Motorola is dropping the value of its value-focused Moto G telephone line. The brand new Moto G 5G, revealed Tuesday, begins at $200 and will get a higher-refresh-rate show than its predecessor. It arrives alongside a refreshed Moto G Energy 5G, which sticks to the identical $300 worth of final 12 months’s mannequin whereas getting its personal spec bump.
The pair of telephones arrive come final month’s Moto G Play for 2024, which additionally acquired its its personal worth drop from $170 in 2023 to $150 for this 12 months’s mannequin.
The Moto G 5G’s new display screen is a 6.6-inch show with a 120Hz refresh fee, which helps Dolby Atmos audio. The telephone comes with a 50-megapixel primary digicam, an 8-megapixel front-facing digicam and it is powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 chip. That processor is not the latest Qualcomm affords for this worth vary — there is a Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 — nevertheless it needs to be optimized for pictures and the telephone’s show.
Sadly that 50-megapixel primary lens is paired with a 2-megapixel macro digicam, and we’re but to see such a lens provide a lot assist to photographers. The telephone additionally has 128GB of storage, a 5,000-mAh battery and 18-watt quick charging.
The $299 Moto G Energy 5G affords extra reminiscence and a refreshed digicam over the $199 Moto G 5G.
The Moto G Energy 5G could have a much bigger 6.7-inch show. Just like the step-down mannequin, it will even have a 120Hz refresh fee, 128GB of storage, Dolby Atmos audio and a 5,000-mAh battery. It steps up with the digicam setup: There is a 50-megapixel primary digicam paired up with an 8-megapixel ultrawide lens — which ought to assist with zoomed-out pictures. It additionally has a 16-megapixel front-facing digicam and is powered by the Mediatek Dimensity 7020 processor.
New for the Moto G Energy this 12 months is 15-watt wi-fi charging, which remains to be a novel function for telephones on this worth vary.
Each telephones are providing a “RAM increase” function, which lets you broaden the onboard reminiscence by dipping into the built-in storage. Motorola says the function can bump up the Moto G 5G from 4GB of reminiscence to an expertise much like 8GB, and the Moto G Energy from its 8GB of built-in reminiscence to 16GB. We’ll have to check the declare to see if the function affords a noticeable enchancment, which we have additionally seen on telephones made by OnePlus.
Each telephones are sadly sticking to Motorola’s coverage of providing one 12 months of software program updates and three years of safety updates. Whereas it has been a longstanding coverage for Motorola’s G telephones, it is one which I would prefer to see enchancment on. Now that higher-end telephones, corresponding to these in Samsung’s Galaxy S24 and Google’s Pixel 8 lineups, get as many as seven years of software program updates, it is excessive time for lower-end telephones to supply a couple of extra years of assist.
However on the brilliant facet, each telephones are additionally now getting NFC for contactless funds. That is a function that is solely simply beginning to hit $200 telephones.
The Moto G 5G will likely be accessible from T-Cellular and Metro by T-Cellular on March 21, with an unlocked model approaching Might 2. It comes in a sage inexperienced colour. The Moto G Energy 5G will launch on Cricket first on March 22 earlier than extra carriers, and an unlocked mannequin will go on sale March 29.