The Moto G Stylus is a $300 Note 10 alternative
Who likes cheap phones? You do. Everyone does, obviously, andMotorola has two new ones, Moto G Stylus and Moto G Power. (upbeat music) Motorola's making the best cheap and budget phones for years. The Moto G series has beenour recommendation for good, cheap budget phones for a while, and you get a really good phonewithout breaking the bank, and now Motorola has two new ones, the G Stylus and the G Power. They're effectivelyfollow-ups to last year's G7, and they share a lot of things in common. Both of them have aSnapdragon 665 processor, both have Android 10, bothhave four gigabytes of RAM, both have a 19 by nine, 6.4 inch display, which is even bigger thanthe ones on the G7 last year. Both of them have triple camera rays. There's no notches anymore. Both have this nice holepunch camera system. It just looks a lot better. USB-C charging with 10 watt fast charging. No wireless charging for either of them, fingerprint readers built into that Motorola logo on the back. Of course, 3.5 millimeter headphone jack. Keeping it alive. The more interesting of the twophones is the Moto G Stylus, which, as the name implies, has a stylus. It's Motorola's firstphone ever with a stylus, and honestly, stylus phones and Android in 2020 is really still rare. The only other majorphone that I can think of that has one is the GalaxyNote10 and the Galaxy Note10+, which Samsung released lastsummer, starting at $950.
This phone has a stylus,and it costs $299. The stylus here is reallybasic as a stylus goes. It doesn't have the fun, clicky thing to fidgetwith like Samsung does. There's no button on theside to take pictures. You can't connect it via Bluetooth, but if you like writing on your phone without spending nearly $1000on a phone, well, this is, A, the only option, but,B, looks like a good one. Another feature Motorola has with the Stylus is a newapp called Moto Note, which lets you just take the stylus out, and you can start writingon the screen immediately. You don't need to unlock the phone. The Stylus also has thebetter cameras of the two. It has three rear cameras. The main camera is a48-megapixel quad-pixel camera, which shoots down to 12-megapixel shots. There's a 117-degreeultra-wide angle action camera, which is actually borrowed from last year's Motorola One Action, and it's actually pretty cool. What it does is thecamera sensor is rotated, so if you're holding the phone vertically, it shoots horizontal video. Don't shoot vertical video, guys. Just don't do it. Don't do it. The last one is the macro camera. The Moto G Stylus also hasa laser auto focus system, which should let it focus fasterwhile you're taking photos, which the G Power doesn't have.
Motorola's also made justone or two minor tweaks to the phone in terms of howit interacts with the pen. There's a quick pop-up menu that shows up with some of yourfavorite apps that show up when the stylus is there. It's useful. Samsung actually also hassomething very similar with its phone pen. If you've ever used the Galaxy Note, you've probably seen something similar. (upbeat music) On the other hand, youhave Motorola G Power, which, as the nameimplies, has a big battery. It has actually a huge battery. It's a 5000 milliamp power battery, which is basically the biggest battery that you can put in a smartphone, and when you combine that withthe lower specced processor that's Snapdragon 665, Motorola says that you can get up tothree days of battery life. Given that it's a cheaper one, there's a few things that are different. There's no stylus, obviously. The cameras aren't quite as specced out. The main lens is only 16megapixels instead of 48. There's no action cam feature. It's just a regular ultra light lens, but it does have that macro feature, which you can still use to take those really cool close-up shots. (upbeat music) So those are the new Moto G phones. They start at $250 for the Moto G Power, which has 64 gigabytes of storage, or $299 for the Moto G Stylus, which has 128 gigabytes of storage. Motorola hasn't given us a release date for either of them yet, but if they're anything like the last few yearsof G-series phones, they'll probably be reallygood budget Android phones. We'll find out more when wetest them out later this year. Thanks so much for watching. It's snowing outside, sowe're gonna wrap this, 'cause I really wannago walk out in the snow. It's really nice. We haven't gotten snow inNew York in like six weeks. It's ridiculous. I want winter.
This phone has a stylus,and it costs $299. The stylus here is reallybasic as a stylus goes. It doesn't have the fun, clicky thing to fidgetwith like Samsung does. There's no button on theside to take pictures. You can't connect it via Bluetooth, but if you like writing on your phone without spending nearly $1000on a phone, well, this is, A, the only option, but,B, looks like a good one. Another feature Motorola has with the Stylus is a newapp called Moto Note, which lets you just take the stylus out, and you can start writingon the screen immediately. You don't need to unlock the phone. The Stylus also has thebetter cameras of the two. It has three rear cameras. The main camera is a48-megapixel quad-pixel camera, which shoots down to 12-megapixel shots. There's a 117-degreeultra-wide angle action camera, which is actually borrowed from last year's Motorola One Action, and it's actually pretty cool. What it does is thecamera sensor is rotated, so if you're holding the phone vertically, it shoots horizontal video. Don't shoot vertical video, guys. Just don't do it. Don't do it. The last one is the macro camera. The Moto G Stylus also hasa laser auto focus system, which should let it focus fasterwhile you're taking photos, which the G Power doesn't have.
Motorola's also made justone or two minor tweaks to the phone in terms of howit interacts with the pen. There's a quick pop-up menu that shows up with some of yourfavorite apps that show up when the stylus is there. It's useful. Samsung actually also hassomething very similar with its phone pen. If you've ever used the Galaxy Note, you've probably seen something similar. (upbeat music) On the other hand, youhave Motorola G Power, which, as the nameimplies, has a big battery. It has actually a huge battery. It's a 5000 milliamp power battery, which is basically the biggest battery that you can put in a smartphone, and when you combine that withthe lower specced processor that's Snapdragon 665, Motorola says that you can get up tothree days of battery life. Given that it's a cheaper one, there's a few things that are different. There's no stylus, obviously. The cameras aren't quite as specced out. The main lens is only 16megapixels instead of 48. There's no action cam feature. It's just a regular ultra light lens, but it does have that macro feature, which you can still use to take those really cool close-up shots. (upbeat music) So those are the new Moto G phones. They start at $250 for the Moto G Power, which has 64 gigabytes of storage, or $299 for the Moto G Stylus, which has 128 gigabytes of storage. Motorola hasn't given us a release date for either of them yet, but if they're anything like the last few yearsof G-series phones, they'll probably be reallygood budget Android phones. We'll find out more when wetest them out later this year. Thanks so much for watching. It's snowing outside, sowe're gonna wrap this, 'cause I really wannago walk out in the snow. It's really nice. We haven't gotten snow inNew York in like six weeks. It's ridiculous. I want winter.
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