Saturday, November 29, 2014

Allow Human Clinical Weed Trials to Save Lives

Hi America,
This blog post is different from my usual post. Today I want to talk accomplishing one thing:


Because of the difference from my usual types of posting. I wanna start with the situation.

On November 27th, 2014, Thanksgiving morning, my twin sister died at the age of 20. Our birthday was only 3 days away, on November 30th. She died from a grand mal seizure while sleeping at home in preparation for Thanksgiving diner. I have reasons to believe that the medicine she was taking was the cause of these severe seizures, which is why I’m making a case against it, and I also feel certain that I have come across a cure.

As you all can imagine, I was in shock when I first heard the news. We go to different schools, and I decided to stay during Thanksgiving day to have diner with one of my roommates’ family. I found out tonight when my parents drove to my school to tell me in person. Even so, understand that this message is not an act of rage, sorrow or desperation. It’s an act of concern. I want to make sure an accident like this doesn't happen again.

1 year and 5 months prior to the event she started having partial seizures which would cause her to temporarily zone out and lose the ability to understand words and recall non-working memory. Under some circumstances, she would still function without. If it happened during things like folding clothes or looking out of a window to just observe the things outside, the seizure would be barely noticeable.

The problem would not be so bad if they assigned the appropriate solution.

The Solution

As I was wondering through reddit during my free time, I came across an article on the main page that described a boy that had his seizures increase while taking general anti-seizure medicine. He seized every 15 minutes originally. Yet after taking a “miracle drug” he didn’t have seizures for almost 9 weeks. He was taking concentrated cannabis oil in the form of pills, which is what stopped his seizures for those 9 long weeks.

This cure for epilepsy has been researched in lab rats with the condition bred in them. My source, ProCon.org, rated the paper at a 5/5 theoretical research level, meaning proper experiments were carried out, by professionals with PhD’s in their given field and the results all met a common consensus. Nobody disagreed with the final results. Yet extensive research in humans hasn't been completed because of marijuana’s illegality. That is why I am asking the public for my second and most difficult request. Allow marijuana to be openly tested by professional doctors on human patients.

I’m certain that if legitimate human trials of cannabis oil is deemed to be more effective than all other drugs related to epilepsy, people will begin to question the legitimacy of all drugs the pharmaceutical industry. It has the potential to damage the planned obsolescence behind the medical industry.

When I say planned obsolescence, I mean where chemist and the businessmen that fund them are constantly aiming to keep that balance of keeping their patients temporarily satisfied and coming back for more of what they prescribe to keep themselves in business. Meanwhile, like the auto industry, they use dirty tactics like sabotage their own products or omit better alternatives to make sure they don’t go out of business.

People are not cars. Regardless of the money issues, the medicine they rely on for a better life shouldn't be played with for personal gain.

I already lost my twin sister, and I have to comfort my mother who watched my sister die and couldn't do anything about it. Please help me make sure this doesn't happen again to others.

Again my one request is this:


I’m writing and sending this post on the eve of both my sisters and my own birthday. Two days after Thanksgiving. Please, help me allow for these two things to happen. Signing will be a gift for me and my late sister.

Wednesday, March 12, 2014

What ARMv8 (64 bit) chips mean for the future...

Sorry for not doing a blog post for a little while. I was moving back to school and needed to readjust to the school life style, and I'm still really busy.  I just now thought it was suitable to go back and write this article due to my great level of excitement. About a month ago, Apple unveiled the first 64 bit smartphones on the consumer market.

Earlier I explained that Android could be moving into the PC space. Where the PC like platform would be great for Phablets, Tablets and Android Laptops. There's also some very compelling reasons as to how such a use for android could be cool.


Now I want to explain why such a development in chip manufacturing is such an amazing thing. And how all of the computer world will benefit greatly from ARM's new set.

What's New

If you look at the feature list with the a57, you'll see that the architecture set offers a lot more than extra memory usage/allocation. The architecture set adds double precision floating point SIMD, which allows for more complicated, supercomputer quality level, mathematical operations to be completed.
ARMv8 also has many other useful features that could help programming languages like java, go and c++11 perform better in terms of memory usage and power consumption, which is nearly perfect for .
Collecting Garbage
Dynamic languages like those used on the Internet(php, javascript, dart) and Garbage collected languages(java, scala) can perform a lot better while performing less operations as well due to tagged pointers.
The cores in each chip can also share the L2 cache if necessary so the cores won't have to worry about communicating commonly used operations with each other, therefore increasing the speed.
These are just the beginning advantages. The new features go beyond only 4GB of memory. In fact, the the architecture will include more advantages than x86 64 architecture sets. Doesn't this make you excited about 64-bit?
What this adds up to ...

