Last year on February 7th, 2019, Motorola took the covers off the Moto G7 series of phones, but up to this point we haven’t heard much about when the Moto G8 will launch. I assumed that the G series would take a seat for a later spring launch since Motorola is firmly focused on pushing its February 6th, 2020 release of the new Motorola Razr. It looks like my speculation was right.
Reporting from 91mobiles, Motorola will be heading to Mobile World Congress 2020 to show it its Moto G8 handset.
The new G8 will depart from the traditional surprised robot camera bump and adopt the camera layout seen on recent Motorola One devices as well as the Brazil exclusive G8 Plus device that launched in late 2019.
What to Expect from the Moto G8?
The G8 will still firmly be in the mid-range category running a SnapDragon 665 chipset, a 6.39-inch 720 x 1,560 LCD display, 3GB or 4GB of RAM, 32GB or 64GB of storage and will be running Android 10 out of the box.
The camera on the G7 was passable, but suffered in low-light like most other mid-rangers. The G8 will hopefully bring an incremental improvement. The device reportedly will ship with a 16-megapixel shooter with an f/1.7 primary shooter, a 2-megapixel f/2.2 macro camera and an 8-megapixel f/2.2 118-degree wide-angle sensor. On paper, it sounds promising, but we will have to wait and see how it performs.
Around the front of the G8 we’re expecting am 8-megapixel f/2.0 hole-punch camera.
Finally, the battery is expected to get a 25% capacity bump over last year moving up to 4,000mAh with 10W fast charging.
There has also been rumors that the G8 Power will launch along side the G8 with a similar spec sheet. Last years G7 Power was only a single camera module with a lower-spec chipset. The G8 Power could also see a 25-megapixel front facing camera similar to that of the Z4. The G7 Power sported a 5,000mAh battery last year, so I hope to see the same, or larger, capacity this year.
I have been a fan of the G-series Moto phones since they came out and got a lot of use out of both the G7 and G7 Power so will be eager to review these units as they come to market.
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