Camera The new
Moto G sports an 8 megapixel camera with an LED flash.
Not exact matches
The company has also upgraded the camera on the
Moto G (Gen 3) which now
sports a 13 - megapixel rear camera with dual - LED flash and f / 2.0 lens, and a 5 - megapixel front camera.
Recently a vendor had leaked the photos of the
Moto G 2015 and the fact that the promotional video
sports the same device in it adds an extra bit of credibility.
Both the
G Watch R and
Moto 360 have circular displays, but LG's new wearable looks more like a traditional men's
sport watch.
Turbo Charging is one feature that
Moto G phones have
sported since the time of
Moto G3 Turbo Edition and this is one major plus.
Generally speaking, the displays of most budget phones, while not quite as high resolution as modern flagships (1080p vs. 1440p), are pretty decent — Motorola puts nice - looking panels in its
Moto G line, Blu devices typically have very nice displays despite their generally - low price points, and the Huawei Honor 5X
sports a 1080p display that readily competes with the flagships of yesteryear.
The LG
G Watch
sports a square 280 x 280 screen, under which beats a Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 processor, a fairly common component in first - generation Android Wear pieces that also graced the ZTE ZMAX and the original
Moto G. Another spec that was common among the first - generation devices, and is indeed shared with the aforementioned
Moto 360, is 512 MB of RAM, an amount that, in the land of smartphones, was relegated to devices from 2010, for the most part.
The phones received a sizeable upgrade from last year's
Moto G 2015, with the most noticeable change being the 5.5 - inch display, which now
sports a Full HD panel.
The
Moto G5 Plus is the first phone in the
Moto G series to
sport a metal back.
While the
Moto G disappoints with no expandable memory option allowing you to build on the internal 8GB / 16 GB of storage, the Motorola
Moto G 4
G does
sport a microSD slot - although it does cost slightly more.
The left side of the Motorola
Moto G is devoid of any features, while the top of the handset only
sports a centralized headphone jack.
The
Moto G Plus also
sports a fingerprint sensor, bringing that security feature to a sub - $ 250 phone.
Moto 360 followed Samsung Gear Live and LG
G Watch to become the third Android Wear - based smartwatch out on the market and a first one to
sport a circular display.
Up front is the biggest change in terms of design and features, with the
Moto G now
sporting front - facing speakers.
This new variant of the
Moto G handset is actually not all that different than the original, but it does
sport a more powerful SoC.
On the test hardware,
sporting the same 1.2 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 processor found in the ZTE ZMax and the original
Moto G alongside a measly 512 MB of RAM, Windows 7, incredibly, can boot and be used.
The
Moto G is an excellent budget Android phone,
sporting a chic design, a bold 5 - inch display and all - day battery life.