The parts in the last section were merely stating the new features that adds power and efficiency to the new ARMv8 architecture set, but where is it heading? To sum this up, ARM is trying to take it's architecture everywhere. If you notice, ARM has been able capture the entire mobile market and they have deals made with guys like Apple, Samsung, Qualcomm, Nvidia, AMD and Hauwei to extend their reach to the desktop and enterprise as well. The best part is it looks like ARM is actually taking those spaces pretty well.

SCALE!!
Most people would probably ask why would people in the computing industry do this? It's very easy to answer. It makes programmer's jobs easier. A programmer can create a program for a server or supercomputer and apply the scaled version of the program to a cell phone and desktop with a lot less work than under normal conditions. That could help advance computing technologies well beyond what we already have.

Still don't think that's impressive? Imagine this: we could create better parallel computing methods that could use the thousands of cores inside of your GPU as a main processing unit on servers then use the firmware and algorithms (of course slightly modified) on your desktop,laptop, or smartphone to make your computer up to 100x faster in general operations (exaggeration). That would be pretty cool, and would be a heck of a lot easier to do with ARM architecture everywhere.

How this affects your smartphone/tablet/laptop/Car


Performance


You can have a full desktop environment run on your tablet. In fact, full versions of Linux can already run on android devices, and they can run pretty well. Check out the video on the right:

With 64 bit, you can have this feature default with your favorite tablets or smartphones, and the best part is that this decent performance can get even better.

Cost

The cost could be greatly reduced as well. If you have one chip architecture that not only works with all forms of computing, but is actually being used in more things than your cell phones, the cost of productions would be significantly reduced. It's a basic rule of economics. The more supply you have in a particular thing while maintaining a constant demand would cause the thing to reduce in price. If more people are producing ARM chips due to a slightly increased demand, refineries and foundries would reduce the price for each millimeter on a chip because they would not have to change their production to something else like x86.

The could of course be a downside as well. At the beginning the demand could be higher than what the manufacturers can supply.

Cars
Cars are going to get even smarter now. Cars already use microchips in order to shift the balance of the car for optimal performance, increase gas mileage (what all cars do these days), connect to the radio, heating, and collision optimization for safety and more. What we've recently seen in the 2014 CES show is that companies are placing powerful ARM processors in cars to not only monitor the cars' performance and vitals, but also for monitoring visuals for reversing the car.

Server
If you look, this technology is going to reach mainstream servers soon. I personally can't wait to see what it will do.

Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Making the Photo: Generic Edition - Part I

So I've been doing a few leaks about this blog post on my community lately and I want to introduce to you my newest series. It's a series I call "Making the Photo". The series will run on this blog and this will show readers how to take and edit amazing photos using their cell phones. I'm starting with my daily driver, the Droid Bionic, which is known for it's average camera quality. I will first start by making all of my readers familiar with the tools I will use. 


The Camera


So people who use android know that all software camera's are not born equal. This is a generic blog post, and I used a camera that people can use on all phones. Android Authority has a download for your phone. It will get you the exact same camera that I'm using and the photo editor I use to make the photos look better.



The Gallery


The Gallery is a connected the camera app download from android authority. Basically when you swipe the phone's camera over to the right you'll begin to go through all of your photos as if it's a film strip. Below is a video that is that perfectly explains all of the features I will use, so it would be perfect if you looked at that video first. I will attempt to make a video of my own going into further details after this blog is completed.


The Device


The device I'm using is the Droid Bionic. The Droid Bionic is a Motorola Phone for Verizon. It was released in November 2011. This was my first major Android phone, and I've loved it. I learned a lot about computing using it. It's no SIII or S4 in terms of camera quality, but it works well for this tutorial.


This is the Bionic



Your Comfort zone

So I can say that one of the biggest things you need to do is get out of your comfort zone. When I say this, I mean that you need to do things that you normally wont. Don't worry though. The things I ask of you will not be too much.


Skip to 1:50


Getting Down to Business


Okay, now that I've stated all of my tools, we can now begin to explain how you can take an make an amazing photo.

