Pros:
- Wide better screen
- Awesome battery life
- Decent Camera's
Cons:
- No wireless charging
- Average performance
- Lack 5G Connectivity
Introduction:
It been a while we had from Motorola especially in Africa most precise Nigeria although the competition is very high in the tech industry so many brand are out with dynamic specifications and low cost devices. Motorola still managed to hold its ground by producing unique products the Moto-G9 plus is one of its kind when it comes to a phablet kind of phone the G9 houses some cool specs and elegant designs and most of all a massive 5000mAh battery.
Let’s go into the quick Unboxing and see what the Moto-G9 has to offer If you're buying a phone on a budget then you've got a whole host of handsets to pick from, and quite a few of them are made by Motorola. The Moto G9 Plus is here to join the likes of the Moto G9 Play and the Moto G 5G Plus down at the affordable end of the market – it's a crowded field, but that does at least mean there should be a phone out there for everyone.
Moto G9 Plus is £250 (around $325 / AU$460), and it has a big and bright screen, a long-lasting battery, and a decent camera. If all your smartphone priorities are ticked off in that list then by all means consider this for your next upgrade – but obviously coming in at that price, some compromises have been made.
- Let take a quick look on the
- Specs and Performance
- Price and availability
- Design
- Battery life
- To buy or not to buy
The G9 plus does not fancy extras like wireless charging or IP68 waterproofing here, and performance is middling. The camera holds it own but it's nothing special, and the screen is a long way short of the premium OLED panels that you can find if you spend a bit more money for a mid-range phone. There's no 5G here either.
Most phone is a compromise between cost and quality, and the Moto G9 Plus gets the balance just about right, we think – Motorola has been making high quality, low cost phones for years now, and as one of the first entries in the G9 series, the Moto G9 Plus doesn't let down that groune at all.
Problem for the Moto G9 Plus is that it has so much competitors: not just the Moto phones we've already mentioned and higher priced ones like the Motorola Edge, but also handsets such as the Samsung Galaxy A51 and the Oppo A9 2020.
For a little bit less you can get the Nokia 5.3; for a little bit more, the Google Pixel 4a. There's a lot of choice here and none of these phones are terrible.
Everything considered, if the Moto G9 Plus is in your price range, we're happy to recommend it – or at least recommend that you consider it. In just about every key area it gives you a good deal of bang for your buck, and you can't ask for much more than that.
Moto-G9 plus Full Specifications:
NETWORK
Technology GSM / HSPA / LTE
2G bands GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 - SIM 1 & SIM 2 (dual-SIM model only)
3G bands HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1700(AWS) / 1900 / 2100
4G bands 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 12, 17, 28, 66 Brazil
Speed HSPA 42.2/5.76 Mbps, LTE-A
LAUNCH
Announced 2020, September 07
Status Available. Released 2020, September 07
BODY
Dimensions 170 x 78.1 x 9.7 mm (6.69 x 3.07 x 0.38 in)
Weight 223 g (7.87 oz)
Build Glass front, plastic back, plastic frame
SIM Single SIM (Nano-SIM) or Hybrid Dual SIM (Nano-SIM, dual stand-by)
DISPLAY
Type LTPS IPS LCD, HDR10
Size 6.81 inches, 112.0 cm2 (~84.3% screen-to-body ratio)
Resolution 1080 x 2400 pixels, 20:9 ratio (~386 ppi density)
PLATFORM
OS Android 10
Chipset Qualcomm SDM730 Snapdragon 730G (8 nm)
CPU Octa-core (2x2.2 GHz Kryo 470 Gold & 6x1.8 GHz Kryo 470 Silver)
GPU Adreno 618
MEMORY
Card slot microSDXC (uses shared SIM slot)
Internal 128GB 4GB RAM, 128GB 6GB RAM
MAIN CAMERA
Quad 64 MP, f/1.8, 26mm (wide), 1/1.73", 0.8µm, PDAF
8 MP, f/2.2, 118˚ (ultrawide), 1/4.0", 1.12µm
2 MP, f/2.2, (macro)
2 MP, f/2.2, (depth)
Features LED flash, HDR, panorama
Video 4K@30fps, 1080p@30/60/120fps, gyro-EIS
SELFIE CAMERA
Single 16 MP, f/2.0, 29mm (standard)
Features HDR
Video 1080p@30fps
SOUND
Loudspeaker Yes
3.5mm jack Yes
COMMS
WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, dual-band, Wi-Fi Direct, hotspot
Bluetooth 5.0, A2DP, LE
GPS Yes, with A-GPS, GLONASS, GALILEO
NFC Yes
Radio FM radio
USB USB Type-C 2.0
FEATURES
Sensors Fingerprint (side-mounted), accelerometer, gyro, proximity
Messaging SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Email, IM
Browser HTML5
BATTERY
Type Li-Po 5000 mAh, non-removable
Charging Fast charging 30W
MISC
Colors Rose Gold, Indigo Blue
Models XT2087-1
Price $ 349.00 / £ 219.00 / € 248.00
TESTS
Performance AnTuTu: 253105 (v8)
GeekBench: 1695 (v5.1)
GFXBench: 15fps (ES 3.1 onscreen)
Camera Photo / Video
Loudspeaker -29.0 LUFS (Average)
Battery life Endurance rating 136h
Moto G9 Plus price and availability:
Available in the UK for £250
Decent value for money
Not currently available in the US or Australia
The Moto G9 Plus is out and available now in the UK, SIM-free and unlocked, from a variety of retailers – at the time of writing you can expect to pay around £250 for the phone, though check the widgets on this page for the latest deals.
