{"id":311336,"date":"2025-12-12T04:03:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T04:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/311336\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T04:03:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T04:03:12","slug":"the-moto-g-2026-is-a-surprisingly-great-199-phone-and-its-now-available-with-some-crazy-colors-and-materials-in-tow-including-this-ludicrous-pink-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/311336\/","title":{"rendered":"The Moto G 2026 is a surprisingly great $199 phone, and it’s now available with some crazy colors and materials in tow (including this ludicrous pink color)"},"content":{"rendered":"

What you need to knowThe Moto G 2026 is now available at motorola.com for $199, with wider U.S. availability to follow on January 15, 2026.The phone packs a Dimensity 6300 processor, 4GB of RAM, a 120Hz LCD, 50MP main camera, 32MP selfie camera, and Android 16 preinstalled.The device ships in two Pantone-certified colors: Slipstream (grey) and Cattleya Orchid (pink), each with a vegan leather texture.<\/p>\n

Motorola is back with another budget winner in the Moto G 2026, which is now available in the U.S. on motorola.com<\/a> and in Canada at motorola.ca<\/a>, despite it not being calendar 2026 yet. U.S. customers can also find it at Verizon, Total Wireless, Straight Talk, Simple Mobile, Tracfone, Walmart<\/a> Family, and Visible starting December 11, 2025.<\/p>\n

Motorola is selling the phone for an impressively low $199, matching last year’s Moto G 2025<\/a> price while feeling snappier in the process. While it retains the same MediaTek Dimensity 6300 SoC and 4GB of RAM, the phone sings along with Motorola’s version of Android 16<\/a>, which is preinstalled when you power it on for the first time. Even though it’s a budget price, Motorola is still promising two OS upgrades and three years of bi-monthly security updates, so you can use it safely for years to come.<\/p>\n

While last year’s phone marked a huge improvement in the historically lackluster Moto G line, this year’s takes that up another notch with notably better everyday performance and a better camera experience. That 50MP rear camera loads quickly and takes surprisingly decent pictures. Plus, the new Pantone-certified vegan leather colors feature unique textures and colors, especially the Cattleya Orchid pink phone I have for review.<\/p>\n

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The 120Hz LCD screen features fairly average quality, but a nice 1000 nit brightness maximum when viewed outdoors. I’ve already put the display through my usual flicker testing and determined it to be flicker-free<\/a>, making it a solid choice for anyone sensitive to PWM dimming<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If you’re not interested in buying the phone direct from Motorola, it’ll be available at Best Buy<\/a> and on Amazon starting January 15. Every major carrier in the U.S. and Canada should also be carrying the phone by then, including T-Mobile, Metro by T-Mobile, Boost Mobile, Cricket Wireless, AT&T, Google Fi Wireless, Xfinity Mobile, Consumer Cellular, Optimum Mobile, and UScellular.<\/p>\n

Motorola’s budget-friendly phones have become increasingly more impressive over the years, and the Moto G 2026 is no exception. I’ve been enjoying using the phone recently, and that’s not something I normally find myself saying about a $200 phone.<\/p>\n

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Moto is back with another budget winner! This $199 phone packs in tons of value, shipping with Android 16, a 50MP camera, and sporting great Pantone-certified colors in vegan leather.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What you need to knowThe Moto G 2026 is now available at motorola.com for $199, with wider U.S.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311337,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[2306,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-311336","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-mobile","9":"tag-technology","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}