Before we begin this, keep in mind that every single picture here was taken and post processed on the smartphone. There was no Photoshop, illustrator, LightRoom, GIMP, or any other desktop editor used. I will bring up the topic of Snapseed in the next article, "Supercharging Your Photo", but I will not mention that particular mobile photo editing software this time.

Hopefully you looked at the video to learn how to take photos on using the camera that was available on Android Authority, because you're going to take your first set of photos right now. Also, I plan to split this chapter between philosophies then skill. To take a good photo, you need to do both.


Getting started


Philosophies


I remember hearing a quote from some unknown teacher, "You don't have to be excellent to get started, but you have to start to be excellent". This means that to be great at anything you have to try at least in the beginning. I think that philosophy is great for all components of life, but this particularly applies to this photo article. So this philosophy leads to the first exercise of the article:

Exercise I - Stop and take a photo:


After you download the photo the photo app from Android Authority and install it, immediately take a photo where you're at. So you can be at work or a on lunch break reading this article. Take a photo of the table you're at. Or take a picture of candy, a building out of the window, the hallway either at home or your office. Just make sure you take a picture. It will get you off to a rough start.

Here's some photos I took a while ago of my personal area:




I know the pictures are bad, but you can't expect your pictures to be amazing from the start (though they could be). These pictures are representation of some random fun times. You'll probably take your pictures in some random way. Remember another step of the path to amazing photos is about changing your perspective. I took some other pictures another time and these are my results:

Exercise II - Take a photo, but change your perspective:


That's cool guy Luis and my roommate Ross(in the green shirt) at the NASA hackathon




So these photos still aren't amazing. They're not supposed to be, but they are better than my last set of photos. I basically changed my perspective to create a different photo. Changing perspectives is the main component to doing anything great, but changing perspectives is especially a key to taking a good photo. In fact, often times I feel like the philosophies and methods used for taking good photos are the methods you would use for doing amazing in many things.


Capturing the Moment


Being ready for random situations is crucial for good photography. You will be surprised at all the things you can do with in the moment situations. You can capture an animal doing something rare, see a random car go by or watch your child walk for the first time. Having a camera phone in your pocket makes that rather easy, but this also requires you to look around and pay attention to your surroundings. That is something many people don't do. Here are some photos that are in the moment. These photos weren't taken with any mind for skill, but I they turned out decently. 

Exercise III - Capture any moment you can: 

Take a photo of any situation you can. Make sure it's a scenic moment and/or moment you want to remember for a long time. This could take a day, or take a week. You will be doing this along with the rest of the exercises. This exercise can be done along side skill exercises: 
There's Zachariah (Zach)
He was also in my team
Civil Rights March Anniversary


Celebrating Brian's Birthday (Guy in birthday hat)
Coming from the birthday party
Best Looking Sky I have Ever Seen


So besides the last two, the pictures are only "decent". I wouldn't have taken any of those photos IF I had not payed any attention to current situation. Most of the great photos you'll remember are photos taken in the moment. The next part would deal a lot with the skill aspect and not the philosophies of taking great photos


Skill


Beside the philosophy of taking a great photo, you have to use a decent amount of skill for taking a photo. For the most part the skills you use are broken into separate parts: Focus, Lighting, Colors, and Composition. I hope to teach you about each of these separate parts. So let's jump into it.


Focus


Generally speaking, the path to a great photo is drawing the audience's focus to a certain point. We basically do this one of two ways. We mess with the depth of field, or we change the composition. This will be a short look at the changing the focal length to give a nice effect called depth of field, which is just a stream of blur where ever your camera is not focused. You don't have to remember these things. All you just have to do is tap on what you want to focus on, and your camera will do all the work for you. Below are some images I took playing with the depth of field:


I have no clue what kind of plant this is.


I love cake :-}

Glad to go ninja on some Jones Soda




The two photos above are actually starting to get to the point of good. Both of these photos used several elements, but the biggest elements is a change in perspective and change in focus. If you can do both of those, you can get a decent picture no matter what camera you have. So that leads to your next exercise.

Exercise IV - Changing Focus 


Use the camera app from Android Authority to change the focus of your picture. You do this by tapping what you want to focus on. It would leave out the rest blurred out.

