Moto G34

The 50MP quad-pixel primary camera on the phone manages to click some decent pictures with good colour accuracy and details. The phone's default camera app comes with a Google Auto Enhance feature that applies certain adjustments on its own to make your images look better. I found this feature to be useful but its impact is limited and noticeable only in certain situations. One of the issues I faced with the phone's primary camera setup was in Portrait mode. In certain cases, object detection wasn't up to the mark, which isn't a common issue with most phones these days.The phone's 2MP Macro Vision camera, which lets you zoom in on your subject to capture it up close also turned out to be a disappointment. The lack of details in the pictures clicked from this lens was evident and focussing on the subject turned out to be a chore as well. The night shots clicked with the phone were grainy and lacked detail. The selfie camera on the phone struggles to capture details unless presented with ample light. Also, the edge detection issues are present here too.Overall, Moto G34 5G isn't the best camera phone you can buy at its price, but if you just need a phone for point-and-shoot purposes and don't care too much about the delicate aspects of photography, you will be just fine with this phone.

The G34 5G ships with the reliable but slightly old Snapdragon 695 SoC and comes with 4GB RAM/128GB storage and 8GB RAM/128GB storage variants. Having spent some time with the phone, I found that it handled most tasks with ease. I played Battlegrounds Mobile India and even NBA 2K Mobile (which crashes even on some premium phones due to lack of optimisation) on the phone and found that it never presented stutter issues or frame drops. I didn't face any heating issues with the phone despite reasonably long gaming sessions either.The phone runs Android 14-based MyUX custom skin out of the box and comes with a minimalistic and fluid user experience. Whether it is the notification shade that gives you instant access to all the useful toggles, or the lack of ads, the phone's UI feels unobtrusive. The animations are smooth and the list of pre-installed Moto apps includes the usual ones such as Moto Secure, Moto Unplugged, and Moto Connect. One of the features that gamers would find useful is the game mode. This game mode allows you to block calls and notifications, switch on acoustic lights, switch between 'Turbo, Balanced, and Battery Saving' modes, check RAM usage, the core temperature of the phone, the clock speeds, and easily record videos or take screenshots. This mode can be accessed through a floating bubble on the screen while playing any game.Notably, there is a 'Live Captions' option that pops up below the volume bar when you increase or decrease the volume on the phone. On being enabled, this option gives you the live transcription of any video that is being played. The transcription works with local video files as well. In my usage, the transcription was fairly accurate but the punctuation was a bit off.As far as the benchmarks are considered, the G34 managed to get a score of 433104 points on AnTuTu, while it got a multi-core test score of 2040 on Geekbench. In the CPU throttle test where the phone was running 50 threads for 30 minutes, it's performance throttled to 91 percent of its max performance, which is pretty impressive.

The phone comes with a 5,000mAh battery, which has almost become a standard capacity in most phones across price ranges. As we all know by now, the actual battery backup offered by the phone is less dependent on the battery capacity and more on the optimisation. So, instead of judging the phone's battery backup by the capacity, let me tell you how it performed in our standard test and actual real-world usage. In the battery test, the phone managed to last for 12 hours and 26 minutes before it was fully drained out from 100 to 0 percent.In my usage, which included light gaming sessions and watching a few videos, the phone lasted just beyond a day before I had to recharge it again. The phone with 20W fast-charging support and it took me around 1 hour and 21 minutes to fuel it back up from 0 to 100 percent.