Motorola Moto G Stylus 5G Unlocked Smartphone (2022 Model) - 8GB RAM 256GB Storage, 50MP Camera, Steel Blue - Perfect for Photography, Note-Taking & 5G Streaming

I'm a fan of Motorola Phones. Had the Atrix 2 years ago, and Moto G7+ prior to this one. Really liked the Moto G7+ which I think had the perfect screen size at 6.2" but its camera was really bad indoors. So this review is mainly comparing it to the Moto G7+ which I'm using as the benchmark. The display on this phone is not as good overall as the Moto G7+ which had whiter whites, and much better viewing angles. This display is still very good, with super resolution, and good contrast, but it does have a slight red push, so the G7+ was tops IMO.Battery life is phenomenal on this phone, whereas the G7+ wasn't great and seemed to degrade over the span of 2 years, but the G7+ had a 27w charger and 3000ma battery and this one has only a 10w charger with a 5000ma battery so the speed to charge is night and day with the G7+ way better. That said, I can get easily 2 days of use on one charge to 80% with this phone, but I keep it in battery saving mode, and don't use it constantly. The included 10w charger is very slow. Takes about 3 hours from 1-100, and about 1.5 hours from 25% to 80%. This isn't as much of a big deal for me considering how frugal the phone is with battery consumption when in battery saver mode. To be honest, I keep the display at 60hz, and battery saver almost 100% of the time which helps with that. Battery saver does a number of things, but the main thing is it reduces the CPU mhz pretty dramatically. Even with battery saver on, the phone works about as well as the G7+ did with it off. So I have no really general purpose performance issues with battery saver on which is nice.Power button fingerprint sensor is better than I expected, prefer it over the one on the back of the G7+. I preferred Android 10 to Android 13 look and feel. Really dislike the fat brightness and volume sliders in Android 12/13's interface. Love the Motorola Gestures like twist to open camera, karate chop to open flashlight which carried over from the G7+. Wish the moto nav button on bottom from the android 10 was preserved from the G7+ which worked better for me than the Android 12/13 nav button which is similar enough. Stylus works pretty well, but its kind of a minor benefit IMO. Good for marking up images mostly. The audio quality is mediocre with only a single speaker. The sound was better on the G7+. Glad it has a 3.5mm headphone jack. Like the NFC and tap to google pay works well. Phone came with 256gb SD card which was a very nice bonus. After android updated from 12 to 13, I had to reinsert the card for it to be recognized again. Call quality is good, people hear me well and I hear them well. Wifi speeds are good.The cameras are an upgrade over the G7+ but that isn't saying much. Motorola really makes poor choices when it comes to camera image quality for some reason. I wish the camera took sharper, less compressed looking images and gave me more control over the image quality settings. Zooming into my landscape scenery images shows a lot of over-processing and general lack of detail. The compression and over-processing destroys fine detail in tree limbs and leaves. Overall, I really like this phone, but I do wish Moto updates the camera firmware/processing/features to improve overall image quality. I do like having the ultrawide camera lens for wide shots, though its color balance is different than the main 50mp camera. The cameras do a good job with HDR color though.My general takeaway is the G7+ was a higher end spec'd phone getting higher end components vs the Moto G Stylus 5G 2022, even despite the G Stylus 5G being a newer phone and costing me more, it seems to have slightly degraded display and audio quality and charger. Otherwise, its a better phone in mostly every other way except for battery charging speed and overall size. The phone is large and slippery and needs a case with a rubber feel IMO. I picked up an inexpensive gel tpu case on amazon and a tempered glass screen protector and its great now. Overall I'm happy with this phone.