The Moto X Play, which was recently revealed by Motorola, is a budget-friendly phablet which has enough power to take on one of the dominant phablets in the market, the Galaxy Note 4. This is how these two phablets compare.

Design

Samsung left no stone unturned when designing the Note 4. It comes loaded with features such as an S Pen Stylus and also has a finger print scanner. However, it does not have a premium build, as it only has a metal frame, with the rest of the body made of plastic and a back panel covered in faux leather. In terms of colors, the Note 4 comes in white, black, gold and pink.

As for the Moto X Play, it too has a metal frame but it can be customized on the Moto Maker website where users can pick different colors for its metal accents and panels that are made of silicone, leather and wood. Even though the device from Motorola has more options when it comes to colors and customization, it lacks some of the features some users find necessary like the stylus and fingerprint scanner.

Display

The display on the Note 4 is slightly bigger than the version on it competitor and is sharper. It comes with a 5.7 inch super AMOLED screen with a resolution of 1440 x 2560 pixels and a density of 515 pixels per inch while the Moto X Play has a 5.5 inch capacitive screen with a resolution of 1080 x 1920 pixels and a density of 403 pixels per inch.

Specs

In the Moto X Play is a Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 chipset, an octa-core CPU comprised of four Cortex-A53 cores clocked at 1.7 GHz and four cores clocked at 1.0 GHz and an Adreno 405 GPU. As for the Note 4, it has a Qualcomm Snapdragon 805 chipset, a Krait 450 CPU with four cores clocked at 2.7 GHz and an Adreno 420 GPU.

Memory

Both the Moto X Play and the Note 4 have memory slots which can be used to add up to 128 GB of external storage. As for RAM, the Moto Play lags behind with 2 GB, as the Note 4 has 3 GB.

Battery

In this category, the Moto X Play has an advantage as it comes with a 3630 mAh version while the Note 4 only has a 3220 mAh version.

Price

The Samsung Galaxy Note 4 costs $299 with a two-year contract but some carriers have dropped its price to $129. As for the Moto X Play, it is expected to cost around $300, unlocked.