62 ANDROID ADVISOR • ISSUE 50
REVIEW
Motorola says this means you can get 32 hours
usage from the device, which sounds amazing – and
more importantly we found to be true in real world
use. The G6 Play lasted for over two days of use
before hitting anywhere near 10 percent battery, which
is impressive on a modern (if low-end) smartphone.
It also benefits from Turbo Charging: you can get
six hours of life from a 15-minute charge and in our
tests, it charged from 0- to 33 percent in half an hour.Software
Overall, the experience on the G6 Play is solid thanks
to Moti’s uncluttered Android skin that barely changes
anything from stock. Notably, there are fewer camera
features on the phone compared to the G6 and G6
Plus thanks to the lack of dual rear cameras.
You still get Android 8.0 Oreo with a stock interface- it’s very much the experience you get on Google’s
own Pixel devices bar a few aesthetic changes. That
means Android as it’s intended, with no bloatware to
take up valuable storage, important when you only
have 32GB (although it is expandable).
Motorola does add its own Moto app, which
contains helpful things such as actions and things
you can do with the display. The G6 Play doesn’t
have Moto Voice, though.
Verdict
The Moto G6 Play is a great little surprise of a phone.
It holds its own next to the other two G6 phones
and has better battery life (and a cooler fingerprint
sensor). The 18:9 display and premium (but plastic)