2-Pack Full Coverage Tempered Glass Screen Protector For Motorola Moto G6
Jul 25, 2019
Subtle design flaw leaves phone mic muffled!
Fatal design flaw: Although the glass has all the right cutouts, the glass has a plastic laminate layer (designed to hold shattered shards together should you break it) that covers the microphone hole! The laminate isn't there around most of the other cutouts, but they left this one. This results in phone calls where the other person can't hear you at all.
Before anyone asks, yes, I removed the protective film, it wouldn't stick to the phone if that was still there. Not my first time using a glass screen protector. The glass cutouts all line up perfectly...this would have been a 4 or 5 star if it weren't for this design defect.
If you search the internet, you'll find lots of people reporting that no one can hear them while making calls, yet audio is recorded when they capture a video. Well, video capture uses a microphone on the other end of the phone. The phone uses the one this thing covers up!
Motorola has probably been making warranty repairs on lots of these phones for nothing!
Overall good quality build, decent keyboard, and nice display. Runs Arch Linux with minimal issues out of the box.
Note that the Wifi chip in these is 802.11AC (WIFI 5), *NOT* 802.11ax (WIFI 6). Many models in this series have WiFi 6, but the US version with the 5600h and no discrete graphics does NOT.
Sound quality is awesome, lots of power through the headphone port, and very broad response spectrum. Hard to beat, and got it for a great price. Totally plug n' play on Linux (Ubuntu 14.04 LTS FWIW).