Lighting


Light is what makes a photo a photo. Well I think that it is what makes a photo great. You can see all good photos use tricks with lights. So the I will tell you a few tricks that will help you make an amazing photo. 


Use Sunrise or Sunset lighting

I cannot stress that sunrise and sunset are both amazing times to take a photo. The plant photo above was taken during sunset as I was walking back from my local coffee shop. 

These are a few other photos I took during sunset hours:


Such a beautiful building


Nice shot of my sister




So as you can see, these photos are looking pretty good. The main magic between all three of them is the lighting. Not only is the lighting for sunset nice and warm, it's also relatively uni-directional. Meaning it will shine mostly one surface, then leave a shadow everywhere else. This type of lighting can be used to add a great natural emphasis to anything you want. 

Unidirectional Lighting

There's a such thing as unidirectional lighting. Basically it's when a light comes from one source and generates a massive shadow on anything it touches. This will draw attention to everything in the photo but for each different reasons. You'd first look at the brightest part of the main object of the photo, then the darkest side of the main object of the photo, lastly you'll look at the background. At least that's generally speaking. Check out a few photos I took using unidirectional lighting models. Just know that these models can happen naturally by jumping into the shade of anything and letting the light release from one direction:

This is of my mentee Jose at Imagine RIT. I personally think it's good for a festival


Taking a picture of a window shadow




So non of those photos were entirely unidirectional. They each had a dominating source of light. 

Color

I'm running low on energy. I'm going to release color and composition in part II, as they're entire beast of their own. I will probably have to write my next article on those two the exact same size as this one.  I'll catch you later in my next part of the series - Making the Photo: Generic Edition - Part II.

Monday, August 5, 2013

Getting the job: Google edition

If you're like me, you really want to work for Google. In an attempt to try figuring out what I would have to do to get the internship from the company Google I asked the engineering Googler Jake Hambly for some advice, and I decided to share much of the chat with the public. Below is a Hangout we've had on the social network Google Plus. There will be commentary and useful links by me to help break the conversation into smaller, easier to read segments. 


I started the conversation on the chat introducing myself and asking what it would take for me to get an internship with the company.


Getting the job

Google employees teaching each other


Me:

Seeing you work at Google, I think it would be a good idea to ask you. How do I work there? I'm a web developer and I study psychology and user experience design to complete the web creation package. Right now I'm trying to build a social network from scratch. I think it will give me some experience. I want to mostly get an internship with them next summer.”

Jake:


Sounds like a plan (everything you just wrote). I actually interview a lot of people myself, for the engineering positions. And I can say that besides having the technical skills on your resume and being able to demonstrate them...”



As a break from the conversation, I'd like to say Demonstration seemed to be one of the key parts of the getting employed by Google. Just like how a venture capitalist want to see if you can build a company in real life (not just on paper), Google wants to know if you can use your skills for the real world. A good set of projects to show off your skills usually shows everybody looking how good you are. Back to the conversation:


Me:

I can hardly wait. I've wanted to work with Google for the last 3 years, It's good to know that I'm at least on the right path.”


He went on to explain what a “culture fit” really is.

Jake:

Yeah I was at Microsoft for a year because my company got acquired by them and it was awful. Google is like the exact opposite of a dysfunctional corporate bureaucracy (this made me happy).

So they like people who are good at working independently and don't need someone to hold their hand and say exactly what to do. So you have a lot of freedom as far as work hours, relatively few meetings, but you gotta make sure you are getting your work done.

They set goals for each division from the top (called OKRs) but you have a lot of freedom and input into how you accomplish them. I'd recommend a book "Inside The Plex" by Steven Levy. He had a lot of inside access & tells a great story of the history and how it is like today.”



Before you even apply, you need to make sure you meet these requirement at the very least.

Me:

That settles it, already thought it was, but now I know. Google is my kind of place.”

Jake:

:-) Yeah I was fortunate to get a job myself. I always like to encourage people who recognize just how special it is.

So by make your own social network, what exactly do you mean? Like designing your own site? I'm curious what your plans are because I'm actually kind of terrible at website design and UX stuff. I'm better at writing the plumbing code inside the phone. I'm fascinated by how LinkedIn, G+, Twitter, FB etc. all have their own take on it, so I'm curious what yours might be.”


I felt no pain explaining my social network project. I was able to see what kind of response I would get.


Me:


Right Now I'm building up the back end, but I'm still in between a few ideas for what the site will actually accomplish. So my main idea is to get a bunch of university students from around the country to find others in others for help in making a startup.


