Moto G5 Plus lands in India for Rs. 16,999

Motorola today launched its latest Moto G series smartphone, the Moto G5 Plus in India offering a premium design and decent specs. The phone will be sold in two variants 3GB RAM/16GB storage priced at Rs. 14,999 and 4GB RAM/32GB storage at Rs. 16,999.

The Moto G5 Plus is the first Moto G series phone to sports a metal body and has a water repellent coating to survive light splashes. Moreover, the fingerprint sensor (baked inside the home button) is much more functional than its predecessor thanks to the gesture based navigation interface called One Button Nav. You can swipe left across the home button to access multi-tasking pane, swipe right to go back and set custom gestures for launching apps.

The phone runs Android Nougat out of the box and an update to the Google app will add Google Assistant. Like previous Moto phones, the Moto G5 Plus also comes with Moto Display, which lets you preview notification without unlocking the smartphone and Moto Actions, which lets users to use gestures or movements to activate functions like camera (twist wrist twice) or flashlight (chopping motion).

Coming to the specs, the Moto G5 Plus features 5.2-inch Full HD display with a layer of Gorilla Glass 3 on top and is powered by Snapdragon 625 processor and 3000mAh battery. For photography, there's 12MP f/1.7 rear camera and 5MP front camera. 

Other specs include WiFi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.2, NFC, microSD card slot, dual-SIM slots and TurboPower fast charging (six hours battery life in 15 minutes).

The Moto G5 Plus will be sold exclusively on Flipkart starting midnight tonight.

Moto G5, Moto G5 Plus with metal body gets official

Motorola at its MWC event in Barcelona has officially unveiled the Moto G5 Family with a premium design. Unlike previous Moto G series phone, the new Moto G5 family sports metal body, instead of plastic. More over, in the older Moto G4 family, only the Plus model had fingerprint sensor, but now both the Moto G5 and Moto G5 Plus gets fingerprint sensor. Both will also boot Google's latest Android Nougat and have water repellent coated body for surviving light splashes. 

The Moto G5 features 5-inch Full HD display and is powered by Snapdragon 430 processor, 2GB RAM, 16GB/32GB storage. For photography, it gets 13MP f/2.0 PDAF rear camera and 5MP front camera, and a 2800mAh battery runs the show.

The Moto G5 Plus on the other hand comes with a slightly bigger 5.2-inch Full HD display and is powered by Snapdragon 625 processor, and will be available with 2GB RAM/32GB storage or 4GB RAM/64GB storage options. The Camera department includes 12MP f/1.7 dual auto-focus rear camera with 4K video recording and 5MP front camera. It will be fueled by 3000mAh battery.

Connectivity options on both include dual-SIM slots, microSD card slot, 4G LTE, WiFi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth, GPS and NFC.

The Moto G5 is priced at 199 Euros ($210 | Rs. 14,000) for the 2GB RAM/16GB storage variant and will available across Europe and Latin America starting in March, while the Moto G5 Plus is priced at $229 (Rs. 15,000) for the 2GB RAM/32GB model, and $279 (Rs. 20,000) for the 4GB RAM/64GB storage model. Pricing and availability for India is yet to be announced.