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Rating 3 of 5
Moto G8 Power: review
Motorola can do this with an affordable budget and middle-class money. But that doesn’t mean they hit well every time. The Moto G8 Power does a few things well. Performance goes a long way and the screen and sound for the most part provide a good multimedia experience. But none of its features make the model stand out and impress.
affirmatively
- All correct stereo speakers.
- Good performance in the price range.
- Clean android
negatively
- Thick, heavy and plastic.
- The battery life should have been better.
- Uneven camera quality.
Rec. Price: 2,490 kr
price: 2,490 SEK on Netonnet.
In recent years, Motorola has established itself as one of the most productive providers of affordable and mid-range phones. And in anticipation of the Razr flip phone that never seems to appear and the recently announced flagship Edge, this is where we found them. The latest release is called Moto G8 Power.
It’s a solid phone with a 6.4-inch screen and equally wide margins, giving it a width of 7.4 inches. It is almost an inch thick with bulging rounded edges and weighs 197 grams. The reason for this is the same as for the name, it has an extra large 5,000 mAh battery.
It has a flat glass front with a slightly teardrop roundness at the margin, and a frame and back in shiny hard plastic. The back has a nice micro pattern underneath the polished surface that gives it its own character. It only appears to be in one color, or rather the absence of color when it is completely black. The back has a tendency to attract dust and fingerprints, but it has that in common with most flagships today with its glass backs.
Many cameras and holes in the screen.
In a place at the back, you want to place your fingerprints, that is, in your center-located fingerprint reader. The cameras of the phone are placed in a row in the upper corner. Otherwise, there isn’t much that stands out in terms of design. It has a headphone jack on top and a USB-C jack, as well as a speaker on the bottom. The screen with its hole in a corner of the selfie camera is what stands out the most visually.
It is a design that is now starting to look towards increasingly cheaper mobiles, of which this is one. The Moto G8 Power has a recommended price of 2,490 SEK, which is exactly what is sold in various large stores.
For that, you get a relatively neat phone with the Snapdragon 665 processor, the same as in the Moto G8 Plus and Xiaomi Redmi Note 8T. And with Motorola’s always clean and simplified Android interface, the experience becomes smoother and faster.
The storage is 64 GB and can be expanded with the micro SD card in a hybrid SIM card holder. It can have dual sim or extra SD card. This is basic hardware that makes the phone fast enough for everyday life, and we navigate, communicate, navigate by GPS, and consume media without major problems. Occasional heavy ads on a web page can make it scroll, but they can do it even on a good computer.
2.4 GHz Wi-Fi only
One thing that the G8 Power on the other hand gets negative about is the connection. On the Wi-Fi side we only get 2.4 GHz and 804.11n bands, now also called Wi-Fi 4. It’s generally not a problem in browsing or social apps, but it clearly means slower download times and sometimes some Sometimes the video transmission to the phone is very different. A good 1080p screen can decrease compression quality or frame rate to keep up to date. The 4G connection is also no more than capable.
It’s a shame, because otherwise it’s very good with the Moto G8 Power. The screen is big and bright. It offers nothing special in color, with a color palette just below the srgb standard and color rendering that tends to cool tones without the ability to adjust settings. It also has a bit of pale black, usually for a cheaper ips panel. But given the budget class of the phone, it is a clearly acceptable quality.
Tasks like watching movies are also lifted with built-in stereo speakers that have a consistent tone and good left / right balance. It is full body and fairly well detailed in sound, although it may not match the best best mobiles on the market. In the price range the phone is really good.
Four lenses, mixed quality
Motorola likes to mix different camera combinations on their phones, so you never really know what you will get. The cameras on the Moto G8 Power are what we would call a full set of photography right now, a standard camera, a wide angle, an optical telephoto lens, and a macro camera. It does not necessarily mean that they are good, and we would say that here we get a fairly mixed quality.
The main 16-megapixel camera is not particularly noticeable. It has a large ƒ / 1.7 aperture that lets in plenty of light, but also makes focus control a challenge in some situations. If we are patient, the images will be sharp, although with a little flat dynamics. In dark environments, it drops rapidly in quality, with tangible but fine-grained noise and a drop in color saturation. However, something surprising is its balanced handling of the flash.
The wide-angle lens and 2x optical zoom, at 8 megapixels each, do a stable job as long as the lighting conditions are good, and the camera app switches well between different sensors. However, they do have a different color tone and color saturation than the main camera, which is a little annoying. This is how we think it should be possible to match the software.
The image in the zoom also loses all quality if we test the digital zoom for its 2x optics. Then you will receive immediate escalation artifacts. But if we stick to the default duplication, we get sharp images. Finally we have the macro lens, which with its 2 megapixel sensor does a decent job with the images, but really as close as we hoped we wouldn’t. In summary, the camera seems a bit ambitious. A pair of better sensors, a standard plus a wide angle, would probably have been a smarter option.
Good battery life that should have been better
Finally we have what gives the phone its name, its thick design and its high weight: additional energy stored in a large 5,000 mAh battery. We have to say that it really doesn’t seem worth looking for the extra grams. While the battery life is good, it doesn’t seem like we have an additional 1,000 mAh capacity here compared to the Moto G8 Plus which has a 4,000 mAh battery.
We get here one more hour of video playback and a few more hours of talk time, and if we run the phone with sporadic use and a muted monitor, it will go smoothly for two days by a certain margin. 18-watt quick chargers make it easy to charge with more power. This is definitely not a bad thing, but the question is whether it is worth the extra weight and thick design, when multiple 4,000 mAh mobiles work in the same class.
We like the ambitions of the Moto G8 Power, and it’s basically a good overall phone in its price range. So an approved grade will be whatever. But we had wanted Motorola to focus on one thing at a time and really invest in low-power operations over everything else. It is now halfway through the point where there was greater potential. The same is true of the camera, which does acceptable but uneven work. With its many functions, we find it easy to detect individual parts where small problems arise.
Specifications
Product name: Moto G8 Power
tried: April 2020
maker: Motorola
chipset system: Snapdragon 665
processor: 4pcs Kryo 260 Gold 2 GHz + 4pcs Kryo 260 Silver 1.8 GHz
graphics: Adreno 610
memory: 4GB
storage: 64GB, micro SD slot
display: 6.4 inch ips, 1080 x 2300 pixels
cams: 16 megapixel + 8 megapixel wide angle + 8 telephoto 2x + 2 megapixel macro with rear link, front 16 megapixel
connections: USB 2.0 Type-C, 3.5mm earphones
communication: 2g, 3g, 4g, Wifi 4, bluetooth 5.0, a-gps, galileo
Operating system: Android 10
other: Fingerprint reader, dual sim
drums: 5,000 mAh, 15h of web video (wifi, high brightness), 16h30min of mixed use (4g, low brightness), approximately 35h of call (3g)
size: 15.6 x 7.6 x 0.96 cm
weight: 197 grams
Rec. Price: 2,490 kr
price: 2,490 SEK on Netonnet.
performance
Antutu Benchmark 8: 174 621 points
Geekbench 5, CPU: 1,371 points
3dmark Sling Shot Extreme, graphics: 1,084 points
Androbench, storage: 301.66 MB / s
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