Moto G Power review
Our Verdict
The Moto One thousand Power lasts even longer than its tape-setting predecessor while costing the same amount. This is the budget phone to purchase if you lot want great battery life — unless you get the newer Moto Yard Power (2021) instead.
For
- The best battery life we've tested
- Low price tag
- Decent performance and photos for the price
- Works on all networks
Confronting
- Screen isn't very colorful
- No optical zoom
Tom's Guide Verdict
The Moto K Power lasts fifty-fifty longer than its record-setting predecessor while costing the same corporeality. This is the budget phone to buy if y'all desire smashing battery life — unless yous get the newer Moto Thousand Power (2021) instead.
Pros
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The best bombardment life we've tested
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Low price tag
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Decent performance and photos for the cost
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Works on all networks
Cons
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Screen isn't very colorful
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No optical zoom
Editors' Note: This review looks at the Moto Grand Power released by Motorola in 2020. The phone maker has since come up out with a new version, the Moto G Power (2021), that features the long-lasting bombardment and toll, in addition to a sub-$200 version. Read our Moto 1000 Power (2021) review to see how that new telephone measures upwards to this model.
The Moto G Power that came out in 2020 had a tough act to follow. Its predecessor, the Moto G7 Power, was a bargain hunter's dream telephone, delivering the best bombardment life of any mobile device while only costing $249. That's a package that should go anyone's attention, so it's no wonder the Moto G7 Power had been a mainstay on our list of the best inexpensive phones.
Moto G Ability Specs
Starting price: $249
OS: Android ten
Screen size (Resolution): vi.four-inch LCD (2300 x 1080)
CPU: Snapdragon 665
RAM: 4GB
Storage: 64GB
Expandable: Yes, upward to 512GB
Rear Cameras: 16MP main (f/one.seven), 8MP ultra broad angle (f/2.2), 2MP macro (f/2.2)
Forepart Camera: 16MP (f/ii.0)
Battery Size: 5,000 mAh
Battery Life (Hrs:Mins): 16:10
Size: 6.3 ten 3 x 0.38 inches
Weight: seven ounces
For the 2020 model, Motorola didn't change those 2 fundamental features. The Moto Grand Power notwithstanding has the 5,000-mAh battery that helped the previous version of this phone outlast the competition. And at the time of its launch, you lot could go the Moto M Power for the same $249 price as before.
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If you hate paying big bucks for your smartphones, yous really should consider the Moto G Power, fifty-fifty when taking budget options from Apple, Google and OnePlus into consideration. While bombardment life remains the main selling point here, our Moto G Ability review found enough additional benefits like solid operation and good-for-their-price cameras that make this phone even more of a steal than it was before. About the only reason not to consider this model is that there'south a newer version — the Moto G Power (2021) — which besides lasts a long time on a charger and comes in a cheaper version.
Moto K Power review: Price and availability
Even with the newer Moto G Power (2021) available, you tin can still find the 2020 edition of the Moto G Power at retailers and carriers. Google Fi, for case, continues to sell this version of the Moto Thousand Ability, though at a substantial discount from its regular price of $249. You can also buy the phone unlocked from Motorola, and retailers including Amazon, Best Purchase and B&H Photo.
If you do opt for the 2020 edition of the Moto Yard Ability, make certain you're getting it at a discounted price. Not only does the Moto M Power (2021) have the same $249 price as this phone, yous tin can also find a $199 version of the newer model that features less RAM.
Moto Thousand Power review: Design
You volition not fault last year's Moto 1000 Power for a flagship device, especially when yous choice up the phone. It's not that Motorola'south phone looks bad — it's only that the G Ability uses a plastic chassis and there's not a lot you can do to disguise that. Motorola has given this telephone a glossy finish on the back, which adds some smoothen to the phone's looks.
If you dislike the trend toward big, blocky photographic camera arrays, you'll capeesh how the Moto G Power handles its trio of rear lenses. They descend vertically downwardly the left side of the phone with the main shooter all by itself. The ultra wide angle and macro lenses are in a separate crash-land along with the telephone's wink. That leaves infinite in the middle of the phone for an easy-to-find fingerprint sensor.
As for the front photographic camera, Motorola has placed it within a punch-hole cutout in the upper left corner of the phone's 6.4-inch display. That has allowed Motorola to shrink the Moto One thousand Power's bezels, though they haven't gone away completely, particularly on the bottom of the screen.
The five,000 mAh battery that serves every bit the Moto K Ability'south calling menu also makes this a chunky telephone. The G Power measures 6.3 x 3 ten 0.38 inches, making information technology larger than the 5.seven x 2.7 x 0.iii-inch Pixel 4a, particularly when it comes to thickness. At 7 ounces, the Moto One thousand Power is relatively weighty, as well, outweighing both the Pixel 4a (5.04 ounces) and Nokia 7.2 (vi.35 ounces).
