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

I’ve been using this phone for about two weeks, maybe longer. When I read that it had up to 3 days of battery life, I thought they were kidding. It is not a joke. I’ve been going a couple days at a time without charging, and the phone’s battery has not gone below 35%. I cannot speak for heavy gamers, because I have only downloaded light games. If you’re looking for a phone that can handle hardcore gaming and streaming, you’ll have to look for another review, because I have not tried it. I do, however, listen to Spotify almost constantly– and the lowest that the battery has gone from a full charge is around 70% after a full day’s listening. That with other usage (i.e. small games, browsing, social media, etc.).A thing that should be mentioned is that the back of the phone doesn’t snap on and off like the Moto G 4. Not sure if others see it as a good or bad thing, but I’m putting it out there just for knowledge’s sake.I have not tried using facial recognition, but wow– the fingerprint sensor. I’ve used this feature on other phones previously, but none of them compare to this one. It is in such a convenient location, and you can have up to four or five fingerprints saved into your phone at a time.An issue that is often brought up with phones, is overheating. With my last phone, which was also a Moto, this was one of my main issues. Well let me tell you… my phone has not once gotten warm. My Moto G Power 2021 handles applications so well, that it has not even gotten warm, let alone overheating.If you are a returning user of Moto’s, you might be hoping that it’ll have certain features from other phones. There are all of those and more that you can enable. (i.e. chop for flashlight, double-click power button for camera, hold three fingers on screen for screenshot, lift to silence incoming phone call, double-tap to wake from sleep, etc.). There are more, but I don’t want to type too much.So far, I love this phone. My last Moto lasted for several years, and I have great expectations for this one as well.

Great phone in every way, but was shipped a 2020rather than a 2022 model. However, working really welll!

Living far out in a rural area, I don’t like having to worry that I will run out of battery when driving in the mountains with dodgy signal. This phone really packs a lot of battery into the standard android space! I actually find myself having to periodically remind myself NOT to charge it, so I can occasionally run down the battery enough to take care of the “memory” of the lithium ion battery (if you never let the battery run low, it will lose capacity as a result). It can play music shockingly loud, too! The default light of the screen is dimmer than usual but you can make it pretty bright.One thing I miss from previous android phones is the ability to control whether the screen lights up in response to incoming notifications, without a sound or vibration at the same time. For whatever reason, they didn’t include that option on this version.Also, the volume control buttons default adjust media volume, not ringer or notification volume–even when you do not have media playing. It’s annoying but not a deal breaker.I’ve been using this phone for about a year now with no noticeable decline in battery life. It is on pretty much at all times. Overall, very reliable and well designed phone!

This is an excellent mid-level smartphone, which blows the performance of my previous phone (an older iPhone 5s) out of the water. My iPhone was suffering from battery throttling and I needed something more reliable – this phone’s battery life is exactly as advertised! A full charge can easily last two full days with average to above-average levels of use.I must also say how impressed I am with the phone’s water resistance. They advertise protection from accidental splashes and spills, but I can personally vouch that it far exceeds this. Due to a slight error in judgement during a recent boating episode with my family, this phone wound up submerged under approximately 10-12 feet of water at the very bottom of an algae-encrusted pier on Lake Michigan. There it remained for approximately 20-30 minutes whilst my architect father, engineer brother-in-law and I (an applied mathematician) concocted a hair-brained scheme involving duct-taping an oar to a large stick in order to push it all the way back up the pier where it could be retrieved (we didn’t have a net, which would have mad SO much more sense). Upon the successful retrieval of the phone, it was still on, fully functional, and receiving a phone call. Whether this was due to the great design of the phone, or my sister’s repeated invocations of the patron Saint of electronics, is still up in the air.Having let it dry overnight, it works perfectly. There is a bit of water stuck in the front-facing camera that makes selfies look like 1980’s music videos shot through chiffon, and some noticeable cracks in the underside of the screen, but honestly given that it isn’t totally dead it deserves its praise.I wish this was one of those joke reviews people write for internet clout, but this is all 100% true. I can’t guarantee your experience with this phone will be as good, but at least one unit they made is built like a tank.

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”!