Recently, the Indian government hiked the GST rate for smartphones, and thus, the smartphone makers hiked the pricing of several popular phones in India. Now, Motorola is following the suite with the Moto G8 Power Lite.
The Moto G8 Power Lite smartphone was launched in India in May for ₹8,999 (~$120). From now onwards, the device will be available for purchase for ₹9,499 (~$126) which represents an increase of ₹500 (~$7).
Coming to the specifications, the smartphone features a 6.5-inch Max Vision IPS LCD display that offers HD+ screen resolution of 720 x 1600 pixels and a 20:9 aspect ratio. There’s a notch on top of the display for housing the front-facing camera sensor.
Under the hood, the device is powered by the MediaTek Helio P35 chipset, coupled with 4GB of RAM and 64GB of internal storage. The phone comes in this single memory variant. However, there’s a microSD card slot that enables storage expansion.
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In the camera department, the phone has a triple-camera setup on the back that consists of a 16-megapixel primary sensor with f/2.0 aperture and PDAF, an f/2.4 aperture 2-megapixel macro shooter, and an f/2.4 aperture 2-megapixel depth sensor.
On the front side, the device offers an 8-megapixel snapper for taking selfies and video calling. The smartphone, which comes with a splash-resistant body, supports Dual SIM, 4G VoLTE, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.2, GPS, and micro-USB port.
The Moto G8 Power Lite is running the older Android 9 Pie operating system out-of-the-box. This is a bit disappointing given that the could have offered the Android 10 operating system as the launch of Android 11 is just around the corner. The device is powered by a 5,000mAh battery with 10W charging support.
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