Moto G Power (2025) review

Dual-camera setup

The handset offers a dual-camera setup on its back consisting of a 50MP main unit and an 8MP ultrawide camera, which also happens to have autofocus. That's a very rare feature in this price bracket and it's used mostly for close-up, macro-like photos. The third unit is an ambient light sensor, according to Motorola's official specs.

• Wide (main): 50MP, OmniVision OV50D, 1/2.88", 0.612µm (1.224µm), f/1.8, 13mm (122˚), PDAF; 1080p@30fps
• Ultrawide: 8MP OmniVision OV08D, 1/4.4", 1.0µm, f/2.2, AF; 1080p@60fps
• Front camera: 16MP Samsung ISOCELL S5K3P9, 1/3.0", 1.0µm, f/2.4, 24mm, fixed focus; 1080p@30fps

The selfie camera is 16MP, just like last year's Moto G Power 2024.

Daylight photos

Main camera

At first glance, the photos from the main camera during the day are alright - punchy colors, wide dynamic range, impressive even, and good contrast. But upon closer inspection, you start to see some issues. Overall, the photos come out soft and there is some fine detail only in well-lit scenes.

Main camera photos

We took a couple of full-resolution 50MP photos, but they are definitely not better than the standard 12.5MP ones.

50MP main camera photos

And here's the portrait mode too.

Portraits: Photo mode • Portrait mode

2x crop zoom

The 2x zoom crops are a stretch. There's little to no fine detail, and you can notice some upscaling artifacts, which aren't usually a thing nowadays, even on budget phones. You might get away with some okay-looking shots occasionally, but it's hard to recommend using the 2x zoom toggle.

2x crop zoom photos

Ultrawide camera

We didn't expect much from the ultrawide camera but were surprised by the wide dynamic range and punchy colors. That last bit is a bit too much, though, especially the red color. It's nice to have autofocus, as your subjects will always be sharp and in focus.

Ultrawide camera photos

At first glance, the ultrawide photos look pretty decent, but upon closer inspection, you start to notice how quickly sharpness and detail start to deteriorate in poorly-lit areas. There's also plenty of artificial sharpening and jagged edges and lines.

Ultrawide camera macro mode

As we already mentioned, the ultrawide camera has autofocus, enabling close-up stills. The results are pretty decent, as long as you have enough light coming. Do take several shots of the same scene to ensure the subject is in focus, as there are no indicators, like focus peaking, helping you with that. Due to the limited resolution, the macro shots aren't necessarily detailed enough but are decently sharp.

Selfies

The selfies are pretty decent - natural color reproduction, a good amount of detail and wide enough dynamic. Sharpness could be better, but it's not something to obsess about, given the Moto's price bracket.

Selfies

Daylight photos

Main camera

Interestingly, the system doesn't offer Auto Night mode, so you'd have to manually switch to the dedicated Night mode if you deem it necessary. And after some shooting in the dark, we thing you should always reach out for Night mode if you care about image quality.

Main camera: Photo mode • Night mode

The non-Night mode shots below are downright abysmal with some sort of upscaling artifacts (or at least it looks like it), extreme softness, noise and zero detail. The pictures below look like oil paintings.

Turning on the Night mode improves sharpness, adds some detail through artificial sharpening and reduces noise. However, the jagged edges and straight lines are here to stay, and overall quality is just unacceptable, even for a phone at this price.

2x crop zoom

It's needless to say that the 2x crop zoom night stills are even worse. With or without Night mode, it's hard to recommend zooming in on your nighttime scenes.

2x crop zoom: Photo mode • Night mode

Ultrawide camera

The ultrawide shots at night are a hot mess, with or without Night mode. They are extremely soft, lacking any fine detail, with plenty of noise and just like the main camera's photos, these have the weird upscaling artifacts too.

Ultrawide camera: Photo mode • Night mode

Video recording

The Moto G Power 2025 supports only one video mode with all of its cameras - 1080p at 30fps. Interestingly, you can't even change the resolution, there's no such setting. You can only do 1080p@30fps and that's it.

You can check out the playlist below, which includes multiple video samples.

All in all, the videos are subpar. They are all generally soft, with washed-out colors, no fine detail and maybe a bit noisy too. Even the daylight ones.

The ultrawide camera's video is even worse - extremely soft and downright unusable.

There's also EIS, which you can turn off. However, it's not the best implementation we've seen as the video is visibly floating along with the occasional distortions. Notice the very beginning of the video.