Motorola used to make some of the best budget phones on the market. In 2024, it's doing the exact opposite.
Not that long ago, Motorola was the champion of cheap Android phones. Budget Motorola phones were well-made, thoughtfully designed, and among the best in their class. I’ve lost track of how many Moto phones I recommended to friends and family over the years because, for a while, that was the thing to do.
Related Amazingly, these were all problems the Moto G didn’t have. The 4.5-inch 720p display doesn’t sound like much today, but it was larger and sharper than just about anything else in the Moto G’s price bracket. The Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 processor paired with 1GB of RAM translated to surprisingly good performance. Meanwhile, the stock Android 4.3 Jelly Bean software offered a clean and simple interface without any annoying bloatware. It was also eventually updated all the way to Android 5.
Can you look at those names and immediately know what kind of phone you’re looking at and what separates them from each other? Probably not. I write about phones for a living, and even I couldn’t tell you the key differences between the Moto G Play and Moto G 5G without digging through spec sheets and product guides.
Why? I think the answer is pretty obvious. Motorola used to treat the Moto G like the special phone it was. It put time, care, and attention into those first few Moto Gs, and it shows. When Motorola releases 13 Moto G models in one year — that’s how many it released across all markets in 2023 — it’s no surprise that attention to detail is going to suffer.
It starts with the Shopping, Entertainment, and Gaming Folders. In short, these folders are nothing but excuses to throw advertisements in your face. Open the Entertainment folder, and you’re met with ads for NewsBreak, Zedge Wallpapers, and more If you tap a Done button at the bottom — which looks like it would close the folder — you actually end up installing applications you probably didn’t need.
To Motorola’s credit, you can uncheck and disable all of these things when you’re setting up the new Moto Gs. But I only know that because I’ve set up hundreds of Android phones throughout my career. If I gave either of these phones to my parents or family members, I know they’d install this junk without ever realizing it. And, naturally, that’s Motorola’s prime audience for the Moto G.
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