![]() The Moto Z2 Play is a pretty good phone, and the new home button and Android 7 are nice additions to what was already a slick design. The move to a smaller battery to accommodate the Z2 Play's thinner body is a bad trade-off in my book, because the best thing about the old Z Play was its longevity. The decrease in battery life is assuredly due to the Z2 Play's smaller 3,000 mAh battery, which is down from the 3,510 power pack in the original Z Play. That’s comparable to the smartphone average, but the G5 Plus lasted nearly 2 hours longer and the older Z Play more than 4 hours longer. This sleeker sequel lasted 9:34 on Verizon’s network. The Z2 will automatically detect which mod you have attached for certain special functions, you’ll be asked to download apps such as a dedicated app for the JBL Soundboost 2 speaker mod. Just grab one, slap it on the back of the phone using the Z2’s magnets to hold the add-on in place, and you'll be good to go. When I stepped outside to take a picture of some flowers, the Z2 Play's lack of focus and less saturated colors put it at a disadvantage against the OnePlus 5's much more vibrant photo.Įven when I tried to take a selfie, the OnePlus 5 edged out the Z2 Play, thanks to better sharpness and white balance, and a more well-exposed shot. ![]() I decided to make things a little more difficult for the Z2 Play by comparing its pictures to ones shot by the OnePlus 5 and that phone’s dual-rear cameras.Īt a bar, the Z2 Play's pic failed to match up against the OnePlus 5's shot, as it produced a less detailed image with weaker dynamic range from light to dark and softer focus on the brightly lit bottles. In fact, you might argue that the G5 Plus' picture is slightly better, because even though the G5 Plus shot looks a bit yellow again, it's slightly sharper and a tiny bit less grainy. Results were similar in low light when I tried to take a shot of the new Moto mods with both phones. There's a tiny difference in white balance, which gives the Z2 Play's photo a more neutral, less yellow hue, but it's extremely close. In a shot of some freshly baked bread, a picture from the Z2 Play looks almost exactly the same as one from the G5 Plus. The pictures you get from either phone look pretty similar, too. With a 5-megapixel camera in front and a 16-MP shooter in back, the Z2 Play has the same specs on paper as the G5 Plus. The OnePlus 5 performed almost three times better on that test, at 39,576. On 3DMark's Ice Storm Unlimited test, the Z2 Play scored 13,977, barely higher than the G5 Plus' 13,862 and a good deal lower than the smartphone average of 19,302. The Z2 Play's graphics performance isn't anything to write home about, either. To better put that in perspective, the Snapdragon 835-powered OnePlus 5, which costs $70 more than the Z2 Play, was more than twice as fast with a score of 70.19. On the Jetstream 1.1 JavaScript test, the Z2 Play scored 33.74 versus 30.5 for the G5 Plus. When checking out the Z2 Play's perfectly flat aluminum back and its giant rear camera module that juts out from the rest of the device, you get a design that seems to defy our current levels of tech. In fact, it's almost 20 percent thinner than last year's 6.08 x 3 x 0.28-inch Z Play, which definitely isn't what you'd call a big-boned device. Measuring just 0.23-inches thick, the Z2 Play is one of the thinnest phones we've ever reviewed. (Its predecessor, the Moto Z Play will get the update, too.) Motorola announced that it will bring the Android Oreo update to a slew of its phones this fall, including the Moto Z2 Play.Motorola Moto Z2 Play at Amazon for $74.However, the Z2 Play has lost the most important thing that set its predecessor apart from the pack: epic battery life. Priced at $408 on Verizon (or $499 unlocked when it goes on sale directly from Motorola later this summer), the Moro Z2 Play packs an even thinner body and a big, 5.5-inch AMOLED display while borrowing the nifty home button/fingerprint sensor with gesture controls from its budget sibling, the $229 Moto G5 Plus.
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