Hello gorgeous people, Today we are going to be whipping the Motorola Moto G82 5G out of the box and taking it on a full-on tour. And if you’re thinking to yourself Jiminy Crickets, there sure are a lot of those Moto G something or other smartphones kicking about these days. Well, all you’d be very correct indeed.

If the Moto G family was actually a British working-class family, they’d inevitably be plastered all over the front of the Daily Mail and labeled as benefit hidden scrounger scum with too many kids. Priced at £289, the Moto G82 5G is practically gone HEADTOHEAD with Motorola’s own Moto Edge 30, which was reduced to just 329 quid the last time I checked.

And like the Edge, you get some proper lush mid-range specs in Moto G82 5G, like a 120 Hz AMOLED screen, a 50 meg snapper with OIS MIT 5000 mah battery. But is the camera tech any good? Can the Moto G82 5G handle its games? All these questions and more will be answered in this unboxing.

What’s In The Box?

So first up, what do you get in the slightly greasy box where I was handling it last night when I was on some deep-fried goodness? Well, you got yourself one Moto G82 5G smartphone preclude in that bundled c*ndom case, you’ve got yourself a 33-watt power adapter, even those 33 around the back in case you forget a bit of USB type C cable action way, and some highly exciting README type literature stuff, and a pokey pin device to get you some in there. And that is it. So let’s crack on with the Bali phone.

Design

So here we have the Moto G82 5G and it is a 6.6 inch, but thankfully it doesn’t feel it in the hand because it has quite a long and thin aspect ratio and a pretty skinny bezel surrounding that display.

And it really is very light as well as just 173 grams, which is certainly helped by the fact that it’s got a plastic offend and a plastic frame. So the Moto G82 5G may not feel particularly premium around the back, but it certainly looks smart enough. You’ve got this kind of mottled design work going on, even though the back end of the phone is completely smooth.

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And it does have a shiny glossy style finish, reflecting the light nicely, but not doing a terrible job of masking those fingerprints and greasy marks as well, helped along by the fact that it’s quite a dark finish. Of course, this is the meteorite gray model, almost got that sort of typical mortar or the blue haze though, when the light strikes it just so.

You can also grab the Moto G82 5G in white Lily so already smashing out those bright and bold colors for this particular smartphone. You got the tiny little motor or the logo slap there in the center of the back end, as usual. And I quite like the camera chassis. It looks similar to the Moto Edge series, so clearly Motorola all that is going this way with the sort of rounded corners, and it’s not quite flush with the surface, but almost. It only barely shuts out.

No preinstalled screen protector, unfortunately. And Motorola didn’t specifically mention if that front end was Gorilla glass will have to see how it fares over the long term. However, like most Motorola smartphones, it is IP 52 splash resistant, so it can get a bit moist when required.

Android And Features

Now, as you’d hope for halfway through 2022, the Moto G82 5G does rock the latest version of Android 12, and should hopefully get an update to Android 13 and maybe Android 14. Beyond that, Motorola doesn’t tend to offer the longest software support, unfortunately, on its blurs, probably because it’s got so many of them, it would be impossible to keep on updating every single one of them.

So the Moto G82 5G, like most of its more affordable siblings, is probably not one for the long haul. But I do enjoy how Motorola always flaps a lovely stock version of Android on its smartphone. So you’ve got your Discover feed, and you’ve got the usual Google app shenanigans to drag down your notifications bar. All those great Android 12 features are just present and correct in Moto G82 5G, like the quick toggles for the camera and mic access, for instance. And the customization is pretty decent as well.

Head to Personalize and you can play around with the icons, and the colors, you can make sure the theme fits the wallpaper for a bit of consistency. And as usual, Motorola’s only real contribution is the Mortal app, which offers up some genuinely useful bonus bits.

So you’ve got the likes of the gesture support, including, yes, the Double Karate chop me finger there, bugger. We head back. You’ve also got some tips and tricks for getting the most out of your Motorola Device, a couple of display features and then my favorite, the games mode, or game time as it is actually known.

So that’s some proper good tools and features in Moto G82 5G. When you are gaming, which I’ll be touching on later. Saw some cracking stuff there. And in further good news, Motorola doesn’t chuck a lot of crap wear on its smartphone either. So you want to find LinkedIn or TikTok or any of that shenanigans?

But you do get Facebook still, so let’s just get that right in the bin. Don’t fancy reading Uncle Dave’s racist propaganda today, thank you very much. On the security side, the Moto G82 5G rocks an edge-mounted fingerprint sensor built into that power button. So just tap your digit against that and as you see, just straight into your smartphone, works really well, despite the fact that it is super narrow, so kudos to Motorola for that one. And you also have some face and lock action on there in case your fingers are really gritty or moist or something.

