It is a mid-sized 6.5” phone at 161.83 x 73.96 x 8.59mm x 184g. Screen – 6.5″ is just about right – Pass Selfie: The 16MP selfie has natural skin tones and details and a range of filters to enhance any image. Best in a day and office light It is an entry-level 5G phone using the Qualcomm SDF+480+ SoC. Nothing is wrong with it, but nothing is outstanding, either. Wi-Fi 5 AC is all you can expect, and it connects at 433Mbps. The antenna strength is quite good, out to 10m on the 5Ghz band. The mid-range also sounds slightly less refined than that of the step-up Moto G82, although the tonal consistency between the bottom and above-screen drivers is good. Some stereo phone speakers have thin-sounding upper speakers: not the case here.

Rear camera: Wide (main): 50 MP, f/1.8, 1/2.76", 0.64µm, PDAF; Ultra wide angle: 8 MP, f/2.2, 118˚, 1/4.0", 1.12µm; Macro: 2 MP, f/2.4. Note that Telco-supplied models have a single SIM and dedicated microSD. Retail models have dual hybrid SIM and microSD. Deep-Dive review format This resolution and a 120Hz refresh rate make the Moto G62 display a big upgrade over that of the Moto G50 5G— an older phone that played the same role, as a cheap way to get a 5G phone.Any more coverage than the above and we end up over-analysing what is a fairly unadventurous but pleasant enough phone. The big battery and the less demanding Snapdragon 480+ bode well for the Motorola Moto G62's battery life, but we are taking nothing for granted and will do our usual set of tests to confirm its actual endurance. To start with, there's a 6.5-inch 1080p+ display with a circle-shaped cutout and 120Hz refresh rate. Then, there's the Snapdragon 480+ processor, a 5000mAh battery, 4GB of RAM and 128GB of expandable storage. The Moto G62 has a Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus processor – a tweaked version of the original Snapdragon 480 from early 2021. Its aims are largely the same as the phone’s, to deliver 5G on a budget. Water-repellent design creates a barrier to help protect against moderate exposure to water such as accidental spills, splashes, or light rain.”

In Fortnite, for example, the Moto G82 is limited to the Medium graphics preset, and the 60fps mode available to some phones simply isn’t present in the Settings menu. This is largely because it wouldn’t be able to reach anything like that frame rate anyway. After playing a couple of rounds with the allowed settings, the phone did handle the game OK; but there are obvious frame rate drops when you take to the skies in one of Fortnite’s aerial vehicles.Like these specs suggest, the camera quality here is fairly middle of the road. The addition of an ultra-wide lens adds some flexibility, though a telephoto would have been nice to see rather than the narrow and niche utility of a macro lens. It doesn’t do too badly when digitally zoomed in, either. The macro camera is fine, if not great, and the zoom works well up to a point. You won’t get much quality if you go as high as 8x, but the 3x magnification and below retains enough detail in the stonework to be useful if you absolutely can’t get any closer. The Moto G62 5G runs on an octa-core 2.2GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus processor, which is the beefed-up version of the Snapdragon 480 used by both the Moto G50 and Nokia G50.

However, load images up in Photoshop, or your editing app of choice, warm up the mid-tones a bit and the Moto G62’s pictures suddenly look a good 30% more inviting. The Moto G82 also has good, although not remotely class-leading, fast charging. It supports 30W fast charging, and a 30W charger is included in the box. This is, in part, because the Moto G82 has a sensor with a small surface area compared to its resolution. The Samsung JN1 is a 1/2.76-inch sensor, a little smaller than the 1/2.55-inch Sony IMX363 of the Pixel 6a (which also benefits from native resolution shooting), and dramatically smaller than the 1/1.56-inch Sony IMX766 of the OnePlus Nord 2T. At first glance, the red bars may look like the Nokia G50 and Moto G50 outstrip the Moto G62, but their lower resolutions just require less power, allowing for a better frame rate in the on-screen compute tests. Look to the off-screen orange bars and you’ll see things even out – an unsurprising result, as all three use the Adreno 619 GPU. The Xiaomi Redmi Note 11 runs on the slightly inferior Adreno 610, which accounts somewhat for it trailing 86% behind the others.

Display and System Performance

There’s no saving the phone’s night pictures, though. While the Moto G62 has a Night Vision mode for low-light photography, night-time images are low on detail and dynamic range, and often have a sheen of granular noise over their surface. We also found the color temperature a little cool at the default setting. This is common, since a cooler tone can make a screen seem brighter and punchier. However, the Moto G82 looks better once it’s been tweaked slightly. Motorola’s new smartphones cover a relatively wide price range, and in some cases, they rub uncomfortably close to one another. Let’s have a look at what each of these new phones is offering. Motorola Moto G73 5G Let’s face it – it is an entry-level Samsung SK5JN1, 50MP with tiny .64um pixels binned to 12.5MP and 1.28um. Add to that the Qualcomm SD480+ has entry-level AI image processing, which is adequate.

Screen orientation is an issue. The combo Accelerometer and Gyroscope are very sensitive, and the slightest movement sends it to landscape. I had to turn autorotation off. The Motorola Moto G82 5G has a 5,000mAh battery, the same capacity seen in a large and ever-increasing number of Moto-series phones. However, it’s good to see this capacity retained when this is a slightly slimmer handset than plenty of others in the Moto G family.PC Mark 3.0 battery test is one of the more accurate tests for heavy use, but it simply would not run. Burst Shot/ Gesture Capture/ Auto Smile Capture/ Group Selfie/ Selfie Animation/ Spot Colour/ Shot Optimisation/Active Photo/ Dual Capture/ Live Filter/ Face Beauty/ Portrait Mode Beauty/ HDR/ Auto Night Vision Less-demanding titles like Marvel Snap and Legends of Runeterra ran best, but I found that League of Legends: Wild Rift, Call of Duty: Mobile and Star Wars Hunters fared reasonably well too. It's hard not to wish for a little more RAM or extra onboard storage, but I found myself straining against those limits less than I expected. This takes the phone from flat to 50% charge in 27-28 minutes, and it reaches 100% after 80 minutes. The Moto G82 continues to draw a charge at a measly 4W for a while after, but when you’re running low on juice, the 2%-a-minute charge rate means just 10 minutes plugged in can see you right for a long night. Android feels OK in the Moto G62, but you can tell this is a lower-end phone. As mentioned in the display section of this review, there are micro-stutters during basic navigation that spoil the effect of the 120Hz display a little.