Motorola Moto G Power 5G | 2024 | Unlocked | Made for US 8/128GB | 50MP Camera | Midnight Blue

I will start off by saying I have no interest in $1000+ cell phones - to me they are disposable devices that get replaced every few years. That said, this is the perfect phone for my purposes. The coverage (carrier dependent), audio, display quality and speed are perfect for my needs. I use the this as - wait for it - a phone - as well for texting and taking some pictures, mapping directions, etc. This is my 4th or 5th Motorola phone, and I have always been happy with the value proposition. Even through my former carrier the Motorola phones have always had much less bloatware than, say Samsung (ugh) which loads up their phones with all kinds of nonsense. When you buy it unlocked it comes with even less bloatware, and you can delete or disable most of it. It is much faster than my old phone, which one would expect, with 8MB of RAM, and 128MB of internal storage. There are several things I like about this phone, a couple being that it still has a headphone jack, and also it will take a micro SD card for additional storage. Both of these features are found on very few phones these days. There are 2 features that are unique to Motorola on the phones I have had, including this one, that are REALLY convenient. You can open the camera app just by twisting your wrist, and you can turn on the flashlight by a chopping motion - no screen to wake up or app to start up - brilliant really. Also, the battery life (5000ma) is phenomenal. I can use it all day, leave it overnight, and it will still have plenty of charge the next day. I really only charge it every other day. I will note that I turn off as many background processes as I can, don't watch movies on the phone (really?), and in general use it as a tool, not a brain-sucking toy (editorial comment :-). If you want a well functioning device and don't want to spend huge dollars this phone may be right for you.

Great basic smartphone for those with simple daily needs of calls, texting, light web browsing for recipes or Wikipedia, and checking the weather. Battery life is great and the phone is light in weight with a nice, grippy-textured back. Phone speaker and alarm/call volumes are loud enough to hear without strain. Because it's plastic on the back, this actually means it's much more suited to those of us who probably won't use a case, making it slightly more durable. You can install all the basic Android apps (ebooks, banking, fitness, etc.) with 128 GB, but you can always add a microSD if that is not enough, especially if you want to take photos. It says it can do eSIM but I didn't try it since I already have SIM cards. The ONLY NEGATIVE that I found was that the UI (user interface) is NOT optimized for large fonts for those with vision problems. When you make the fonts larger for accessibility purposes, many of the settings in native Android apps such as Google, Google Maps > Location Sharing goes off screen. I had to minimize fonts to a tiny size to get everything to display so I could set up Google accounts properly. After that I turned back on the larger, accessible font size. I got two on sale for $149 each and that is a great value. I cannot imagine needing a $250+ smartphone for the above needs. Highly recommend Motorola Moto G 2025 for those who want a smartphone that runs snappy without needing anything super high tech or extra skinning bloat common in budget Samsung phones.

Seems like a solid phone with everything I need. I managed to disable the Google Assistant, which I find annoying, and all my other apps run correctly. What was really nice is the T-Mobile clerk in the local store refused to transfer my stuff from my old phone to the new one because I didn't buy it from TM, even though I'm a TM client for almost 8 years. But he didn't know that the new phone had a built in app to transfer everything via BlueTooth as soon as you begin setup and that's what I did and it worked well. Saved hours of setup time. A big thanks to Motorola for providing that software. A nice phone for a reasonable price.

I bought this after my Motorola razr 2023 broke. I've had and used this phone for a year now and I have alot of information. First off this phone is a high quality phone for a budget phone from the vegan letter back. The design and looks are good, better than the moto g stylus 2022 which had a horrible camera placement in my opinion. I don't have a opinion on durability however I did spill drinks on it, like almost the entire screen was splashed with water and it still works after cleaning it. I recommend a phone case like literally any other phone because it protects the phone, I have kept the phone case on mine and it still looks fresh like it came out of the box. Only very tiny scratches on the corners but it doesn't ruin the phone at all. ------- THE ONLY ISSUE I HAD was when I had way to many apps open, sometimes it is slow or freezes apps, but when I restart it, it stopped. (Restarts are needed for any phone to prevent glitches anyway) But sometimes it is a pain trying to do a certain task and it takes forever to load on certain times. Thats what took a star out of my review. ------ In general, this is a great budget phone, it has a lot of customization for how the UI looks, and it uses android 14. So if you want a phone that works with everyday tasks, this is the phone for you.

