU | Adreno 540 |
| RAM | 4GB |
| Storage | 64GB MicroSD up to 2TB |
| Cameras | Rear cameras 12MP capital sensor with f/2.0 aperture, 1.25μm pixels Phase-detect and laser autofocus, dual-LED flash Front camera 8MP sensor with f/2.0 aperture, 1.12μm pixels |
| Audio | Front-facing speaker USB Type-C No 3.5mm jack USB-C to 3.5mm adapter included |
| Battery | 3,000mAh battery Non-removable 15W TurboCharger USB Type-C |
| IP rating | Splash-resistant p2i No IP rating |
| Video Capture | 720p (120fps), 1080p, 4K (30fps) |
| Security | Side-mounted fingerprint sensor Face unlock |
| Software | Android 8.1 Oreo |
| Dimensions and weight | 76.5 x 156.5 x 6.75mm 156g |
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