The contention is on to present the astir compelling bundle of specifications successful a smartphone for nether $500. Motorola is up adjacent with the refreshed $400 Moto G Stylus update for 2025. It has galore compelling features, including a built-in stylus and a monolithic battery. It besides has accelerated charging done Motorola’s 68W TurboPower, which purports to complaint the instrumentality afloat successful astir 15 minutes.
Motorola bills this arsenic 1 of its smoothest Moto G Stylus devices successful a agelong time. The built-in stylus pops retired and tin beryllium utilized arsenic a rodent pointer oregon to occurrence up Sketch to Image successful Motorola’s Note app, oregon Android’s latest, champion caller diagnostic summation successful ages, Circle to Search. The 6.7-inch Super HD POLED show goes up to 3,000 nits successful sunlight. There are stereo speakers and a Snapdragon 6 Gen 3 mobile processor with 8GB of RAM powering it each up. There is besides a triple-array camera system, featuring a superior 50-MP rear camera, a 13-MP ultrawide camera with a 120-degree tract of view, and a three-in-one airy sensor for tempered photography. The selfie camera is simply a 32-MP sensor.
And then, there’s the 5,000 mAh battery. Motorola promises up to 40 hours of artillery beingness connected a charge. When you are acceptable to recharge, you tin plug successful Motorola’s 68W TurboPower charger to get a afloat battery. The Moto G Stylus 2025 besides supports 15W wireless charging. The lone caveat is that you’ll person to instrumentality to Motorola’s branded charging accessories and cables to execute the afloat velocity via TurboPower.
Speedy charging seems to beryllium the caller happening smartphone manufacturers offer. With chips getting much susceptible astatine the low-end, it’s astir the other features that sweeten the deal. OnePlus, for instance, has agelong differentiated itself from the remainder of the flagship contention by its super-fast charging capabilities via its SuperVOOC technology, which tops retired astatine 240W successful immoderate cases. Motorola’s TurboCharge typically tops retired astatine 125W connected its premium devices. It’s not arsenic accelerated connected the Moto G Stylus, but astatine the sub-$500 terms point, it’s inactive rather awesome to person proprietary charging exertion that you tin usage successful a bind.
The Moto G Stylus has a clump of different notable specs astatine its price, including IP68-rated h2o extortion and military-grade durability. The instrumentality besides comes successful 2 Pantone-colored styles: Gibraltar Sea, a heavy blue-green, and Surf the Web, a brighter, stark water blue. It’s disposable to bargain opening April 17, starting astatine $400 for 128 GB of retention space. We’ll trial this 1 to spot however it ranks among the upcoming Google Pixel 9a and different budget lineup devices.