Moto G fast | 2020 | Unlocked | Made for US by Motorola | 3/32GB | 16MP Camera | White

For a value phone, this thing hits all the buttons.
Well, lets start out with the obvious, this is not a contender against ANY flagship phone. If your looking for all the bells and whistles of a flagship phone at this price, you need to have your head examined.That said, if you looking for one of the best value phones from 2020 then this is clearly it.I did a huge amount of research before purchasing this phone. In fact, my friend just purchased the Moto G Power 2021 two weeks before I got this one. And honestly I almost got that phone. But after an exhaustive search for a Zizo bolt case for that phone. I could not find one anywhere on Amazon. But on page 26 of my search, I did find this phone’s case. And thus the research began.As it turns out, with the exception of the extra 1,000ah battery and slightly larger display this phones specs far out weighed that phone. For starters, the display on the Moto G Stylus 2020 has a much better quality display.It has a better pixel density. It has a cleaner look when looking at the display. I have had both of these phonesside by side and when looking at them directly, this phone’s display looks cleaner and not as grainy. The Moto G Power 2021 has a bright sparkly output that is actually hard on the eyes. The Moto G Stylus to me comes as close to a Amoled display as I think a budget IPS display gets. The colors a good and robust and I never have to worry about display burn from a Amoled display again.It has really good stereo speakers and you can absolutely tell the difference.The camera’s are freaking awesome for such a low level phone. I have played with all of them and even playedwith the “Action Cam”. It works very well. Night mode isn’t the greatest but does make my low light photos really clean without any of the nasty white noise that I got from my last cheap phone.If you need a panorama shot, it does still have the panorama software, it lets you take a sweeping shot ofthe entire area you want and then the software sews it back together. It’s actually pretty cool.Another difference between the two phones is the night mode pics. The G Power 2021 takes almost twicethe amount of time to take the night mode pics as the Moto G Stylus.One of the coolest features I have found on this phone is the Moto Audio. This feature should be on every smart phone. It allows you to fine tune system wide audio from what ever source your playing to.Say for instance you plug in your headphones, yes it has a headphone jack. It pops up and asks you if you want tofine tune the sound to your preference. EQ, sound stage, extra base to name a few. You can apply this to the stockspeakers, Bluetooth headset, Regular Headphones, Bluetooth speakers. Every device can have it’s own sound preference. So if you have a set of cans that need some extra bass. Boom, done. Need some extra sound stage on that cheap Bluetooth stereo speaker. Boom done. Want a custom sound on anything you use. Boom, done.One more thing that I found really cool that I honestly didn’t even think I was going to use was the Stylus.I know, I know. Why the heck would you buy a Stylus phone and not use it. Well, it was all the other features overthe G Power that really nailed it for me. But, I was working in a building the other day and needed to take some quick jots of measurements and thought, man I need a piece of paper and a pencil. Hey, wait a minute. Pulled out the stylus on my phone before even unlocking it and all of sudden, the app opens up and is ready for some notes.I was able to jot down all my measurements and when I put the stylus back in the hole, the app auto saved my notes and went back to sleep. I was blown away at how simple and powerful this was.Now lets face it, this is not a drawing pad like the Samsung Note. But it does pretty well at the basics.To me, the Stylus was not the high point of the phone. But it does have it’s place.This is just to name a few things that stand out to me. I honestly don’t have anything bad to say about this phone.It hits all the buttons and does it well. It is pretty vanilla as an unlocked phone gets. Very little bloatware, and a simple sim swap and I was up and running. Verizon of course.I cleaned out all the garbage I didn’t want as far as apps are concerned and added my own.I completely un-google all of my phones including the app store. I get my apps from other known places.Battery life is freaking phenomenal. I unplugged my phone at around 7am and admittedly did not use it muchas I was at work. I picked it up to check for messages around 4pm and it was still at 100%If I use it normally, it’s usually around 70% by around 10pm. I’ve only had it down to 50% once.Not sure what else to say. Call quality is great. Speaker phone is super clear and loud. The finger lockis finicky if you work with your hands too much. I just use a pin or swipe. I still had my 15 watt charger frommy last Moto Z Play and it charges fairly quickly. Hope that helps.I would take a picture of it, but hmmm it’s my only decent camera now : pYou get the idea : )

Just the thing i needed to find

The Moto G Stylus 2020 is a great phone and you can Google it to find all you need to know about its specs and performance. This review addresses the version bought from this page specifically.The phone was delivered pretty quickly and arrived brand new in a sealed box. I popped in my Rogers SIM card and it worked right away with no issue — calls and SMS worked flawlessly and wi-fi connected quickly. The main annoyance, I discovered, is that the version being sold on this page is specifically from T-Mobile and as such it has a few apps (MetroPlay and MyMetro) that are meshed with the O.S. and cannot be uninstalled – only disabled. A T-Mobile splash screen will also appear every time you restart the phone. Unfortunately none of this is disclosed on this page.The most annoying of these apps was MetroPlay, similar to Google’s News and which shared a screen with the latter on the left of the home screen. Even after I disabled it, it was still there. To get rid of it, I needed to disable it in Apps, then go in Home Settings > Swipe Access and choose “Nothing”. This removed the news screen from both Google and Metroplay. Once this is done, I went back to Swipe Access and turn Google News back on and thankfully the T-Mobile one was no longer there.Note that the phone comes with Android 10 but you can update right away to Android 11. However even this will still not uninstall the Metro apps so you will still need to disable them if you do not want them.At $260, the Metro G Stylus is an easy 5 Stars for anybody who does not need all the bells and whistles of a flag ship phone. But I deducted 1 Star for the lack of transparency regarding the uninstallable apps.

not a complicated phone with only a few of the latest bells and whistles but other wise a very good phone