Motorola moto g power (2021)

I have owned the Moto g power (2021) for over three months. This is an excellent choice for the average phone user. Call quality is excellent with good volume. Texting works fine. Music quality over earphones is superb. Battery life is above average. The camera takes good pictures. The phone appears to be well made and has a nice solid feel. One could spend a lot more on a phone without gaining any appreciable advantage.

The phone is well designed with a battery that will outlast mostly everything else out there. The price is very fair. I’ve been buying the Moto g power phones for a few years now. I don’t get the impression this is meant as a direct competitor to the $1500 phones out there, don’t expect it to. But this phone is punching way above it’s weight with its ~$250 price. If you want a reliable phone, with an excellent battery, this is an option you might want to look into.

Loved my original Moto X for size and features. I have tried several models, the latest the Moto G Power. Pros: very long battery life. I get 2-3 days from a full charge. Like gestures to get camera and flashlight. Works fine with car phone/bluetooth. Wifi calling works well, though it didn't with the first phone I bought at Best Buy. Had to return and get the Verizon one. Really no complaints EXCEPT the camera, which is bad. Takes basic snapshots only. With today's spectacular cameras on Samsung and Apple phones, this phone's camera is disappointingly awful. I also hate the Google integration. You can't voice text unless you share all personal information and location information with Google. My next phone will likely be an Apple, though I will miss the customization.

I purposely waited several months before I wrote a review. I had the previous version of the Moto G which I loved. Based upon the features that I use in a phone I felt that it was crazy to spend $900 to $1,000 on a phone. I investigated the Moto G for $200 and it lasted me over 2 years. Now that I'm 2 months into the new Moto G 2021 phone & have yet to find something I can't do. I utilize social media and use this for business purposes as well. I find the speed to be fine as well as the access to apps. I love the fact they expanded te memory to 64 GB. I felt that if I could get 6 months out of this phone it was worth the money considering phones I was looking at were $800 and usually last 2 years. They moved the fingerprint reader to the side instead of on the back and I'm adjusting well to it. I still like the one on the back but this one's good. All in all I'm very happy with this phone so far and I would recommend it to people who basically need a phone but don't need super high megapixel cameras. This phone is well worth the money.

The phone works OK with my car bluetooth with the exception of the "Call by Name" feature. With my old Samsung phone I could call by name just by speaking the name of the person I wanted to call in my contacts. This feature doesn't work with the motorola phone. The call by name command isn't recognized. The Verizon tech support tried to troubleshoot but couldn't come up with a solution. Playing videos from the internet is sometimes unsatisfactory as it is constantly buffering, even when I'm connected to wifi. By the way, unlike other commenters, I haven't had any problems getting wifi calling to work.

The phone is good phone but wifi calling is a must for me.