Motorola Moto G30 Review | Seriously great budget phone under £200 By Tech Spurt

Now, as you may well know, especially if you're a long-term viewer of tech, expert Motorola aren't exactly particularly shy when it comes to launching new smartphones. Their motor g9 series was only just launched at the end of 2020 over the space of a couple of months and yet already in early 2021. We have their successes: the motor g10 and this bad boy here the motor g30. Now in my own box, when I only did a full side-by-side comparison with the g10 and the g30 to see what the difference between them was, but to put it in simple cartoon terms, if the g30 was Lionel, the g10 would be snarfed it's this here, Motorola motor g30, that's got the slicker performance, the 90 hertz display and the 64 megapixel primary camera, some pretty tidy specs for that 159 pound, asking price. Of course, at this sort of budget price point, you've got some really strong rivals, including the likes of the Oppo a53, the Poco m3, a boatload of Xiaomi smartphones. So is the Motorola motor g30 stiff competition.

Well, I've had my sims slapped in this bad boy for about a week now and here's my full in-depth review and for more on the latest greatest tech. Please do poke subscribe and ding that notifications bell cheers now. The g30 has a bang average 6.5 inch size with typically chunky bezels, making for quite the hand filler. Although the curvature at the edges does at least mean that it's comfortable to clutch, it is a basic plastic construction like pretty much every other budget, smartphone you'll find at this price, but it is attractive enough as well for a budget blower. I have to say I quite like the subtle color as well.

It looks quite sort of dark and mysterious when you look at it head-on, but when you tilt it towards the light, and then it takes on this sort of purple hue- and I particularly like the matte finish as well, which means it completely resists any kind of smudges fingerprints scuffs. Anything like that, so you don't even really have to give it much of a buffing up to keep it looking fresh. But I have noticed a bit of scratching on that ascend or. However, so you will have to use a case with the motor g30 if you want to keep it looking as pristine as possible. Thankfully mud water has bundled a rubber johnny with the g30 to keep it covered up and like most of Motorola's budget-friendly smartphones, you get an ip52 water, repellent design here as well.

So a little of splashing is absolutely fine, doesn't matter if it gets a bit damp, but you definitely don't want to go drenching it now, unlike some other recent budget blowers like Samsung's galaxy a12 here, you've got the latest tastiest android 11 on board and, like other Motorola smartphones as well. The motor g30 doesn't bugger about with heavy clunky, overlays or launchers, or anything like that. This is as close as you'll get to virgin stock android outside a pixel smartphone, albeit with a few little added gifts chucked in their by Motorola as well. So for one this has lots of great gesture support, including my favorite. You know, what's coming, kung fu touch, yay and Motorola has also spruced up android, with some proper face recognition for unlocking the motor g30, which works pretty well.

As long as the lighting doesn't suck, otherwise, you've got that classic rear mounted fingerprint sensor, which ain't exactly super swift, but it is rather dependable. It's only really not great if your figure's, a bit moist or obviously, if you're wearing gloves or something in which case the face recognition is a dependable fallback unless of course, you're on a face mask which gives it doesn't work, but yeah. I'm also a big fan of the motor game. Time feature which is slapped on here as well, which I'll cover in a bit, and then you get all the usual budget shenanigans on here as well, including NFC for your contactless payments and yeah. There is a dedicated Google Assistant button as you'll find on a lot of these budget-friendly smartphones from like some more to all the uh Nokia, but thankfully it's shunted away all the way up towards the top end of the smartphone, never found that I accidentally pressed it.

It's just a shame that you can't reconfigure it to open up a different app that you use quite a lot, because there are plenty of other ways of calling up that bloody Google Assistant, and it's definitely great to see more Motorola, not being stingy on the storage front. Either. You've got 128 gigs of space crammed into this thing, compared with some rivals like Samsung, who only shove in 64 as standard, and you've got micro, SD memory card support to expand that by further 512 gigs as well, so no worries if you're downloading shed loads of suspiciously large video files. Although that memory card does have to go into the second sim slot. So you can't have dual sim and expansion at the same time so far so very lovely, but the 6.5-inch IPS screen on the motor g30 does bring things crashing back to reality or, if not quite crashing, then maybe gently tumbling. This is a simple 720p, HD plus panel, meaning that you're lacking that fine finish of full HD plus screens, which you'll find on some rivals like the Poco m3 on top brightness.

The motor g30 won't exactly make you squint with its awesome power, although it's generally all right for outdoors use, while color, reproduction and viewing angles are typical for a cheap mud roller phone, and that sounds like a whole barrel load of winged, I know, but the motor g30 is still fine for watching some Netflix YouTube or whatever your brain, numb and poison happens to be, and there's definitely no issues with wide vine support or anything like that, and at least one of the motor g30s upgrades over the standard. Motor g10 is a 90 hertz, refresh rate, so zipping around in supported apps and the like is silky. Smooth. We've also got a mono speaker slapped here on the very bottom end of the motor g30, but when it's time to jam to some change, you'll definitely want to shove. In a pair of headphones, you've got a dedicated, headphone jack up top great stuff, otherwise, you've also got full Bluetooth, 5.0 support on here as well. I did notice some little issues when I was first connecting to a pair of speakers or headphones or whatever a few little cutters.

