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

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.

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.

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.

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

This verges on top-of-the-line when it comes to *affordable* phones. It has better specs in every important way than the Moto G 2025, and is about equivalent in important ways to phones that cost twice as much. It's about the same form factor and style as its ancestor, the Moto 5G Ace from a couple of years ago (my prior phone). Getting it here instead of from your provider's store means you have less annoying bloatware installed, and it may even be cheaper too. I'm satisfied with the G Power's speed, storage and memory, ease of use, camera quality (vastly better than the Ace!), all of it. The adjustability for people without great vision is a plus (for me anyway). I really don't have anything to complain about with this phone. I tried the Moto G 2025 (the "little sibling" of this Moto G Power), and it just didn't have the capacity I wanted (I'm a bit of an app and media hoarder). I tried to get the Moto G Power from Metro, but their store staff said there were none avialable from them any longer in the entire area, so I ordered it here instead. The data backup (from old phone) and restore (to new phone), including all apps, appears to have worked flawlessly. I did not lose apps, or contacts, or media. Various apps did have to be reconfigured on first-run on the new phone, but I expected that. Using Nova Launcher, it even restored all my app groups/folders, and every icon to its original position. Nice. It's like having the same phone expect better than it was before. This phone coming with Android 15 out of the box is great (compared to phones still on sale today that have Android 14 or even 13). For me anyway, it did 3 system updates in as many days, so it's staying current (withing the Android 15 channel). My reason for upgrading to this phone at this time was that the Ace phone being stuck at an older Android version was a problem for me (e.g. one of my e-banking apps refused to work on the old OS any longer). I don't know if this phone will be upgradable to Android 16 (which has already been out for 3 months as of this writing), or what that upgrade process might be. A heads-up with regard to Metro by T-Mobile: If you try to have them set this phone up for you in the store, they are likely to claim that you have to get a different and more expensive plan than the one you have, claiming this phone "isn't compatible" with your current plan. This is nonsense. Instead, try to change your phone to this one using the website. If it doesn't work, use an old or borrowed phone to call Metro's customer service and talk to a real person through that system, and have them enable the new phone for you (either with an e-SIM or by moving your existing SIM card from original phone to new one), and make it clear that you expect to keep your original number and keep your existing plan (or have an equivalent one with same price for same level of service). If necessary, they can have a supervisor override any roadblocks. This step may be especially important for anyone qualifying for discounted service due to being on disability, social security, etc. While I'm going on my experience with Metro, similar caveats may apply to other carriers. They're all being more aggressive about trying to wedge more money out of people without actually improving their service level. Don't let them do that to you just because you got this particular phone (and didn't get it from them). Another caveat: Phones like this are fragile, unfortunately. You absolutely do need a protective case, not just a screen protector (that protects against scratches, not drops and other impacts). I would say order the case and screen protector before the phone, or at least to arrive on same day. You do not want to be tempted to carry this phone around and use it without the case being put on yet.

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.

The G Power 5G 2024 continues the reputation of the G series of being bang for buck and reliable. This is a 4th Moto G phone to add to our household, all working like new since 2022. I need phones for communication and a road warrior tool. Faster speed always helps. Over a week, its a solid performer out of the box, and lives up to the advertised tech spec. No bugs or glitches. I'll touch items not mentioned in other reviews, and address some criticisms. The 2024 its a substantial upgrade from prior Power Models and SoC is faster than the 2025. Geekbench score shows its speed and its easily noticeable in use. If you prefer OLED screens, the Stylus 2024 is equally well made and slightly better hardware, for $70+ more, or more IP proofing, the 2025 is $120 more. Its faster CPU, 120 refresh rate, more RAM, and 5G are power hungry, you'd expect runtime to shorten, as it has the same 5Ah battery of the series. Luckily, Android 15 has better power management which are implemented well and options to save even more. With these, battery life is as good or better than my 4G only phones without sacrificing performance. Its a key reason I didn't mind a 5G phone now, as early 5G phones suffered this issue. The 2024 has a battery wear saver by limiting charging to 80% SoC which I previously emulated using aftermarket apps. It fast charges faster than my prior Moto phones which uses Turbo Power. I migrated my prior phone with the phone's built in tool, connect both with the supplied USB-C cable and it "cloned" the phone automatically. It copied everything, including desktops and Android configurations, such as fingerprints, Moto Actions and Camera settings which didn't happen on my last upgrade in 2022. I did have to re-log chat apps and configure non-gmail email. After the phone finished initialization, it installed all prior firmware updates up to Feb 2025. It was over 6, and took 6+ hours but the phone could be use while it updated. LCD is close to and as clear as the stylus pOLED 2024 in dpi, so images are as sharp, but pOLED is much brighter and has greater dynamic range, particularly viewed in sunlight. Its dual SIM and easily switched to either, allowing full customization to each SIM, one SIM card and another eSIM. Wifi is still 802.11ac, 300Mbps, similar to the 2022 Stylus, tested with Ookla. Its USB-C jacked but 2.0 speed. Wifi Calling works on both SIMs. I put a 256GB microSD, formatted and transferred all the photos in the phone carried over by the migration to the card. The camera works well, but I haven't compared its quality to better phones. It has great stereo sound, bluetooth connectivity, and plays 4K videos perfectly. I do not play games, use NFC, or wireless charging, so did not test its capability here. In sum, I'd easily buy this phone again and give its successor, priority.

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.