Xiaomi Mi A2 vs Motorola Moto G6 Play

The Xiaomi Mi A2 smartphone was launched on April 25 this year. The Motorola Moto G6 Play smartphone hit the store shelves two days later on April 25. Let’s check out how the two smartphones are different in terms of design, hardware, and price.

Appearance & Design

The Mi A2 smartphone dons an appealing front glass and metal body design, which is elegantly paired with an LTPS, IPS, FHD+ (2160 x 1080 pixels) display having a screen ratio of 18:9. Along with a fingerprint scanner, the phone houses a 12-megapixel + 20-megapixel dual camera setup with AF and dual-LED flash on the back.

Up front, there’s a 20-megapixel Sony IMX376 camera for selfies. The phone measures 6.25 inches in length, 2.97 inches in width and 0.29 inch in height and it weighs in at 166 grams (with battery). You can choose from red, pink, gold, blue and black color options.

The Moto G6 Play smartphone is housed in a robust aluminum alloy and glass body and it features an appealing IPS, LCD, HD+ display with a screen resolution of 1440 x 720 pixels. You can find a fingerprint sensor along with a 13-megapixel camera with LED flash and AF placed on the back.

Apart from that, the phone has a 5-megapixel front shooter for the selfie addicts. It measures 72.2 mm x 155.4 mm x 9.1 mm (LxWxH) and it weighs in at 180 grams (with battery). The Moto G6 Play is currently up for grabs in lunar gray and midnight blue color versions.

Hardware & Performance

The Mi A2 smartphone comes with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 SDM660, 64-bit processor, and a Qualcomm Adreno 512 graphics processing unit. It has 4GB/6GB of LPDDR4X RAM and 64GB/128GB of expandable ROM (up to 256GB via SIM 2 slot).

The recently-launched Mi A2 is backed by a non-removable 3010mAh Lithium-ion battery that delivers up to 292 hours of standby time and up to 12.5 hours of talk time. It has microSD, microSDHC, and microSDXC card slots and a slew of useful sensors such as a proximity sensor, accelerometer, ambient light, compass, gyroscope sensor, fingerprint ID (rear mounted), and an IR sensor.

The Motorola Moto G6 Play packs a powerful Qualcomm Snapdragon 427 MSM892 processor along with a Qualcomm Adreno 308 graphics processing unit, under the hood. It has 2GB/3GB of LPDDR3 RAM and 16GB/32GB of internal memory which can be expanded up to 128GB.

The single SIM (nano-SIM) phone draws its juices from a 4,000mAh Lithium-Polymer battery that delivers up to 315 hours of standby time and up to 36 hours of talk time. It has microSD, microSDHC, and microSDXC card slots and various sensors such as an accelerometer, proximity sensor, fingerprint (rear mounted), and light.

Price

You can get your hands on the Xiaomi Mi A2 Android 4G smartphone if you’re willing to shell out about $289. While the Motorola Moto G6 Play smartphone bears a price tag of about $189. You can check out a more detailed comparison between the two smartphones below.

Product Name

Xiaomi Mi A2

Motorola Moto G6 Play
Product Image
Price
Our Rating

6.8

7.4
Brand

Xiaomi

Motorola
Category

Mobiles

Mobiles

General

Model

Xiaomi Mi A2 Moto G6 Play
Released

25 April, 2018 02 February, 2018
Status

Available Available

Design

Type Design Type called form factor refers to a mobile phone's size, shape, and style as well as the layout and position of major components of phone. There are three major form factors seen in mobile phones => bar phones, folding phones and sliding phones.

Bar Bar
Dimensions

158.9 mm x 75.5 mm x 7.3 mm No Data Available
Weight

165 Grams (with Battery) No Data Available
Waterproof

No

Display

Display Type Display Technology => A number of display technologies and types used in mobile phones => TFT (Thin Film Transistor), IPS (In-Place Switching), OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode), AMOLED (Active-Matrix Organic Light-Emitting Diode), Super AMOLED (an even advanced version of AMOLED), Resistive Touchscreen (Resistive touchscreens contain two layer of conductive material with a very small gap between them which acts as a resistance), Capacitive Touchsceen (Capacitive touchscreen technology consists of a layer of glass coated with a transparent conductor)

IPS, LCD, LTPS capacitive touchscreen IPS, LCD capacitive touchscreen
Size

5.99 inches FHD+ 5.7-inches HD+
Resolution

2160 x 1080 Pixels, 24 bit color depth 1440 x 720 Pixels, 24 bit color depth
Display Colors Display Colors is refers to the number of different shades of colors that the screen is capable of displaying => 64K colors, 256K colors and 16 million colors, Obviously 16M is highest available range of colors and better than others.

