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Early Verdict

The Moto E6 is a upkeep phone full of compromises. It's Motorola'southward affordable Android 9 Pie smartphone with a 5.5-inch screen and a removable battery – a real rarity these days. Just it lacks a fingerprint sensor, includes a microUSB port instead of USB-C, and keeps the resolution to only Hard disk+ or 720p. Overall, the Moto G7 Play is a better deal correct at present.

Pros

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Incredibly cheap
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Durable plastic back
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Removable battery

Cons

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Moto G7 Play exists
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microUSB port
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No fingerprint sensor

The new Moto E6 is the phone that Motorola wants you to see as the ideal cheap telephone alternative if you think the budget-focused Moto G7 costs likewise much, and the specs show it's just that.

It's a plastic Android Pie phone with solid construction and a v.v-inch HD+ display on the outside, and the bare minimum in specs that a phone needs to survive these days on the inside. It'south an upgrade over the v.7-inch Moto E5 – at least in some ways.

The Moto E6 has a Snapdragon 435 chipset to give it the smallest performance boost possible over the E5, and information technology's still limited to 16GB of internal storage and 2GB of RAM. The camera is the just thing that'south seen a decent upgrade, just you shouldn't look to accept prize-winning photos with the E6.

What'south virtually confusing is that it lacks a fingerprint sensor, something found on the Moto E5, and that Motorola has stuck with a microUSB port in 2019.

The E6 is at least consistent with its dated characteristics, offering a 3.5mm headphone jack and – shockingly – a removable battery, which some people will like. Really, though, the Moto G7 Play, at nearly the same price, remains the better buy.

Moto E6 cost and release date

The Moto E6 retails for $149.99 (nigh £120, AU$210) unlocked from US retailers including Amazon, All-time Purchase, B&H Photo and Walmart.

US carriers are supporting this phone, and that's started already with Verizon selling information technology on July 25. The intention was to sell it for $six.95 a month for a 24-month contract, but that'southward already been reduced to $0 a month. Other networks will include T-Mobile, Heave, US Cellular Consumer Cellular and Xfinity.

Design and display

Here'due south one thing the Moto E6 design has going for it: since it'southward made of plastic, y'all won't be able to shatter the back if you drop it like y'all would with a glass telephone. It comes in ii dark colors: Starry Blackness and Navy Blueish.

Everything near this phone'southward wait and experience is a reminder that this is a very basic handset offered gratuitous on contract. Information technology's rather small-scale and unrefined, though you may like that information technology'south compact plenty to easily fit into i hand, and the inexpensive plastic is fairly grippable.

The v.5-inch screen is Hd+, meaning it has a satisfactory resolution of 720p. All of this is okay for an ultra-affordable phone – but confusingly information technology backtracks in other areas: the lack of a fingerprint sensor (found in final year's model) means it relies on the less secure unlocking methods like Android Face Unlock.

Nosotros also have a existent trouble with the microUSB port on the bottom of the device. USB-C has become the popular standard for Android phones, and the Moto E series has however to take hold of onto that tendency in 2019.

The removable battery is going to be a highlight for some people, although ability banks accept become commonplace alternatives to carrying a second telephone bombardment around with you.

Specs, camera and missing features

The Moto E6 specs kickoff with the Snapdragon 435 chipset, which is an upgrade… only at the aforementioned time isn't – the E5 had a Snapdragon 425 scrap, while the E6 Plus was at 435 already. Its 2GB of RAM and 16GB of internal storage (expandable by upwards to 256GB via a microSD carte) are the same as in the concluding-generation phone.

The chief depict here is the camera upgrade, at least in theory. We need more time to really exam it outside, just nosotros weren't impressed with the Moto E5 camera, and so there'southward hope that the Moto E6 will improve things.

The E6 has a 13MP rear camera that pulls in more calorie-free thank you to the sensor'south larger 1.12μm pixels, with an f/two.0 aperture. Information technology comes with fun-to-toy-effectually-with features, like Motorola's color-isolating black-and-white photograph mode, Spot Color.

The front-facing camera remains 5MP, with the same 1.12μm pixels and an f/two.0 aperture. Y'all'll find a lot of the aforementioned software tricks on the front, with the addition of screen wink to light upward your selfies.

The Moto E6 promises all-day battery life, though its 3,000mAh battery is slimmed downward over the E5's 4,000mAh battery – again, a weird omission. Stay tuned for a full review in the coming weeks every bit we test the performance, camera, and battery life.

Early verdict

The Moto E6 is an ultra-inexpensive phone for a well-known make name, only it'due south full of compromises that should hateful most people volition adopt to spend slightly more on the superior Moto G7 or Moto G7 Play.

Yes, free-upfront phones are tempting, and and so is the idea of a durable plastic handset with a removable bombardment. All the same, the specs here offer the blank minimum, and there'southward no USB-C port or fingerprint sensor. Even at this early on phase of our testing, it'south difficult to recommend the Moto E6 when the older Moto E5 has some perks we liked more.

Matt Swider is Founder and Editor-in-Chief of The Shortcut.com. Formerly TechRadar'south U.s.a. Editor-in-Primary, he began his tech journalism career all the way back in 1999 at the age of 14. He's tested over 1,000 phones, tablets and wearables and commands a Twitter business relationship of 1m+ followers. Matt received his journalism degree from Penn State University.

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