My wife was having issues with the amount of storage on her LG Android phone, so I started keeping my eye out for a replacement. Last week Motorola announced the 2nd Generation Moto E, and I snatched it up as soon as the story hit. We’ve had Motorola phones before, including the Razr M, which has been my wife’s favorite phone by far.

My wife has small hands, so a larger phone is always out of the question for her. The Moto E is an average size phone, and although the display doesn’t knock your socks off, it’s more than adequate for general smartphone use. It comes with Lollipop and is mostly untouched and stock Android. From a memory perspective it comes with 8GB of internal storage, of which about 3-4 is available for app installation. That’s 3-4x as much as her old phone, and a huge improvement.

I’m not doing a full review here, but based on a couple days of use, I can recommend the Moto E as a great LTE based Android phone. For $150, off-contract, it’s a pretty low risk investment as well.