I barely noticed a difference while I was using this $250 smartphone after using $800 phones for years by Antonio Villas-Boas on Jul 3, 2018, 11:08 AM Advertisement
 I love premium, high-end smartphones, but I don't like their massive price tags. So when the $250 Moto G6 came across my desk, I thought I'd give it a shot to see whether or not it could replace the expensive smartphones that usually populate my hands and pockets. I was surprised with my experience with the Moto G6. I barely noticed a difference during my day-to-day usage, and I began to question whether high-end smartphones were worth the $450-plus premium they demand for slightly better performance and looks. Check out the $250 Moto G6 and how it fared in the hands of someone who's used to $800-plus smartphones: SEE ALSO: 4 reasons you should buy the LG G7 instead of the Galaxy S9 Design-wise, the Moto G6 is a surprisingly nice phone for $250.  This thing has a nice, curved glass back, and it doesn't feel much different than a lot of the expensive high-end smartphones out there. It's light, too, which I like. But light weight can sometimes lead to a cheaper feel.
It has large bezels, but they didn't really bother me, despite having used phones with ultra-narrow bezels ever since they came out.  I truly barely noticed the bezels on the Moto G6. Plus, having a comparatively large bottom bezel meant that Motorola could give the Moto G6 a front-facing fingerprint scanner. The front is still the best place to have a fingerprint scanner, in my opinion. Here's to hoping that more of next year's crop of premium devices come with invisible fingerprint scanners embedded underneath their displays.
The Moto G6 was handling everything I was throwing at it surprisingly well.  I looked around the subway one day and noticed people with expensive smartphones, like the $1,000 iPhone X and $800-plus Galaxy S9, and I questioned whether those people getting more out of their expensive smartphones for their day-to-day apps than I was with this $250 device. I was streaming my music via Bluetooth, streaming videos, browsing the internet and social media, sending emails and messages, video calling with family abroad, and using all the apps I usually use without a hitch on the Moto G6. Sure, the Moto G6's Snapdragon 450 chip wasn't quite as snappy as the Google Pixel 2, Samsung Galaxy S9, or LG G7 with high-end chips like the Snapdragon 835 and 845. But it wasn't slow, either. I was rarely, if ever, frustrated by the Moto G6's performance when comparing it to my experience with expensive high-end devices. One thing that surprised me about the Moto G6 is how well it handled a minimized YouTube video while I was running another app, as shown in the photo above.
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