Moto G Power | 2021 | 3-Day battery | Unlocked | Made for US by Motorola | 4/64GB | 48MP Camera | Blue

This is my second "g power". I will admit this seems like motorola has gone backwards from the 2020 g power, but actually I don't see a big difference in performance or any noticeable drop or lag. It's basically the same phone as the other prior models in the g power line that only the most stubborn geek would care to notice. For the price, you really can't get a better phone. Due to my work environment, I am very very hard on phones. and every year or so, I get a new one in this line of motorola phones, because I cannot afford to be without a phone even for couple of days awaiting a replacement if my old phone bites the dust. My only complaint is that motorola has not designed a easy method for transferring google messages from the old phone to the new phone. This is something that samsung has done for years and apple too and several other phones. So there are some additional steps you have to take to transfer messages and other data (like calendar and alarm, and even your own custom home background), from the old phone to the new. Some of this is due to google not designing the android ecosystem as robustly as it needs to be, but there are methods and even some apps that make transfering of data between phones possible. last comment: I searched several tech sites about motorola "think shield". It's apparently a type of secure bootloader similar to samsung knox, but to be honest, the lack of transparency from motorola on this new tech is a head scratcher. One is left wondering why motorola has chosen to not publish the complete open source code to review so that a level of confidence and trust can be established. I might be paranoid, but I am old enough and have the experience and background to realize that when ANY tech company refuses to share important details about "security", there is likely some monkey business happening they don't want anyone to know about. Does this mean I will not buy motorola? Obviously not, but lets be clear. think shield did not exist on the g power 2020 model. And I never had and I know no one who has ever had a hack of their 2020 g power moto phones either! So that raises the question of why? It's an interesting question. I would hope that motorola would be more open about this and share how this technology is used and what kind of data they do collect from it, and if they share this private data or not. That IS an important question, even if motorola is not doing something particularly harmful. what is potentially harmful is that any data collected from this new tech might be subject of interests from hackers and criminals. So we would want to know exactly how motorola is collecting this data and how they are protecting it from unwanted snooping and criminal and of course central governments who have increased a broad range of lawful and unlawful surveillance. Final: I like the phone. the build quality is good and seems just as durable as the old 2020 g power model. I could have bought another 2020 "new" model again, but the 2020 model would not upgrade to android 12 (consumer cellular/att), and any saving in cost was really only about 30 bucks. I don't regret buying this new model, but I was somewhat surprised that motorola and amazon do not advertise or even mention the think shield security. That does raise some red flags. I also am not pleased with how motorola pushes/nags with the line of apps I do not want. One of the selling points with motorola is that it is nearly identical to stock vanilla android. That seems to have changed and now motorola seems to have developed their new models to push crapware. I don't need tick tock. I don't need and don't want that nag ware constantly reminding me to install it as a "recommendation" from motorola. The only workaround I have found to stop the endless nagware is to actually agree to install the entire ensemble of crapware. Then delete all the data and the uninstall the apps they recommend. So far, that is the only workaround. So much for "almost stock android"!

I bought this for my grandpa. It's perfect. It was the perfect size, has an great, bright flashlight, a good camera, and has more than enough storage because he barely takes any pictures. I love that I bought this for just 100 dollars in this corrupt economy.

I really loved this phone when it was new. However I guess phones get phased out over time. The second time I bought the 2021 moto G all the apps were so slow and took so long to open. Bought the 2024 version and it is much better

My most important quality for a phone is how long it lasts me. This one has lasted me three years and doesn't have any issues. The GPU is not very good, but the screen looks nice when you're not trying to play games with fancy 3d graphics. Battery life is very good.

The price point is amazing. The quality is amazing. You will not be disappointed these phones last and I highly recommend this product.

We got three of these brand-new. The first 6 months using this phone were fine. After that, it's been a struggle:Security updates from Motorola would happen every month. We could count on our phones to do the update without knowing, then reboot. If we had an alarm, tough luck, it wasn't going to do anything until we logged in after the sneak update.The camera constantly crashes and even with no other apps open, you can't count on it launching and keeping anything you take a picture of. I got in the habit of launching the camera, force stopping it and launching it again. That seems to work consistently. If you have more than 2 apps open at a time, it's not going to work well and switching between them is nearly impossible. I'm relieved that I haven't had to experience an emergency with these phones. I can't depend on it if it's my life on the line. I'll ask a stranger to call emergency services before I try it on this phone. I've also resorted to doing a full factory wipe on the phone every month for the past year. That seems to help and at least for the first few weeks after, it's somewhat usable. Yes I've tried memory managers (paid and free) and it has minimal effect on the performance of the phone.Regular phone calls: the first call of the day is unanswerable. Always. You tap answer, slide up, press the answer button on anything paired to it, it will do one of 2 things: not respond to your tap or swipe, or it will answer, but the screen stops working for a full minute.A year and a half later the updates finally stopped but so did any support from Motorola. Due to being kind of stuck with the phones, we decided to tough it out. This is our 3rd and final year. Come tax time we're throwing these out the window and running back to Samsung. The more expensive Motorolas might work fine, but the experience with the "power" has caused me to never want to find out.The motion feature to turn on the flash light has been valuable, but doesn't make up for anything else. The Moto 'Power' line of phones is garbage and not worth the price.It was attractive because it was carrier unlocked, but that doesn't help the lack of basic functionality when I need it.