The Moto G31 managed nearly a full day of looped video in our standardised test, and while none of the handsets we’re comparing it to is exactly weak on the stamina front, it’s a clear win for the Moto if battery is most important for you. The Moto G31 is solid and dependable, but despite a big improvement in the screen, it’s still hard to recommend over the competition – and that’s chiefly down to raw performance. That’s certainly a swap worth making in my eyes, but you may favour smoothness over contrast and colour accuracy, especially if you want to play certain games at higher frame rates. You can possibly get some reasonable results from it, but you’ll need a lot more patience than me – and probably a gimbal, too.

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As mentioned in my introduction, the Moto G31’s camera setup is a downgrade on the previous generation, with four lenses replaced by three, and the main sensor dropping from 64MP to 50MP. The bezels are still quite prominent, especially around the chin of the device, and once again we’re treated to a holepunch selfie camera at the top of the display in the middle. With a standardised 1080p resolution offscreen, the Moto G31 is marginally better than the Moto G30, but there’s again very little in it, and it’s still leagues behind the Nokia G50, Realme 7 and Poco X3 NFC. The final 2MP lens is for macro photography, and while the specification sounds limited, in truth it’s not the kind of thing you’re likely to use much. There’s a slight but noticeable delay between pressing the shutter and the camera snapping, which can prove frustrating with timings, and this also makes it pretty easy to get blurry images, too.Overall, it’s a good-looking phone and I’m pleased to say that despite the reduced thickness, Motorola has still found room for a 3. Like the Snapdragon 662 inside the Moto G30, this is another octa-core 2GHz chip, so performance should be mostly similar on paper.

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The 2MP depth sensor has been dropped, and we’re left with a triple-camera array consisting of a 50MP main camera (down from 64MP), an 8MP wide sensor and a 2MP macro lens. Here it becomes pretty clear that the Moto is oversaturating the image to compensate, but it’s not a bad effort.The Android robot is reproduced or modified from work created and shared by Google and used according to terms described in the Creative Commons 3.

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But numbers can only take you so far, and much comes down to how the phone processes images after the hardware has done its stuff, which can’t be measured by specs. The SIM card holder supports either a second SIM or a microSD card to expand the storage, which is a good inclusion – especially as the cheaper version of the handset only has 64GB of storage built in. That’s probably not a deal breaker considering the limited 5G coverage, but it does leave questions about the phone’s longevity.

On one hand, while it’s marginally slower on the multicore benchmark, there’s not enough in it that you’d actively notice the difference between the two. While the Moto G30 played things safe with a budget Qualcomm processor – the 2GHz octa-core Snapdragon 662 – the G31 takes a risk by switching over to the MediaTek Helio G85. It’s not the kind of thing you notice unless you’re looking closely, but it’s a nice touch and extra grip is always welcome.