Moto G - 2025 | Unlocked | Made for US 4/128GB | 50MP Camera | Forest Gray

I had to replace my iPhone again and found this phone for an amazing price. I know it's refurbished, but you can't even tell. It's flawless like a brand new phone. I wanted something that was unlocked and not under a contract. This phone was exactly what I was looking for. I was able to take it to my current carrier and started using it right out of the box. It was easy to set up. The battery life is out of this world. The camera is phenomenal quality. I love the professional settings. It is very fast on the 5G network. In my opinion, it is way too big. If you have small hands like me this phone may not be a good fit. For the price I paid I'll make it work. It didn't come with a screen protector or a case, but found accessories for it right here on Amazon. Highly recommend.

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.

I got this phone as a backup phone for a string of constant phones getting demolished prematurely. This is a very cheap and very usable phone. I did test drive it for weeks and can say this can be daily phone if needed. I got a folding cover case to upscale the phone and make it travel friendly. It is light and grip is exceptional. the durability is not top knotch but for the price this is easily overlooked. and phone OS usage is simple and straight forward. overall this is definately a goto if you need a phone and got no money in a hurry. this is get it quick and gets the job done.

This is a really nice phone. I've always tried to stick with Motorola after having worked for them in the late 80s, early 90s. This was an upgrade to a 5G Ace I had for several years. This Motor 5G Power is pretty fast. The extra power is good. I didn't need this but I felt it would be better in the long run. It lives up to its claims in lasting long. It lasts much longer than my 5G Ace and it should. Using the phone you sometimes notice where a compromise to make the battery last longer was made. Certain things don't make sense about why they did it. Other quirks about it are like multi function buttons which don't make sense. The phone is fast but you'll get frustrated waiting on it at odd times. I use swipe to type with. If I try to swipe at the speed I'm used to with the 5G ACE it will skip weird, etc. Wifi works great other than surfing. The 5G connectivity and data usage work fantastic. My Ace was always out of range for any 5g signal. The 5G connectivity has been important to me. This phone has so many pros the cons won't really matter to most. I have monster hands that most people don't. For me, it went from hard to type to very hard to type. The multi function buttons seem unnecessary and unintuitive. Lots of notifications turned on in the first use which are difficult to get turned off. And you think you have those turned off but another one pops up. Annoying but manageable. A good Pro for me is the display. I have a form of AMD which makes it hard to read phones sometimes. This phone has more adjustments for fonts and icon sizes than ever seen before. And the front or rear are very sharp. Taking a photo of a car one day when I noticed the cars lines were more visible on the screen. (For me) Things like those are why I love these Moto phones. I'd give it 5 stars if not for the speed and quirks. Those may not matter to anyone who really needs the power. I was hospitalized for a few days recently. The phone charger I grabbed going out the door was broken by the time I was in a room. The phone lasted the weekend until I could get s working charger. The phone looks great in the green color. The fingerprint sensor is a little hard to calibrate but it works great. It's covered up with the case I use. There are some cases that have an opening to use the sensor. Overall, a great phone. Too much sacrificed for power. I'm probably going to purchase a regular Moto 5G

I bought this phone brand new over a year ago now, and it works it's very decent especially for the price you can't beat it, that I swear. This is a very decent phone at 8 GB of RAM this is pretty fast responsive and hold a whole lot of pictures and can run multiple apps at the same time that's what I like from a phone.

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.

It's a nice phone that does what I need it to do. I'm in my 70s and retired so am not a "power user" as some folks are, - thus my needs are for a phone that connects well, has the basic apps and functions, and works well every time. This phone has a 3.5 jack which I really appreciate, a good camera, and it connects to both cell and wifi signals. I've used it as a wifi hotspot several times now, - this is a big one when I travel and my cheap tablet won't connect to the hotel/timeshare wifi, and the phone's hotspot works flawlessly.

