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CHRIS VELAZCO: At least as far
as North America is concerned,

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Motorola's target audience,
or at least the people

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who tend to buy their stuff the
most frequently, are older men.

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And that's fine.

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But that's not necessarily
what you can rely on when

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you want to grow as a company.

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And that's what
Motorola wants to do.

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And that's why a device like the
new Motorola One Action exists.

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It's a weird smartphone, sort
of like the other devices

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it's put out fairly recently.

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But that's what makes
them interesting.

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And that's what Motorola hopes
will attract a younger, more

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globally thoughtful audience.

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Let's take a closer look.

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Now right up front, I will say
that the One Action does share

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quite a bit in common with
the Motorola One Vision

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that we saw earlier this year.

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It has an opticore
Samsung Exynos chipset,

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making it one of the
few non-Samsung devices

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out there to use Samsung's
own silicon to power it.

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We're also looking
at a 21-by-9 display.

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That's meant for a more
cinematic approach.

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And we've seen it in
devices like the One Vision,

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as I've said, and the Xperia 1.

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As we see this kind of
super-widescreen content

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become more popular,
people are going

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to want more of these screens.

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But the design here, especially
with respect to the screen,

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does have other benefits, too.

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Motorola told me that the
narrower design of phones

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with this super-tall
aspect ratio screen

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are actually a little
more comfortable for women

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and younger people to
hold, too, which is exactly

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what you want to
keep in mind when

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you want to grow your business.

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It certainly doesn't
hurt that it's

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a pretty good-looking screen.

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It runs in full HD+.

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And it stretches 6.3 inches
across the face of the device,

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complete with a hole.

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Now Motorola went with a
hole here instead of a notch

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because the way they see it,
when you're watching something

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that immersive on a
screen like that, you're

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less likely to paying
attention to the corner.

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So even though that hole is a
little bigger than the notches

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you might see on
Motorola phones,

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it's going to be
less noticeable.

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The rest of the
basics are pretty

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much in line with what you'd
expect from a mid-range device.

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We're looking at a 3,500
milliamp-hour battery,

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4 gigabytes of RAM,
128 gigs of storage,

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complete with an external slot
so you can augment that storage

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even more if you need to.

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And it does run
Android 9 Pie, complete

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with Motorola's generally
subtle software flourishes.

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And that's where
we do kind of have

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to dig in a little bit more.

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Motorola's Android One devices
have usually stuck in line

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with Google's
Android One program,

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which has specific criteria
involved for software updates

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and how clean the software
is actually going to be.

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Everywhere outside
the United States

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is going to get an
Android One-powered

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Motorola One Action.

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If you're in the
US, though, Motorola

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feels that its own software
actually offers a lot.

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And since it has a lot more
experience shipping devices

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with that software in
the US, well, we're

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getting Motorola's take on
Android, which, to be fair,

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is still plenty clean and
actually really nice to use.

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Really, though, the big
draw here is the camera--

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or the cameras, I should say.

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There are three of them here.

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And they each do something
a little bit different.

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I only mention this
because we've seen

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triple-camera setups before.

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And they generally skew
towards one of a handful

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of different types.

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Sometimes you get an ultra-wide.

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Sometimes you get
a zoom in there.

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But it's usually a
pretty set mixture

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of lenses that give you
a little more flexibility

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than what you might be used to.

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The One Action is a
little bit different.

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The main camera
is a 12-megapixel

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sensor with an F1.8 aperture
and face-detection autofocus.

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And in my experience,
limited as it may be,

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it actually churned out
some pretty nice shots.

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The secondary camera
is a 5-megapixel sensor

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that's almost dedicated to
just gathering depth data.

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So you're able to take
portraits that actually

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do a pretty good job of
separating your subject

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from its background.

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The third camera really
isn't for photos at all.

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This is the camera that
gives the Moto One Action

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the "action" in its name.

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Motorola is kind
of looking at it

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is a sort of a GoPro
situation that's happening

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in the back of its smartphone.

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And what's really interesting
about it is Motorola

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knows that even though they
tend to look pretty bad,

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Motorola knows people
generally take a lot of video

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with their phones being
held upright or in portrait.

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And that's less than stellar
for everybody involved.

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So that's why they've actually
mounted the video sensor

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here 90 degrees off axis.

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It's actually
mounted horizontally.

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So even though it looks like
you're doing something wrong

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on your phone, the moment you
stop recording and look away

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you've captured,
well, you're getting

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the full wide-angle
effect that stretches

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across the entire screen.

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This is a fascinating-- and
yes, admittedly very weird--

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approach to smartphone
videography.

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But it's also one
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to come with a bit of a learning
curve, one that might be

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a little steep for people
who've never really thought

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about their cameras before.

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If you're starting up the camera
and just want to shoot a video,

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aren't you going to look
at your phone screen

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when only a sliver
of that screen

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is taken up by the
field in front of you?

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And aren't you going to
think something's wrong?

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I certainly did the
first time I tried it.

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Motorola says there will be
some setup information that

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will make that process
more clear to you

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before you get started.

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But I don't think it's out
of the realm of possibility

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for people to just sort
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than they might normally to get
used to a feature like this.

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For the younger
audience Motorola

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is trying to go after, that
might not be such a bad thing.

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But it is, if nothing
else, a clear sign

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that Motorola has
really interesting ideas

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and is willing to buck
the conventional wisdom

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when it feels appropriate.

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And really, that's kind of what
the new Motorola is all about.

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For the longest time, its
only real mission in life

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was to turn a profit.

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And now it's doing
that, it has to figure

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out how to grow profitably.

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With the Motorola
One Action, Motorola

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is basically saying, well, let's
reach outside our comfort zone.

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There are people out there
with needs that we've never

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really tried to meet before.

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Let's see if we can't
cook up a relatively solid

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mid-range device
that doesn't cost

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a ton of money that'll
knock their socks off

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in some very specific ways.

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Fortunately it won't
be too long before you

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get a chance to start
using this thing--

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if you're outside
the US, anyway.

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It's going to be available
outside the US on August 16.

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But if you're in
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and you're really curious to see
what this new Motorola is all

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about, well, you're
going to have to wait

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until sometime this fall.

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