Motorola is introducing a brand new model of its Moto G Stylus 5G with a few good upgrades for 2022 — and, consequently, the next $499 price ticket. The 2022 version of the G Stylus 5G features a 6.8-inch display with an excellent clean 120Hz refresh price, a extra highly effective 600-series Snapdragon processor, a stabilized major digicam, and a bunch of built-in storage. The firm can also be debuting its $399, budget-oriented Moto G 5G in North America. (It was launched in Europe earlier this 12 months.)

The most noticeable replace on the 2022 G Stylus 5G — to not be confused with the 4G-only Moto G Stylus — is that 120Hz show for clean animations and scrolling. It’s a 1080p LCD panel, and it homes a 16-megapixel front-facing digicam. On the again, there’s a 50-megapixel major digicam with optical picture stabilization. Stabilization isn’t too frequent within the midrange class, and it ought to imply a greater likelihood of getting sharp pictures in decrease lighting circumstances. There’s an 8-megapixel ultrawide that doubles as a macro digicam, plus a 2-megapixel depth sensor.

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This 12 months’s G Stylus 5G additionally makes use of a Snapdragon 695 5G chipset, an improve from the 400-series processor in final 12 months’s mannequin. It’s additionally paired with 8GB of RAM, which is an effective bit greater than the 4GB or 6GB that’s extra typical of a midrange telephone. That ought to add as much as considerably higher efficiency than the 4G model of this telephone, which addresses our greatest grievance about final 12 months’s mannequin: that it wasn’t sufficient of an improve to justify its increased worth.

Beyond that, you get a 5,000mAh battery, a beneficiant 256GB of storage, help for sub-6GHz 5G (together with C-band frequencies), headphone jack, microSD card slot, and a charger within the field. How’s that for considerate? There’s additionally, clearly, a stylus included, which is saved within the telephone and facilitates extra exact handwriting and doodling.

The Moto G 5G (sans stylus) comes with a barely much less sturdy set of specs. There’s a MediaTek Dimensity 700 processor with 6GB of RAM, a 6.5-inch 720p LCD with 90Hz refresh price, and a 50-megapixel major digicam with out stabilization. You nonetheless get a 5,000mAh battery, headphone jack, microSD card slot, in-box charger, and 256GB of built-in storage. That’s a reasonably wholesome characteristic set for $399.

Both telephones will ship with Android 12, and Motorola is promising one extra OS improve after that. The Moto G Stylus 5G will go on sale on April twenty eighth with preorders beginning immediately; the Moto G 5G will probably be accessible on May nineteenth.