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you just have to spend six hundred dollars to get a good even usable smartphone but that's far from true anymore now there are a ton of great phones below that price and you can even find some great phones bloke $300 I've been testing a bunch of them and one stands out clearly above the rest and it's only 250 bucks that's the Moto G 6 first thing the Moto G 6 does not look like a $200 phone and I actually find that strikes one of the best balances between shape and size out there the phone is a 5.7 inch full HD display with an 18 by 9 aspect ratio that nearly fills the front of the phone it's a really great size if you're like me and read a ton of articles on your phone an hour browsing Twitter and the web all the time on top of that is just a really good screen now it is an OLED so you don't have those perfect blacks that you'd get from a top-of-the-line phone and it's not always on but I really like the color tuning on this phone and I even like it better than my own pixel - which cost merely twice as much the colors look both richer and more accurate to my eyes the phone also has this nice curve on both back edges and it isn't too wide so even though you have this big screen it's actually really easy to hold and doesn't look or feel like a big phone model it doesn't change Android too much either and that's a good thing this is very close to stock and we're motorola it does make changes they're anywhere from inconsequential like a gesture to shrink the screen down for one-handed use to slightly helpful like an option to keep the screen on while you're looking at it and if you don't like those changes you can actually turn all of them off which is great software performance is about as good as you're gonna get in this price range in general I didn't run into any issues when using this phone day-to-day scrolling is smooth and apps and web pages loaded quickly I suspect that over time it probably won't stay as fast as a more expensive phone but right now it's smooth and snappy and that is not something every other sub $300 phone can say the one major downside of this phone is its cameras the rear camera is slow to fire so I sometimes miss shots and while you can get nice images out of it when you're in bright daylight darker settings deliver mushy or noisy photos the front-facing camera isn't much to get excited about now you can't really get a better camera than this without spending a lot more but it's still disappointing that you have to forego quality on what firm myself and a lot of other people is a key part of a phone there are a bunch of other little things that I love on this phone for one it has a headphone jack everybody loves that it also you charges over USB C which is easy to use the micro USB and a lot more modern pretty much every other phone at this price is still on micro USB the g6 also has a fingerprint sensor it's on the front instead of the back which is not my favorite position but I got used to it and you can even take advantage of the sensor by using it to control the entire phone with gestures that lets you remove androids on-screen buttons and free up screen space aside from a few flaws like the camera there's very little lacking on this phone that separates it from something twice its price which is pretty incredible like I said performance will probably be a longer-term issue but there are no problems as it stands today now if you're in China or India you do have a lot of other options at this price point from companies like Jami and Oppo but many of those phones aren't available in the US and the other budget phones that do make it to the US just don't hold up they're often missing key features like a fingerprint sensor or support for 5 gigahertz Wi-Fi both of which the g6 hats motorola also sells two other variants of the g6 the g6 play which cost fifty dollars less and the g6 plus which cost fifty dollars more the GCS plus is a slightly better camera and is a bit faster but it's a little bit bigger in a way that I don't like quite as much the $200 g6 play is a bit slower and thicker with the worst screen but I got its battery to last me through three days which is pretty amazing so if you're looking even cheaper that's worth considering but by far I think the best choice below $300 is the regular moto g6 it doesn't just check all the right boxes actually impresses on a lot of them and every time I pick up the g6 I'm surprised if just how good a budget phone can be hey thanks for watching if you liked this video you should check out our new channel verge science I really love the video they just put up about graphene you can check all their stuff out at youtube.com slash Virg science