ISSUE 45 • ANDROID ADVISOR 33REVIEWtwo days battery life. Charging happens over USB-C
and Quick Charge 3, though you have to unlock the
phone and select boost mode when you plug in or
it won’t charge as fast.
The Motion breezes past three hours screen on
time with at least 60 percent battery left, and with
medium to heavy use using the phone as my main
device, We comfortably got two full working days
from the Motion, and only reached for the charger
around midday on the third day. And if you’re
wondering, yes this is insane.
Of all the phones we’ve tested recently, only
the Lenovo P2 can match the Motion for this kind
of battery stamina. It is no coincidence that these
phones share the same Snapdragon 625 processor,
but the P2 one-ups with its 5,100mAh battery. The
P2 is half the price, but a pain to get hold of in the
UK, so the Motion is a fine alternative.
BlackBerry Mobile relentlessly positions its
handsets in the business market as productivity
tools, and the battery life is a key part of this. But if
you are an avid phone user who needs four hours of
screen on time out of a single charge for video and
music then the Motion is a phone to consider, but
the mid-range processor means high level gaming
isn’t possible.
Performance
Oddly, the Motion refused to run our normal
Geekbench 4 benchmark tests (same as the KeyOne)
so we ran Antutu and GFXBench tests to compare the
Motion’s pure processing speeds to similar devices.