That works out as around $325 / AU$460, though as yet Motorola hasn't indicated that the phone is going to be arriving in the US or Australia.
Moto G9 Design:
Buid Fingerprint sensor
power button
Solid built quality
House Google Assistant button.
We're pretty well used to the look of Motorola's budget handsets by this point, and the Moto G9 Plus doesn't mess with the formula too much: a big, bright screen surrounded by bezels that are slightly on the thick side, packed in a phone that's slightly on the heavy and bulky side.
Add in a glossy, plastic back and we could be talking about quite a number of Moto G phones over the past few years.
It's not a bad look by any means. You won't mistake this for a premium handset, but it's well put together and feels solid in the hand. The size of the display makes one-handed operation difficult, but not impossible – as long as your hands are fairly big. Don't get this phone if you need something compact to slip into a pocket or a bag.
We're pleased to see the 3.5mm audio jack is still here for your wired headphones, and there's also a dedicated Google Assistant button, just in case you need one.
At the bottom we've got a USB-C port for charging and data transfer, as well as a single speaker. The volume buttons and the power button are on the right hand side – the power button doubles up as a fingerprint scanner.
It's something of a subjective call, but we're not huge fans of embedding a fingerprint sensor inside the power button – it makes the button more difficult to find and hit with your fingers, while the actual scanning always seems to be more fiddly than sensors mounted on the back of phones or even under the display. To be fair to the Moto G9 Plus, this embedded sensor works quickly enough.
The rear cameras are located up in the top left corner, in the style of the Galaxy Note 20 phones. It's a perfectly fine arrangement, and the camera bump isn't too pronounced – no camera bump at all would be better, but those days seem to be gone for good (one solution to the camera bump problem would be a case – Motorola includes a basic clear plastic one with the phone).
Meanwhile, navy blue is the only color option – a rose gold version has been mentioned, but we haven't seen it in the UK yet. The navy blue is rather plain, but because the back of the phone is so shiny, it looks quite good.
Bear in mind that there's no IP68 waterproofing and dustproofing here, so you need to be careful not to drop the handset in the bath, the swimming pool, the ocean or whatever other bodies of water you find yourself in the vicinity of. It's worth remembering some of the corners that manufacturers cut to get their phones down to this sort of price point, and an IP68 rating is usually one of them.
Moto-G9 Battery life:
5,000mAh capacity battery
Average two days of use
30W fast charging.
With a 5,000mAh battery packed in here, you would expect the Moto G9 Plus battery to last, and so it does – you can easily get well into a second day on a single charge with a medium level of use, even with the large screen to power.
On most days we had plenty of battery juice left by the evening, and Motorola has done well in terms of minimizing battery usage while the phone isn't being actively used.
Our usual video streaming test suggests you could get about 10 or 11 hours of streaming in total from the phone – a very good result. We run the test with the screen on maximum brightness and the volume set low, so with a bit of tweaking you could get more time out of the handset.
There's no wireless charging available, as you would expect with a phone at this price, though the handset does support 30W fast charging – by no means the top speeds on the market in terms of battery charging, but decent enough. You should be able to get the battery from zero to full in the space of about an hour.
Battery life is an area that recent Motorola phones have often stood out in, and it's perhaps one of the main reasons to pick up the Moto G9 Plus over another phone – this is a handset that's really going to last you.
That said, with recharging taking less and less time on modern-day smartphones, the amount of time you get in between isn't quite as important as it used to be
Reasons for buying :
You're on a tight budget
It's difficult to argue with the £250 asking price of the Moto G9 Plus – that's substantially less than phones in the mid-range of the market, let alone up at the premium end.
You need a long-lasting battery
The battery life on the Moto G9 Plus impresses, and you might only need to recharge the phone every other night (or every other lunchtime, thanks to the 30W fast charging).
You like big screens
The 6.81-inch display is certainly a handful. It's by no means the best display we've ever seen, but it's big and bright and shows off everything from games to movies very well.
Reasons not to buy:
You have a bit more money
If you spend another couple of hundred pounds for a mid-range phone – even one from Motorola itself – then the difference in quality in all areas is going to be noticeable.
You need mid performance
The 4GB of RAM and the Snapdragon 730G processor hold their own when it comes to running Android, but you'll notice some slowdown in more demanding apps and games.
You'd really like 5G
Whether or not you think it's too early to be investing in 5G is really up to you – and the current coverage in your area – but you don't get next-gen connectivity with this phone.
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