09/15/2022
DESIGN & FEATURES: BUDGET? WHAT BUDGET?
With a front-filling screen, complete with camera notch, rounded corners and smooth, pebble-like sides, the G8 Plus is bang on trend. It’s an evolution of last year’s G7, sure, but the gradated blue-to-black colour scheme on the rear gives it the trendy two-tone vibe so many premium phones are going for right about now.
You can tell Motorola has used plastic, so it doesn’t feel quite as premium as the similarly-priced Nokia 7.2 – but there’s not a lot in it. Turning the logo on the rear into the fingerprint sensor keeps branding down to a minimum, so the overall effect is pretty classy for a sub-£250 handset.
That finger scanner works brilliantly, and is far quicker than the in-screen sensor seen on the Moto One Zoom.
Other welcome additions include a 3.5mm headphone port, USB-C charging (amazingly still not a given in budget phones, but present here) and a water-repellent coating. There’s no official IP-rating, so it’s not like you’ll want to give it a dunking, but a few splashes shouldn’t be its downfall.
