Smartphone Reviews, Motorola Moto G9 Plus 2021

hi guys ash from tech talk um about a week ago i did a unboxing video of the motorola moto g9 plus so this is now my more in-depth review um i've used this phone as my personal phone for around a week or so it's had my sim card in it i've been taking some pictures a bit of video watching some youtube netflix testing out the batteries see how long that lasts so if you're interested um stick around and i can let you know whether this is a good phone to buy now or whether you should choose something else so let's get to it .

 okay so this is my more in-depth review of the motorola moto g9 plus um i've gone through an unboxing video i'll link for that down below in the description so you can check that out as well um i'll just go through some of the specs briefly so we have a 6.8 inch lcd display on the front uh with a resolution of 2400 by 1080 that's good for 386 pixels per inch um this configuration i have here is the four gigs of ram with 128 gigs of storage um there isn't actually an option for a any storage any less than that so that's quite good with this one if i flip it over you've got the quad camera set up on the back um which consists of your 64 megapixel main camera an 8 megapixel ultra wide and then you've got a 2 megapixel macro and a 2 megapixel depth sensor as well if i flip it over to the front you've got a 16 megapixel front-facing camera which is tucked up here in the top left-hand corner um and that's a f 2.0 lens camera inside you have a 5 000 milliamp battery which supports 30 watt fast charging through the usb c port on the bottom and also on the bottom you have your microphone and your speaker grille unfortunately there's no stereo speakers on this so it is just um from that bottom firing speaker.

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Motorola Moto G9 Plus Review : BODY

 so my usage for this um to be honest as to be expected from a 6.8 inch display the phone is very large and those with small hands will definitely find it hard to use one-handed myself included as i don't have very large hands at all the screen does stretch from edge to edge there's a rather sizable chin um on the bottom unfortunately they couldn't take the screen right the way to the bottom um and there is a little bit of a a chin um at the top as well this the sides are a lot a lot slimmer it's also quite heavy at 223 grams and it is quite thick um at 9.7 millimeters which is a lot of that is probably to do with the 5 000 milliamp battery that's inside i do like the unibody design though um quite often with a lot of the plastic phones you have a separate plastic back and then plastic rails around the side but this is all all very smooth it is very reflective though it is very much a fingerprint magnet as if i can get the light right there you go you can definitely see so you might want to throw a case on it obviously you do get the included clear case on the bottom in the box so you can pop that on until you get something a bit more sturdy and a bit more substantial as well the phone comes in two colors obviously this is the blue version which they call indigo blue they also do a rose gold version as well going back on to the display motorola don't actually mention any sort of gorilla glass protection so i would definitely recommend getting a screen protector as there isn't one pre-applied which you do sometimes find with some of the cheaper phones.

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Motorola Moto G9 Plus Review : Cameras

 the camera design on the back it is changed a little bit from the g8 the g8 the four cameras were arranged in a vertical um design and whereas this is more of a square you've got three cameras there and one over on the right hand side as well the choice of the camera resolution is a bit strange we've got a 64 megapixel main sensor here from the 48 megapixel on the g8 plus however the ultra wide angle uses an 8 megapixel sensor down from 16 on the moto g8 plus um so it'll be interesting to see how this affects the results um and then there's obviously the the standard 2 megapixel depth sensor and macro camera thrown on the back as well which seemed to be an obligatory thing for uh phones of this price point um one thing i would do want to bring up about the the two uh two megapixel lenses it does make me wonder if companies didn't include these on the back so if it in this case if it was just a 64 megapixel lens and an 8 megapixel ultra wide um would the pricing be much different um obviously i don't know how much they they cost to put on um but they seem to be on every single cheap phone there is these days so i am curious as to whether the price um would be any different if they just didn't include them um so i mean i'm curious to know what you guys think so if you've got any uh opinions on it i'd love to hear them leave a comment and also if you're enjoying this video a sub to the channel would be really good and greatly appreciated as i said before um on the bottom of the phone there's a single firing speaker usb c port and microphone there and up top there is the 3.5 millimeter headphone jack which is normally still included on budget phones these days.

