Motorola Moto G Play Review (2023)

Motorola Moto G Play Review (2023), This brand-new smartphone from 2023 includes three cameras, a 5000 milliamp-hour battery, and a six and a half-inch, 90 Hertz display. an expansion storage slot for Micro SD cards For $19, get water resistance and a headphone jack.This blog will focus on the cheap phones that are getting better because I recently received a phone called the Moto G play for 2023, and the author has been paying attention to what Motorola has been doing.

On the outside, it’s a big phone, which I like, and it has a 6.5-inch flat 90 Hertz LCD display. The screen isn’t the best-looking you’ve ever seen; it only has 720p resolution, which means that occasionally I can literally see individual pixels. 

It’s laid out well, absolutely does not bend, creak, or do anything weird like that, and you might have heard plastic is not the end of the world when it comes to a smartphone build obviously the premium ones will really like to feel more premium and heavy and so glass will do that but this is frequently more durable than glass if you drop it and some people like a lighter weight phone. Moreover, it has a respectably quick fingerprint reader right in that iconic Motorola dimple spot. Although it is ip52 and not waterproof, it is water resistant.

What about the battery, you ask? It’s excellent perfectly unironically not exaggerating it’s excellent, which actually shouldn’t be a surprise given the specs it’s a 5000 milliamp hour battery powering a phone with a 720p display so you’re good for a day and a half easy two light days is no problem with seven hours of screen on time now it only supports up to 10 watt charging, which is pretty slow, and there is no wireless charging.

 I’m delighted to report that this camera is functioning, which is exactly what you’d want for at this price, so yeah, it’s working. I’m simply not a fan of the triple camera layout here because I know they’re trying to look luxury and triple cameras look premium but the top one is a two megapixel macro camera and the bottom one is a two megapixel depth camera for portrait mode so I’m mostly looking for this primary 16MP camera.

So this phone has a mediatek helio G37 chip inside and three gigabytes of RAM. Other phones with this chipset include the Techno spark 9, the infinix hot 12, and the honour x7a, all of which retail for much under $150 USD. The geekbench score of the iPhone 14 is this, and the geekbench score of the Moto G Play is this, so when I say it’s trying to save processing power by not doing detailed portrait cutouts, I mean it completely lacks any meaningful processing power, and I’m not nitpicking about how it’s just slow on some high-end games or something

This phone has a variable 90 Hertz display, but to be honest, it would have taken me a while to notice because it is almost never anywhere near 60 hertz it’s constantly hanging up and stuttering everywhere it’s slow to unlock it’s slow to open apps not just huge apps just normal apps even the settings app takes an embarrassingly long time to open and even longer to search through things

Obviously, it’ll have a much better chipset so Snapdragon 855 is a few years old but it’s much more capable and part of an overall smoother better performance profile with faster storage and more RAM it has a much much nicer OLED screen which is sharper brighter and actually hits the 90 Hertz refresh rate all the time it has way more built-in storage although it’s not expandable and it has a much better set of cameras

This little Flagship will do 30 watts of wired charging so it’s pretty unanimous here but one distinct advantage of the budget phone is that because it’s new it will get software updates further into the future than the old phone now this is theoretically of course because Motorola does not have the best track record here so it depends on what phone we’re talking about but the Samsung A14 5