Motorola Moto E14 arrives quietly: a £70 Android Go phone with some improvements
Motorola quietly unveiled the Moto E14 – a cheap Android Go edition device that arrives as an upgrade to last year’s Moto E13. It’s a simple device with a modest price of £70.
The phone still uses the Unisoc T606 chipset, but with only 2GB of RAM, it is limited to running Android 14 Go Edition. Interestingly, Motorola upgraded the 64GB of built-in storage from eMMC on the E13 to UFS 2.2. That’s faster than some recent entries into this segment. There is a microSD slot, so capacity isn’t an issue.
Anyway, there are more upgrades. The display features a 6.56” IPS LCD panel with HD+ resolution, however, it now also boasts a 90Hz refresh rate and Gorilla Glass 3 protection. The whole phone is rated IP52 (water-repellent design).
The Moto E14 battery has the same 5,000mAh capacity and it now supports 15W charging. It doesn’t sound like much, but it is a 50% increase over last year’s model. The downside is that the phone is bundled with a 10W charger (why even include such a charger?).
Alas, the camera remains the same – a single 13MP module on the back with 1080p @ 30fps video recording. The selfie camera has a 5MP module that also does 1080p @ 30fps video. The selfie camera is now inside a punch hole instead of a notch, which we guess counts as an upgrade.
The E14 features a 3.5mm headphone jack, plus a single speaker with Dolby Atmos. This is a 4G phone with a dual-SIM slot, Wi-Fi 5 (ac) and Bluetooth 5.0 (no NFC).
Moto E14 in: Pastel Green • Pastel Purple • Graphite Gray
The Motorola Moto E14 currently appears on the UK and “Rest of Europe” sub-sites of motorola.com. It’s also available through select retailers like Amazon UK (which gives August 1 as the release date). There is only one memory configuration, 2/64GB, and three color options: Pastel Green, Pastel Purple and Graphite Gray.
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Reader comments
- Anonymous
- 11 Sep 2024
- UiS
Some variants of the E14 do have actually have NFC-market/region dependant (my Vodafone Australia prepaid XT2421-15 variant has NFC for example).
- CAVBR
- 25 Jun 2024
- GL3
What's more surprising: the Android Go program still exists or Motorola launching a new Moto E when the G04 was expected to be its most basic device in 2024? Disappointing!
- Hello Moto
- 25 Jun 2024
- m9R
Think positive pal, Raspberry Pi doesn't have a screen, camera module, can't go on Facebook and worst of all : can't make phone calls!!