It’s a testament to how far budget handsets have come in the last decade that the Moto G13 looks pretty much like any other smartphone in 2023. Unusually, it doesn’t seem to apply horrendously over-the-top beautification settings, and I couldn’t see any way to add them, either.

We will probably see this level of performance more often in budget phones this year, but it's still great that the Moto G13 shows that even a cheap phone finally allows smooth navigation through menus and even somewhat more demanding tasks.

The maximum temperature of 38.4 °C is not critical, and the performance is not affected by this, as the 3DMark stress test shows us: even after numerous runs of the benchmark, the achieved frame rate is about the same. But all phones struggle when the light dips, and budget phones are especially susceptible to this phenomenon. As the sun sets, the Moto G13’s pictures get noticeably blurrier with added visual noise.

Does the gamble pay off? It’s a mixed bag. As you can see from the chart below, it’s some way off the Xiaomi Redmi Note 11 with its Qualcomm chip. And that’s over a year old now, even if it still tops our list of budget phones. Front Camera Setup: (f/2.0 Aperture, 1.12um Pixel Size), Camera Feature: Dual Capture, Spot Color, Night Vision, Portrait, Live Filter, Group Selfie, Pro Mode (W/ Long Exposure), Low Light AI Selfie, Shot Optimization, Auto Smile Capture, Gesture Capture, Selfie Animation, Face Beauty, RAW Photo Output, HDR, Timer, Best Shot, Active Photos, Assistive Grid, Leveler, Watermark, Video Features: Dual Capture, Spot Color, Timelapse (W/ Hyperlapse), Video Stabilization, Face Beauty, Video Snapshot Motorola's Moto G13 is a quite fast phone from the affordable mid-range with good features: 90 Hz display, NFC, and a lot of storage. The mobile reception is decent for an inexpensive phone in our random tests during the review but can't keep up with high-end phones. The Moto G13 comes with a triple-camera array composed of a 50MP (f/1.8) main snapper and two additional 2MP (f/2.4) lenses: one for macro, and another for depth.The Moto G13 can use the earpiece as a second speaker and thus create a stereo effect. The sound is overall good and does not overdrive but the music sounds a bit muffled. The speakers are also not really loud. There is a 3.5 mm audio port at the smartphone's upper edge, that can be used for connecting headphones or speakers. External audio devices can also be connected via Bluetooth. Numerous codecs, such as aptX HD, LDAC, or LHDC-V, are available here. It’s not too bad when viewed from a distance, but zoom in for a close crop and you can see exactly how little detail is captured.