SPECS AND PERFORMANCE
The Stylo 6 sports a MediaTek Helio P35 chipset with
3GB of RAM. On board is 64GB of storage, of which
41GB was available out of the box on our review unit.
You can add up to 2TB of storage with a microSD card.
Unfortunately, performance is poor compared with
other similarly priced phones, including the Moto G
Power and the TCL 10L. Apps can take seconds to open,
screen transitions lag, and there’s even a noticeable
pause when you’re using the keyboard.
We opened Asphalt 8 to test gameplay, and it took
nearly eight minutes to load. Once it loaded, there were
dozens of skipped frames, and the game crashed once
over the course of 30 minutes.
Benchmark tests underscore our experience. On
PCMark 2.0 Work, a suite of tests that emulates typical
smartphone tasks, the Stylo 6 scored 4,055—far behind
the Moto G Power’s 6,751.
On a brighter note, the Stylo 6 is powered by a
4,000mAh battery that should easily get you through
the day. In our battery-drain test, which streams HD
video over Wi-Fi at full brightness, the Stylo 6 managed
to hold out for 12 hours and 9 minutes. While that’s
hours less than the Moto G Power (18 hours, 11
minutes), it’s still a solid result.
STYLUS
The Stylo 6’s stylus is responsive, with almost no lag,
and palm rejection works better than it does on the
Moto G Stylus.
If you remove the stylus when the phone is locked, a
notepad appears so you can quickly jot down ideas.
Remove the stylus when the phone is unlocked, and a
On board the
Stylo 6 is
64GB of
storage, of
which 41GB
was available
out of the
box on our
review unit.