Flipkart drops Moto G price by Rs 2,000; now available for Rs 10,499

Moto G smartphone which is exclusively retailing on Flipkart has seen a price cut and is now selling for Rs 10,499. The price of this bestselling device has been dropped by Rs 2,000, probably owing to competition from competitive devices like Xiaomi and Asus.

The Moto now retails at Rs 10,499 for the 8GB and Rs 11,999 for the 16GB.  During its launch, it easily came across one of the best value-for-money offerings under Rs 15,000 and  quite possibly under Rs 20,000 as well . Read our complete  Moto G review .

Lately, with the Xiaomi Mi 3 and Asus Zenfone series offering great specs at affordable prices, Motorola wants to ensure that the new companies don’t cut into its sales. The price tag of around Rs 10,000 has made the Moto G even more desirable for anyone looking for a 10k budget device.

The Moto G also plays a key role in paving way for exclusive online tie-ups in India. It was soon followed by the Moto X and Moto E. Both saw significant popularity in India, too. Motorola claimed to have sold over a million Moto devices in India in just five months.

Let’s quickly brush through its specs. The Moto G sports a 4.5-inch HD ’edge-to-edge’ display with a resolution of 1280×720 pixels, amounting to a pixel density of 329ppi, and a Corning Gorilla Glass 3 screen. The handset runs the latest version of Android 4.4 KitKat. Under the hood, the device comes with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 (Cortex-A7) processor clocked at 1.2GHz along with an Adreno 305 GPU and 1GB of RAM.

For photography, there’s a 5-megapixel rear camera with LED flash as well as a 1.3-megapixel front shooter. Rounding up the package is a 2070mAh battery, which the company claims will give 30 percent more talk time than Apple’s current flagship, the iPhone 5s.