Motorola is updating the Moto G Stylus to make it ...

Motorola is not radically reinventing the Moto G Stylus for 2025, however it’s bettering the midrange smartphone the place it issues. And when the opposite stylus-friendly smartphone is the $1,300 Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra, that is perhaps all it wants.

The Moto G Stylus has a 6.7-inch Tremendous HD pOLED show with an 120Hz refresh price and a max brightness of 3000 nits. Just like the earlier Moto G Stylus, this yr’s mannequin additionally has a 5,000mAh battery that Motorola says ought to provide 40 hours on a single cost. That is paired with a Snapdragon 6 Gen 3 chip, 8GB of RAM and both 128GB or 256GB of storage — an excellent step-up from the Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 within the final Moto G Stylus.

Aside from the up to date internals, the Moto G Stylus can be a lot safer round water and mud. The telephone has IP68 water safety and MIL-STD-810H certification, which implies its coated in relation to mud and rain, however can even survive falls from “practically 1.5 meters and whole submersion in practically 1.5 meters of water for as much as half-hour,” in accordance with Motorola.

Motorola’s predominant enchancment to the namesake of the Moto G Stylus is to make it extra responsive. The brand new stylus is “6.4x” extra responsive than the earlier era, and may also be used for brand spanking new Android options like Circle to Search and Motorola’s “Sketch to Picture,” which may flip scribbles into detailed photographs with AI.

Regardless of all of these adjustments, the Moto G Stylus would not look all that totally different the brand new Moto G and Moto G Energy Motorola announced in January, with a textured, faux-leather again in both a blue-green or a vivid blue, and a raised plateau for its digicam system. The selfie digicam on the entrance of the Moto G Stylus is 32MP, and the rear cameras embrace a 50MP large with optical picture stabilization, a 13MP ultrawide / macro and a “3-in-1 gentle sensor.”

The Moto G Stylus will launch on April 17, unlocked, for $399.99 at Amazon, Greatest Purchase and Motorola’s web site. The telephone may even be obtainable within the coming months by Metro by T-Cellular, Seen, Whole Wi-fi, Straight Discuss, AT&T, Cricket, Spectrum Cellular, Client Mobile, UScellular, Xfinity Cellular, Google Fiber Wi-fi, Optimum Cellular and Enhance Cellular.