Motorola Moto X4 review

Phonebook

The Moto X4's dialer is simple and clean. There are only three tabs: favorites, call history, and contacts. The dial pad is accessed by the blue button at the bottom. From here, you can use alpha-numeric input of the dialer to search for a name. The dialer has an integrated call blocker, which can be found in the dialer's Settings.

Dialer: Favorites • Call history • Contacts • Smart dial • In-call screen

Do Not Disturb mode settings can be found under "Sound" in the Settings app. Here, you can fine tune which calls or notification have priority. You can also set rules for when the phone should automatically go into Do Not Disturb mode.

Sound settings • Do Not Disturb settings

Gboard for text input

Gboard is the default keyboard from Google and offers many features, predictive text, simultaneous language support, emoji and GIF search, and perform Google searches directly from the keyboard. You can look something up or share a result.

Gboard

Loudspeaker

The Moto X4 employs the same loudspeaker design as the Moto Z2 Play and Z2 force - the earpiece is also the loudspeaker, a single front-firing one. The best bit about this setup is that it's great for multimedia - a down-firing implementation does direct the sound away from you.

In our testing, the Moto X4 didn't perform as loud as the Z2s, but still managed to deserve a spot in the 'Good' category.

Speakerphone test	Voice, dB	Pink noise/ Music, dB	Ringing phone, dB	Overall score
BlackBerry KEYone	62.2	66.0	67.7	Below Average
Sony Xperia XZ1 (ClearAudio+)	64.5	67.6	67.7	Below Average
Sony Xperia XZ1	65.4	68.0	69.1	Average
Sony Xperia XA1	61.7	69.7	71.8	Average
Oppo F5	63.5	70.8	71.5	Average
Samsung Galaxy A5 (2017)	66.4	66.2	78.0	Good
OnePlus 5T	68.4	73.2	69.9	Good
Motorola Moto X Play	69.8	66.6	75.7	Good
Motorola Moto X4	67.2	71.1	80.7	Good
vivo v7+	66.5	73.1	79.6	Very Good
Huawei P10 Lite	68.5	72.5	80.1	Very Good
Motorola Moto Z2 Play	66.1	70.0	85.3	Very Good
Motorola Moto Z2 Force	68.2	70.2	86.1	Very Good
HTC U11 Life	70.9	75.3	88.0	Excellent
Xiaomi Mi A1	74.0	73.9	90.4	Excellent
Sony Xperia XA1 Plus	88.9	77.8	84.6	Excellent