Motorola Moto G 5G | 2023 | Unlocked | Made for US 4/128GB | 48 MPCamera | Ink Blue, 163.94×74.98×8.39

Very good phone for a very reasonable price
I was replacing a Nokia G10 (Android 13.0), which was getting older and acting a little wonky. If you are doing hardcore gaming and video, I’m a grandpa and can’t speak to that, but this phone starts up fast (which was a problem with a Nokia 10), has better sound, no complaints with the camera, and a good “intro to Moto-G” routine that allowed me to select or decline some nice added gestures like shaking on the flashlight, camera, and going into quiet mode when I set it face down. I like it better than my wife’s Apple phone, which I sometimes use. For a regular user, it’s a great phone for the price.

Real Phone and Not A Scam
It’s a real phone delivered to my door within 24 hours and not a scam. I popped in my SIM card and it worked. Pretty good deal for $150. As for the phone itself, compared to my 7 year old midrange phone that just went kaput on me, it’s pretty decent. The only thing I don’t like about it is it is an ad machine full of ads galore. Another thing I don’t like is it comes loaded with bloatware and apps I will never ever use. It’s going to take a couple of weeks (tinkering with it sporadically) to get it set up the way I want it. But like I said, $150 is good deal. My wireless provider charges nearly 4 times price for the same phone. Let’s see if I can get 7 years of use out of this one.

The worst Motorola phone that I’ve ever owned
On quite a few Motorola phones over the last 6 years but this one is an absolute piece of junk. And the reason it’s a piece of junk is because Motorola has messed with the basic Android that Google supplies and calls it Motorola Android and Motorola has no competent programmers to be messing on anything that Google puts out for programming on phones. These people were not even smart enough to put in a selection to look at all the apps that are installed. They only put in a selection to look at the most recent apps in the default apps. The standard Google Android has both. I’m trying to save you from wasting five or six hours of your life trying to set up with this thing so that it’ll actually work and has the stuff that was on your old phone to use. I’m going to add to this that the notifications have stopped working properly. You spend more time trying to administer this phone instead of being able to actually use it to get any work done. And I would never ever consider doing any online banking with a piece of crap phone like this
Update when I got this phone somebody had set the gestures attached to the power button to turn on Google Assistant instead of restarting the phone. It’s taken me numerous hours to finally figure out how to fix this issue. In my opinion this was not a new phone but it was advertised as new.
Update 9/4/24 This phone is like all the other g series I have owned since 2022 which is 3 of them. All of them have this uncontrolled scolling problem where the screen will all of a sudden scroll at speed up or down. This has been a problem with the last 4 Motorola phones I have had. I have turned it in to Motorola twice now and they have done nothing to fix the issue which is about par for Motorola customer service. BE AWARE IF YOU PURCHASE A MOTOROLA PHONE THAT YOU WILL NOT GET QUALITY CUSTOMER SERVICE.