Motorola launches two new affordable smartphones; the Moto G Power (2021) and Moto G Play (2021)

[Redaktion]

The Moto G Power (2021) and Moto G Play (2021) are Motorola's newest low-cost offerings. Both phones come with entry-level specs and are priced accordingly. The former costs US$199 for the base variant with 3GM of RAM and 32GB of storage, while the latter will set you back by US$169.

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[vertigo]

I was really hoping this would be the year they would release something good, but instead it's just more ultra-cheap junk with too many compromises. I don't want to spend $1k on a phone, but I also don't want to go so cheap that it's barely an upgrade from my 4yo phone. We need more phones in the $400-500 range, and that can be used with one hand. I wish I could just put a current 600- or 700-series CPU and UFS storage in my Z Play, and maybe an extra GB or two of RAM. That's all I'd need to make it perfectly usable for another few years. I guess I'll just have to keep limping along with it for who knows how long, since noone can seem to release anything like that. Just so sick of how most phones are so similar, and so far off from what I want.

[Kim Taylor]

What a joke. While everyone else is adding better features to their phones, Moto is removing them? I bought the 2020 Moto G Power. It came with 64Gb internal memory. Why was it reduced to 32Gb in the 2021 version? Why was the selfie camera downgraded? SMH