It would be like linkedIn but for people (mostly students) that don't have a complicated hiring structure just want to accomplish a project, and are willing to find people to work with them on projects for free.”


Getting the interview (and doing well)


I went ahead and asked how I would first get the interview. Because we all know that getting the interview is the first step to getting your dream job.

Me:

So how would I be able to get an interview with the company?”

Jake:

As for interviewing, basically it sounds like you're on the right track to have some interesting projects to put on your resume (same demonstration). It doesn't matter if they make any money or not. :-)

And then after you submit your resume, generally you'll be contacted by a recruiter who will schedule you for a 45 minute phone interview with someone at Google with similar areas of expertise to what you put down as skills (UX, psychology, site design, etc)”


Me:
What would the interview be like for programmers?


Jake:


Two good examples would be the type of questions they ask at the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (I think you can find examples from previous years) and the questions in the TopCoder Arena (which has thousands of practice rooms containing each problem set used in all the previous rated competitions).


Though we don't ask questions like how many marbles could fit in an airplane or what you'd do if you were shrunk to the size of a nickel and put at the bottom of a blender or the other wacky brainteasers that people think are asked at Google interviews. maybe they did 10 years ago, but now it tends to be more directly relevant engineering-related questions.


If you find a stack overflow question or something like that where someone says they were asked a particular question at a Google interview and is soliciting answers on how to do it, that question will most likely be banned from the internal database of questions that people submit for other interviewers to look at.


For any interview you should properly prepare so worry not. Here and here are links on the best tips for a phone interview. So with further conversation, Jake gave some extra advice that I think is important for almost anything. I have found the TopCoder to be the most diverse. It holds examinations for programmers, engineers, UI designer, design and Development.


Jake:


Anyway, my only other advice would be to take your time and wait to put in an application for an internship until you're 110% confident you'll do great (or at least as good as you're gonna get) because Google will be around when you're ready, but if you apply too soon and don't get a position, that's not as good.”


Doing a good job

Much further down the conversation, the topic about doing a good job while on the job came up. It's an Important aspect of getting a job in general. I was talking about how I like the javascript programming language and he stated something to not be: “It's a good sign you're excited by the power of a good programming language. Just one piece of advice on that is nobody likes an insufferable functional language snob. (I'm sure there's some comical yet educational piece to this)


I didn't know what this meant at first, but luckily he went on to explain by using a real life example:


Jake:
Don't be the guy on the left.
There's one guy who worked at Google for less than a year who just ranted continuously on an internal eng mailing list about how awesome ML and Haskell and Scala were, and how stupid Google was for writing everything in boring old C++ and Java. Despite a ton of well-meaning advice from others, none of which he took, I guess he quit after a bad performance review (because apparently he didn't do any actual work the whole time)”



If you've been at any school, you've probably met somebody like the guy in the previous paragraph. Having been immersed in both the arts and technological world, and I can say that if you say that you hate Helvetian font --still no clue what's up with that-- and that a certain group of colors are perfect and shouldn't be broken out of in design, or if you're the type that states all things should be programmed in a “perfect” programming language and nothing else, then you're the type. If you are, recognize it, and kick the habit. As he said: Another big part of Google's “culture fit” is not being a braggart or arrogant / condescending / etc. Yeah:-)”


Me:
So what would make a good employee?”


Jake:


What's interesting is how completely rare that case was. Normally everyone at Google is nice and friendly and laid back but also scarily smart and competent. So if you can act the part, you'll do just fine as an employee, even if you secretly think that all your coworkers are way smarter than you (which is a common feeling for Googlers). The environment is intentionally very much like your college experience now, most likely. Read "Inside the Plex" for a pretty good description. It hasn't changed since the book was written other than the # of employees is much bigger.”
It's good if this is you


Conclusion

So there you have it. Thanks to the Hangout with Jake Hambly, we were able to get an accurate understanding as for how we could get a position with Google. I created a checklist for getting a position with them.


How to get an internship/Job with Google:


  • Prove your skills with projects
  • Be a Independent and highly competent worker
  • Make sure your happy, open and well rounded people who aren't condescending to fit Google's culture.
  • Be well-prepared

Friday, August 2, 2013

What the cheaper Moto X would be like

Just yesterday the Moto X was release. I must say that it left many people feeling ruined. The device had a lot of people interested until they saw the price was almost equivalent to the S4 or HTC One. The exact same day, people from the Moto X said that the device would have a cheaper alternative. After doing some research I have figured out how the cheaper Moto X will work, look, and the specs it would include as well.