Y'all'll get a 3.5mm headphone jack on the Moto G Power, an increasingly rare just notwithstanding welcome sight. Motorola says the phone is "water repellant," simply there's no IP rating. I'd guess that lite spray and the odd sprinkle volition likely pose no threat, just don't driblet this telephone in the puddle.
Moto G Power review: Brandish
If there's one expanse where the Moto G Power really comes across as a budget phone, information technology'southward the phone's brandish. Motorola uses an LCD panel, which you'd expect in a sub-$300 phone. The 6.4-inch screen features Full HD+ resolution, which once more is pretty standard on a telephone of this kind.
My issue with the Moto G Power screen is that colors don't look vibrant on the phone's display. Watching the No Time to Die trailer on the Moto Yard Power, scenes looked particularly shadowy, even when brightly lit. A shut-up on Daniel Craig's confront looked especially dark on the Moto G Power's screen, when information technology appeared better lit on other phones I've been using lately. Similarly, some older clips from Conan O'Brien's show looked a little diddled out on the Moto Thousand Power's display.
Our lab testing backed upward my easily-on impressions. The telephone showcases just 97% of the sRGB colour spectrum in its default setting (which, ironically, is the saturated mode). That's consequent with other phones in the latest Moto G series, including the Moto 1000 Fast (97%) and Moto K Stylus (98%). To put that in perspective, the Nokia seven.2, another LCD-equipped budget phone, managed to capture 153% of the colors.
At least the colors on the Moto Grand Power are fairly authentic, given its Delta-E rating of 0.33. (The closer the number is to zippo, the better.) That's virtually what terminal year'south Moto G7 Power (0.35) was able to deliver.
While the colors on the Moto Yard Ability screen didn't impress me, the display's brightness was more satisfactory. Nosotros measured effulgence at 500 nits for the Moto G Power, just ahead of the average for smartphones. Both the Pixel 4a and iPhone SE are brighter, at 681 nits and 653 nits respectively, but when using the Moto G Ability outside, I never had to creepo up the display to maximum effulgence just to see the screen.
Moto K Power review: Cameras
Become back to just a few years ago when putting more than one camera on a budget phone was unthinkable. These days, Motorola has stuck three lenses on the back of the Moto Chiliad Ability. And while they're not going to produce photos that surpass what you can get from the latest iPhone 12 and Pixel five models, the Moto G Power cameras hold their ain against the best budget shooters — so much so, that we included the Moto G Power among the best photographic camera phones at one indicate. It's difficult to find a better photographic camera on a phone that costs less than $300, though the Moto G Power (2021) tries with a more powerful primary lens.
The master camera on the back of the older Moto Chiliad Ability is a sixteen-megapixel camera with an f/1.vii discontinuity. That'due south augmented by an 8MP ultra broad angle shooter with a 118-caste field of view plus a 2MP macro camera. The lack of a telephoto lens on the Moto M Power ways that whatever zooming in yous practice will be digital and likely non as sharp as what an optical zoom tin can produce.
And then how practise the Moto G Ability's cameras fare in real-world testing? To detect out, I pitted the new Moto phone against a Pixel 3a XL. The Pixel 4a hadn't come out yet when nosotros tested this phone, and Google's 3a lineup boasted the best budget photographic camera phones nosotros had tested in the past year.
In the example of this photograph of some California poppies that have sprung upwardly in my backyard, information technology's articulate the more expensive Pixel 3a Forty takes the better shot. Information technology's better able to fence with the shadow bandage over my yard, keeping the flowers in the background equally focused as the ones in the forefront. The Moto G Power'southward prototype is brighter, simply the blossom petals aren't as sharp and the shot doesn't seem as balanced as what Google's phone produced.
Switching to the macro lens on the Moto M Power, we come across the benefits of that dedicated camera. I could become up close to one of the poppies and go a fairly detailed shot, with noticeable patterns on the flower's petals. The edges of those petals are a little jagged, though, and then it's not quite the perfect pic.
Moving within to take a picture of dinner, the Moto Thou Power gets the meliorate of the Pixel 3a XL in terms of color. Google's telephone struggled with the light coming in from my dining room window, and every bit a event, the photograph has a blueish cast, which is particularly evident on that buttered bread in the background. The Moto G Ability'due south photo is brighter, and the colors more true to life, though some of the pieces of sausage and the dab of mustard aren't kept in focus. Even with its less pleasing color, the Pixel'south shot is in focus and more detailed.
