Moto E : This is not a gaming phone, but a solid work phone

I have been using this phone for over a week now. I generally use my primary phone (iPhone) for work purposes (with some social apps). I wanted to see if I could do the exact same thing with Moto E, so I installed most of the apps that I use on iPhone on the Moto E. There are some that are missing (exclusive to iOS), or some that don't really work properly (bar code scanner, business card scanner), because of the not so good camera (more on this in a later post).

From a work phone, I like to have few essential things: E-mail client that is solid, a good calender app, productivity apps, and preferably a good digital assistant. While the iOS e-mail is super good in handling all of my e-mail providers, the Android lacks a solid e-mail client, if you are not using GMail. With GMail, it is a totally different story, it is the very best. The calender app on Android links to your GMail, and is good, but I use an Outlook calender. Google Now, is also available on iOS, but is tightly integrated with Android and provides a super experience with everything from setting reminders to letting you know how much time it will take for you to arrive at office via public transport.

Here is a list of App I am currently using on Moto E:

Productivity:
GMail (and the in-built Email client),
Microsoft Office Mobile,
Microsoft One Note (use this a lot),
Quickoffice (it came pre-installed, but it is pretty bad)
Adobe Reader
Blogger client
ES File Explorer
JuiceSSH (ssh client)
Chrome Browser (pre-installed)
Google Drive (pre-installed)
Microsoft One Drive (use this more than Google Drive because of Office Mobile)

Social:
Facebook
Twitter
LinkedIn
Google+ (pre-installed)

Messaging:
Google Hangout (pre-installed, and the default SMS client as well)
Whatsapp
Viber
Hike
Telegram

VoIP:
Skype

Photography:
VSCO Cam
(I use Flickr a lot on my iPhone, but the quality of photos on Moto E is not good, or I have been not yet able to use it to its best, and hence I thought of giving Flickr a skip on Moto E - at least for the moment)

Music:
Play Music (pre-installed)

News:
Flipboard
Play news stand (pre-installed)

With all this installed, the free space remaining is about 670 MB. I have a 4GB card installed that stores media files. I have not moved any of the apps to SD card as I find it a painstaking process. You have to go to each app and individually move every other app to the SD card, there is no "move all" option as with media files.

Even after installing all these apps, the Moto E has not slowed down. This is a pretty good thing. My past experiences with Android has not been stellar, and it is very pleasing to see this opinion changed by a lowly priced Moto E, again reinforcing the premium affordable nature of the device.

I will now be regularly using this as a second phone (with a different SIM - as the nano SIM is not compatible with this phone), and see if it stands up to constant usage, and still give the same "almost" lag-less performance.