Motorola has unveiled the Moto G9 Plus and Moto G9 Play in the UK. The two mid-range smartphones have earlier been launched at different times in Brazil and also in Europe. The Moto G9 Plus carries a price tag of £259 in the UK while it will sell for €269 in Europe and selected Latin American countries. The phone is expected to be sold on Amazon UK and Motorola UK but is not yet available.
On the other hand, the Moto G9 Play hits the UK is two colour options – Sapphire Blue and Forest Green colours. It carries a decent £159.99 price tag and is on sale on Amazon UK or through Motorola’s official website.
The Moto G9 Play features a 6.5-inch IPS LCD panel with a waterdrop notch, HD+ resolution and 20:9 aspect ratio. It is powered by a Snapdragon 662 chipset paired with 4 GB of LPDDR4 RAM. It comes with 64GB of internal storage which is expandable via microSD card.
The G9 Play comes preinstalled with My UX based Android 10 OS. The phone is packed with a 5,000mAh battery that supports 20W TurboCharge fast charging through USB-C. For photography, there is an 8-megapixel front camera and a triple rear camera setup made up of a 48-megapixel + 2-megapixel (macro) + 2-megapixel (depth)combo. The phone has a rear-facing fingerprint sensor. The other features that can be found on the device are dedicated Google Assistant hardware key, dual 4G VoLTE, Wi-Fi 802.11ac, Bluetooth 5.0, NFC, GPS, and 3.5mm headphone slot.
On the other hand, the Moto G9 Plus packs an Octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 730G chipset backed by 4GB of RAM and there is 128GB of storage onboard. The storage can be expanded via a microSD slot. The phone sports a 6.8-inch MaxVision HDR10 display with FullHD+ resolution of 2400 x 1080 pixels and a punch hole at the top left corner. The punch-hole houses a 16MP f/20 camera.Moto G9 Plus
As for the optics, the Moto G9 Plus sports quad rear cameras which are a combination of 64MP (primary with f/1.8 aperture) + 8MP (118 ° ultra-wide with f/2.2 aperture) + 2MP (macro with f/2.2 aperture) + 2MP (depth with f/2.2 aperture) and the front camera is a 16MP f/2.0 shooter. It sports a side-mounted fingerprint scanner and on the software front, it runs on Android 10.
The mid-range smartphone draws power from a large 5000mAh battery with 30W TurboPower fast charging. For connectivity it comes with dual 4G VoLTE, Wi-Fi 802.11 ac (2.4GHz +5GHz), NFC, Bluetooth 5.0, GPS + GLONASS and a USB Type-C port.
The phone comes in two colour options – Rose Gold and Indigo Blue.
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