Moto 50 — Review & Full Phone Specifications
Motorola is a champion at producing budget phones with stock android and their latest release the Moto G50 is no different but is facing some pretty tough competition from its own siblings so how does this phone stack up the Moto G50 has a solid build it’s entirely made of plastic but it feels sturdy and it has water repellent coating on its internals so it’ll be fine in the rain the phone comes in aqua green or steel gray coloring like ours here the glossy paint job collects fingerprints and it’s a bit slippery there’s the fingerprint reader on the back that is a bit higher than is comfortable
but it works quickly and reliably on the front you’ll see some thick bezels and a water droplet notch in contrast to the punctual cutouts that we’ve been seeing a lot of lately the phone comes with 64 gigabytes or 128 gigabytes of base storage and you’ll find a hybrid sim and microsd slot the 6.5 inch ips lcd has a 720p resolution this means the pixel density is pretty low especially for a phone released in 2021 it has a 90 hertz refresh rate though perhaps to make up for the lack of sharpness
but the slow response time means that you’ll see a smearing effect at times like when you’re scrolling quickly through photos at least the refresh ratecontrol is well done and with auto mode the software automatically turns the screen down to 60hz when you’re not touching the display and then back up to 90hz when you interact with it againit’s hardly the brightest screen around with a max of 362 nits which is rather low for an lcd this means it’ll be difficult to use on a sunny daythe G50 has a single bottom firing speaker that has good loudness quality wise
it wasn’t particularly impressive and you’ll get rather flat sound with its huge 5000 mAh battery and a frugal chipset it was no surprise that the handset got an excellent 133 hour rating on our battery endurance tests on the flip side the charging speedwasn’t great though the phone supports up to 15 wattcharging it ships with a 10 watt charger that got it from zero to 23 in half an hour and a painfully slow 2 hours and 35 minutes to get it to 100 the strength of Motorola devices istheir super clean stock android experience
Specifications of the Motorola G50
the Moto G50 is no different in this aspect for the most part you’ll be using android as google intended in this case android 11.this means you’ll get chat bubbles and better notification handling you will see a couple custom Moto features but you can find pretty much all of them in the Moto app which lets you turn them on or off or adjust them overall they’re pretty useful and don’t interfere with the stockish experience the G50 has a snapdragon 480 5g chipset a budget-friendly 5g chipset it’ll be fine to use for most everyday tasks especially with the clean software
but it’s competing with phones that have much more powerful chipsets in the same price bracket the Moto G50 has a 48 megapixel main snapper a 5 megapixel macro cam and a 2 megapixel depth sensor there’s no ultrawide camera here which puts it at a disadvantage compared to its competition still considering this is the budget segment the ultrawides you’ll see at this pricearen’t particularly high quality to begin with during the day shots are tack sharp with natural colors and good dynamic range noise is visible if you zoom in
but it’s nothing too badyou can see over sharpening of finer details but it doesn’t get in the way and we like the overall result even if the colors are not as saturated as on other phones the Moto G50 has one of the better macro cameras in this class colors are vivid noise is minimal and photos are sharp there’s no autofocus and no indicationto tell you whether a subject is in focus so sometimes you’ll have to reshoot a subject multiple times to get it right but the results are worth it in low light images were soft and some highlights were clipped in more challenging scenesstill there’s a lot of detail and the hdr does a good job overall if you switch on night mode shots look clearer shadows are brighter and the photos get some much needed sharpness you will spot some more noise
but overall shots are brighter and clearer with this mode on and the processing doesn’t take much extra time portraits were sharp and had convincing bokeh even with complex backgrounds skin tones were less consistent though oftentimes we looked more pale or reddish than in reality with the 13 megapixel sensor the Moto G50 captures selfies that are far from great they have good dynamic range and are well exposed but they are generally soft with low contrast skin tones never look quite right
Camera Features of the Motorola G50
the phone records video up to 1080p at 30fps with the main cam the video is a bit too contrasty which limits the dynamic range but at least there is very good sharpness for full hd video so that’s the Moto G50 it’s a nice phone but it’s left us wanting more and this is a recurring theme with these budget 5g phones manufacturers are making a lot of compromises to get these phones to theseprice points and still have them have 5g
we are not fans of these trade-offs and at this stage the addition of 5g brings little benefit to end users and it’s meant to bolster carrier portfoliosand promote their budding 5g networks rather than meet the practical needs of consumers and we can hardly recommend this new crop of affordable 5g phones at least in 2021 4g enabled phones like the poco x3 pro are able to provide much more value in a segment which isincredibly price sensitive
if a 5g phone is a must-have you’d be better off with last year’s Moto g 5g plus which offers a better display a better chipset and better camerasand it’s already gone down in pricing so yeah the Moto G50 has long battery life and good camera performance but everything else makes this phone pretty hard to recommend even if you’re looking for a Motorola device.
Originally published at https://www.technews20-21.in on August 20, 2022.
