Moto G Stylus 5G (2025) review

Camera

The new Moto G Stylus (2025) seems to be borrowing the camera kit from the 2024 model - there is a 50MP OIS primary, a 13MP AF ultrawide and a 32MP selfie. While this is true, the sensors are all different now.

• Wide (main): 50MP Sony Lytia 700C, 1/1.56", 1.0µm, f/1.80, 24mm, multi-directional PDAF, OIS; 2160p@30fps
• Ultra wide angle: 13 MP GalaxyCore GC13A2, f/2.2, 1/3.1", 1.12µm, AF; 1080p@30fps
• Front camera: 32 MP GalaxyCore GC32E1, QuadBayer, 22mm f/2.2, 1/3.0", 0.7µm; fixed focus; 4K@30fps

The Motorola app is easy to use, though we should mention that its performance is choppy, just like on most recent Edge models.

Daylight photo quality

The main camera saves good photos - the colors are lively, slightly over-saturated, even, the contrast is high, and the dynamic range is adequate. The camera app often uses HDR, but it's not over the top. There is also a fair amount of detail and little, if any, noise.

There are times when complex areas with intricate detail outresolve the sensor, mostly foliage, but these cases are handled rather well.

Main camera

There is 2x zoom, which we expected to be of high quality. Unfortunately, it's not. The resulting photos are simple digital zoom (crop and upscale).

Main camera, 2x zoom

The 50MP photos look a lot like upscaled ones from the default 12.5MP ones with plenty of noise and obvious artifacts.

Main camera, 50MP

The 13MP ultrawide-angle photos have similarly punchy colors as the photos from the main camera. The contrast is high, and the dynamic range is good.

The corners are not distorted, the noise is low, and overall, the photos are quite alright for an ultrawide.

Ultrawide camera

The ultrawide camera supports autofocus and it can be used as a macro shooter. The closeups are good and do reveal some extra detail otherwise invisible to the naked eye, but the colors become even more popping and are definitely over the top.

Macro photos with the ultrawide camera

The 32MP camera takes 8MP photos like you'd normally expect from a QuadBayer sensor. And those 8MP images are wonderful - detailed and sharp, with accurate colors, wide dynamic range, and good contrast. The subject is always well-exposed with natural facial details.

Selfies

Portraits

You can take portraits in three different focal lengths - 24mm, 35mm, and 47mm.

The subject separation is proficient and the blur is convincing. The photos shot at 24mm are detailed with excellent facial and clothes detail.

Portraits 24mm (1x)

The 35mm images introduce some softness and the detail is not as much, but those are still very good.

Portraits 35mm (1.5x)

The 2x images are obvious upscales with visible artifacts.

Portraits 47mm (2x)

Low-light photo quality

The nighttime photos we took with the Moto G Stylus 2025 are generally great. The ones from the main camera offer detailed enough shots with saturated colors, just a few clipped highlights and no visible noise.

Main camera

The 2x zoomed photos are cropped and upscaled, as expected.

Main camera, 2x zoom

The ultrawide camera saves okay photos with bright exposure and nice color saturation. The detail is mediocre and there is a lot of visible noise, though, but we can't complain, it's par for the course for this type of camera. The Moto G Stylus 2025 is even doing very well for the class.

Ultrawide camera

Video recording

The Motorola G Stylus 5G (2025) supports 2160p@30fps video recording with all its cameras, including the selfie one. EIS is supported in that resolution as well and it seems to be very good too.

The daylight videos from all three cameras are good with enough detail, lively colors, and good dynamic range. The footage from the selfie camera is close to exemplary with natural and balanced processing, and wide dynamic range.

The low-light videos from the main camera are good with acceptable detail, saturated colors, excellent exposure and low noise. The ultrawide and the zoomed videos are quite dark, with the zoomed also extremely poor in detail.

Lastly, audio is captured in stereo and sounds very good.