Motorola shovels the 2021 Moto G lineup onto the market

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  The Moto G Play (2021), for $170. There's a rear fingerprint reader, a top headphone jack, and a teardrop front camera mount. [credit: Motorola ]

Motorola has announced most of its 2021 lineup all at once, so we have a big pile of phones to sift through. Meet the Moto G Play (2021), Moto G Power (2021), Moto G Stylus (2021), and Motorola One 5G Ace. These names all really roll off the tongue.

There's no way we're making sense of this without a big table, so here we go:

	Moto G Play (2021)	Moto G Power (2021)	Moto G Stylus (2021)	Motorola One 5G Ace
STARTING PRICE	$169.99	$199.99 / $249.99	$299.99	$399.99
SCREEN	6.5-inch 1600×720p LCD	6.6-inch 1600×720p LCD	6.8-inch 2400×1080 LCD	6.7-inch 2400×1080 LCD
CPU	Snapdragon 460 (Four 1.8GHz Cortex A73 cores, four A53 cores, 11nm)	Snapdragon 662 (Four 2GHz, Cortex A73 cores, four A53 cores, 11nm)	Snapdragon 678 (two 2.2GHz Cortex A76 cores, six A53 cores, 11nm)	Snapdragon 750G 5G (two Cortex 2.2GHz A77 cores, six A55 cores, 8nm)
RAM	3GB	3GB or 4GB	4GB	6GB
STORAGE	32GB	32GB or 64GB	128GB	128GB
CAMERA	13MP Main 2MP Depth 5MP Front	48MP Main 2MP Depth 2MP Macro 8MP Front	48MP Main 8MP Wide Angle 2MP Macro2MP Depth 16MP Front	48MP Main 8MP Wide Angle 2MP Macro 16MP Front
PORTS	USB-C, headphone jack
BATTERY	5000mAh	5000mAh	4000mAh	4000mAh
NFC	No	No	No	Yes

If we compare this to last year's lineup that was announced around this time, the cheapest phone used to be the $150 Moto E (2020) and now it's the Moto G Play (2021) at $170.  That extra $20 includes a big battery upgrade from 3550mAh to 5000mAh, an extra GB of RAM, and an upgrade from Micro-USB to the modern world of USB-C. Everything has a big 5000mAh battery other than the Moto G Stylus, which has to carve out some space for storage of the eponymous stylus.

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