Moto G200 brings Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 flagship power to mid-price range

(Pocket-lint) - At the opening of 2021 Motorola rejigged its G bid line-up, the thought that the devices with bigger numbers would present the bigger features. And now, earlier 2021 is out, the Chicago-based company is launching its top-end G bid model: the Moto G200.

This handset, which is the adjacent measurement successful improvement implicit the earlier G100, brings the top-tier Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 processor into this mid-price range, portion advancing the design, upping the camera ante, and doing distant with the not-much-loved dual front-facing camera arrangement.

With a European terms of €449.99, the G200 represents Motorola's privation to instrumentality connected immoderate of its palmy competition, specified arsenic OnePlus, and present much flagship specification without the typically flagship price.

Key to that spec is the caller camera arrangement. A trio of lenses connected the rear are each semi 'sunken' into the assemblage to assistance negate excessive protrusion, which is simply a large plan detail. The extent sensor and 13-megapixel ultra-wide are par for the people for galore handsets astatine present, but it's the main lens, astatine 108-megapixels, that volition garner the astir attention. This main snapper uses a nine-in-one processing method to present 12-megapixel results.

Elsewhere the G200 delivers a 6.7-inch surface with up to 144Hz refresh rate. Which, if it sounds familiar, is due to the fact that it's the aforesaid OLED sheet that you'll find connected Motorola's Edge 20. Which is besides wherever things get a small spot complicated, really, arsenic the G200 and Edge 20 are precise akin successful specification - the main quality is the G series' higher powerfulness processor, greater artillery capableness (at 5000mAh) and bigger asking price.

How acold the Moto G bid has come, though, from erstwhile fund lone handsets to almighty mid-priced devices specified arsenic this G200, it's a caller epoch for this range's scope and truthful meaning.

Writing by Mike Lowe. Originally published connected 18 November 2021.