16M Colors 16M Colors
Pixel Density Pixel Density (PPI) is refers to the concentration of pixels on a particular display, measured in pixels per inch (ppi). Pixel density is calculated by dividing the diagonal pixel resolution of a display by its diagonal size, higher pixel density better display quality.

~ 403 PPI Pixel Per Inch ~ 282 PPI Pixel per inch
Touch Screen

Yes Multi Touch Support Yes Multi Touch Support
Display Protection Display Protection => Gorilla Glass is a special alkali-aluminosilicate glass shield with exceptional damage resistance that helps protect mobile displays from scratches, drops, and bumps of everyday use, It is always better to go for a smartphone with Gorilla Glass for that added protection and peace of mind.

Yes Corning Gorilla Glass 3 Yes
Features

IPS, LCD, LTPS, FHD+ display
~ 403 PPI Pixel Density
Capacitive
Scratch Resistant
Corning Gorilla Glass 3
A 2.5D curved glass screen
1000:1 contrast ratio
Eye Care Mode
Night Screen
450 nits Brightness
LED Notifications IPS, LCD, HD+ display
~ 282 PPI Pixel Density
Capacitive Multi-touch
Scratch Resistant

Hardware

CPU The main chipset of the device.

Octa-Core (4 x 2.0GHz Kryo 260 + 4 x 1.8GHz Kryo 260) CPU Clock Octa-Core ARM Cortex-A53
GPU GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) is a single-chip processor designed to rapidly manipulate and alter memory to accelerate the creation of images in a frame buffer intended for output to a display, This includes things such as lighting effects, object transformations, and 3D motion.

Qualcomm Adreno 512 GPU Qualcomm Adreno
RAM (Memory) RAM (Random Access Memory) is a type of computer memory that can be accessed randomly, any byte of memory can be accessed without touching the preceding bytes that allows information to be stored and accessed quickly from random locations. RAM is the most common type of memory found in computer systems, smartphones, tablets and other electronic devices.

4GB/6GB 2GB
Internal Storage Internal Storage is a data storage space (flash memory) mostly used in smartphones, tablets and other electronic devices where operating system, apps, music, photos, videos, files and other user data Is stored.

32GB/64GB/128GB 16GB
Memory Card Slot Memory Card Slot is a special slot for inserting a memory card. Memory cards allow you to expand the phone's built-in memory, A memory card (sometimes called a flash memory card or a storage card) is a small storage medium used to store data such as text, pictures, audio, and video, for use on small, portable or remote computing devices such as mobile phones, mp3 players, digital cameras.

External TF Card Up to 128GB (Uses SIM 2 Slot) microSD, microSDHC, microSDXC
Sensors Sensors are electronic components that detects and responds to some type of input from the physical environment. The specific input could be light, heat, motion, moisture, pressure and location, The output is generally a signal that is converted to use in computing systems, a location sensor, such as a GPS receiver is able to detect current location of your electronic device.

Proximity Sensor, Accelerometer, Ambient Light, Compass, Gyroscope, Fingerprint ID (Rear Mounted) Accelerometer
Proximity sensor
Fingerprint ( Rear Mounted)

Software

Operating System OS => Every computer system run on a base software called Operating System (OS). Operating System controls all basic operations of the computer (such as smartphone, PDAs, tablet computers and other handheld devices). The Operating System allows the user to install and run third party applications (apps), apps are used to add new functionality to the device.

Android 8.1 Oreo (Android One) OS with MIUI 9.5 Android 8.0 Oreo OS
User Interface UI or user interface of a device is the look and feel of the on-screen menu system. How it works, its color scheme, how it responds to button presses, all of these things are part of the user interface.