Crackles uh generally lasted a few seconds. Then it settled down and it was okay. As for the performance, while you've got Qualcomm's ever dependable, snapdragon 662 chipsets stuffed inside the motor g30, which is fast becoming the go-to platform for budget phones under 200 quid see also the Nokia 5.4 Poco m3 yada. Now you can grab an Amazon exclusive model of the motor g30, which bumps up the ram from four gigs, which is what I've got in here to six gigs. But I found the four gig version ran everyday tasks, absolutely fine sure you'll see the occasional awkward pause or judder or whatever, when you're loading up something like the camera app.

But apart from that pretty much smooth sailing and also that trusty arena 610 GPU means that gamers can blitz to the likes of PUBG and Call of Duty on higher detail levels with a nice smooth frame rate. It's definitely an enjoyable gaming experience and that's helped along by mode roller's game time feature which can be dragged out at any point to help block your calls. Your notifications check on your resources. My only beef is that the screen responsiveness isn't exactly stellar, so it's not ideal for really competitive gamers playing the likes of Call of Duty. But apart from that, all good now, Motorola smartphones usually absolutely smash it out of the park when it comes to the battery life, but the motor g30 doesn't just smash it out of the park whatever it is.

It completely disintegrates it into a cloud of freaking dust. Trust me that 5000 William battery will not be drained at the end of even a super long intensive deal unless you're, literally piddling about with the camera or gaming on the thing non-stop and just with standard everyday use. You know messaging a bit of audio streaming bit of YouTube and all of that good stuff. It'll generally last you two full days between charges, plus you know that 20 watt turbocharger, and I believe it is that multiple other calls it actually isn't bad at all. For this budget price point and finally, for your personal photography needs the motor.

G30 rocks a respectable 64 megapixel quad pixel primary sensor, and this captures decent, looking 16 meg pictures by default, occasionally a little over saturated and brighter scenes. But that's pretty typical for this price point. Now, if you want to at any point, you can actually knock up the resolution to that maximum 64 mega level by using the ultra rays' bonus camera mode. The processing time is quite long, but this can produce some very sharp good, looking picks when the lighting is strong, and it usually counters that over exposure effect, but other times you will end up with a darker murkier image. Overall, the motor g30 works hard to capture worthy shots with minimal effort from your good self.

Moving subjects are generally blur free as long as they aren't right up in your face and even indoor shots aren't too soft, and you've got more rollers AI smarts on board to automatically straighten up any wonky snaps, a feature which works well, and this will even suggest swapping to an alternative camera mode when appropriate. So, for instance, in low light situations that say: hey buddy, you might want to consider chucking on that night mode. That night mode in question can brighten up low light scenes and produce finer detail, but don't expect natural color tones or anything particularly exciting. Motorola has added a depth sensor, which contributes to great looking portrait shots with both style beauty that can be altered even after the pitch has been taken and don't forget that ever entertaining spot, color mode, which can produce some slick, look and mostly monochrome picks. The Motorola motor g30 also serves up an eight megapixel ultra-wide angle lens.

That's to be perfectly blunt. A little poo this craps out low-res shots that are usually dark and drab, and the final shooter on the back of the g30 is the now obligatory gosh dawn, macro lens and yeah. This can capture low res up close photos, but, as usual, why not just use the 64 megapixel primary sensor and then just crop in video capture tops off at full HD level, and while things are shakier, even with the image stabilization active, the results are still fine. I did notice some slight flickering in brighter light, but other technical issues are few and far between. While audio capture is perfectly respectable.

You just get the usual distortion whenever a breeze picks up now I have to say I'm also a fan of the motor g30s 13 megapixel selfie cam, which can cope with crappy conditions and also turn out some good-looking portrait snaps just like that rear camera, and it could also shoot a tasty bit of full HD video if you're in a bit of a vlogging mood. So right there is the multiple motor g30, and I've got to say the number of upgrades that it offers over the motor g10. I definitely say it's worth your while, if you've got that little of extra cash to spare, you get better performance, you've got the better camera tech and, of course, that 90 hertz display, if you're after that sort of stock android vibe, then definitely the motor g30 is one of the better sub 200 pound budget smartphones around right now very strong competition for the likes of the Nokia 5.4. So that's what I think would definitely be great to hear your own personal thoughts on the motor g30 if you've been using it as your full-time smartphone check out my roundup of the very best under 200 pound budget smartphones right now that you can get in early 2021 for ideas of other alternatives and have yourselves a bloody lovely rest of the week cheers everyone you.

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