Not everyone wants, needs, or can afford a flagship-class smartphone, so we’re grateful to have a market with no shortage of mid-range phone options. But while those budget-priced offerings from some manufacturers feel like afterthoughts, other phone-makers have earned well-deserved reputations for putting our real quality low-priced handsets that have us coming back for more, year after year.
That’s very much the case with Motorola, and while the brand experiments with modular hardware for its flagships, the affordable Moto G line has represented a more accessible alternative since its first iteration debuted back in 2013.
Today we’re checking out one of the latest entries to this well-respected series, the Moto G5S plus. With dual cameras and a metal body, does this phone manage to still feel pretty premium despite a wallet-friendly price tag? Let’s take a look.
In the box:
Moto G5S Plus
USB standard-A to micro-USB cable
Wall charger
SIM tool
Read-me booklet
Safety guide
DISPLAY
The screen on the Moto G5S Plus is pretty typical: nothing fancy here like curved edges or an extra-tall aspect ratio. Instead, we get a perfectly ordinary 5.5-inch LCD with a 1080 x 1920 resolution. While that’s the biggest display on any of the Moto G5-series handsets, they all share the same 1080p resolution, making this also the least pixel-dense in the process. Thankfully, at this size we’re still compact enough that it never becomes a problem, and the panel here looks nice and sharp.
Brightness isn’t bad at all, and while the limit is a little conservative when you’re manually adjusting screen output, in auto-brightness mode the phone’s right up there with the higher-performing phones we’ve recently analyzed, including the iPhone X. That can make the G5S Plus a smart choice for users who will be spending a lot of time outdoors.
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