Neither the Moto G Power or Pixel 3a has a defended telephoto lens for optical zooms, just I wanted to meet how the software on both phones dealt with a zoomed-in shot of a Declension Guard gunkhole docked beyond the channel from where I live. (I approximated a 3x zoom on both phones, as there's no number readout on the Google phone as you zoom in.)
The Pixel 3a XL continues to breast-stroke everything in a bluish light, which affects everything from the white boat to the grey clouds. The Moto G Power produces more realistic colors, but the messages and numbers on the side of the boat aren't as sharp. Score a win for the Super Res Zoom feature on Google's Pixel phones.
One thing the Moto K Power tin can do that Google's Pixel 3a lineup can't, though, is zoom out. I switched to the ultra wide angle on the Motorola telephone to capture more of the surrounding mural around the Declension Guard transport. The result is an impressive skyscape, though the objects in the far background — like the transport itself — accept lost focus.
The Moto Yard Ability is at a disadvantage when the lights become down, as it lacks a dedicated Nighttime style. (Yous will notice that feature on the Moto G Stylus, the G Power'southward slightly pricier sibling.) A photo of an later on-hours stuffed beast party in my lawn illustrates just what you're giving up by foregoing a budget phone capable of nighttime photography.
The Pixel 3a Forty keeps the atmospheric ruddy lighting of the scene while balancing the white lamp in the background and keeping all the stuffies in focus. The Moto G Ability manages to capture some of the scene, thanks to the ambient lighting, simply information technology's non terribly detailed and as well murky. (I likewise took a shot using the Moto K Power's wink, which produced a much clearer shot, although all the lighting effects were wiped out.)
I'thou not impressed by the Moto G Power's take on portrait shots. The bokeh in this photograph of my daughter seems haphazardly applied, with the upper left corner of the bottlebrush bush behind her not even blurred. You're able to adjust the blur and lighting effects to several different presets on the Moto 1000 Power, but I suspect nearly users would just prefer to let the computational photography exercise the piece of work for them. That certainly happens on the Pixel 3a XL, which also cuts in closer for its portrait shots.
It's a like story on selfies where the background blur on the Moto G Power isn't as polished as what you'll see from other phones. That said, the warmer colors on the Moto One thousand Plus' selfie are more pleasing and accurate, even if the Pixel 3a Xl did a amend task preventing some sunlight off to the right from blowing out parts of my shirt.
Some special features found in other Motorola phones brand a return advent on the Moto G Power. Spot Color uses on-board AI to filter out all but one color of a shot. The effect tin be quite striking in some photos, similar this picture of xanthous and orange flowers where only the yellowish remains. But I had my all-time luck using the feature with ii contrasting colors — a photograph of pinkish and royal flowers only flummoxed the Moto Thou Power.
The Moto G Power also supports a Cinemagraph feature that lets you specify sure areas of a however shot that can include movement — substantially turning your photos into a GIF. I was pretty impressed by this photo where my wife is pouring a glass of wine — and y'all can meet the wine pouring — at to the lowest degree until I noticed the vase in the background was also pulsing. Exactly what was in that wine?
Moto G Ability review: Operation
You lot don't buy a phone like the 2020 Moto G Ability expecting a workhorse, merely the Snapdragon 665 system-on-fleck powering the phone should be more than than plenty to handle typical tasks. Motorola also includes 4GB of retentivity to help keep things peppy, though at that place'due south only 64GB of storage. Need any more than, and you have to turn to a microUSB card.
On Geekbench 5, which measures overall performance, the Moto G Power turned in a multicore score of one,387. That's improve than the 1,336 result produced past the Pixel 3a and its Snapdragon 670 processor, but not equally good equally the 1,498 outcome that nosotros got from the Snapdragon 660-powered Nokia seven.two. For what information technology's worth, the newer Moto Thou Power with its Snapdragon 662 chipset, turned in a slightly improve number than its predecessor with a 1,437 effect in Geekbench.
Both of the Nokia and Pixel phones outpaced the 2020 Moto Thousand Power when information technology came time to test graphics using 3DMark's Sling Shot OpenGL test. The Moto G Power recorded an average score of i,734, well behind the respective 2,054 and 2,543 results produced by the Nokia 7.2 and Pixel 3a.
That said, I didn't run across any problems when using the Moto G Power to switch betwixt apps, browse the web and do other basic tasks you'd look a smartphone to handle. Even the demanding PUBG Mobile shooter played alright on the Moto G Power, despite a few choppy moments here and at that place. Y'all'll find better performing phones than the Moto G Power, but they'll crave you to pay up for the gain in performance.
