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Price: £179 from fave.co/48Doupu
The budget phone sector is filled with underpowered handsets that can leave you feeling disappointed about what you just bought. Not so the Motorola Moto G54 5G. It’s not going to trade blows with the latest iPhones or Samsung Galaxys at the top of the rankings, but it also costs less than £200.
Despite this price, the G54 5G feels like something a bit more expensive. It comes with an eight-core processor, 8GB of RAM, a generous 256GB of storage and even a 120Hz refresh rate on the display. There are laptops out there that aren’t that well specified for more money. There has been some corner-cutting, notably in the screen and cameras, but this is still a good-looking phone at a reasonable price that’s not going to disappoint too many people.
It’s a younger brother to the Moto G84 5G which just squeezes into our budget category at £249.
DESIGN
The Moto G54 5G is a businesslike phone. It’s wearing a suit of Midnight blue with little to break its clean lines apart from a briefcase-shaped camera bulge (no flashy round camera cluster as seen on the OnePlus 11 or a triangle like the Fairphone 5’s here) and a simple Motorola logo on the
