Is it just me, or was that guy's natural tongue roll and faster paced speech tough to follow at times?
Anyway, no, I don't think it is all that obvious that it's not an iPhone 6 to all but iPhone 6 owners and some iPhone 5 owners. In fact, I think it's scary similar in many respects. Knowing Apple and their litigation friendliness, I do expect we will hear the gavel being slammed down at some point.
The fingerprint magnet comment I thought was interesting and then I saw the blue glass and those glaring white fingerprints. Ugh. Premium look in Blue glass?
It would have been far less obvious if the glass weren't tinted, but I just don't know what they were thinking there. And going with a glass back...I can already hear the sound of glass cracking. Now not only do you have the front glass to worry about, but the back too. Never would I want a glass back, not for fingerprints, not for scratching, not for cracking. Think how many of those are going to be getting cracked and yet how few will get repaired. I often see people using cracked front displays. Just Friday I passed a guy on our office steps swiping away at the screen of his iPhone 6 shattered display. If he won't pay to get that glass replaced, I am very confident he wouldn't pay to have the back glass of a phone like this replaced. It may be Gorilla Glass 4 (at least on the front, don't know about the back), but it's still glass.
I hate that the bezel of the camera protrudes beyond the body of the phone. It's just another place to get dinged. The phone will rest on the camera bezel and the bottom edge as a pesudo-three point base. The camera bezel is made of Aluminum, which is a very strong metal in some ways, but very easy to scratch and nick and ding. I've seen the iPhone 6 camera bezels all dinged up and scratched, and same with the S5.
The bottom facing speaker is a big fail IMHO. Other phones have adopted either a single, or in the case of some dual front facing speakers, and it's a HUGE improvement in the volume and quality of speakerphone and music audio. Anyone who knows anything about sound knows that the higher frequencies (the ones that dictate clarity), drop off dramatically when listened to off-axis from the speaker or speaker port. This is because higher frequencies are more directional the higher the frequency you go. Bass or low midrange sounds by comparison are either non-directional, or at best very low directional. This means that listening off-axis yields a muddy and bassy sound, voices are muffled, music sounds lifeless.
To compensate, they can increase the mid and high frequency responses but then what you have is an artifically manipulated frequency response that falls way short of addressing the problem, and makes the speaker sound harsh if you happen to have it facing you, or laying on a hard smooth surface which can better reflect those directional high frequencies. In other words, it sounds better when NOT pointed at you, but sounds terrible all other ways.
No removable battery, no SD card... Hmmm. Sounds like it just lost TWO of the biggest features that set it apart from much of its competition in the Android world. I'm actually disappointed. I've been a Moto fanboy for a long time, but I was actually rooting for this to be a better phone because I really was considering it as my next phone, but only if it had one or the other, or both features. It's sometimes no fun to be the odd man out, and instead it feels far more comfortable to have something in common with your neighbors. Everyone else around me has either an iPhone or a Samsung phone. There is only one other Motorola phone in my whole company location, a Moto X. I feel kinda lonely (not really, but...).
I am very much a fan of Samsung's screens and cameras. I really wanted to see them hit a new plateau and take a leap forward in the TouchWiz downsizing as well, but alas it is not to be.
