Moto G 5G | 2024 | Unlocked | Made for US 4/128GB | 50MP Camera | Sage Green

It’s a really good phone at a good price with a quite decent camera
Long time used or Motorola phones. Last one lasted well until dropped right on screen after a gym visit.1. Excellant battery life, often go more than two days without needing a charge. Big plus2. I’m not a gamer, but I do surf and watch U tube a lot. Screen is good, has excellant brightness, but contrast is not as good as with high end screens (totally expected) but I’ll keep my cash instead3. Camera is good, really nice color reproduction and good details. Not as clear as my daughter in laws I Phone, but I saved a LOT of money.4. Storage capacity is excellant with the ability to add a compact memory card. Big plus in my book, these are pretty cheap actually. Amazon Basics microSDXC 128 GB for 12 bucks. I run a 300GB size because I love videos. Ohttps://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Basics-microSDXC-Memory-Adapter/dp/B08TJRVWV1/ref=sr_1_1_ffob_sspa?crid=13KWFBDDNU05L&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.YsDJmjEs8eRQ5lQSPqzljlnEr-iu0RJfWqqkBtOqnV4Ss6HTtweBJ3W8fTdvrmaILWTmkoLEmX5KT67aamhD13dTSaqzWJCobqnS9fn1AWryike0YTATvwwZY3iLVuPdNIGkJzfXUHjODH4lh3rVX3Pu0Fc4Stp3nGuAALxuwx7bNlyPtSi2Ep_Sq2HxjyP7j-DJ-GtknQlvlgcbaCq-rMmIhsBQ4wylaw54Nri5WQs.y97aAf3Aiauu0m5hCWB3-INRwN9jly9_X6yIte0PZHc&dib_tag=se&keywords=phone+memory+card&qid=1730405322&sprefix=phone+memory+card%2Caps%2C158&sr=8-1-spons&sp_csd=d2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9hdGY&psc=1ften cheaper than buying the memory in the phone imho. Plus when phone is done you can reused it.5. Size is perfect for fitting into shirt pocket for me at work, even with a case on it.6. Sound is actually decent, but does not emulate hi fi. I realize the phone environment is a huge challenge, but the sound, even with music is not “Tinny”. Volume is good on highest setting and can easily be heard when sitting on my desk across the room. I’ve heard phone get a lot louder, but if I want a ghetto blaster I do have some speakers for outdoors and the like usage.7. I’d say you get about 80% of the usage and quality of “Flagship” phones with virtually all the functionality at a cost that’s about 25-30% of flagship prices. I’ve had phones fly away riding my motorcycle (Use a GOOD mount lol), dropped, knocked off while working on car and a lot of other usage cycles that are not amenable to good phone life. For me it doesn’t pay to buy top of the line. But I do like having a solid tool to do the job, and this one works great for that. Stay safe.

Solid phone, everything works, great battery
Note that I don’t have a use for NFC, which I *think* it doesn’t have, and I don’t use facial recognition, so I can’t speak to that. And I don’t play games on it. But everything I have used works great.Besides working fine, what else is there to say?First, the battery life is great — I put it on a shelf to just be an alarm clock for 24 hours, and it used about 15% of the battery. Even with some web browsing and a lot of podcast listening during the day, I have never seen the battery below 45%, charging it once a day.The screen is bright and clear and big (for the phone’s size), with refresh rate of 60Hz normally and 120Hz while scrolling (you can tell w/developer tools). There are better phone screens, but I never find myself wishing it were better. There is a black dot where the selfie camera is, but that’s the price you pay for a wall-to-wall screen.The rear camera is 48M pixels, like the new Google Pixel phones. I don’t know if it’s actually as good, but if I want to do art photography, I don’t use a phone. It has a separate macro lens that you can select easily with the camera app, and I have never had trouble getting a sharp photo of anything, yet. Like the screen, I’ve never wished it was better.The built-in speakers are unexpectedly good: there’s one at each end, and, yeah, they do stereo as well as you can expect for speakers 4″ apart, I guess, but the sound quality and volume are significantly better than typical for reasonably-priced phones.The cell reception is better than the Pixel phones I’ve used, but, surprisingly, not as good as some Samsungs (cell reception used to be a real strong point for Moto).Unlike most top-tier phones, it has an SD card holder (as well as a physical micro-SIM holder). So you can add another half a terabyte (512GB) of storage for $20, if you like. Eat your heart out, iPhone users. According to Moto, it can take up to 1 TB (1024 GB).TL/DR: I would say this phone does everything well (of the things it does), without doing anything brilliantly, except battery life. For its middle-of-the road price, it’s a VERY good choice.