Lenovo’s Motorola unit recently launched the Moto G5 and the Moto G5 Plus. The company has now unveiled premium ’S’ editions of the already spectacular “G5” series. We received the Moto G5S for an unboxing and review and we quickly sat down to compare the G5 and the G5S in terms of pure specs.
One of the things Lenovo has achieved is that, though the company has come up with Special Editions of the G5 and the G5 Plus, they have made sure the price does not sound too ridiculous for prospective buyers.
Moto G5
Larger Display and Battery
The Moto G5S comes with a larger display. It packs in a 5.2-inches FHD screen, compared to the 5.0-inch on the Moto G5. It also boasts a larger battery. It’s 3,000mAh compared to the 2,800mAh battery on the Moto G5. The phone also offers TurboPower charging – which means you can get almost 6 hours of battery life from a 15-minute charge.
Moto G5S
Processing Power
In terms of the processing power, the G5S comes with a 1.4GHz octa-core processor, which appears to be the same Snapdragon 430 processor used in the G5. The phone also runs Android 7.1.1 as the operating system. No word yet on whether the phones will get the Android 8.0 Oreo update.
Motorola has also used an all-metal design with the G5S – it is now crafted from a single piece of aluminium. Although the Moto G5 had an aluminium rear panel, the rest of the phone was housed in a plastic frame. All full metal body on the G5S does seem appealing.
Camera
Let’s come to one of the strong points of the Moto G5 – the camera. The G5 featured a 13-megapixel primary camera at the back of the device. This time around, with the G5S, Lenovo has bumped up the primary camera to 16-megapixels.
On the front, though, the camera remains the same at 5-megapixels. It also retains the wide-angle lens for group selfies. Storage remains at 32GB, expandable up to 128GB with MicroSD.
This is not it. Stay tuned as we do an unboxing of the device along with a full review!
