With a huge battery, a low-res screen and modern 14nm processor the Moto G7 Power promises multi-day battery life
The Motorola Moto G7 Power, launched alongside three other G7 phones in Sao Paulo, Brazil, fills a hole in Motorola’s flagship Moto lineup that’s been gaping for a while now. Although the company launched three Moto G6 phones this time last year, none had a plus-sized battery like this year’s Moto G7 Power; you had to drop down to the ultra-budget Moto E-series to get that.
The battery inside the Moto G7 Power is simply enormous with a mammoth capacity of 5,000mAh. That’s the same as the Moto E5 Plus from last year and an impressive 2,000mAh bigger than the standard Moto G7. Given the Moto E5 Plus last year lasted nearly 20 hours in our battery tests, and had a much older processor, I’m expecting the Moto G7 Power to outlast it significantly.
Motorola Moto G7 review: Key specifications, price and release date
- 6.2in 1,520 x 720 full-view display
- 1.8GHz octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 632 processor
- Adreno 506 GPU
- 4GB RAM
- 64Gb storage with microSD card expansion up to 512GB
- 12MP, f/2 rear camera (1080p video at 30fps)
- 8MP, f/2.2 front camera
- 5,000mAh battery
- 76 x 9.3 x 159mm, 193g
- UK Price: £179
- UK release date: February
Motorola Moto G7 Power review: Design, key features and first impressions
If you want a phone that lasts up to two days but don’t have a huge amount of cash to splash, then, the Moto G7 Power could be the phone for you. At £179, it’s even cheaper than the regular Moto G7 and it looks very similar, both in size and appearance. It’s a little bulkier and heavier but that would be immediately obvious to you if you didn’t have them next to each other to compare.
The G7 Power’s rear is polycarbonate plastic rather than the Gorilla Glass 3 of the standard G7, but it looks just as pristine and glossy and has a similar circular camera bump in the centre with a fingerprint reader just below it. The corners and edges are softly rounded as they have been for some time on Moto phones and make for a phone that feels comfortable to hold.
As for colours, the Moto G7 Power is available in black and blue, plus a more garish “iced violet” gradient finish for those who favour a more outré look.
Look with a critical eye and more significant differences begin to emerge, however. From the front, it’s clear to see that, although the Moto G7 Power has an edge-to-edge screen like the Moto G7 – it’s the same size, too, at 6.2in – it has a much broader notch at the top. For notch haters, that’s going to be a big turn-off.
Another big change is that, as you step down from the Moto G7 Power, you’re also getting a lower resolution, 1,520 x 720 screen as well. That’s by no means a disaster and should help with eking out even more battery life but you also lose the water repellent coating which is more of an issue.
The final major differences between the Moto G7 Power and the regular G7 surround the phone’s cameras. On the Moto G7 Power you’re getting just a single 12-megapixel f/2 camera on the rear and an 8-megapixel front-facing camera at the front. The Moto G7 Power is also only able to capture 1080p video at up to 30fps where the Moto G7 can record 4K footage.
Otherwise, the Moto G7 Power looks to be a solid offering. Internally, it has the same 1.8GHz octa-core Snapdragon 632 processor as the Moto G7 and the same 4GB of RAM, an arrangement that should lead to similar performance for CPU-bound tasks. In fact, the Moto G7 Power should, in some circumstances, be quicker than the regular G7; with fewer pixels to render on-screen, frame rates in games should be higher.
And, rounding off a pretty decent feature set, is a fingerprint reader and NFC for contactless payments via Android Pay.
Motorola Moto G7 Power review: Early verdict
You can ignore most of those specifications, though. Instead, you should focus on the one that matters: battery capacity. With a huge 5,000mAh power pack under the hood coupled with an efficient, modern smartphone processor and a low-resolution display, I fully expect the Moto G7 Power to deliver levels of stamina that far exceed anything we’ve seen recently.
In fact, I think the Motorola Moto G7 Power has the potential to eclipse even the legendary Lenovo P2 in the battery life stakes and I can’t wait to put it through its paces.
Source: expertreviews.co.uk
