Rumor has it Samsung is getting ready to reboot the Galaxy Note in the form of a Galaxy S22 Ultra with a built-in stylus, but Motorola has a new option for those who want to draw on a screen but don’t want to pay Samsung flagship phone prices.
The new Moto G Stylus is the second generation of 2020’s debut of the phablet phone. It’s a 4G device, so you’ll have to consider last year’s year’s Moto G Stylus 5G if you want to log on to the new networks.
The main reason you’d choose the Moto G Stylus over Samsung’s offering is its affordable price tag. The Moto G Stylus is $300, making it an accessible phablet device for anyone craving a big screen and a stylus that can jot down notes (though you’ll want to use another app because Moto Note has some particularly disappointing reviews in the Play Store).
The Moto G Stylus has a 6.8-inch edge-to-edge Max Vision Full HD+ display with a 90hz refresh rate. There’s a 5,000 mAh battery to accommodate that big screen with a promise of up to two days of battery life on a single charge.
On the inside, the Moto G Stylus has much less firepower than Samsung’s lineup (obviously, given the price). This smartphone fits squarely in the mid-range with its MediaTek Helio G88 processor and up to 6GB of memory. Storage space is a bit more forgiving, and you can get the Moto G Stylus in 64GB or 128GB variants. There’s also an expansion slot for an extra 512GB for separately storing music, ebooks, or some PDFs- you know, things you’d store on a phone with such a massive screen.
The Moto G Stylus comes equipped with a 50-megapixel main rear lens, with what Motorola calls Quad Pixel technology. It’s supposedly capable of delivering four times the low-light sensitivity of the sensor, resulting in a brighter, sharper photo in dark situations. In the fine print, Motorola explains, “The 50MP sensor combines four pixels into one, for an effective photo resolution of 12.5MP.”
Additionally, the Moto G Stylus has a 118-degree ultra-wide-angle lens for expansive landscape shots, plus a Macro Vision lens for macro shots and a depth sensor to help blur out the background for portrait-style photos.
Annoyingly, the Moto G Stylus comes with Android 11 instead of the latest version of Android 12. Motorola has a track record of falling behind on essential software updates. Though the company declared support for Android 12 in December, it’s unclear when the Moto G Stylus would receive the update.
Source: Gizmodo