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Introduction
Moto G7 all the things. Motorola just announced the Moto G7 lineup in Brazil and it consists of no less than four smartphones. We were there to spend some time with them and we'll be sharing some initial impressions on the following pages.
But fist, let's try and make some sense out of those model names. Instead of the vanilla Moto G7, we'll start unconventionally with the Moto G7 Plus. It's the best-specced of the bunch, rocking the Snapdragon 636 chipset and a 16MP f/1.7 camera. It shares a 6.2-inch FullHD+ display with the Moto G7 proper, complete with a waterdrop notch. The Plus does have a 12MP selfie snapper in there, while the regular G7 shares an 8MP module with the lesser models.
Other downgrades that come with the regular Moto G7, compared to the Plus, are the chipset and primary camera. The vanilla G7 (as well as all the G7s that aren't Plus, for that matter) has the less powerful Snapdragon 632 SoC under the hood. On top of that, it swaps out the 16MP camera for a 12MP f/1.8 unit. Both the G7 and the G7 Plus have an extra 5MP module on the back for depth detection unlike the other two phones - the segmentation is pretty clear.
On to the Moto G7 Power and Moto G7 Play. The two have lower-res displays - 720p+, and the Power's diagonal matches the one on the big boys at 6.2 inches, while the Play makes do with 5.7 inches. The Power bit in the Moto G7 Power's name indicates a massive battery - 5,000mAh, while all the other phones rely on 3,000mAh cells. The Moto G7 Play doesn't really have a standout feature - it's the most basic of the bunch, with Motorola even opting for just 2GB of RAM.
We can see how all that could be confusing, so here's a handy table with the key specs.
| Phone | Moto G7 Plus | Moto G7 | Moto G7 Power | Moto G7 Play |
| Display | 6.2" (1080 x 2270px) | 6.2" (1080 x 2270px) | 6.2"(720 x 1512px) | 5.7" (720 x 1512px) |
| Chipset | Snapdragon 636 | Snapdragon 632 | Snapdragon 632 | Snapdragon 632 |
| RAM | 4GB | 4GB | 3GB | 2GB |
| Storage | 64GB, microSD | 64GB, microSD | 32GB, microSD | 32GB, microSD |
| Rear cameras | 16MP, 1.22µm, f/1.7 + 5MP | 12MP, 1.25µm, f/1.8 + 5MP | 12MP, 1.25µm, f/2.0 | 13MP, 1.12µm, f/2.0 |
| Front cameras | 12MP, 1.25µm | 8MP, 1.12µm | 8MP, 1.12µm, f/2.2 | 8MP, 1.12µm, f/2.2 |
| Battery | 3,000 mAh, 27W charging |
3,000 mAh, 15W charging |
5,000 mAh, 15W charging |
3,000 mAh, 5W charging |
| OS | Android 9.0 Pie | Android 9.0 Pie | Android 9.0 Pie | Android 9.0 Pie |
| Dimensions | 157.0x75.3x8.3mm | 157.0x75.3x8.0mm | 159.4x76.0x9.3mm | 147.3x71.5x8.0mm |
| Weight | 176g | 172g | 193g | 149g |
| Price | €300 | €250 | €210 | €150 |
Oh, yes, all four phones run Android 9.0 Pie (which we still don't take for granted) and there are the usual minimal Moto enhancements too. The entire lineup has USB-C ports too, so no cheaping out on the basics.
With the main specs more or less sorted out, let's proceed to the experience zone.
Moto G7 Plus and Moto G7 hands-on
Physically, the 'top-end' Moto G7 Plus and the Moto G7 feel identical and that's hardly a surprise - it's basically the same hardware. You may point out that the Plus is 0.4mm thicker than the plain one, but that's virtually impossible to spot in real life.
You won't miss the notch in real life, that's for sure - as water-drop-style notches go, this one is torrential-rain-sized. It's got the front facing camera in there, naturally, and a couple of sensors above it and to the right, so it does what it's there for, but let's just say we've seen more elegant designs. That said, it's nothing like the notches on the G7 Power and G7 Play, so there's that.
Side bezels are reasonably thin and there's a slightly more sizeable chin down below, but chins are the norm, pretty much. Also, chin apologists will tell you that chins are good because they give you room to rest your fingers - we know, we have some of these mad men at the office as well. In any case the Moto G7 and G7 Plus aren't worse offenders that most phones in the class.