This Moto G is packed with features I'll probably never use but it functions just great. I did experience the latency that several reviewers mentioned but the recent android update seems to have fixed that issue. My activity is definitely being tracked if that is a concern. But that is a Google Chrome constant aggravation. And there is some bloat ware too. Be sure to assess the permissions on all the apps included with this device. I really like the extra storage for songs and photos. Take note it does not come with a charger of any kind and it's limited on the wattage of some super chargers that are available. The battery life is really good. I hope that's the case after a year or so.

Moto G Power 5G 2024 Received new unlocked phone, put my Boost Mobile sim in turned it on and used the included usb cable to transfer the files and settings over from my previous phone, a Moto G Fast from 2021. (I did not have contacts, photos, etc. backed up to the cloud) It works good. Had it 5 days and so far it is great for the price. Update: Now just skip to the end. My ringtone assignments were not transferred from the old phone - all using the default. I had to go manually add mp3's as ringtones and assign them to individuals. Also my alarms the same thing. It upgraded to Android 15 and I'm not sure how I like some things about Android 15 compared to the Android 11 that I was using previously. Eventually Android will be more bloated and full of idiotic (dis)improvements that hamper you than Windows if it isn't already. I really like the Moto Gestures but not a fan of the power button being reconfigured by default. The camera seems ok but no better than the 4 year old one with many less megapixels. Didn't notice anything new in the camera software or photo editor from the 4 year older one. Not sure but I think that I took some pictures that were verified with the shutter sound but then no pictures were in the album. I am saving camera pics to the micro sd card. I will keep an eye on this to see if its an actual issue. No charger/power plug is included. No USB A to USB C cable is included. A USB C to USB C cable is included. Good for phone to phone transfer or if you have a USB C female plug or PC/Tablet with USB C port. So I am using my 4 year old charger and cable even though I don't think its rated for as quick of charging as the new phone. I may have to get a 30W charger plug and cable or 15W charging pad. Its been a few months now. The phone still works good. As with all phones and connected devices now, the apps on it collect and send a lot of data on your wifi and using your bandwidth and data cap. I've been using the Gemini AI that comes up when you press the power button. Its hit or miss and you always have to know when to tell it its wrong and then it says "oh, you're right, I'm sorry". It uses much, much more power so a charge that would last 2 days normally will last, literally, 3 or 4 hours of chatting with the Gemini AI about anything, useful or not. Google keeps insisting that I backup my photos and such to their cloud but I don't want to - its not secure and they haven't paid me to use my data for training their AI that they are using to make billions of dollars off of as they jettison more and more employees, bankrupting the whole system, so why should I give it away for free? No, I just copy them to my PC instead, its much, much more private and secure. No need for a secretive shady middle man making like Igor stealing people's corpses in the night LoL. If Google wants data for training purposes we can discuss payment and usage terms. Until then, greedy hands off! OK so the last time I used my phone I was met with a notification from Android that my age could not be verified and so it changed parental controls and other settings on my phone. It did not give any other info. Coincidentally, the next time I went to YouTube on my PC, a message popped up that said my age couldn't be verified by Google AI so it is treating my account as a child account. If I didn't like it, send a copy of my driver's license to prove my identity and age. So it doesn't take a crystal ball to see the connection and know Google has treated me like a child and locked me out of my own phone based upon faulty AI output. Is this the Twilight Zone? I don't know but I'm not sending a copy of my license anywhere to fix Gemini Ai's mistake. I am online ordering an iphone now and thought I'd also update this review to let people know about Android and Google's ability to change settings on your own devices based upon some faulty AI logic or glitches or hallucinations or whatever they choose to call it. I call it my life.

Best moto so far! I've used moto phones for almost my whole life and this one takes the cake! Incredible screen, epic camera, good battery life, big screen, great sound, plenty of storage, runs fast, not insanely heavy but also not to light, the grippy on the back is amazing for not sliding off everything, and of course has the best moto feature of shake for flashlight!

I got the phone in September, it's now December and the phone has slowed down considerably. Games will crash if I'm listening to music at the same time, sometimes it takes me pressing the power button multiple times for it to actually respond and turn on, and more recently the song name on the drop-down will not match the song that is playing on Spotify (songs continue to play, but the image on the drop-down stays the same). All phones start to slow down and glitch over time, I just didn't think it would happen to quickly with this one. With it being like this 3 months in, I can't foresee it lasting as long as my last one (the Moto G7 Power). I will say that the speakers are really good (for a budget Motorola), and the camera quality is also pretty good. I honestly think that while phones are getting more powerful, the quality is also going down with each new release, and they last a little less time. I'm going to use this phone for a while because I paid good money for it. But after that I'm going to look around at some older phones.