And all you need to do is just as you see, they tap the power button and it’s not particularly nippy, but it gets there in the end. The Moto G82 5G has chucked in 128 gigs of storage space.

Thankfully not much of that is taken up by the system files of the apps because it is that clean stock version of Android, it’s only good old Gentian impact that’s making a serious impact, hence the name and if we slide out the SIM tray, you’ll see you’ve got space for two SIM cards. And that second SIM slot can alternatively be used to house a micro SD memory card up to 1 TB in size.

Display And Audio

Now, let’s have a good long stare at that lovely display tech of Moto G82 5G for it’s a 6.6-inch AMOLED panel with full HD plus resolution, so certainly competitive at this sort of price point because it is an OLED display. You’ve got the lovely Luscious deep blacks, the shop contrast, all that good stuff. No HDR support, unfortunately, here on the Motorola Moto G82 5G something, Netflix wasn’t supporting HDR when I checked, but the visuals are still pretty ruddy great. And of course, you’ve got those nice poppy colors as well.

Ten-bit color support here on the Moto G82 5G. Got nice wide viewing angles. The screen certainly seems bright enough on our top level, bright enough to use outdoors, even on the extremely sunny days we’re having right now in the UK, which still likes what, there are quite a few display settings you can play around with, including the color modes. You can put it down to natural if you don’t want those colors to be boosted quite so much, and clear on the color temperature, etc. And of course, that refresh rate as well in Moto G82 5G.

Set to auto by default, it tends to spend most of its time at 60 Hz, but it can boost itself occasionally to 120 Hz when you’re messing around with supported content. And the general UI navigation seems pretty smooth. Helped along again by the fact that it is that stock Android finish. And if you decide to kick back with a bit of Disney Plus, Netflix, whatever else, and you go full screen, there’s only a tiny little selfie orifice house there. Up at the top end, it is centrally positioned rather than wedged away in a corner, but not too intrusive.

And the Motorola Moto G82 5G also bought a stereo speaker output, but is it actually up to snuff? Not bad output at all. Of course, as usual, that bottom speaker has got a bit more grunt compared with the top speaker but it’s not massively imbalanced.

And of course, the clarity isn’t fantastic once you do bump up the volume. But again, for smartphone speakers, not too shabby, then you do actually get a headphone jack down here on the bottom end of the Moto G82 5G, so you can get plugged in if you want. Otherwise, there’s a full Bluetooth 5.1 stream and support. And if we jump back into that Moto app, scroll all the way down to the bottom, you see you’ve got some Dolby Atmos tuning on here too.

This is set to the smart mode by default, but you can switch it to one of the individual presets. And you can also tweak those presets if you like. A bit of bass, a bit of trouble, you want to boost those vocals. The pretty nifty stuff is Moto G82 5G.

Performance And Gaming

Now for the performance side of things. Well, the Motorola Moto G82 5G is powered by Qualcomm’s snapdragon 695 chipsets. Slightly disappointing. It’s a 600 series of its 200-pound price point. We’ve got to say that performance has been absolutely fine for everyday shenanigans, so apps don’t take forever to load up. They do tend to close down fairly quickly in the background once you’ve got a few things on the go.

So multitasking certainly isn’t this phone’s strong suit, so it’s fairly confirmed by the benchmark and scores. Not the most competitive multicore score there compared with some rivals. And I have seen a little bit of stickiness here and there as well in my time with the Moto G82 5G, for instance. Video streaming can be quite a judgment at times. Usually when you first load up a shore, usually sorts itself out after just a few seconds or so.

But all the same, it is quite jarring and not what you’d expect from a near 300-pound smartphone. So overall, pretty good, but some room for improvement. Although gamers will be happy enough with the performance that you’ll get out of the Moto G82 5G, it’s no surprise that lighter fare like Call of Duty Mobile and PUBG play really nicely. Even when you bump up the detail settings. There’s a nice smooth frame reaction to go with those nice crisp graphics.

And of course, didn’t make me actually any good at these games. I still got my face perforated over and over and over again, but here and ever the optimist, I also thought I would try a bit of gentle impact action wasn’t expecting much out of it, but you know what? As long as you keep it on the lowest graphic settings, the performance is actually all right. When you see occasional jealousy, stumbles and just complete freezers, yes, you will, unfortunately.