Motorola Moto G9 Plus Review : Display

 so 6.8 inch screen which is obviously very very large it obviously makes this phone ideal for watching movies and videos on as i said before it's a 1080p panel with a resolution of 2400 by 1080 which should be plenty sharp enough for everyday use um the battery on this phone has to be expected is very good um the 5000 milliamp battery will easily get you through a full day with heavy use light users could easily see this into a second day and luckily when you do run low the included 30 watt charger can get your phone from zero to 50 percent in around 30 minutes and a full charge from zero will take about an hour and a quarter so it's not too bad but obviously most people charge their phones overnight anyway.

 motorola have been a company known for offering near stock android experience which as you can see here um is there's no there's no skin on the top um no bloatware installed and that along with the seven snapdragon 730 g which is included in the phone makes everything really smooth apps open really quickly um the gesture works really quickly as well so there's no no lag or anything like that if you're an intense gamer you might find um the old stutter here and there um but general use it's going to be very smooth you're not going to uh you're not going to notice anything lagging that's the word i'm thinking of the 730g obviously is a bit of an older chip it still packs a punch though um so it's built on an eight nanometer fabrication and there's an octa-core processor so you've got two 2.2 gigahertz cores and then six clocked at 1.8 gigahertz as well and the adreno 618 handles all your graphics as well um from my day-to-day use um i didn't notice any hiccups open in apps everything ran really smooth so no complaints from me i'm not a heavy gamer personally um so i'm not always in need of a phone with a really powerful processor um i mean although saying that i've got an iphone 12 which i'm actually filming this video on as well so um but yeah i mean realistically i don't need anything really really powerful if you are a heavy gamer though you might find that the um any phones with the snapdragon 765 g found in the moto 1 5g or the 750g found in the moto g 5g maybe a better.

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Motorola Moto G9 Plus Review : Camera explanation

 choice that was a lot of g's too many for one video anyway so briefly onto the camera i found photos from the main camera to be about right for this price range um nice punchy colors good detail and dynamic range the ultra wide camera though is not so good but to be honest that's not really a surprise from um phones that you know at this price point that include them they're generally not that great the color temperature is completely different different and they significantly lack detail on a bright day is where you're likely to yield the best results but again that's with most phones but yeah i mean if the the light goes down even slightly then you don't get great results at all the 2 megapixel macro camera is surprised me actually it's not bad obviously 2 megapixels the resolution is is not high at all you're not going to get a huge amount of detail um but the odd picture that i did take i will post some pictures at the end of the video um in a little slide so you can have a look at what what the camera is capable of um i mean and to be honest i'm one of them but i would imagine most people are probably just going to forget that the macro camera is even there anyway um so um yeah i would probably generally just stick to the to the main camera on this one um video wise on the main camera tops out at 4k at 30 frames per second while the front facing 16 megapixel camera tops out at 1080p at 30 frames per second so you should get some really high quality video from this as well um some phones on this price main cameras will top out at 1080p so it is nice to see um 4k coming out of this camera as well.

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 so overall um i think the moto g9 plus is a very very good all-round phone with good performance a nice display and the battery life has been really really good i've easily got through a day um and gone into two days i mean here i mean my sims not in it now but it's on 59 um that's with a you know a reasonable amount of usage with the camera um playing you know social media playing a few videos etc um so it's really really not that bad um the camera's good i mean if you avoid the ultra wide camera because um as i said before that's not the best um for the price that i paid which is 179 pounds there's not a lot that you can complain about on this um this phone if you are doing a bit of shopping around though um there are other phones around this price that do boast some impressive specs even some that do top those of .

Motorola Moto G9 Plus Review :  Price and competition

the moto g9 plus um probably the biggest competition for this phone is the poco x3 nfc it starts at 199 pounds for the 6 gig and 64 gigabyte model um which storage wise isn't better but for this you get a 6.67 inch display with 120 hertz refresh rate it has official gorilla glass 5 glass on the front and a very slightly upgraded snapdragon 732g processor which to be honest day to day you're not going to notice between that and this one here you also get stereo speakers ip53 splash resistance and it also comes with xiaomi's miui skin on top so if you're stock android android user this might be a deal breaker but otherwise you're not really gonna you're not gonna notice any difference that's obviously gonna be very fluid as well so like i said the moto g9 plus is a very good phone and i still recommend.

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