Motorola’s $300 Moto G Power for 2026 is now on sale, and it’s added several notable improvements the 2025 model lacked. But the company did so at the expense of one of the prior phone’s best features: wireless charging.
I’m bummed about this news. I liked the 2025 Moto G Power because I could recharge it with a cable or wirelessly and was delighted to find such flexibility on such an affordable phone. But perhaps one of the reasons Motorola removed the feature was because it upgraded the new Moto G Power’s battery to a 5,200-mAh capacity. That’s 200 mAh more than the 2025 Moto G Power. Maybe Motorola is thinking you won’t need to recharge the phone as frequently. The Moto G (2026) and Moto G Play (2026) also got larger batteries.
Despite lacking wireless charging, it supports a respectable 30-watt wired charging speed.
The Moto G Power for 2026 has a new selfie camera on the front.
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The new Moto G Power runs on the MediaTek Dimensity 6300 chip and 8GB of RAM, the same processor and memory of the 2025 edition. However, the 2026 Moto G Power has RAM Boost to help it run more apps and tasks. The processor in the Power is the same as its cheaper 2026 siblings, the Moto G Play and Moto G, but those phones only have 4GB of onboard RAM. The phone runs Android 16, and has Google’s Circle to Search along with the Gemini AI assistant.
Many of the 2026 Moto G Power’s other features were in the 2025 edition, which is largely a good thing. It has IP68 and IP69 ratings for use underwater, so it should handle having a drink spilled on it with no problem. It has a 6.8-inch 1,080-pixel resolution display and a pair of lenses on the back: a 50-megapixel wide-angle camera and an 8-megapixel ultrawide. The Moto G Power has a new 32-megapixel front-facing camera, which should improve photos and video calls from the 2025 Moto G Power’s 16-megapixel selfie camera.
The Moto G Power comes in white (Pantone pure cashmere) and dark blue (Pantone evening blue) with initial availability at Motorola’s website, Best Buy and Amazon. It will also be available at wireless carriers over the coming months.
