The New Moto G Stylus Is Affordable, but Updates Make It a Tough Sell

Some of you mightiness not remember, but the first-generation Motorola Moto X got Android 4.4 KitKat before the banal Android-powered Nexus 4 12 years ago. Under Lenovo ownership, Motorola has strayed acold from that. The Moto G Stylus 2025 is trying to marque things better, but it inactive needs improvement.

Motorola has conscionable announced the Moto G Stylus 2025 (stylized arsenic "moto g stylus-2025"), the company's latest introduction successful the mid-range telephone game. First, the bully stuff. Motorola says that the stylus successful this telephone offers 6.4 times improved responsiveness compared to the erstwhile generation. It is inactive a passive stylus, truthful you're not getting thing similar what we're getting with Samsung's S Ultra scope of phones with an progressive stylus, but it's a notable betterment nonetheless.

As for the existent specs, we person a 6.7-inch Super HD (1220p) pOLED display. The surface itself looks beauteous good, astatine slightest the mode Motorola is coating it, arsenic it features a adaptable refresh complaint of up to 120Hz for creaseless visuals and a highest brightness claimed to scope 3000 nits, improving visibility successful agleam outdoor conditions. Under the hood, the Moto G Stylus 2025 is powered by the Snapdragon 6 Gen 3 Mobile Platform, coupled with 8GB of RAM.

The instrumentality includes a RAM Boost feature, which temporarily converts retention into virtual RAM to perchance velocity up app loading and multitasking. Some radical mightiness disagree, but I've ever considered these "virtual RAM" features arsenic snake lipid for marketing, and grounds shows it tin harm your show alternatively than amended it, truthful you should disable that if you're going to bargain this. You bash person up to 256GB of interior retention for apps and media, truthful astatine the precise least, you person plentifulness of abstraction for apps.

We person a 5,000 mAh battery, with Motorola claiming implicit 40 hours of usage connected a azygous charge—we'd request to spot whether this assertion is immoderate accurate. For charging, the telephone supports 68W TurboPower wired charging, which is stated to supply a day's worthy of powerfulness successful 15 minutes, according to Motorola's ain wording. Additionally, we person 15W wireless charging support.

Now we're getting into the atrocious stuff. The Moto G Stylus 2025 ships with Android 15, truthful you bash person the latest mentation of Android retired of the box. But don't expect to get overmuch much different than this. Motorola has confirmed to america that the telephone volition beryllium getting 2 years of large Android updates and 3 years of information updates. To Motorola's credit, this is better than what it gave to immoderate of its older fund phones, which were fortunate to adjacent get 1 azygous large Android update.

This caller update argumentation brings the Moto G Stylus 2025 successful line, updates-wise, with its Razr flagship phones, but I'd inactive marque the statement that this is not enough. Samsung commits to astatine slightest six large Android updates to adjacent its dirt-cheap fund phones. They volition past doubly arsenic agelong receiving updates compared to Motorola's phone. This is simply a occupation for a fig of reasons. You might not usage the Moto G Stylus for longer than two/three years, but unless you're shoving it successful a drawer arsenic soon arsenic you get a caller phone, you're either selling it oregon handing it down to a household member, which volition beryllium utilizing an insecure telephone that doesn't get updates.

If you privation to get this, the telephone volition spell connected merchantability starting adjacent week, April 17th, astatine nationwide retailers. Check retired Motorola's website to larn more.

Source: Motorola