If anything, we're a bit more irked by the slightly thicker top bezel. General consesus among us is that the top and side bezels should be the same thickness and that's not the case here.
Unlike last year's Moto Gs, which had outlines on the front to match the back color, the Moto G7 features a black frame around the display. We understand the reasoning - black makes the frame disappear when the display is off.
Speaking of the back, we're really digging the color schemes. The Moto G7 Plus will be available in Deep Indigo and Viva Red and both are pretty in their own way. The flashier red option is sure to attract envious stares, while the blue one has a more restrained subtle look.
The Moto G7 (non-Plus) gets different paint jobs - Ceramic Black and Clear White. Fans of white phones who want the Plus's better chipset and cameras are out of luck - there's no white G7 Plus.
G7 or G7 Plus, you're getting a Gorilla Glass back that curves to sides, making it sit comfortably in your hand. As with all similar designs, it's plenty slippery and attracts fingerprints, but such is life with a glass-backed phone.
The camera assembly looks the same on the outside between the two higher-tier G7s even if the main modules are in fact different. It's the same large circular camera hump we've gotten used to seeing from Motos recently, only the face has a domino mask now. Can't be unseen.
Below the camera is the fingerprint reader with the stylized 'M' Motorola badge in it - form and function working together. We're less excited about the pinhole for the third mic in the lower back, but that's sort of a typical Moto arrangement, so it's better to just accept that's how they do it and move on.
A nice new addition to the Moto G7 Plus's specsheet is the inclusion of stereo speakers. Our initial impressions are that the G7 Plus is easily loud enough. Sadly, the plain G7 doesn't get the stereo treatment.
Another differentiation between the two is in the speed they'll be able to charge their otherwise same batteries. The Moto G7 Plus comes bundled with a 27W TurboPower adapter and the phone supports PowerDelivery and QuickCharge 4.0. The G7 non-Plus ships with a more modest 15W TurboPower charger and while Motorola doesn't explicitly state what standards it supports, Qualcomm's specs say QC3.0.
Speaking of batteries and charging, join us on the next page for a few words on the Moto G7 Power.
Moto G7 Power hands-on
The Moto G7 Power advertises its top feature right there in the name - it's got a 5,000mAh power pack for some extra battery life compared to the other non-Power G7s. And to get all the battery speak out of the way, this one too comes with a 15W TurboPower adapter.
On the outside, the G7 Power looks a lot like the G7 and G7 Plus, though it does have a marginally larger footprint and is a bit thicker to fit all that battery, plus it's heavier because of, you know, all that battery.
Difference in size aside, it's a similar glass sandwich as the other two models. We say similar, because Motorola doesn't specify the type of glass used, so it may not be quite as Gorilla as on the higher-priced G7s. It didn't feel any different in our limited time with it. The Moto G7 Power will be available in Ceramic Black, Marine Blue and Iced Violet gradient color schemes.
The otherwise similarly sized camera circle on the back houses less stuff on the G7 Power than it does on the G7 and G7 Plus. This one only has a single camera and its flash is made up of just one LED as opposed to the dual LED setups of G7 Plus. The fingerprint reader still made the cut.
Not so with the FullHD display, however. The Moto G7 Power keeps the 6.2-inch diagonal of its more upmarket brethren, but gets a lower resolution panel - 720x1512px. Adding insult to injury is a wider notch - unnecessarily wider, we dare say. We weren't raving about the G7 and G7 Plus's waterdrops, and we're certainly not ecstatic about this one either.
Moto G7 Play hands-on
You see, the G7 Play has quite the notch too, but we're sort of willing to give it a pass because it holds a front-facing flash too. That's to say we're particularly fond of taking selfies with flashes, it's just that it somewhat justifies the witch of the notch. It also makes for a symmetrical look.
Mind you, the notch is big, but the display isn't - the Moto G7 Play is equipped with a 5.7-inch panel with 720p resolution like on the Power. It's got thicker bezels befitting its more budget market positions. Even so, the G7 Play is practically tiny, both compared to the other three 6.2-inch models, and taken out on its own.
It's not just size setting it apart, however. The Play's back is made of matte plastic unlike the other three shiny glass G7s. It'll be available in Deep indigo and Fine Gold color schemes, just don't expect this deep indigo to be the same as the fancy deep indigo on the G7 Plus.
