I can buy one like mine used for $135-$155 and the price is going down all the time -- I'd buy another and just keep the busted screen one for parts.
Wife tears hers up more than I do (I keep mine in a hard case and she has a minimum edge gripper thin case so hers gets more licks when she drops it).
Moto G can be bought as a maxed spec 3G phone or a mid spec 4G LTE phone -- mine are max spec'd 3-G phones that had the Republic Wireless system rewritten specifically for them.
Specs all match up, as do the feature drivers. Works pretty slick in such a neat little package.
Did I mention I only pay Republic Wireless
only $10 a month per phone for anywhere unlimited talk & unlimited text and if I am within reach of an open or known wifi source I get unlimited data (really really unlimited data
that is faster than 4G LTE data) ???
Tips and tricks YouTubes for Moto G are abundant and you can easily put the phone in developer mode and tune out all the animation delays, etc and make the phone
actually to be a good bit FASTER acting than $600 state of the art phones that are carrier locked.
Yep, same stuff we do to a Savage .....
Modding and tuning helps phones, just like modding and tuning helps Savages.
I find that kinda sorta amusing to do that to people who are soooo proud of their brand new expensive superphones .....
kinda like riding a Savage against a Hurley up on the Parkway.
Here is a guy whupping up on MUCH more expensive phones using a well tuned Moto E
(Moto E: the Ninja 250 of the cell phone world)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6A35DcClk8