Moto G6

With the Moto G6, the company has gone back to the drawing board and has given the handset a massive facelift. Unlike its predecessor, the Moto G6 has been constructed entirely out of glass, similar to the pricier Moto X4 (review) launched last year. Now, I am going to say this right out of the gate – the Moto G6 is THE benchmark to beat in terms of design in the affordable segment. From its stunning curvy back, to the subtle yet fancy Indigo Black colourway, the Moto G6 looks captivating and is without a doubt the most premium looking G-series smartphone to date. In all honesty, I think I might have spent more time glancing at the smartphone's back, than the display. For the price, the design of the Moto G6 is just other-worldly.

The cameras on Motorola's smartphones have always been a mixed bag of beans. Take for instance, the Moto G5 (review), which impressed us immensely with its lowlight performance thanks to support for dual-pixel autofocus tech and f/1.7 aperture. Therefore, you'd expect that the company would've bettered the camera experience a year down the line, right? Unfortunately, even though the camera setup of the Moto G6 checks all the right boxes on paper, the handset fails to deliver when you actually press the shutter button.

Turns out, numbers do lie as the Moto G6 with its ‘budget' Snapdragon 450 processor and 4GB of RAM is quick enough to keep up with my day-to-day usage. I live off social media and therefore, I've always got multiple applications like Instagram, Fenix 2 (my Twitter client of choice), WhatsApp and Snapchat running in the background. Now, these apps require a lot of resources to function smoothly but the G6 churned out incredible performance which didn't leave me wanting for a higher-tier processor.

If I have to sum up the software on the Moto G6 in one word, I would say that it's reliable. The smartphone boots a near-stock version of Android Oreo which is free from bloat and unnecessary clutter you might've seen on other devices. The software has been optimised to gel well with the hardware too and you won't find any jitters while navigating through the smartphone's UI. Moreover, you'll also get a bunch of nifty features baked into the OS which have always made using Motorola's smartphones a treat, including various built-in gestures such as the ability to turn on the flashlight by doing a karate-chop motion and so on.