The Moto G Power Is A Phone Battery Behemoth That Costs Only 250

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The Moto G Power ($250 at Motorola) is one of the newest members of the Motorola G budget phone family. It follows in the same steps as last year's Moto G7 Power with both a wallet-friendly price and a gigantic battery. At its core, the $250 Moto G Power is similar to the more expensive Moto G Stylus ($300 at Motorola). (It's sold as the Moto G8 Power in the UK for £220. It's not available in Australia.) Both come at a time when sheltering-in-place means many of us depend on our phones to stay connected with friends, du lịch bắc kinh family or work. At the same time, bắc kinh millions of people are in financial distress and can't afford a new phone or to replace a broken one, especially when new phones can cost upwards of a thousand dollars.







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Moto G Power



$250 at Best Buy

$250 at Motorola


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How it stacks up

Motorola Edge Plus 8.5 $1,000 Apple iPhone SE (2020) 8.6 $399 Apple iPhone 11 9.0 $699



Like


Long battery life so far

Headphone jack

Low Price

Macro camera is so much fun




Don't Like


Video recording is rough

Photos suffer from noise




And that's where Motorola stands out from the growing crowd of budget phones by offering both an affordable price and premium features. That's not to say that the Moto G Power isn't without compromises. It doesn't have an IP rating for dust and water resistance and it lacks wireless charging and NFC. But Motorola sensibly traded away such features to keep the price low.

Apple followed a similar formula with its new iPhone SE, announced Wednesday, which omits features found in its higher-end phones such as the iPhone 11 ($699 at Apple) and 11 Pro in order to hit a $399 price. That's affordable for an iPhone, but it's still $149 more than the Moto G Power.





And that brings me to timing. Unless you need a new phone just this second, I'd wait a week or two to buy one. The new iPhone SE goes on presale Friday. There are a handful of new Samsung Galaxy budget phones on the way and there are rumors of a follow-up to last year's Google Pixel 3A ($400 at Walmart). 

But if you're on a budget and looking for a phone with an absolutely mind-blowing battery life, the Moto G Power deserves your consideration. Its 5,000-mAh battery is the same size as the one in the $800 LG V60 and the $1,400 Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra. To use a different metric: You could buy five Moto G Power phones for the price of a single Galaxy S20 Ultra and use the money left over to take a loved one out to dinner.


Moto G Power vs. Moto G Stylus: Key differences


Moto G Power costs $250; the Moto G Stylus costs $300.

Moto G Stylus has a 4,000-mAh battery; the Moto G Power has a 5,000-mAh battery.

Moto G Power has 64GB of storage; the Moto G Stylus has 128GB of storage.

Aside from the macro camera, the Moto G Power and Moto G Stylus have different rear cameras.

Moto G Stylus has a built-in stylus.

Moto G Power comes in Smoke Black; the Moto G Stylus in Mystic Indigo.