Yes Yes with Modified Android

Camera

Rear Camera Camera is able to capture photographs and usually videos, The most important characteristics of a camera are the resolution (measured in megapixels), lens focus type (fixed or automatic), higher megapixel cameras are known to capture higher quality photos, but not always a good measurement of the photos quality.

20 Megapixels + 12 Megapixels Sony IMX486 (Dual Camera) 12 Megapixels with Dual-LED Flash and AF Rear Camera
Image

5164 x 3873 Pixels 4000 x 3000 Pixels
Video

2160p@30fps, 1080p@30fps, 720p@120fps 1080p@30fps
Flash Flash Light => There is commonly two types of flash lights are used in camera mobile phones, LED Flash (LED flash offers lower power consumption with drive circuitry that takes up very little room, LEDs can be strobed faster than any other light source), Xenon Flash (xenon flash produces an extremely intense full-spectrum white light for a very short duration)

Yes with Dual-LED Flash Yes with Dual-LED, Dual Tone Flash
Front Camera

20 Megapixels with Aperture f/2.0, Sony IMX376 Sensor 5 Megapixel + 5 Megapixel Front Camera with LED Flash

Network

SIM SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) is a small card that contains mobile network subscriber's account information. This allows the phone using the card to attach to a mobile network. The SIM card is most commonly associated with GSM and UMTS mobile networks. Moving a SIM card from one phone to another allows a subscriber to switch mobile phones without having to contact their mobile network carrier. SIM cards can also be used by a phone to store limited amounts of data, such as phone numbers and text messages.

Nano SIM Standard SIM
Dual SIM

Dual Hybrid SIM (Nano-SIM + Nano-SIM/MicroSD Card), Dual Standby Single SIM or Dual SIM (Nano-SIM + Nano-SIM/microSD), Dual Standby

Connectivity

Wi-fi Wi-Fi is a popular wireless networking technology using radio waves to provide high-speed network connections that allows devices to communicate without cords or cables, Wi-Fi is increasingly becoming the preferred mode of internet connectivity all over the world.

Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, 802.11n 5GHz, Wi-Fi Direct, Dual-Band, Wi-Fi HotSpot Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Wi-Fi Direct, Wi-Fi Hotspot
USB

2.0 USB Type-C 1.0, with OTG, Host, Charging and Mass Storage Function Micro USB 2.0 with Charging and Mass Storage Function
GPS GPS The Global Positioning System is a satellite-based radio navigation system, GPS permits users to determine their position, velocity and the time 24 hours a day, in all weather, anywhere in the world, In order to locate your position, your device or GPS receiver must have a clear view of the sky.

Yes, with A-GPS, BDS, GLONASS, GPS Yes, with GPS, A-GPS
NFC NFC (Near field communication) is a set of standards for smartphones and similar devices to establish peer-to-peer radio communications with each other by touching them together or bringing them into proximity, usually no more than a few inches.

No No
Wireless Charging Wireless Charging (Inductive Charging) uses an electromagnetic field to transfer energy between two objects. This is usually done with a charging station. Energy is sent through an inductive coupling to an electrical device, which can then use that energy to charge batteries or run the device.

No
Headphone Jack

Yes Yes

Battery

Capacity Battery Capacity

2910mAh Lithium-ion 4,000 mAh
Placement

Non-Removable Non-Removable

Media

Video Playback

Yes Support M4V, H.264, WMV, 3GP, FLV, MP4, H.265, MKV, MOV, DivX, AVI, xVID Up to 7.3 Hours
Video Out

Yes With Wireless Media Link Yes With Wireless Media Connection
FM Radio

No Yes
Ring Tones

Yes MP3, WAV ringtones
Loudspeaker

Yes Yes
Handsfree

Yes

Data

4G LTE 4G LTE bands

Yes LTE: 1(2100), 3(1800), 5(850), 7(2600), 8(900), 19(800), 20(800), 28(700), 38(2600), 40(2300) MHz
Speed

LTE: 850 / 900 / 1800 / 2100 / 2600 MHz LTE-TDD: 1900 MHz (Band 39) LTE-TDD: 2300 MHz (Band 40) LTE-TDD: 2500 MHz (Band 41) LTE-TDD: 2600 MHz (Band 38) LTE Cat-4 150 Mbps Download, 50 Mbps Upload over 4G