Another cost saving measure is the charger in the box. There's no TurboPower for the G7 Play, and it's got a plain 5W adapter bundled - we thought only Apple still made those.
Software
The entire Moto G7 family comes with Android 9.0 Pie out of the box. The familiar Motorola customizations like Moto Display and Moto Actions are available as well.
One of the biggest changes Google introduced with Pie was gesture navigation but Motorola has had its own take on the pill since long before that with the Moto Z2. In its latest, slightly tweaked, iteration here it's called One-button nav and it's closer to Google's own implementation than the full-screen gestures of other makers. Basically, you swipe left on the bar to go Back, swipe right to quickly switch between the last two apps, swipe up for the task switcher, tap the bar to go Home, and tap-hold for Google Assistant.
Moto G7 Plus user interface
Synthetic benchmarks
The Moto G7 Plus is powered by the Snapdragon 636 chipset, which was fairly popular in the midrange last year, but is a bit less exciting in 2019. Even so, it's an adequately powerful contemporary 14nm SoC with 8 Kryo 260 cores in its CPU, ticking as high as 1.8GHz.
The other three G7s rely on the more modest but still perfectly acceptable Snapdragon 632. Its octa-core Kryo 250 CPU (don't you just love Qualcomm nomeclature) is also clocked at up to 1.8, but is ever so slightly less brawny.
More significant difference can be observed in the graphics department where the Adreno 509 of the S636 is some 45-60% more powerful than the Adreno 506 in the S632. Logic dictates that the regular Moto G7 will be the least proud of its graphics benchmark scores of this quartet - it's got a high-res FullHD display and a relatively underpowered GPU. The Play and the Power models have lower-res 720p displays to go with their Adreno 506, which will give them an edge in real-life onscreen performance, while the high-res FullHD Moto G7 Plus has the upgraded Adreno 509 GPU.
In any case, we got to run some benchmarks on the top-of-the-line Moto G7 Plus and here come the results. For comparison purposes, we're including other S636 devices we've tested before, as well as the only other S632 smartphone that we've managed to get our hands on - the Asus Zenfone Max M2. Competing midrange chips are also in those charts.
GeekBench 4.1 (multi-core)
Higher is better
- Realme U1
6004 - Oppo RX17 Pro
5944 - Xiaomi Mi 8 SE
5908 - Oppo F9 (F9 Pro)
5673 - Nokia 7.1
4975 - BlackBerry KEY2 LE
4965 - Xiaomi Redmi Note 6 Pro
4933 - Nokia 6.1 Plus
4929 - Motorola Moto G7 Plus
4927 - ASUS ZenFone Max M2
4744 - Samsung Galaxy A7 (2018)
4446 - Motorola Moto G6 Plus
4160 - Sony Xperia XA2 Plus
4144
GeekBench 4.1 (single-core)
Higher is better
- Xiaomi Mi 8 SE
1890 - Oppo RX17 Pro
1835 - Realme U1
1567 - Samsung Galaxy A7 (2018)
1524 - Oppo F9 (F9 Pro)
1497 - Nokia 7.1
1344 - BlackBerry KEY2 LE
1343 - Xiaomi Redmi Note 6 Pro
1342 - Motorola Moto G7 Plus
1334
1331
1257
882
839
AnTuTu 7
Higher is better
- Xiaomi Mi 8 SE
170218 - Oppo RX17 Pro
154861 - Realme U1
144436 - Samsung Galaxy A7 (2018)
123883 - Motorola Moto G7 Plus
117829 - Nokia 7.1
117175 - BlackBerry KEY2 LE
116764 - Xiaomi Redmi Note 6 Pro
115605 - Nokia 6.1 Plus
115571 - ASUS ZenFone Max M2
103243 - Motorola Moto G6 Plus
90263 - Sony Xperia XA2 Plus
86374
GFX 3.0 Manhattan (1080p offscreen)
Higher is better
- Xiaomi Mi 8 SE
33 - Oppo RX17 Pro
32 - Realme U1
22 - Oppo F9 (F9 Pro)
20 - Nokia 6.1 Plus
16 - BlackBerry KEY2 LE
16 - Nokia 7.1
16 - Xiaomi Redmi Note 6 Pro
16 - Motorola Moto G7 Plus
16 - Samsung Galaxy A7 (2018)
16 - Motorola Moto G6 Plus
14 - Sony Xperia XA2 Plus
14 - ASUS ZenFone Max M2
10
GFX 3.0 Manhattan (onscreen)
Higher is better
- Xiaomi Mi 8 SE
30 - Oppo RX17 Pro