Starting with design


The cheaper Moto X will have a case almost the exact same as the current Moto X. This is because normally it's cheaper to continue producing large volumes of the same case instead of having to redesign the case and manufacture a small volume of a different case. This means the phone will have the same ergonomics as the Moto X, which is said to still feel good. This also means that the cheaper Moto X could gain the capacity to be customized just as the normal Moto X is. Because the normal Moto X is made of plastic, there should be no problems in the design continuity.





The inside matters too


Many of you hardcore users will probably wonder what the specs will include. The list I am going to include is all theory for now, but I picked a list of parts that's cheap and still powerful.


Screen - qHD AMOLED screen; Equivalent to 234.5ppi; Also NOT PenTile
Processor- Snapdragon 400 w/ Adreno 305 + Motorola's Special Cores
Ram - 1.5GB
Connectivity - 3G/4G World/multimode LTE on select processors/CDMA/GSM/Wifi
Camera - 5.2 RGBC ClearPixel Camera
Battery  - 1800-2000 mAh (Still allows for 24 hour battery Life) 


Here's my reasoning for the following:


Screen
qHD is the same ratio as the Moto X, meaning a 4.7" screen would fit nicely with the already existing case. The qHD ratio also has a smaller PPI rating, meaning a weaker GPU will still be perfectly smooth.


Processor
The processor Snapdragon 400 is perfect for good speed and price. The 400 has connectivity better than the S4 Plus while having a reduced price. The CPU is a krait 300 dual core, and the GPU is an Adreno 305. The graphics are likely 50% - %60 better than the Galaxy S3 with optimizations, and the the GPU also comes with the OpenGL 3.0LS support, which makes it slightly future proof. Since the QHD screen would have less pixels to push, the graphics would still move amazingly fast. Also, the processor as a whole draws slightly less power than the S4 Pro. With Motorola’s special chips included, the processor would be perfect for a cheaper Motorola phone.


RAM
The RAM size is a 1.5GB because that’s the lowest possible RAM for Jelly Bean 4.2.2 before sacrificing performance. It’s rumored that Android 5.0 ‘K Release’ is light on resources, which would make this device fly on 1.5GB of RAM.


Camera
I remember reading something on web suggesting Kodak’s ClearPixel Cameras require 5.2MP of size to function properly, which actually explains why the Moto X’s clearpixel is 10.5MP instead of 13MP. By cutting the Number of megapixels in half, the cheap Moto X would still have a decent low light camera that can record in both 720p and 1080p video. If the S400 processor is as good as I’d hoped, it would be able to record in 60fps allowing for slow motion recording as well.




Connectivity
Because this device needs to go everywhere, it would need connectivity that can go all around the world. The S400 has connectivity that can be used almost world wide, I just listed what type of connectivity the processor will have.


Battery
Because both the processor and screen are weaker, the device will drain less battery overall. With 1800mAh I suspect that the device will have about the same battery life as the normal Moto X.


Overall performance & Price
The cheaper Moto X will still be one powerful and smooth device. At a glance, most people will barely notice a difference between the normal Moto X and the cheaper one. I’m estimating it will be $0 to $50 on contract and around $250 while off contract. The specs are similar to the S3 mini, and that is $279 off contract, but with production bundled together, the production cost could be reduced by up to $40, which is how I came up with this price point. The battery size could still make the device purely $300, but I still think It would be around $250. The performance would place the device higher than the S3 in some areas.


A cheaper device for the emerging market


The Motorola CEO said that he wants motorola to tackle emerging markets. By doing so, they will have a long term standing in places that could amass a lot economical power within the next 5 - 10 years. I can conclude that they would make an even cheaper device for those countries. A cheaper device would end up having a 640x360 (same PPI as iPad Mini) display and a S200 (can be quad-core A7 ) processor. It might not have the same features as the original Moto X, but it will work well at the given resolution and processing demands. I think this device would end up costing between $50 - $100 and it would run about as well as an iPhone 4. I should mention that the S3 mini received a rating higher than any other flagship device. The cheaper Moto X will have some better specs and possibly get unprecedented results.