I've had an Xperia V for a while, but the WiFi gave up on me. And the battery life wasn't the best either. But hey, it was water-resistant (3m underwater), and the build quality was good.
I have recommended the Motorola Moto G to numerous people, mainly because it's so cheap for what you get. They all seem happy with it. However, it isn't the fastest, and my girfriends Moto G tends to get slowish when you install a lot of apps.
I have a (1st gen.) Moto X, and it's the fastest phone I've used. That's basicly a Moto G, but with better hardware. It's never slow (only if an app hangs, but that's the app's fault), and the battery life is acceptable. It recently got an update to Android 5, which makes it a little bit faster.
Motorola phones run on a "bare" version of Android, unlike Samsung or HTC phones, which come with a graphics layer that may (or may not) degrade performance.Â
For the same reason I can recommend Google's Nexus series, however they are too big for my taste.
Note that Android is a bit like Windows, it get's sluggish when you have a lot of badly written apps running in the background. (and that includes "the bigger guys" like Facebook / runkeeper) . At all times, disable notifications of apps that you don't really need, because they can keep Anroid in the "awake" state...
I have recommended the Motorola Moto G to numerous people, mainly because it's so cheap for what you get. They all seem happy with it. However, it isn't the fastest, and my girfriends Moto G tends to get slowish when you install a lot of apps.
I have a (1st gen.) Moto X, and it's the fastest phone I've used. That's basicly a Moto G, but with better hardware. It's never slow (only if an app hangs, but that's the app's fault), and the battery life is acceptable. It recently got an update to Android 5, which makes it a little bit faster.
Motorola phones run on a "bare" version of Android, unlike Samsung or HTC phones, which come with a graphics layer that may (or may not) degrade performance.Â
For the same reason I can recommend Google's Nexus series, however they are too big for my taste.
Note that Android is a bit like Windows, it get's sluggish when you have a lot of badly written apps running in the background. (and that includes "the bigger guys" like Facebook / runkeeper) . At all times, disable notifications of apps that you don't really need, because they can keep Anroid in the "awake" state...