Moto E4 Plus: Extra Battery on a Budget Phone

Moto E4 Plus: Extra Battery on a Budget Phone

Battery Life

Impressive two-day battery life with average usage.

Means you won’t need to recharge your phone nightly, unless intensively using it

The battery is certainly the highlight of the Moto E4 Plus. It is a huge 5,000mAh cell, and throughout our time testing the phone we found the battery life to be nothing in need of incredible. If you’re trying to find a tool which will last two days from one charge, this is often it.

If you’re using your phone intensively the battery life will more likely be around each day and a half, but our usage was fairly typical, and that we found that it might indeed last for an entire two days.

For comparison, the quality Moto E4 only features a 2,800mAh juice pack, while even the huge Samsung Galaxy S8 Plus has just a 3,500mAh cell.

Both those phones can last an entire day, but the Moto E4 Plus’ 5,000mAh battery is merely powering a low-end device with a limited processor and 720p screen, so it’s not surprising that it’s ready to offer even better battery life.

There’s fast-charging tech inbuilt here, but you’ll got to use the dedicated charger included within the box to form the foremost of it, so you won’t be ready to fast-charge at a friend’s house or if your charger breaks.

When charging normally, the E4 Plus takes a very while to top abreast of account of that 5,000mAh cell, so you’ll want to undertake and keep your fast charger on you if you’re out and about.

There are not any bells and whistles here, like wireless charging, you’re just getting solid battery life the old-fashioned way – and if that’s what you would like from your device then you’ll haven't any complaints.

Camera

13MP sensor looks better on paper than how it actually performs

It can take decent images, but lacks interesting camera features

The Moto E4 Plus features a 13MP sensor on the rear, which can look great on paper, but the shooter is especially limited.

For example, you will be restricted to only 720p video, while there’s a clear lag between you pressing the capture button and therefore the photo actually being taken.

We found the resolution of images to be acceptable and despite a high aperture of f/2.0 the pictures still seemed bright and captured with tons of sunshine in. already dark shooting saw the Moto E4 Plus struggle a touch, but that’s expected on a phone at this price.

Images captured in good lighting looked nice and bright, and determination was acceptable. Low light shooting saw the Moto E4 Plus struggle a touch, but that’s to be expected with a phone at this price.

There’s no real standout camera feature on the Moto E4 Plus. If you’re trying to find a tool which will take the odd image for uploading to Instagram or sharing with friends, you’ll likely be proud of the camera on the rear here.

There's a 5MP selfie camera on the front of the phone that comes with an LED flash. Again it’s fine for the odd photo, but do not buy this phone specifically for its selfie camera, as features are limited here too.

Anything Else I Want To Know?

Motorola has included a Mediatek MT6737 chipset within the E4 Plus, which may be a setup we saw struggle on the Nokia 3. It's clocked at 1.3GHz and it’s optimized a touch better on the Moto E4 Plus, but don’t expect this to be a powerhouse device.

It works in tandem with 3GB of RAM, which suggests the phone is capable of handling all the apps you’ll want it to, and it should be fine for a few undemanding gaming.

There was a notable graphics drop on the Moto E4 Plus compared to other devices we’ve used, though, so you'll not want to travel for this phone if you’re trying to find high-performance game graphics.

All popular apps ran smoothly on the phone. You’ll just need to wait a touch longer for your phone to load certain apps if you've got tons running within the background.

For example, we found that if we tried to load social media apps while the phone was playing music and running a couple of other applications within the background it could take a touch time to load, but it had been never quite a couple of seconds.

The Moto E4 Plus is out there with either 16GB or 32GB of onboard storage. We’d recommend going for the 32GB version, as which will offer you far more space for your videos, music and apps, but if you don’t tend to load much onto your phone you'll be okay with the smaller version.

We tested the 16GB version of the phone, and before adding our own apps and media we found the software took up almost 6GB of that; 10GB of free space isn’t all that much. That said, both versions of the phone support microSD cards up to 128GB, so you'll easily add more storage if you would like it.

The Moto E4 Plus arrives running Android 7.1.1 Nougat software, and like all the opposite Motorola devices of recent years it's running a more or less stock version, so it's very almost like how Google intended.

There are a couple of add-ons from Motorola, including what the corporate is looking Moto Actions. These are a couple of little gesture shortcuts that, once you learn them, you’ll likely end up using without even brooding about it.

If you create a karate chop gesture with the phone you’ll boot up the flashlight on the rear, while you'll turn the phone in your hand to bring the camera app up immediately. When you’re during a rush, you’ll find these features particularly useful.

Having Android 7.1.1 means you’ll be ready to use multitasking and newer emojis, but we’d also expect Motorola to update this device to Android O within the future. We can’t promise the corporate are going to be quick at doing so though, so you'll want to choose the Moto G5 or Moto Z2 Play if you’re trying to find speedy software updates.