TLDR: This phone is reliable enough, but there's definitely a reason it's inexpensive. If you just need a smartphone for the most basic of tasks and don't really use social media or watch videos on your phone, this may do it for you. It doesn't get the greatest reception, but it has never failed to make or receive a call or text. If you're someone who has any hint of enjoying tech devices or watches lots of videos or cares about the camera in the slightest, take my advice and pick a higher end device if at all possible. After having a few Motorola phones, yes, maybe I'm a bit of a fan. When I bought a Moto X Pure and it had the manufacturer option of being engraved and kept up with phones of the time for way less cost, I loved having spent half the cost of some of my friends and my phone performing just as well. The same experience was had with my Moto G Stylus 5G 2021. It's honestly awesome to have someone ask what phone you have and then see the surprise when you tell them that it cost half as much as they expected and performs notably on par. Again, it is reliable enough. Battery lasts me all day, usually finding myself with about 20% left at the end of the day, and I browse social media a fair bit and watch about an hour of YouTube on my phone each day. The fingerprint reader is trouble free and seems to nearly instantly make the phone react whether I'm unlocking the phone or logging in to a biometrics-enabled account. It was awesome to be able to add in a MicroSD card for way more storage.. That's where anything notable ends I'm afraid. The first thing I noticed: wow the screen is just barely acceptable. The screen doesn't get very bright and I can now only have 4 columns of apps on the screen rather than the 5 I'm accustomed to. YouTube videos do not look particularly good on it either. I then was showing a friend a video in an area I normally would not think twice about but now we could barely see what was on the screen. This was outside on a cloudy day and I know my previous phone screen would have been bright enough to compensate. Sharing the video was when I noticed the second thing. The built in speaker basically may as well not be there at all. It sounded about as loud as when someone is on a call, has their phone against their head, and has the volume all the way up but not on speakerphone. I could deal with the lackluster speaker and screen, I mean after all it is a budget phone and if that's the trade-off to be made I can come to accept it. The largest trade off comes to light after some time, and I should have thought it more likely. This phone has only 4GB of RAM and not a notable processor by any means. I'm not an expert on Android, and honestly part of me wanted to see what a very budget oriented phone, but from a notable manufacturer, was really like. Yes, it lags. If you're just going to be going through contacts and on the phone with them or texting or doing basic web browsing, it's fine. However, if you're scrolling feeds and trying to watch reels or look at pictures, the lag is very noticeable. Sometimes when using it for navigation, after you turn it will freeze up for about 700 feet of travel. 2FA apps can take noticeably longer to open or send notifications. This is just not a fast phone at all. Some of the lag may actually be related to the phone not getting very good reception. I've never been unable to make a call or send a text with it, but even short reels seem to take forever to load sometimes, then I notice that it seems to be indicating a lower signal strength than I remember my last phones having. The camera is not good at all. I expected this to a degree, but despite its claim of 50MP, it feels worse than any other phone I've had in the last 10 years. My previous phone, a Moto G Stylus 5G 2021 and my Razer Phone II from prior to the G Stylus, both had cameras that put this to absolute shame. I think the Samsung Galaxy Note 5 from 2015 had a better camera. I cannot get it to take photos which I would accept for a sale posting (my standards may be a bit high as I like to make sure the photo can be zoomed in to to read serial numbers and such). Being able to take a shot in .5 seems unnecessary until you have a phone that doesn't have the ability to. The bottom line is that this phone is reliable and it does work. If you need an inexpensive phone or know someone who just needs a basic phone, this will work. However, if you have the ability to buy a phone that's a step up, maybe with more RAM and a more full-featured camera, I would suggest you do. I was hoping to be at least happy enough with this very budget friendly phone, hoping for something that could reasonably get me by for a few years, but the thought of putting up with the lag and noticeably subpar reception any longer is a source of frustration during a time when I am urgently needing to lower the stress in my life. I find myself eying the Moto G Stylus 5G 2024 with its 8GB of RAM, much nicer camera, and higher resolution screen.