If a headphone jack is a must-have on your next phone, Motorola’s Moto G Stylus 5G 2025 strikes the best balance of performance, aesthetics, features, and price. Not only does it have the jack, but it also stores a stylus inside, putting to shame any other company that cited space-saving reasons to nix the port. The gorgeous blue vegan leather finish on the back truly makes this phone stand out, putting the Blue Man Group to shame. The performance, powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 6 Gen 3 chipset, is nice and smooth, and you get a 120-Hz 6.7-inch OLED screen to boot. It’s slim, despite the 5,000-mAh battery, which lasts a full day and then some with average use. And the 50-megapixel main camera is reliable day or night as long as you keep still when tapping the shutter button.
Motorola goes above and beyond, stuffing this phone with twice the amount of typical storage at 256 GB; there’s also a microSD card slot to expand space, wireless charging, and an IP68 rating, so it will survive an accidental drop in the pool. For the first time, Motorola’s also offering two years of Android OS upgrades on its Moto G phones, meaning you can hold onto it a little longer before it won’t get new features. (You’ll still get three years of security updates.) Just remember that Moto phones are heavily discounted during big sale events, so I recommend waiting for a sale.
