Moto G15 review: Clean Android and a charger in the box for under $150.
The no-gotchas cheap phone.
G15 wins by subtraction: no ads, no missing port, no HD+ compromise, no charger-sold-separately. Performance is the single sacrifice, and at $139 it's the right one.
01Display
58/10058/100 — right at the average for entry phones of 2025.
02Camera
54/100At 54/100 this is one of the strongest camera showings among entry phones of 2025 — 6 points above the cohort average.
03Performance
44/10044/100 — right at the average for entry phones of 2025.
04Battery
76/10076/100 trails the 78-point cohort average for entry phones of 2025.
05Build
60/10060/100 puts it above the 58-point average for entry phones of 2025.
06Value
70/10070/100 puts it above the 66-point average for entry phones of 2025.
- FHD+ at a price where rivals ship HD+.
- Near-stock Android with 4 years of patches.
- Stereo + jack + microSD + NFC — nothing deleted.
- Charger still in the box.
- 4G only.
- Helio G81 lags under multitasking.
- 8 MP selfie.
- 18 W charging.
How this review is built: every section score, spec row and comparison on this page comes from SpecEagle's tracked catalogue — scores weight measured specs against the 14-phone cohort of entry devices released around the same time. We don't publish invented lab anecdotes. Spot an error? .