28 - Realme U1
20 - ASUS ZenFone Max M2
19 - BlackBerry KEY2 LE
18 - Oppo F9 (F9 Pro)
18 - Nokia 6.1 Plus
15 - Nokia 7.1
15 - Xiaomi Redmi Note 6 Pro
15 - Motorola Moto G7 Plus
15 - Samsung Galaxy A7 (2018)
15 - Motorola Moto G6 Plus
13 - Sony Xperia XA2 Plus
13
GFX 3.1 Manhattan (1080p offscreen)
Higher is better
- Oppo RX17 Pro
23 - Xiaomi Mi 8 SE
23 - Realme U1
13 - Oppo F9 (F9 Pro)
12 - Nokia 6.1 Plus
10 - Nokia 7.1
10 - Xiaomi Redmi Note 6 Pro
10 - Motorola Moto G7 Plus
10 - Samsung Galaxy A7 (2018)
10 - Motorola Moto G6 Plus
9.8 - Sony Xperia XA2 Plus
9.5 - ASUS ZenFone Max M2
6.9
GFX 3.1 Manhattan (onscreen)
Higher is better
- Xiaomi Mi 8 SE
22 - Oppo RX17 Pro
19 - ASUS ZenFone Max M2
14 - Realme U1
12 - Oppo F9 (F9 Pro)
11 - Nokia 7.1
9.7 - Xiaomi Redmi Note 6 Pro
9.7 - Motorola Moto G7 Plus
9.7 - Nokia 6.1 Plus
9.6 - Samsung Galaxy A7 (2018)
9.4 - Motorola Moto G6 Plus
9.3 - Sony Xperia XA2 Plus
9.1
Camera
In the Motorola press materials, the Moto G7 Plus is advertised as having 'unshakable image quality'. That goes to say that the Plus's main camera has optical image stabilization and it's a feature you won't find on any of the other G7s. Not only is it stabilized, the lens is also pretty bright with its f/1.7 aperture. The 16 million or so pixels are reasonably large too and the pixel size of 1.22µm reveals a 1/2.6" sensor. There's an extra 5MP module for depth detection too - the usual stuff.
The other three phones all have different camera setups. The Moto G7, for one, has marginally bigger 1.25µm pixels than the Plus's, but fewer of them - 12MP on a 1/2.9" sensor. Its f/1.8 aperture lens isn't stabilized, however - only the Plus get OIS. A 5MP sidekick is to be found on the vanilla G7 as well, so not all is lost.
Meanwhile, the Moto G7 Power and the G7 Play only have a single camera each - on their backs, that is. The Power's 12MP sensor with 1.25µm pixels is placed behind a slightly dimmer f/2.0 lens. The Play bumps the resolution up to 13MP, but the individual photosites are smaller at 1.12µm and so is the sensor (1/3.06").
As for selfies, the Moro G7 Plus stands out from its siblings thanks to its 12MP front-facing camera - the other three only have 8MP units. And once more, as with the display resolution and GPU pairing, the vanilla Moto G7 appears to have gotten the worst of both worlds - it's neither equipped with the high-res 12MP sensor of the G7 Plus, nor does it have a flash like the G7 Play. Staying true to its name, the G7 Play has a front-facing flash, while the G7 Power has a similarly wide notch, but no flash - probably it clashes with the longevity aspirations of the phone.
Moto G7 Plus camera samples
Since we had the Moto G7 Plus for a few hours to play with, we took it for a stroll to try out its camera. Okay, it wasn't really a stroll and the weather wasn't cooperating, but it is what it is.
Moto G7 Plus camera samples
Moto G7 Plus camera samples
First impressions
What was once a single, decently specced and very affordable Moto G has morphed into a whole lineup of Moto G7s some 5+ years later. This latest generation caters to a wide array of users in the low-to-mid... midrange with prices varying from €150 to €300 and hardware to reflect those differences.
We could only find out so much about the top-of-the-line Moto G7 Plus during the brief time we got to spend with it, but it's looking like a solid well-rounded offering. Going by the numbers, the Moto G7 proper should offer largely the same user experience minus a few MP and fps at a slighly lower price. The Moto G7 Power is all about battery life, while the G7 Play is bridging the gap between the G series and the entry-level Moto Es of this world. Something for everyone.
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