With this year’s iteration of Moto G, Motorola has upgraded the processor and doubled the RAM. The Moto G( 3rd gen) is powered by a 64-bit 1.4GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 quad-core processor, Adreno 306 graphics and 2GB RAM.
We did not notice any major lag while navigating through the phone’s menu, launching apps and switching between them.
We were able to play games like subway Temple Run 2, Leo’s Fortune and Asphalt 8 without encountering frame drops or freezes or heating issues. The phone offers good gaming performance.
The phone scored 17, 976 in Antutu, 15, 768 in Quadrant and 55.4 in Nenamark 2 benchmark tests. We don’t endorse benchmark tests and at times real world performance is very different from benchmark scores.
Out of the 16GB storage, 11.8GB is available to the user. Thankfully the Moto G comes with a microSD card slot for expansion so you’ll be able to store multimedia content on your phone without worrying about filling up storage space.
Moto G offers Bluetooth, WiFi and GPS connectivity options. The Wi-Fi antenna supports faster 802.11ac standard and can work with compatible routers. The phone does not support NFC though.
Moto G( third-gen) offers excellent call quality and signal reception and we did not encounter problems while making calls even in areas where cell signal is relatively weaker. The phone was able to lock to GPS without any hiccups. We also used 4G data on Airtel’s Delhi network and were able to get a good signal with 25Mbps+ speeds.
It also offers FM radio and you can now listen to it through the phone’s speaker when you’ve plugged in the headphones to use as an antenna. It doesn’t offer a recording feature but you can listen to the radio stream via Bluetooth headsets.
We were able to play most popular video and audio file formats on the phone.
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The new front-facing speaker( the bottom grill acts as the speaker) on the phone offers loud sound output which doesn’t distort even when you set the volume to the highest level.