Motorola’s $300 Moto G Power can handle the hot tub and keep the headphone jack

Sometimes you don’t want the phone because of the frills. You want to dial in and carry on through an exhausting day. Enter Motorola’s Moto G line of budget devices, one of the main contributors to the company’s financial gains. High quality cheap phones are all everyone ever wanted. The Moto G and Moto G Power have been updated with new processors and bright colors, and the Moto G Power also touts exceptional water resistance, starting at $300.

The Moto G Power is the more enticing of the two budget phones, so we’ll start there. The Moto G Power is IP69 rated – the same as the recently launched flagship phone, the OnePlus 13which did a great job of being able to withstand a bath in the dishwasher. Like OnePlus’ $900 phone, the Moto G Power can handle deep submersion, high-pressure water jets, and higher water temperatures than most IP68-rated phones. It’s also completely dustproof at the edges, which is nice considering Motorola kept the headphone jack on it.

This makes the Moto G Power one of the most rugged smartphones you can get at this price. It’s not that thick, although you do have to contend with a large 6.8-inch LCD, which might make the device a little bulky for most users. At least the size means there’s plenty of battery inside. The 5,000mAh battery should last the Moto G Power quite a while since it’s also non-powered. When the phone is ready to be recharged, you can do so with a 30w power brick or a 15w wireless charger.

The specs for the Moto G Power won’t top the latest Pixel A-series, but that’s how you’re going to get massive battery life out of this thing. There’s a MediaTek Dimensity 6300 processor in there, which is clocked slightly higher than last season’s Moto G Power, paired with 8GB of RAM. The phone has up to 128GB of storage and is accompanied by a microSD slot for expansion – another rare feature available in Android land.

For smaller folks – though not by much – the Moto G is a 6.7-inch device with the same chipset but a paltry 4GB of RAM. This is one of the cheapest Motorola phones you can buy that has all the essentials. The upside is that it packs the same 5,000mAh battery, making it a long-lasting phone for $200. But don’t drop it in the water; The Moto G only has a “water-resistant” design with an IP52 rating.

Both phones will be available for purchase at the end of the month.