Motorola Moto G53 5G (2022)

I bought this phone around 2023 after it had been out for a while. I upgraded from another Moto that met the end of its life. This phone has been great for a long time until a few weeks ago when it told me I am out of storage despite my installing a 256GB SD card. I dont take many photos but I do get sent them and on that day I had received… Read more

about 50 via whatsapp from a party we hosted. So it didnt surprise me to get the message. I moved all the photos across to the SD Card and that helped for 5 minutes. The messages continued. I had to pay for extra Google storage as that was also full and I moved all sorts of other files onto that and then to my pc. Now I have about 1GB only of photos on the phone. Still getting the error message and so my AI bot assisted me in finding other types of hidden files, I even cleared the cache on all apps. ok for a little while until I couldnt open Outlook. Now its a problem for me! I check my emails throughout the day and now couldnt. So I deleted the phone suggestion for unused apps. I went further and deleted more. Again it was ok for a day maybe and now neither my emails or messages will open. Even more of a problem. I deleted more apps, couldnt delete many of the bloatware apps that come with the phone though. This morning again its now not ok so I deleted 5 of the 6 little games that I sometimes play. This is now essentially just a phone. I deleted whatsapp last week altogether. After struggling through for a week like this I did some serious research and ordered an Oppo 12GB Ram 512MB drive which is coming today. It takes an SD card as well. Comparable to Pixel but much cheaper. I believe the update from a few weeks ago and another last week is what the problem is - additionally 128GB is simply now too small especially when the software updates take up more space. Sorry Moto you've lost me - I've been loyal for 3 phones but I cant buy your phones when they are all have low storage capacity and like I said I dont even have that much on my phone.

Started out well ended up a mess – I bought this phone from JB Hifi in Adelaide St Brisbane as a click and collect order online, back a few months ago in September. After unboxing the phone and initially thinking I had scored a winning bargain of a phone, I was quickly shaken out of the post buy euphoria. Unboxing it and setting it up went quite smoothly. It ran really fast and… Read more

was very responsive to my touch for the first day or two. In fact you could say it was nearly as good as a Samsung S23. However after that it started to become plagued with issues.

Now I know that it was only $329 but that sort of money 10 years ago could buy you a solid Samsung or Nokia Lumia that would run well for at least 6 months despite the lack of top of the line tech.

The issues I had with it included:

- Freezing; (often the screen would freeze for no reason, often pressing the back button would work until it eventually didn't)

- Closing apps on me and pages when I had them open. Opening others I didn't want. (possible software issue).

- Unable to adjust volume manually. Often the side screen widget would not appear and the volume buttons would not go up.

- Would often not charge or show responsiveness to USB C charging, but would often work with a restart.

Eventually the phone just froze in time whilst I was in Messenger and stayed that way for five minutes before going black forever. It is possible I got a dud. But other reviews elsewhere suggest Motorola cheap smartphones are plagued with issues and cheap builds. No NFC (no bluetooth) and often slow lag times and responsiveness.