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Motorola Moto G8 Play Review

Score: 70.1 / 100

Motorola Moto G8 Play is a great quality Android cellphone launched in 2019, with a 2 GHz Octa-Core processing unit, an enormous 6.2" screen, and two cameras, a 13 MP back side camera and a 25 mega-pixels front camera.

Motorola decided to build this phone with a MediaTek Helio P70 chip, holding a high performance 2000 megahertz Octa-Core processor and a big 2 GB RAM. This phone has an excellent 32 GB internal memory and an external SD slot, which allows the user to store hundreds of applications without thinking about how much storage is left.

Motorola made the Motorola Moto G8 Playavailable only in two colors: knight grey and royal magenta. The Motorola Moto G8 Play is very thin and practical, with a thickness of just 0.35". The is a compact cellphone, taking into account that it presents a 6.2 inches screen and it has just 6.2" long. Apparently Motorola forgot about optimizing the weight in this 6.6 ounces cellphone. Regarding its construction quality, this cellphone is majorly created with Plastic and Plastic .

The features two cameras, a 13 megapixels back-facing camera and a 25 mega-pixels front-facing camera. It is capable of shooting 1920x1080 Full HD videos at 30 fps, and slow motion videos in (HD) (1280x720) up to 120 fps (4 times slower than regular videos). Additionally, the camera counts with time lapse video.

Motorola equipped the with a interesting 6.2" screen, and a resolution of 720 x 1520 , which makes everything look very nice.

This cellphone provides wi-fi connectivity (which it can provide to other devices as a mobile hotspot), 4G (LTE) fast internet connection and also HSPA+ data connection, a bit slower 4G technology and the fastest 3G connectivity, over HSDPA and HSUPA technologies. The works with a Nano SIM card to use GSM services.

The also comes with a lot of interesting characteristics as Fingerprint ID, Bluetooth (provides communication with other bluetooth devices, computers and accessories), GPS (Global Positioning System) and FM Radio, and lots of sensors like Light Sensor, Proximity Sensor, Accelerometer and Gyroscope.

This phone has a big 4000 mAh non-removable battery that can keep this phone running for several hours without charging it at all. An issue to take into consideration is that this phone's battery isn't replaceable so you won't be able to replace it when it begins losing capacity, although with such a great capacity you will probably discard this cellphone before it happens.

The Motorola Moto G8 Play is definitely very appropiate for you no matter if you want this device to take tons of photographs, need a cellphone mostly for internet broswing and social networks, will use this cellphone to play lots of games or will use it as a work device. When you buy this cellphone you also receive Guides , USB-C cable, SIM pin and 10W rapid charger.



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Specifications

Device Type:Phone
Brand:Motorola
Operating System (OS):Android 10, 9.0 Pie
Dimensions:6.20 x 2.97 x 0.35 inchesMetric15.75 x 7.54 x 0.89 cmImperial
Weight:6.60 ouncesMetric187.11 gImperial
Colors:Knight grey and Royal magenta
Materials:Plastic and Plastic
Accessories:10W rapid charger, Guides , SIM pin, USB-C cable
Release date:2019-10-24

Display

Screen Type:IPS LCD
Size:6.2 inchesMetric15.7 cmImperial
Resolution:1520 x 720 pixels
Pixel density:271 pixels per inchMetric106.69 pixels per cmImperial
Touch screen:No

Hardware

Chipset:MediaTek Helio P70
Processor:ARM Cortex-A73 and ARM Cortex-A53, 64-bit, 12 nm (Octa-Core 2000 MHz)
RAM Memory:2 GB
Graphics Processor:Mali G72 MP3
Internal Memory:32 GB
SD Card Slot:microSDXC (up to 512 GB)

Battery

Removable:No
Capacity:4000 mAh

Camera

Back camera:13 megapixels
    Aperture:f/2.00
Front camera:25 megapixels
Max video resolution:1920 x 1080 (30 fps) (Full HD)
Max slow motion video:1280 x 720 (120 fps) (HD)
Camera features:Slow Motion Video (4 times slower) and Time Lapse Video

Networks

Wi-Fi:Yes
    Mobile Hotspot:Yes
SIM Card Type:Nano SIM
LTE (4G) Bands:1(2100), 2(1900), 3(1800), 4(AWS-1), 5(850), 7(2600), 8(900), 28(700 APT), 66(AWS-3)
UMTS Bands:Bands 1(2100), 2(1900), 4(1700/2100), 5(850), 8(900)
Technologies:LTE (4G), HSPA+ (4G), HSDPA and HSUPA

Other Features

Bluetooth:Version 4.2
GPS:Yes
Fingerprint ID:Yes
Radio:FM Radio
Sensors:Accelerometer, Gyroscope, Light Sensor and Proximity Sensor