All these other models are part of Google’s Android One Program and are guaranteed to regularly get major Android OS updates and security updates. However, Motorola One Macro is not the Android One smartphone. In the budget of less than Rs 10,000, the important feature of this smartphone is the macro camera sensor in the handset. Is Motorola One Macro a good smartphone? To know this, we have tested it, let’s know …
Design of Motorola One Macro
The design of Motorola One Macro is similar to the recently launched Motorola One Vision and Motorola One Action. However, it does not come with a display with 21: 9 aspect ratio. Motorola One Macro has a 6.2 -inch HD+ (720×1520 pixels) display and 19: 9 aspect ratio.
Motorola forest macro has bezels around and borders will be available at the bottom. The phone comes with waterdrop notch and the selfie camera has found a place in the notch. So that the display can get more space, Motorola has placed the earpiece in the frame. Motorola has placed all the buttons to the right of the phone.
There is a slightly different finish on the power button, let us know that there is a hybrid dual-sim tray on the left side of the device. The upper part of the Motorola One Macro has a 3.5 mm headphone jack and secondary microphone and primary microphone, USB Type-C port and speaker at the bottom of the phone. Three rear cameras have been provided in the back of Motorola One Macro.
A sensor has been placed at the top, let us know that it is a macro sensor and this is the specialty of the phone. Other camera sensors are placed in the camera module below with laser autofocus emitter. Fingerprint sensor will also be found in the back of the phone, which has been placed correctly. The sensor has found a place in the iconic batting logo of Motorola on the back panel.
The back panel of this phone of the Motorola brand is made of glossy plastic, on which the fingers of the fingers are easily fallen on it. The company has also given a case to avoid this problem in the retail box. We found that Samsung Galaxy M30s ,Review) Motorola One Macro looked a bit weighty compared to. Motorola has given a 10 watt charger in the retail box.
Motorola One Macro Specifications and Software
Motorola has given HD+ display in One Macro but it is worth noting that most of the smartphones found around this price segment come with full-HD+ display. This panel offers 270 pixels per inch which is not Idol. In Motorola One Macro, the company has used the Octa-core MediaTek Helio P70 processor.
For graphics, it has a Mali-G72 GPU with a speed of 900mHz. Motorola One Macro has 4 GB RAM and 64 GB storage, it is possible to increase storage using hybrid SIM slots. Motorola One Macro has only one color variant, space blue. Talking about Motorola One Macro Price In India, its price has been fixed at Rs 9,999.
The smartphone has a 4,000 mAh battery to revive life. Motorola One Macro has been claimed to have a water reported design. It has received an IPX2 rating. The handset comes with dual 4G VoLTE, Bluetooth 4.2 and 6 navigation system support. Talking about software, the smartphone runs on the stock Android 9 Pie with a September security patch.
Surprisingly, Motorola One Macro is not part of Android One Program. Motorola has told Gadgets 360 that the device will get a major OS update, ie Android 10 and two years of security updates. Recall that Android One phone gets software updates for two years and security update for three years.
The UI is similar to the stock Android with a custom icon pack. You get an app drawer in the handset and swipe the Google Assistant when swipe from the home screen to the right. The device has only a few Google apps installed with the moto and device help app.
Motorola has also changed the gesture navigation and you will get Android 10 style navigation. We had no problem during navigating and multitasking in the device. The digital welling feature and parental control of Android Pie is also built-in.
Motorola One Macro’s performance and battery life
We first Realme 3 ,Review) During the testing of the MediaTek Helio P70 processor was done. This device has 4 GB of RAM, so we did not feel that the phone slowed down. The phone is easily managed during multitasking between multiple apps. The fingerprint sensor and face unlock feature rapidly unlocks the phone.
The viewing angle of Motorola One Macro is good. We saw PUBG Mobile in Motorola One Macro, the game was set on medium preset and graphics balanced and frame rate medium by default. We had no problem while gaming on these settings. After playing for 15 minutes, four percent of the battery was consumed and the phone was lightly heated.
Motorola One Macro is also capable of running the macro game at high frame rates, but by doing so, we found the phone a bit hot on the back panel. Motorola One Macro has a 4,000 mAh battery to revive life. In our HD video loop test, the smartphone supported 17 hours and 30 minutes.
The Whatsapp account was active during use, the use of Google Maps for navigation for more than an hour and played PUBG Mobile, after that the phone supported the whole day. The charger with the handset charges 28 percent in 30 minutes and 51 percent in one hour. The device takes more than two hours to fully charge.
Motorola One Macro Camera
There is a triple camera setup in the back of the Motorola One Macro. At the top is a 2 -megapixel macro sensor, which is the specialty of this phone, its aperture is F/2.2. The primary camera is 13 megapixels. Its aperture is F/ 2.0. It has a 2 megapixel depth sensor. It has a separate laser autofocus module to focus fast.
Motorola One Macro has an 8 megapixel front camera with F/ 2.2 aperture. The camera app is well prepared. All other shooting modes are detected when swipe to the right from the viewfinder. Apart from portrait, panorama, slow motion and timelps, there are cutouts, spot colors, cinemagraphs and macro modes. We found this mode very interesting.
Photos taken with Motorola One Macro came an average and a lack of details when zoom of the object located at the distance was lacking on the big screen. The phone focuses rapidly during the day and HDR became automatically enabled and it helped capture the bright scene properly. The camera UI suggests that if we are very close to a subject, we should switch on a macro camera.
The macro camera captures only 2 megapixel resolution shots. It is worth noting that more details were captured in macro shots than shots taken from primary camera sensor. Motorola One Macro gives the option to set the blur level before taking a shot in portrait mode. Details are acceptable for the price.
The low-light camera performance was less than average and the phone took a little longer to take every shot. Landscape shots also showed lack of sharpness and grains. The smartphone keeps the noys under control under most circumstances. The selfie drawn from the handset was good, a selfie in low-light had a average detail average.
Once again we found that the camera performance of this phone was a bit weak compared to other handsets coming in this price segment. Primary and selfie camera is capable of recording video at 1080 resolution. The smartphone can also record the video using a macro camera.
Our decision
Motorola has given this smartphone name One Macro so that if the Macro camera camera in the handset can be highlighted, let us first talk about it. Macro camera gives good close close-up shots. The smartphone comes with clean stock Android, powerful MediaTek Helio P70 processor, RAM and storage.
We want One Macro to be part of Google’s Android One Program to guarantee the handset to get better software and security updates. The phone’s camera performance in low-light requires some improvement. Apart from this, we do not have any complaint from the phone. The thing to note is that Realme 5 There is also a good option and this handset also comes with a macro lens and wide-angle camera sensor. Also Xiaomi Redmi Note 7S ,Review) There is also an option, let us know that this handset of Xiaomi comes with full-HD+ display.