Moto G5S Plus

The design language of the Moto G5s Plus does little to differentiate itself from its predecessor, the G5 Plus, or any other smartphone in the affordable segment for that matter. The handset has been crafted using a unibody metal design, comes with a curvy back, chamfered edges... the works. However, that’s not to say that the smartphone’s design looks boring or dated. The cold-metal finish of the G5s Plus looks and feels really good in the hand and all the cut outs for all the buttons and ports have been incised with industrial precision. There’s a good amount of weight to the handset too, which instils a certain confidence in the user while holding the smartphone with one hand. The chamfered edges pop out when the G5s Plus is placed flat on a table under a source of light and form a neat and seamless border around the phone which adds to its good looks too.

The camera department has seen the biggest facelift on the G5s Plus and the smartphone is the first in the G-series to sport a dual-camera setup on the back. Spec-wise, the G5s Plus gets two 13MP cameras at the back, one of which is an RGB sensor while the other is a Monochrome sensor. Both the cameras come with a F/2.0 aperture which interestingly, is a step-down from the F/1.7 aperture toting Moto G5 Plus. That besides, the monochrome sensor should theoretically capture sharper images as the photosites within the camera sensor will be able to capture light from the entire RGB spectrum resulting in more details. In practice, the results from the G5s Plus’s cameras are a mixed bag of beans but before we get into that, let’s take a look at the smartphone’s camera UI.

As I mentioned previously, the Moto G5s Plus is an incremental update over the G5 Plus with little to no changes in the hardware or the software. The smartphone is still powered by a Snapdragon 625 chip which works with 4GB of RAM. The internal storage has gotten a bump from 32GB to 64GB but other than that, it’s pretty much the same phone in a newer skin. While I didn’t face any problems with the G5s Plus’s performance in general, I would have liked to see the newer Snapdragon 630 or 660 SoCs powering the smartphone which would have offered slightly more grunt in the performance department, thereby increasing the shelf life of the smartphone. That said, the Snapdragon 625 chip powering the smartphone is no slouch, as has been proven time and again. Multitasking on the G5s Plus is buttery smooth and the slightly bigger screen size actually helps a lot while gaming on the smartphone too.