Motorola Moto G7 Plus: Features | Specifications | Pricing

Motorola Moto G7 Plus

• Display

  6.24 inches

  2270 x 1080

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• Storage

  64GB

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• Battery size

  3,000 mAh

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The flagship phone of the Motorola Moto G7 family has plenty of power at a highly appealing price point.

Motorola's position in the Australian market largely rests on its affordable but excellent-value Moto G series. In 2019 it has released a slew of G7 series phones, with the Motorola Moto G7 Plus heading up the pack as its effective "flagship" phone.

It's still very much a mid-range handset, but in a market that's crowded with those, Motorola's giving the Moto G7 Plus just a little more power to play with.

Design

• 6.2-inch display
• Not a showy design, but not an ugly one either
• Headphone jack

• Read more about the Motorola Moto G7 Plus's design

  Motorola has mostly stuck to its Moto G series design plan for years now, delivering phone after phone that looks very much like a "Motorola" phone without too much visual ostentation. It's not fussy and it's not glammed up, and that's definitely a phone with appeal for some consumers.

  The Motorola Moto G7 Plus features a 6.2-inch, 19:9 aspect ratio, 1080 x 2270 pixel display. It measures at 157 x 75.3 x 8.3mm with a carrying weight of 176g, pretty much exactly what you'd expect for a phone of this size.

  Motorola hasn't joined the trend of dropping the headphone jack yet, so if you're a fan of wired headphones, the Motorola Moto G7 Plus should meet your needs nicely.

Camera

• Dual 16MP/5MP rear camera
• 12MP selfie camera
• A good practical mix of capabilities at this price range

• Read more about the Motorola Moto G7 Plus's camera

  Of the Moto G7 2019 series, the Motorola Moto G7 Plus gets the best camera technology, although predictably, it's still playing very much in the mid-range. At the rear, you'll find a primary 16MP f/1.7 lens, paired up with a 5MP lens used for depth calculations to give your photos that nice "bokeh" look if required.

  At the front, it's a little more basic with a 12MP selfie camera, but again, that's totally in line with what we'd expect out of a phone in this price range.

  Premium camera performance is still very much in the flagship phone space, but the Motorola Moto G7 Plus's camera array does show how far we've come in mid-range camera capabilities. It's not going to beat out those flagships, but should neatly hold its own against mid-range competitors.

Performance

• Snapdragon 636 gives it the best performance potential of any Moto G7 phone
• 4GB of RAM is nice at this price range
• Android 9

• Read more about the Motorola Moto G7 Plus's performance

  The Motorola Moto G7 Plus is intended to be the "best" Moto G7 series handset, but it's still also a budget/mid-range phone. Motorola gives it a performance boost over its siblings with the use of the Snapdragon 636 processor, where, for example, the regular Motorola Moto G7 has the Snapdragon 632. Pair that up with a generous 4GB of RAM and you've got a recipe for some decent mid-range performance.

  That could well be helped by the fact that the Motorola Moto G7 Plus is an Android 9 phone with Motorola's own launcher sitting on top of it. While plenty of phone makers still supply overly complex and performance-sapping launchers on top of stock Android, Motorola has a deft and light touch that makes its phones a pleasure to use.

  The Motorola Moto G7 Plus isn't an Android One phone, but Motorola has shown good form previously in updating its Moto G series phones with both security updates and some OS updates.

Battery life

• 3,000mah battery

• Read more about the Motorola Moto G7 Plus's battery life

  The Motorola Moto G7 Plus's 3,000mAh battery is exactly what we'd expect out of a phone at its price range. Here it's not king of the Motorola hill, thanks to the astonishing 5,000mAh battery found in the Motorola Moto G7 Power, but that's very much a phone that sells itself on its battery prowess above all else. The Motorola Moto G7 Plus is designed to be a good phone across multiple fields, including battery endurance.

  While there's no wireless charging to be found, in some markets Motorola is shipping the Moto G7 Plus with a 27W turbocharger in the box, making it very easy to top up the battery if it gets low.

Early outlook

• The Moto G7 Plus is a phone that could be worth waiting for

• Read our early Motorola Moto G7 Plus verdict

  In Australia, the Moto G series phones are effectively Motorola's flagship phones. There are also the Moto Z series phones, and there are rumours around the re-emergence of the Moto RAZR brand as a "foldable" phone, but the most popular front-facing phones are the Moto G series models.

  The Moto G7 Plus is the flagship model and it's not hard to see why. With Motorola pricing it at a reasonable $499, it's a very good option for buyers looking for a value phone with plenty of power.

Pricing and availability

• The Motorola Moto G7 Plus is selling for $499 outright
• Launch is set for 11 April 2019

Motorola Moto G7 Plus specifications

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