New Moto G Fast, Moto E make the iPhone SE look expensive

Moto G Fast, at left, and Moto Due east (Image credit: Motorola)

These days, nosotros consider the Moto M Ability to exist the all-time cheap phone you can buy for less than $250 because information technology offers exceptional battery life, good-enough functioning and photography and compatibility with any cellular network.

Nonetheless, Motorola obviously wasn't satisfied with the value of its latest upkeep handset, because the company'south at present putting out an even cheaper model that still looks to carry over most of what nosotros loved about the Ability.

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Motorola'southward latest upkeep phone is chosen the Moto K Fast. Coming out July 12 for $199 unlocked and via Boost Mobile, the 6.4-inch Moto G Fast has the very same processor as the Moto G Ability and Moto G Stylus, but packs a four,000-mAh battery compared to the Power's 5,000-mAh ability pack. It also has 3GB of RAM rather than 4GB, though Motorola has been able to bring the Power's triple-lens rear camera to the Fast, so the differences are actually pretty slight in the g scheme of things.

The Moto G Fast volition be accompanied past the new half-dozen.2-inch Moto E for 2020 for $149. Inside this model is a Snapdragon 632 processor supported past 2GB of RAM, a 3,550-mAh bombardment and a dual-lens rear camera that combines a xiii-MP master sensor with a 2-MP depth sensor.

Similar the Moto G Fast, the Moto E will exist bachelor unlocked, though information technology will also be sold through a range of discount carriers, including Metro by T-Mobile, Boost Mobile, U.Due south. Cellular, Xfinity Mobile, Commonwealth Wireless and Verizon's prepaid service. You can pre-society either phone from All-time Purchase, Amazon, Walmart and other major retailers starting today.

Moto Grand Fast and Moto East specs

Model	Moto G Fast	Moto E
Starting Price	$199	$149
Screen	6.iv-inch LCD (1560x720)	6.2-inch LCD (1520x720)
CPU	Snapdragon 665	Snapdragon 632
Storage	32GB; expandable up to 512GB	32GB; expandable upwards to 512GB
Storage	3GB	2GB
Bombardment	4,000 mAh	3,550 mAh
Rear Camera	16MP principal (ƒ/i.seven); 8MP ultrawide (ƒ/ii.2); 2MP macro (ƒ/two.2)	13MP main (ƒ/ii.0); 2MP depth (ƒ/2.ii)
Front Camera	8MP (ƒ/2.0)	5MP (ƒ/2.0)
Colors	Pearl White	Midnight Bluish, Champagne Pink
Weight	6.68 ounces	half-dozen.52 ounces
Dimensions	6.37 x 2.98 ten 0.35 inches	half-dozen.29 10 3.01 10 0.34 inches

The Moto G Fast is the device nosotros're primarily excited to examination, though. Although the Moto G Power really won u.s. over with its unbelievable longevity on a accuse — lasting sixteen hours and 10 minutes in Tom's Guide's custom battery test — the balance of the handset is pretty solid besides. The brandish is satisfactorily vivid, performance is sprightly enough to handle ordinary telephone tasks, the photos it takes aren't that much worse than what you'd go from, say, the Pixel 3a, and what few software shortcuts and enhancements Motorola's added to Android ten are genuinely useful.

If the Moto G Fast can deliver on all of those fronts that the Power excelled at —albeit with a slight hit to bombardment life — it could be the perfect phone under $200. It's worth pointing out that the Moto Thousand Stylus likewise has a four,000-mAh battery, and with information technology, that device lasted 12 hours and xiii minutes in the same battery examination — nevertheless practiced enough to country in the rankings for best phone battery life.

On the even less-expensive side of things, the Moto E will accept the fight to Nokia's range of inexpensive handsets. 1 device we tested nearly a year ago, the $189 Nokia four.2, sported a sensible, beautiful pattern only came equipped with a lower-spec bit than what you'll detect in the Moto E, and the battery life was nothing to celebrate, either.

And then far this twelvemonth, nosotros've seen Motorola rising up to take back the cheap phone curtain with the Moto K Ability and, to a lesser extent, the Moto Thousand Stylus. The Moto Chiliad Fast and Moto E volition prove whether the company can keep it. Wait frontward to reviews of both handsets in the coming weeks.

Adam Ismail is a staff writer at Jalopnik and previously worked on Tom's Guide covering smartphones, car tech and gaming. His love for all things mobile began with the original Motorola Droid; since then he's owned a multifariousness of Android and iOS-powered handsets, refusing to stay loyal to one platform. His work has too appeared on Digital Trends and GTPlanet. When he's not footling with the latest devices, he's at an indie pop show, recording a podcast or playing Sega Dreamcast.