When it comes to software program help basically and main Android updates specifically, we have come to count on little or no from Motorola in recent times. The Lenovo-owned model could have become profitable of late thanks to an intensive portfolio of reasonably priced cellular units with wonderful specs, a lot of which simply so occur to help the most recent normal in mobile connectivity, however this newfound success hasn’t modified a lot on the OS promotion entrance… but.
Mockingly, whereas Android 11 hasn’t begun to roll out to a single 5G-enabled Moto handset world wide, there are a minimum of three completely different 4G LTE-only fashions already able to leaving OS model 10 behind in choose international markets.
Whereas the three telephones share the identical mid-end Snapdragon 665 processor, 6.4-inch display screen actual property, and some different key specs and options, we should confess we’re fairly shocked to see a modest product just like the “common” G8 (with its 1560 x 720 show decision and 16 + 8 + 2MP triple rear-facing digital camera system) beat the high-end Motorola Edge+ and higher mid-range Motorola One 5G to the Android 11 punch.
These are simply two of the many devices confirmed back in December 2020 for an enormous improve “within the coming months” that is not taking off on a really extensive scale for some cause. That being mentioned, it is genuinely spectacular to see the low-cost Moto G8 and G8 Power bumped as much as the most recent secure Android construct with (comparatively) new February 2021 safety patches sprinkled on high already.
There aren’t a variety of comparable Android 11-powered telephones we are able to consider proper now, and though the over-the-air supply does not seem to have expanded to the US by the point of this writing, we absolutely count on that to occur within the very close to future so far as the Moto G Power (aka G8 Energy) is anxious. Sadly, the Moto G8 just isn’t a US factor, and worst of all, the new new Moto G Power (2021) and G Stylus (2021) are nonetheless working Android 10.