Moto Thousand Power review: Battery life and charging
This is a new high score. Thanks to its 5,000 mAh battery, the Moto Yard Power lasted an epic 16 hours and x minutes on our web surfing battery test. That beats the Moto G7 Power past more than half-an-hr. Fifty-fifty the newer Moto G Ability (2021) falls behind its predecessor (though that phone's xiv-60 minutes plus consequence is the 2nd all-time outcome of currently bachelor smartphones).
Last year's Moto G Stylus — a telephone with the same screen size and processor as the Chiliad Power just with a smaller 4,000 mAh battery — lasted 12 hours, 13 minutes on our examination. Equally good every bit that outcome is, information technology's still almost 4 hours shorter than the Moto G Power.
Let's credit the Moto G Power'south Snapdragon 665 chipset, which likely manages power more efficiently than the Snapdragon 632 in the Moto G7 Power. Whatever the reason, the Moto Grand Ability has the best phone battery life of whatever handset we've tested, then you lot likely won't need to accuse it after a 24-hour interval's worth of use.
Just to give you an ideal on how impressive this result is in such an inexpensive phone, the TCL 10L costs the same as the Moto G Power and runs on the aforementioned Snapdragon system-on-scrap. Notwithstanding, that telephone only lasted ix hours, 59 minutes on our exam — the Moto G Power trounce it by more than 6 hours.
Other Moto G phones likewise fare well in our battery exam, though the Moto One thousand Power leaves them in the grit. The Moto Yard Fast lasted a very impressive 12 hours, 17 minutes, and the G Power still had it crush by nearly 4 hours.
That extra long battery life is adept, because when you demand to re-charge the Moto K Power, y'all're going to need to cake out some time to fill that v,000 mAh power pack with the included 10-watt brick. Later xv minutes of charging a drained Moto G Ability, I got the phone back to ten% ability; that number grew to 21% subsequently half-an-hr. Dissimilarity that with the Pixel 4a, which has a much smaller 3,140 mAh battery to recharge. Yet, its included 18-watt charger gets the task washed quicker, getting to half-chapters after xxx minutes.
Moto Grand Ability review: Software and special features
Motorola takes a light hand with the Android skin it puts on its phones, and that thankfully continues with the Moto Thou Power. You'll find Android 10 on this phone with very little embroidery, salvage for a prominently displayed Moto app that offers tips and tricks about using your new phone.
If yous've non used a Motorola telephone before, those tips include your introduction to Moto Deportment, which are actually helpful shortcuts for getting the most out of the Moto G Power.
For instance, by rapidly twisting your wrist twice, y'all tin can launch the camera app, which can be a real time-saver compared to unlocking your phone and launching the camera with a tap. Two chopping motions belongings the Moto Grand Power turns on the telephone'southward flashlight, which I as well detect helpful. I'm less enamored with Motorola's 3-finger touch to take a screenshot.
While the Moto G Power's Fingerprint sensor is easy to locate on the dorsum of the phone, I found it to be less responsive than I normally prefer. It usually took at least two and sometimes 3 presses of my registered fingerprints for the Moto G Powers sensor to recognize that it was me trying to unlock the phone.
Motorola tin can be stingy with Android updates. This particular telephone is only at present getting an update to Android 11, and that'southward probably it for major Android updates. (You'll notwithstanding get security patches.) Of course, the Moto G Power (2021) holds no reward here, as it also shipped with Android x and will be done with Android updates once Android 11 is installed.
Moto G Power review: Verdict
Just past retaining the long-lasting battery of the Moto G7 Power, the Moto Grand Ability was already in the conversation for a must-take device for budget-witting shoppers. But this telephone isn't only counting on its longevity to win you over. It also performs well enough to meet the needs of the average smartphone user, and the cameras — while not the best y'all tin can find on a budget device — produced some pretty eye-catching shots during our testing for the Moto M Power review.
If you value mobile photography above all, you may want to consider other low-cost options, specially at present that the Pixel 4a is here and merely $100 more than the Moto G Power. The iPhone SE 2020 is another strong option, with a more premium drinking glass-and-metal blueprint, improve cameras and much faster A13 Bionic chip. But you'll need to pay at least $150 more than for those mid-range phones than yous would for the Moto Yard Ability.
The OnePlus Nord is another budget-minded phone that'due south fared well in initial battery tests (though nowhere about what the Moto G Power can offer). But that phone is only available in Europe and India at the moment, and the Moto Grand Power is notwithstanding likely to toll less should OnePlus decide to bring the Nord to this country.
The biggest competitor to the Moto G Ability may be... the Moto G Ability. The newer 2021 model didn't last as long on a charge in our testing, but its battery life still impresses and its components are i year newer than the the 2020 edition of the phone we're reviewing here. The Moto One thousand Power remains a compelling pick, especially if you can find a discounted price, but if you want the best Motorola has to offering, the Moto 1000 Power 2021 is the better buy at this point.
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