Moto E5, Moto E5 Plus looks good, but can they pass the shadow of their predecessors?

The Moto E5 and the Moto E5 Plus are modern smartphones, but they also remain true to Moto E's legacy. They offer great batteries and bring a full-screen viewing experience for immersive multimedia consumption as well as a high-end design for the mbades. Both of these phones also come with hardware to do, and store Android Oreo software – with some Moto enhancements – which is still a good thing to have. Especially in the price range we are dealing with here. While the Moto E5 was launched in India for Rs 9,999, the Moto E5 Plus will be available for purchase for Rs 11,999.

Obviously, the Moto E is getting more expensive each year. The Moto E5 Plus, in fact, does not even look like a Moto E phone anymore because the Moto E has always had the habit of offering entry-level specifications at bargain prices. ;entry level. The Moto E5 Plus looks more like a Moto G phone posing as a Moto E phone. There are not two ways to do it. It can be said that the Moto E series has progressively improved, and more modern, over time, which is true. But a Moto E phone that costs more than 10,000 rupees is a little difficult to digest. Especially when there is a Moto G6 Play perfectly capable with more or less the same design, more or less the same specifications, already available on the market. The Moto G6 Play is as expensive as the Moto E5 Plus.

But it's not something that really worries me. I'm not even concerned about the competition, which, let's face it, offers much more than the Moto E5 Plus offers at similar prices (even less). I am more concerned about Moto E's legacy, which has seen a big change in recent years. Some will even say that it has taken a reverse course over the last two years

I'm talking about software inside these phones. Before digging and giving you more details, it should be noted that, Moto E phones still sway a stock version, no frills of Android. It's still there main USP. Chances are if you own a latest generation Moto E phone, you can still get a good software experience while at the same time, I also want to point out that over the past two years, the overall performance of Moto E phones is went for a draw. It's also because there are now faster phones on the market that cost less and offer a better overall experience. Still only a few phones, around Rs 10,000, can offer the benefits of Android stock. The Moto E5 and the Moto E5 Plus offer these advantages

Case 1: The Moto E4 and Moto E4 Plus were launched in India in July 2017 with the Android Nougat software. In September 2017, Motorola announced that both Moto E4 and Moto E4 Plus will not be updated for Android Oreo.

Case in point 2: The Moto E3 Power was launched in India in September 2016 with Android Marshmallow. In October 2017, Motorola announced that the Moto E3 Power will not be updated for Android Nougat.

So, Motorola killed the Moto E3 Power just a month after the launch, and killed the Moto E4 and Moto E4 Plus just two months after the launch. Google's policy is to update a phone for 2 years – 3 years in the case of new Pixel phones – and 3 for security updates and they are considered the best. Mobile phones share a similar philosophy, but, it seems, the same thing is not true on Moto phones that cost around Rs 10,000 doing all the business of Lenovo / Motorola overcrowding the market with a plethora of d & rsquo; Options, then not to update them I'm not saying that the Moto E5 and the Moto E5 Plus will certainly share the same fate. The best surprise is that these two phones are powered by a Qualcomm processor – all Moto E phones that have been subject to this fate were based on MediaTek processors – and run Android Oreo out-of-the-box which invariably means that these two phones will support the Treble project.

Before Oreo and Project Treble, The System Structure Exploitation and low-level software, often referred to as provider implementation – something that is usually handled by the chip maker – were all part of the same code. Whenever the OS was updated, this low level software also had to be updated, which meant that a company like Motorola had to wait for Qualcomm / MediaTek to update its code so that everything works. It's a lot of work, one according to the other, to get the job done. From Oreo, Google has separated the OS framework and low level software, which means that a company like Motorola can update the Android OS without having to touch the computer. implementation of the provider, which can then be updated by itself.

This should speed up the whole update process. At least on paper. The update of his phones will always be in the hands of a company like Motorola, only she will have less to worry about.

All in all, there is still no guarantee that the Moto E5 and Moto E5 Plus will be able to miss out on their predecessors and update cycles, but at least Project Treble gives you something to hope for. Still, you'd better be careful if you plan to buy the Moto E5 or Moto E5 Plus because software updates are important even in the case of budget devices. The Moto G has had better results in these areas, and as the Moto G6 Play has the same price, you'd better watch it, in case you were looking to buy a new phone. For everyone, there are certainly better options: the Xiaomi Redmi Note 5, the Xiaomi Redmi Y2, the Asus ZenFone Max Pro M1 and the Honor 7X are just some of the phones you should consider.