Motorola Is Releasing Yet Another Cheap Moto G Power for Some Reason

Motorola launched its ultra-affordable Moto G Power earlier this yr, however right now the corporate simply introduced yet one more inexpensive Moto G Power. You could also be questioning: Why? Well, there are a pair variations.

The new $200 Moto G Power has the identical beginning worth and large 5,000 mAh battery because the earlier mannequin, with the brand new mannequin getting a barely smaller 6.5-inch 720p show (down from 6.6 inches) with a barely sooner 90Hz refresh price. And similar to the earlier mannequin, the brand new Moto G Power remains to be operating Android 11, with Motorola committing to simply one extra yr of OS updates (although you get two years of safety patches).

In truth, except for some minor beauty variations and Motorola shifting the brand new G Power’s fingerprint sensor to its again as an alternative of integrating it into the ability button like on the earlier mannequin, the principle distinction between the brand new Moto G Power and its predecessor comes all the way down to a couple of upgrades on the within of the machine.

Instead of a Qualcomm 662 chip, the brand new G Power incorporates a MediaTek Helio G37 processor, with the usual G Power getting barely extra base RAM (4GB) and storage (64GB), which is sweet contemplating you beforehand needed to pay $50 additional to get the identical stage of reminiscence and storage on the older G Power. And if you need much more room for apps and media, you can too pay for an upgraded mannequin with 128GB of storage.

Don’t get me mistaken, somewhat additional RAM and storage is all the time good, however after somewhat greater than six months available on the market, it looks like Motorola might have merely refreshed the earlier mannequin as an alternative of creating a completely new machine.

The new G Power incorporates a comparable triple rear digicam with a barely higher-res 50-megapixel major cam alongside a 2-MP macro cam and a 2-MP depth sensor.

Thankfully, Moto has left the G Power’s ports alone. The new mannequin nonetheless incorporates a devoted headphone jack, a USB-C port for energy and knowledge, and microSD card expandability. And whereas it’s not a lot, the brand new G Power additionally helps IP52 water resistance, which is sweet for guarding the telephone in opposition to sweat and a raindrop or two, however not a lot else.

And that’s about it. So whereas I can admire a stable funds telephone as a lot as the subsequent individual, the specs of the brand new G Power are so just like the earlier mannequin that I actually should query why Motorola feels the necessity to announce a second G Power for 2021.

Given the selection, I’d relatively see Motorola supply extra years of software program help for its present gadgets relatively than make new ones that can lose help after only one yr. Between the chip crunch and Moto switching to a MediaTek chip for this new G Power, it virtually looks like this new telephone could have been created to sidestep low provide for parts on the earlier telephone to be able to make sure that there’s no less than one mannequin of the G Power out there for folks to purchase.

And to make issues only a bit extra complicated, the brand new Moto G Power will solely be out there from Republic Wireless and Metro when the telephone formally goes on sale “sometime in the coming months,” with wider availability from carriers resembling Verizon, Boost Mobile, Xfinity Mobile, AT&T, Cricket, US Cellular, and Google Fi coming someday after that. If you need an unlocked model of the brand new G Power, it’s a must to wait till someday in “early 2022,” which once more, actually makes me query why Moto didn’t simply wait somewhat longer to present the G Power a correct revamp.