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CHRIS VELAZCO: Motorola has
not made a premium flagship

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device in quite some time.

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And if you're hoping
that the Motorola One

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Zoom would fill that role--

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no.

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I mean, sort of, but not really.

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It's a really powerful
mid-range device.

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And it has one of
the more interesting

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takes to packing four
cameras into a phone

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that we've ever seen.

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But this is still a long way
off from Motorola proudly

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proclaiming that it's
back in the flagship game.

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But I can live with
what we've got for now.

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Let's take a closer look.

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Unlike the Motorola One
Action we saw last month,

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the Motorola One
Zoom is in some ways

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a little more conventional.

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It has a 19-by-9
aspect ratio, which

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Motorola calls Max Vision.

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And while it's not quite
as cinematic as what you'd

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see on something like the
Motorola One Action, its more

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conventional aspect ratio means
that when you do find something

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that runs in 16-by-9 or, god
forbid, 4-by-3 on YouTube,

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you're not going to be
left with a ton of space

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on either side of the screen
to rest your thumbs on.

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And in terms of
performance, we are again

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looking at pretty
standard mid-range stuff.

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There's a Snapdragon 675 chipset
inside, with 4 gigs of RAM

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and 128 gigs of storage.

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And yes, that is expandable.

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It runs Android 9
Pie with Motorola's

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usual software enhancements.

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And I should point out here that
unlike the Motorola One Action,

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which did get
Android One variant

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releases outside
the United States,

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that's not happened here.

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If you're buying a
Motorola One Zoom,

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you're not getting
Android One at all.

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You're basically just getting
Motorola's own take on Android,

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which is fine, honestly.

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I've more or less been using
it on and off for years

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because so much of
what Motorola has done

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has persisted over time.

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And the end result is an
interface and an experience

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that really kind of feels
like it's been honed very,

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very capably over the years.

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It's light touch.

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It's really slick,
really smooth.

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And I still believe
that the Moto actions,

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like chopping the phone
to activate the flashlight

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or cranking your wrist
to launch the camera,

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these things are
things that probably

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should be available everywhere.

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I will say that even though this
phone looks surprisingly good,

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with its Saturn glass finish
around back and its trio

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of colors, ranging from brushed
bronze, which is nice but maybe

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not as brown as I
would personally like,

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and this really slick
purple, granted,

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this is a good-looking device.

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But Motorola has still fallen
short on the one thing it's

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never really been
particularly good at,

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which is waterproofing
their devices.

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These things are covered in a
water-repellent nano-coating.

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And that's fine for the
occasional splash and maybe,

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if you're lucky, a quick
dash through the rain.

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But if you're like me and
have ruined some phones when

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dropping them into
pitchers of beer,

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you're just kind of
out of luck here.

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As with the Motorola One
Action, though, the big draw

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here are the cameras.

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There are four of them, in fact.

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That's kind of insane
by anyone's standard,

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especially from Motorola, a
company that historically has

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never shown much
prowess when it comes

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to cobbling together really
functional and satisfying

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camera systems.

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But they might be
onto something here.

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The primary sensor the one
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all the time is a 48-megapixel
Samsung sensor that

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bends down to 12 megapixels.

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In other words, 4 pixels on the
sensor itself get treated as 1

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for better low-light performance
and better clarity throughout.

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Beyond that, we have a
16-megapixel ultra-wide camera

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that captures 117 degrees of
whatever's in front of it.

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And I think some of you might
have recognized that number.

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That's the same amount of space
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One Action can capture.

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And that's because these sensors
are very, very closely related.

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There are some differences here.

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But Motorola assures me, and
based off of my quick testing,

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it is much better
suited for photos

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than the version in the Moto
One Action ever could have been.

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The ultra-wide is admittedly
a very nice thing to have.

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It gives your photo
a sense of space.

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It allows them to
breathe a bit more.

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That's not something I'm
ever going to sneeze at.

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But I will say, out of the
three cameras that make up

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the most important parts
of this quad-camera setup,

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it's probably the least
impressive, especially in lower

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light.

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Meanwhile, the
telephoto camera, which

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weighs in at a fairly
respectable 8 megapixels,

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actually performed
surprisingly well, better

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than I expected it to by far.

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Granted, the dingy cave
that we tested the camera in

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might not have been ideal.

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But it did give me
a pretty good sense

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of what this camera's
capable of and how

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easily I think it's
going to fit into a lot

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of people's workflows.

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The last camera-- don't really
have to worry about it so much.

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It's the 5-megapixel depth
sensor, which basically just

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helps you get better portraits
and really, all of Motorola's

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carefully honed camera tricks.

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The stuff that
we've seen trickle

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into production in devices
from this year and last

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are here too.

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Maybe the most
important is night mode,

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which basically does
exactly what the name says.

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You take it into a dark
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It captures more light
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smashes a bunch of photos
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one surprisingly
usable-looking photo.

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We took it into an
almost-pitch-black theater

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and tried it out.

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And the results were
maybe not groundbreaking

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but definitely helpful.

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I mean, I saw details in
the frames of these chairs

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and up and down the rows that
I was definitely not going

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to make out with my naked eye.

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So sure, why not?

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I'll take it.

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It doesn't exactly fill the
flagship role that Motorola has

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had open for quite some time.

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But the Motorola One Zoom
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It runs fast.

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The cameras are actually
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The battery life is
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nice when you consider
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battery inside.

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Most of my boxes are checked.

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And I feel like this is
the kind of device I could

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easily use on the regular.

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And I hate myself for it.

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Problem is, I can't.

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And you probably can't either,
because this device, for now,

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at least, is only coming to
Europe and Latin America.

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Now Motorola says, to be
clear, that those plans

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might change over time.

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And maybe we'll get it someday.

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But for now, all I can
do is look at this phone,

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which I've actually grown
to enjoy quite a bit,

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and lament the fact that I'll
probably never see it again.

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