Motorola One Power (P30 Note)

As mentioned earlier, the Motorola One Power features a dual-camera module at the back. The setup consists of a 16MP shooter and a 5MP secondary sensor, with PDAF and LED flash support. For selfies, the smartphone sports a 16-megapixel snapper. Admittedly, the camera performance is not among the strongest points for the Moto One Power by any means. However, provided good lighting conditions, the phone manages to click some good shots.In the default camera app, you get the option to shoot in Photo, Portrait, and Expert modes. In the Expert mode, as you might expect, you get to tweak white balance and ISO levels. Notably, in portrait mode, the phone automatically shifts to a wider aspect ratio and there is no option to switch to other aspect ratios. There's Google Lens integration in the camera app as well, which should not come as a surprise as we are talking about a phone with Android One branding. Coming to the image quality, in daylight conditions, the One Power managed to capture details fairly well. However, the colour reproduction can't be described as completely accurate as they appeared to be slightly oversaturated. If we talk about the dynamic range, the difference from the auto mode and HDR isn't significant. Like most phones, low-light scenarios proved to be a tough nut to crack for Motorola's offering. There's a noticeable amount of grain and despite shifting focus, the handset struggled to tackle light sources well in dim environments. The One Power's 5MP secondary sensor enables portrait mode, although there are occasional issues with the bokeh images as the phone blurs the edges of the subject (see the sample embedded below). The Motorola One Power's front camera clicks good selfies that offer a high level of details. In the video mode, you get the option to shoot 4K clips. However, the handset misses out on OIS and features EIS (electronic image stabilisation), which means that videos turn out to be slightly shaky. The quality of the videos was decent. Have a look at the camera samples of the Motorola One Power to get an idea of the phone's imaging capabilities.

One of the biggest advantages that you get with any Android One handset is that you are provided with a near-stock iteration of Android. The Motorola One Power runs Android 8.1 Oreo out of the box and there is no bloatware to deteriorate the user experience. Apart from the usual set of Google apps, you get the Moto app to get access to some of the company's proprietary features like Moto Actions and Moto Display.For those who are unaware, the Moto Actions feature allows users to get access to different phone functionality by performing simple gestures. With Moto Display, you get notifications to fade in and out when the screen is off. In an interesting addition, the Moto Help app allows users to perform a hardware test on the phone to check if there is any particular issue with the touchscreen, display, flash, and audio connection, among others. There is a rather redundant Duo video-calling app on the phone as well, which can be disabled, just like every other preinstalled app on the phone. The Motorola One Power is powered by the Snapdragon 636 SoC, which is coupled with 4GB of RAM. The handset ships with 64GB of built-in storage, which is expandable up to 256GB via a microSD card. During the course of our review, we didn't face any issues while navigation. The UI animations were buttery smooth most of the times and the phone handled the multitasking with ease.In order to use the split-screen feature, you just need to head to Recents and just drag the app's window to the top of the screen. Strangely though, while playing PUBG, the game recommended low graphics settings to us, which was not the case with ASUS Zenfone Max Pro M1, which also rocked the same processor. In terms of playability however, the hardware was able to ensure a lag-free experience. Other games such as Ashphalt 8: Airborne did not present any major issues for the One Power either. The loudspeaker on the Motorola smartphone is capable of reaching high volumes, which makes watching movies or playing games without earphones a fun experience.

A very good phone can turn out to be a huge letdown if it's unable to last a day. Motorola has made sure that the One Power doesn't fall in this category. The handset ships with a massive 5,000mAh battery capacity. In our HD video loop test, the smartphone managed to last around 16 hours.Truth be told, we expected the Motorola One Power to last much longer as in our regular usage, the handset managed to last a full day of use with ease. Considering we are power users, this is an admirable feat for any smartphone. Thanks to the support for Turbo Charging, the handset can be charged from 5 percent to 100 percent in around 2 hours and 25 minutes, which is quite impressive. If you travel a lot, One Power's beefy cell can turn out to be a lifesaver for you.