If you turn on the Assist feature

An unfamiliar phone alarm noise interrupted a comedy show in Huntington Beach on Monday night, said Allison Sciulla, a 24-year-old writer and stand-up comic, who performed at the show.

The blare interrupted the routine of another comic speaking on stage, Sciulla recalled, causing the comic to turn toward the guilty audience member and ask: “What kind of ringtone is that? Do you have a tiny ambulance in your pocket?"

California issued an Amber Alert to cell phones across the state on Monday night — and in some cases early Tuesday — causing many devices to beep and buzz.

The man in the audience, looking embarrassed, said he had no idea what the sound was, Sciulla said.

“People laughed when he called it out because we didn’t really know what was going on,” she said.

Sciulla had also received the message, which notified Californians of the license number for a suspect believed to have abducted two missing children in San Diego.
She thinks such messages are important and excused the audience member's mishap.

“You get a free pass. Someone’s in trouble,” she said.

The alerts woke up some people as they tried to sleep Monday night.

Renae Bowman, 25, of Granada Hills, says she received the alert 12 times overnight. Even after turning her Samsung Galaxy to vibrate, the vibrating noise continued to disturb her sleep.

“If I only get it once, I think it’s an amazing idea,” said Bowman, noting that the alerts could have included more information. “I don’t want to have it over and over and over again.”

Florida resident Karina Motes, 32, heard the sound when her plane landed at LAX airport and she turned on her phone.

The noise was alarming to hear on a plane, she said.

“I think everybody is already jumpy on an airplane,” she said. “A couple of people might have heard it and maybe even become a little disconcerted.”

Her husband, Bart, also received three messages at once, "like bam, bam, bam," he said, but his were silenced.

Waiting in the LAX airport for his next flight toward home, he received seven more.

"The system maybe needs to be refined a little bit," Bart said, but he noted that once his initial annoyance subsided, he found the message helpful.

 While you’re online, you can also order color-matched cases and earbuds, specify the wallpaper you want or request an engraved message for the back. For now, only AT&T offers the color choices. Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile will offer only black or white until later this year.

You get your customized phone within four days, courtesy of Feature 2: it’s assembled right here in these United States. The components are still made in Asia, but they’re put together in Texas — you can lose less sleep worrying about underpaid Chinese workers.

Feature 3 is the most useful: touchless mode. As with Siri on the iPhone, you can command the phone to dial a number, send a text, open an app, set your alarm, look up a fact on the Web, and so on.

But unlike Siri, you don’t hold down a button to speak. The phone is always listening, even when it’s in your car’s cup holder.

It works remarkably well, as long as you precede your command with the salutation, “O.K., Google Now.” Without ever taking your eyes off the road, you can say, “O.K., Google Now. Give me directions to the Empire State Building.” Or, “O.K., Google Now. Remind me at 8 p.m. to give the dog his pill.” Or, “O.K., Google Now. Make an appointment for Thursday at noon with Bob.”

This truly inspired idea is a leap forward in both safety and convenience. It owes its success to a special chip that does nothing but listen all day long. It does, however, come with fine print.

For example, you have to train the phone to recognize your voice. In a silent room, you have to say “O.K., Google Now” exactly the same way three times.

If you’ve password-protected your phone, this feature loses much of its power. It won’t execute most commands until you first pick it up and unlock it. So much for touchless.

And Android’s voice commands are still no match for Siri. The phone recognizes the basics, like “Wake me at 7:30 a.m,” “Open Angry Birds,” “What’s Google’s stock price?” and “Check the forecast for Memphis on Friday.”

Unlike Siri, though, it can’t speak answers to queries about movies, sports and restaurants. It doesn’t recognize “Read my new text messages,” “Add pickles to my grocery list” or “Tweet, ‘I just saw a double rainbow.’ ” Android just doesn’t have the smarts.

Or the personality. Try saying “Tell me a joke” or “Do you believe in love?” or “Open the pod bay doors, Hal” to Siri; you’ll get hilarious replies. By comparison, the Moto X feels lobotomized.

But the Moto X does come with superb situational awareness.If you turn on the Assist feature, the phone changes modes according to the time and place: Driving, Meeting and Sleeping.

In Driving mode, the phone detects that you’re in motion. It starts reading new text messages aloud, routing calls to the speakerphone and, if you like, responding to calls with an automatic text message: “I’m driving and will get back to you soon.”

In Meeting mode, the phone knows when you’re in a meeting or at a show by consulting your calendar. During those hours, the phone mutes itself and can respond with a text message. (“In a meeting. I’ll get back to you soon.”) Smart little software!

Sleeping mode, as the name implies, mutes the phone during bedtime hours that you specify. (In Meeting and Sleeping modes, you can choose to make exceptions for Favorites and when a caller urgently redials.)

Feature 4: Motorola observed that many people wake their phones many times a day just to check the time or missed messages. The Moto X displays this information briefly — the time and an icon for a missed event — every time you move it. You don’t have to press a button; just pull it from your pocket or lift it from the desk. The company says that there’s practically no penalty to the battery life (which is about the same as its rivals: you have to charge it every night).

If that screen shows an icon, you can hold down your finger on it to view the details. Or swipe upward to open the corresponding app to reply. Sadly, this feature shows you only one notification — the most recent.

Feature 5: You can fire up the Camera app by twitching your wrist a couple of times, as though trying to dislodge a mosquito; it works whether the phone is on or off. Within two seconds, you’re ready to take a shot by tapping anywhere on the screen.

That’s wonderful,women shoes manufacturer and so is the streamlined app itself. But the camera leaves something to be desired. It does a ridiculous amount of focus hunting, so you get blurriness sometimes, and the videos are a bit soft.

It’s nice that Motorola is focused on polishing up a few innovative features that you’ll really use; this isn’t the Samsung Galaxy S4, weighed down by a bunch of unreliable gimmickware. It’s nice that the phone has a splash-resistant coating. It’s also nice that, because this is a Google phone, you’ll be able to upgrade it promptly to new Android versions as they come along. That’s often untrue of the Android phones from other companies.
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