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Phone Arena
20-05-2025
- Phone Arena
Power users can score a free Moto g Power 2025 from Straight Talk
It's one thing to get a free phone when you purchase a wireless plan from an MVNO, but it is another thing when the free phone has a feature that makes it useful to you to own. Straight Talk, the MVNO that uses Verizon's wireless service exclusively, is handing out the new Moto g Power 2025 to those purchasing a Gold or Platinum plan. The phone has a 5000 mAh battery, which generated 14 hours and 9 minutes of browsing, 8 hours and 43 minutes of gaming, and 9 hours of video streaming in our testing. It supports 30W charging wired and 15W charging wirelessly. The Moto g Power 2025 has a Corning Gorilla Glass 5-protected 6.8-inch LCD display. The latter has a 1080 x 2388 resolution and features a 120Hz refresh rate. The application processor running the show is a 6 nm MediaTek Dimensity 6300 alongside 8 GB of RAM. One feature called RAM Boost uses some of the phone's native memory to push the amount of virtual RAM up to 24 GB allowing you to take multitasling to a new tier when needed. Subscribe to Straight Talk's Gold or Platinum plan to score a free Moto g Power. | Image credit-Straight Talk The phone is also equipped with 128GB of native storage. Using a microSD card, users can store as much as 1 TB of data. The dual camera setup on the back includes a 50 MP main camera and an 8 MP ultra-wide camera. The selfie camera in front weighs in at 16 MP. With an IP69 rating, the Moto g Power is impervious to dust and can also survive getting sprayed by high-pressure, high-temperature water jets. Not only does the phone deliver great battery life, it also sports a 3.5mm earphone jack, which is something you certainly don't find on new phones these days. The Gold Unlimited plan ($55 per month, $50 for the first three months with AutoPay) delivers 4x nationwide 5G speeds with 5G Ultra Wideband. This plan includes unlimited talk, text, and data, 30 GB of hotspot data, 100 GB of cloud storage, and international calling to Canada and Mexico. Sign up with Straight Talk for this plan, and the Moto g Power 2025 is yours for free. A free Walmart+ membership is included. The phone is also free if you subscribe to the Platinum Unlimited plan ($55 per month, $50 for the first three months with AutoPay). With this plan, you get everything that Gold plan subscribers receive, but are given Unlimited hotspot data instead of 30 GB. Platinum Unlimited plan members also get Device Protection and a free Walmart+ membership. The deal is valid through July 20th, 2025, or while supplies last online or at participating stores.
WIRED
25-02-2025
- WIRED
Motorola's New Moto G Power Could Use a Bit More Power
There are two main areas of improvement. First, the Moto G Power finally has an IP rating of IP68/69, meaning it has been tested to survive water jets and submersion. It will survive heavy rain and an accidental drop in the pool. These ratings are often only available on pricier phones, so it's good to have that peace of mind. Second, Motorola promises two Android operating system upgrades alongside three years of security updates. That's a huge change considering I complained about the poor update strategy in Motorola phones four years ago . Mind you, it could stand to be longer, but it's a start. This means that for the first time, a Moto G phone can enjoy two OS updates, which often include new features. Thankfully, the Moto G Power 2025 launched with the current Android 15 version, so this phone will get Android 16 and Android 17, though don't expect the updates to arrive fast. Speaking of software, the user interface is clean and relatively pain-free. However, like previous Moto G phones, there's a boatload of pre-installed bloatware. You can uninstall all of it—and you'll want to take the time to do it as it can save some storage space. Battery life is great—the 5,000-mAh cell roughly lasts two days with average use, though on days when I used the phone for navigation, music streaming, and lots of Instagram Reels-ing, it dipped to approximately 30 percent by bedtime. My favorite perk is that I can recharge it with a wireless charger, and this Moto G remains one of the few sub-$300 phones with the capability. Photograph: Julian Chokkattu The rest of the reasons you may want this phone over other devices remain: It still has a headphone jack for all you cord lovers; it keeps the microSD card slot—on top of the built-in 128 GB of storage—if you often use a lot of storage; and the near-field communication sensor (NFC) lets you make contactless payments so you can leave the wallet at home. Good Looks One thing Motorola did get right again is design. The vegan leather (aka plastic) texture on the back mixed with the wonderful green color elevates this simple-looking phone into something more. It has character and stands out from the sea of boring black slabs, not to mention it feels much nicer to hold. Over on the back is where you'll also find three cameras, though one is just an ambient light sensor. The main camera is a 50-megapixel sensor and it's joined by an 8-MP ultrawide that also doubles as a macro camera. The primary shooter is decent. Enable Motorola's Night mode and it can take some solid low-light images, though the results can be blurry if you don't stay still enough, and colors are muddy. Skin tones and white balance are problematic too, but these are common issues with phone cameras at this price bracket.
