Slowly but surely, Motorola continues to strengthen its Moto G line, which has already received several additions since it doubled its digit. One of those additions is the one that stars the Motorola Moto G50, a mid-range phone with 5G that offers interesting features such as a raised screen refreshment or a large battery with fast charging.
today, it lies on our review table. We subject the device to the usual performance and photographic tests to check what paste this Android-powered Snapdragon 480 is made of.
A design in line with the new Moto G
Motorola has doubled the digits of its Moto G and has introduced a very similar design in almost all models. In the Moto G30, for example, we found a matte finish on the back while the Moto G50 bets on gloss, but in the rest, they are quite similar. We also have a plastic back, which helps to hide some prints that stand out more with reflections. But in general, it stays quite clean, especially if we put the transparent silicone cover that it includes.
Plastic improves grip, feel, and cleanliness, and we have an additional silicone sleeve to add durability.
To weigh 192 grams, the truth is that the Moto G50 is quite comfortable in hand, mainly because it has a weight very well distributed throughout the terminal. Having a plastic back also improves grip, and the device seems very robust, although we have not put it to the test with drops and bumps that can damage its integrity. The structure is classic, with a button panel on the right (button dedicated to Assistant included), USB and headphones at the bottom next to the speaker, and a rear fingerprint reader.
The camera module protrudes concerning the body, and the screen is slightly displaced upwards (which leaves us a somewhat thicker lower frame) and is crowned by a notch for the front camera. The screen itself is of good quality both in tactile response and viewing angles and a bit mediocre in terms of its maximum brightness level, but it has 90Hz to offer greater fluidity in the animations. Its weak point is undoubtedly divided between brightness and density because we have approximately 270 pixels per inch on the screen, which makes this aspect better, although we get used to it after a while.
About the representation of colors, the truth is that the Moto G50 has a customizable screen thanks to its settings, so we can decide if we want softer or more saturated tones, arriving configured in a standard model that is very pleasing to the eye. . Another point in favor of the screen is that the anti-fingerprint treatment of the front glass behaves quite well and helps us not have to pass the phone through our clothes more than necessary. Good news.
The main speaker of the Moto G50 distorts before the bill. The headphones solve everything.
We do not want to leave this section without completing the multimedia experience by talking about sound. In this Moto G50, we find a single speaker at the bottom that achieves a good note in power, although not so much in shrillness, because raising the volume beyond 80/85% will cause the sound to reduce the quality sensibly. This is not the case with the headphone jack, which offers good quality in all situations and allows you to take advantage of high-end headphones. The headphones are not included in the box, by the way.
The new processor and above-average power
One of the things that we liked the most about this Motorola Moto G50 is that it practically releases the Qualcomm Snapdragon 480, one of the firm’s new mid-range (low profile) for this season that provides things like 5G, for instance. The model we have tested is accompanied by 4GB of RAM and 128GB of internal memory, and we would have liked a model with at least 6GB of RAM in circulation as this point may be the weakest in its entire chain.
The Snapdragon 480 performs better than it seems once we pass the ‘frisk.’
Speaking of its use on a day-to-day basis, the truth is that the Moto G50 has behaved well in almost all situations. The Motorola layer, MyUX, is very light and is quite well optimized, which surely throws a cable to the phone in terms of fluidity, but this Moto G50 has responded both in handling the phone’s interface and when facing more or less heavy games. Of course, we found small jerks at the beginning of the executions, at the time of the search, to disappear later and offer a fairly good experience.
Triple rear camera for Moto G50
We land in what is possibly the grayest point of the entire configuration of this Moto G50. Be careful; we are talking about gray and not about black points, but first let’s talk about what the phone equips at a photographic level. First, a 48-megapixel sensor with an f / 1.7 lens, and on the flanks, we have 2 megapixels f / 2.4 for depth and 5 megapixels f / 2.4 for macro photography. On the front, which we will see later, we have 13 megapixels f / 2.2 embedded in the upper notch.
We can start with the Motorola camera app, which is, all told, quite simple. We find the most common functions on the screen, and we can access the extra modes by pressing the lower “hamburger” button. We find the portrait, the night vision mode, or the professional mode, which gives us more advanced controls to take advantage of the camera. If we want to take a photo with the macro lens, we will have the classic icon of a flower located at the bottom of the interface, next to the button that decides the zoom (always digital). In general, a simple app with some aspects that could be improved but functional.
We come to the most common photographs, photographs with light. And as often happens when light is abundant, the Moto G50 behaves correctly when it comes to representing colors and the sharpness of the edges of objects (even though noise appears in almost flat colors). This camera tends to raise the exposure, so we may get some burnt high areas, which is added to the fact that the dynamic range is not the best. However, we get a functional camera that fits in with the performance we see on other equivalent mid-lines.