But overall it does remain playable with a reasonably smooth frame rate throughout. And while the back end of the Moto G82 5G started to get a little bit warm after half an hour to 40 minutes of nonstop gaming, it wasn’t too bad at all. The 600 series chipsets are pretty energy efficient, so I wasn’t expecting any throttling here.

And at any point, while you are gaming, you can conjure up that game-time menu with a quick tap of this icon at the side here. And this has expanded quite a lot in recent times to offer quite a good selection of different gaming features. You can block calls, you can block notifications, so you are not distracted at all. It’s been a little bit shocky today saying that it’s already on, even though the icon isn’t actually illuminated.

That’s probably just an early prerelease Glitch. I’ve got it on the good old high-performance mode of course for Genshin Impact and you can record the screen, and do all kinds of stuff.

Connectivity And Battery

The Snapdragon 695 has built-in 5G modems. You got full 5G support here on the Moto G82 5G as well. Connectivity seems fine, the WiFi seems nice and nippy handy when downloading absolute almighty monsters like Gentian Impact and as I mentioned before, the 602 is quite an energy efficient, and that combined with the fact that Motorola has stuffed a 5000 mah capacity battery inside of the Moto G82 5G means good strong longevity.

You’ll be able to enjoy hours of screen on time from a single charge if you’re a bit more careful, a bit more restrained, you’ll be able to get a couple of days of life out of a single charge too. And you’ve got 30-watt wide charging support here on the Moto G82 5G, so not the nippiest around at this sort of price point by any means.

Like Xiaomi offer 50, 60, and 65-watt fast charging on some of its handsets at this price point, but still nippy enough when you need it. And naturally, no wireless charging support though, which is a very rare feature to find at this sort of price.

Cameras

So for the camera tech, Motorola has gone with a triple lens set up on the Gate Two, spearheaded as you can see there by a 50-megapixel primary sensor with optical image stabilization built-in.

You’ve got the usual feature-packed Motorola UI onboard here, including good old AI smarts which tell you when you need to change up that camera mode to get better results. So let’s switch to portrait, and get a nice shot of Veronica here, lots of different tools and features to play around with and it’s generally quite one-hand friendly. A 50 mega primary sensor does a pretty decent job of everyday photos without borking in the colors or tweaking things too much, fairly natural looking images and even in a quite strong contrast it generally holds up pretty well.

You get some little bits of saturation creeping in here and there, but nothing too dramatic. Of course in more ambient light and lower light conditions it does tend to struggle a little bit more, you get softer results, better noise, and grain creeping in, but the optical image stabilization helps to keep things as sharp as possible.

You’d also have an ultra-wide angle shooter that you can swap to at any point. It’s a basic 8-megapixel effort. And again, this is fine during the deer but struggles a little bit more in the evenings where you’ll get murkier results. And last up for that triple lens setup is a macro sensor. It’s a 2 meg effort, nice, and easy to swap to.

Just right there on the main screen is the Toggle and I still don’t really personally see the point in macro lenses, but some people do like them. So there you have it. You got a variety of other modes you can play around with inquiring of course the portrait mode.

If you swap to Pro mode, well, this gives you full manual controls over the white balance, the ISO level, shutter speed, everything. It even comes with the option of shooting in raw format if you want to do some editing on the fly, and plenty of other bits as well, including Motorola’s Spot color feature.

You’ve got a proper bit of night vision action, which does make a difference when the lighting conditions are low, and of course, a 50-megapixel ultra resolution mode as well if you want to pack as much detail in there as possible. And last up if you swap to the video mode. The disappointment here is that there’s no support for 4K ultra HD resolution footage. You’ve got full HD plus video by default and that can be shot at 30 or 60 frames per second. But that’s it.

And that’s up around the front and that little selfie orifice tucked way up at the top end of the screen there you’ve got a 16-megapixel selfie shooter this embarrassed for your everyday shareable instagramable shots, whatever, if that’s what you’re into, doesn’t capture a huge amount of detail unless the lighting conditions are perfect, which in my case is actually pretty good.

You can struggle a little bit in low light situations as well, but you do have a screen flash feature that is brighter than the sun, so that will help out when it’s my time and also give you a tan at the same time. And for shooting video with that selfie snapper, well, no surprise that it is again topped off at full HD resolution. There’s no option of 30 or 60 frames per second this time. The audio pickup seems absolutely fine, again, not great in the sort of low-light situations, but does the job.

And there you have it my pretty. That is the Motorola Moto G82 5G and a big old tasty nutshell. The camera tech, the game, and the battery life. All the shenanigans that you need to know. So what do you reckon?

Are you tempted by the Moto G82 5G suddenly? It’s got a lot of lovable bits in there, a few little rough edges as well to contend with.