@PDT816 Do you mind elaborating on your experience with the Motorolas?
You'll have to ask for additional details if you have questions, but here's the skinny on my experiences.
Pros:
Motorola has been very innovative in the past 5-6 years. Chances are that a ton on the stuff everyone thinks is cool about what's new on their new Android, Windows, or Apple hardware/operating system has already been on a Motorola phone for a year or more.
I still use my phone as an actual phone and Motorola still designs their hardware with the priority of being a phone. They tend to over-engineer the communication hardware compared to other manufacturers and as a result they perform significantly better. Probably not a big issue for others, but important to me.
Motorolas pretty much run stock Android. Other than the contextual services Motorola adds so that the phone is smart enough to adapt to what your doing (driving, working out, sleeping, in meetings, etc), they haven't added any bloat. Which makes it competitive to iPhones in that they run just as fast the entire time you buy them rather than slowing down with all the propriety crap manufacturers add.
Like a Nexus, Motorola makes it easy to to buy the phone direct. Having an unlocked phone without your carrier installing bloat, crippling it's features and chip-sets, or delaying operating system updates is better all around.
They will also connect to just about anything.
Cons:
I think all smartphones take shitty photos (which is reinforced every time I look at Facebook) and I still use real cameras , but low light shots on both my first and second generation Moto Xs have been pretty poor even amounting that it's a phone taking them. Video is better for some reason that I can't explain. No idea on the newest Moto X abilities in this area.
Motorola tends to write checks it can't cash when the phone is older. It will announce, say a three year old model, will be getting the latest version of Android then drop the ball six months later when said new version of Android goes public. They've given $100 off on your next Motorola phone when they failed to produce it, but it's still irritating when they should have just said no in the beginning rather than giving people false hope.
The flagship phones aren't huge volume sellers here, so you have to buy your cases, etc via Amazon.