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moto g9 power ( 6.8" Max Vision HD+, Qualcomm Snapdragon, 64MP triple camera system, 6000 mAH battery, Dual SIM, 4/128GB, Android 10), Metallic Sage

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The Moto G9 Play has a 6.5-inch 720 x 1600 LCD screen. It has no particular high-end traits, but good, cheap displays like this now get you close enough to the experience of a much more expensive mobile. All of the Moto G9 Power’s quirks and foibles exist to facilitate one thing: a flipping huge battery. Low light photography is very hit and miss, despite the presence of a night mode in the camera settings. Noise creeps in and a lot of detail gets lost, but at the same time we were able to get photos that were just about usable at night – and considering this is one of the cheapest phones around at the moment, that's not bad going at all. If low light shots really matter to you, you're going to have to spend a bit more cash. The G9 Power lays on 128GB of internal storage, which is a strong provision, if hardly unique for the money. You can expand that amount via a microSD slot too. Generally speaking, performance is actually rather good. There may not be a boost in processing speed, but it could be argued that the Moto G9 Play doesn’t really need it: launching apps felt snappy and I didn’t run into any problems when navigating menus or switching between applications.

The main focus is that 64MP main snapper, and the good news is it’s pretty good for the price. It turns out 16MP shots via a pixel binning technique, which uses the spare pixels to improve clarity. This phone is miles better than the Nokia 3.4 we reviewed recently, bringing up the performance to a level we’re happy with. And you get more for your cash here than from a Samsung Galaxy A21s. When it comes to battery life, however, that’s when the Moto G9 Plus begins to pull ahead. Lasting 19hrs 46mins on a single charge in our video rundown test, the Moto G9 Plus’ stamina is increased by roughly 8% when compared with the Moto G8, and it lasted longer than both the Nokia 5.3 and Xiaomi Redmi Note 9.

Cheaper than most with a battery that just keeps going, the Moto G9 Power mostly succeeds

It comes bundled with Motorola’s 20W TurboPower 20 fast charger, which I found was able to get from 16% to 99% in two hours. 15 minutes will generally get you a 13% increase, right up until the final stretch when the charging rate invariably slows down. The Moto G9 Play uses the Qualcomm Snapdragon 662 chipset with 4GB of RAM and 64GB of storage. That’s a good amount of storage, enough RAM to keep the Android 10 software happy, and a solid entry-level CPU. It’s pretty much the same price as the Moto G8these days, however, and when you take into account the added extras this represents exceptional value for money. These phones have all had oodles of battery power on tap, and the Moto G9 Power is no different. In fact, it’s got more power in reserve than any Motorola phone before it. The Moto G9 Play has a perfectly solid screen. However, we are now quite accustomed to 90Hz and 120Hz screens, and the switch down to a 60Hz one with clearly sub- OLED pixel response times did take a day or two to bed into.

I’d take Motorola’s light approach to software over the heavy custom UIs of its rivals (including the Poco X3 NFC) any day of the week. Battery Life – The Moto G9 Power has truly epic stamina Color is good, just not ultra-saturated even if you use the ‘saturated’ color profile. The Moto G9 Play does not support HDR video but -whisper it -HDR is a bit pointless in phones anyway. Where you should set high expectations, however, is the Moto G9 Power’s stamina. Fitted with a gigantic 6,000mAh battery, the biggest in a Moto yet, the G9 Power is quoted as being able to last up to 60 hours on a single charge. We recommend using Night Vision for any indoor shots of non-moving subjects, as it more or less fixes the dull and dingy appearance you’d otherwise get. The Moto G9 Play has three rear cameras but this feels like a single-camera phone because you only get one field of view. There’s no zoom, no ultra-wide.This was taken with the Moto G9 Plus’ default camera settings, which captures 16.MP images via a process called pixel binning. You can turn things up to a full 64MP shot if you like, but I personally wouldn’t bother. For me the difference is marginal, other than the fact that the shots take up around three times as much internal storage space at the higher setting.

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