Motorola Moto G60s review: Solid with a capital S

The Motorola G60s does a lot of things right, and won’t leave you crying over your empty wallet. It’s one of the cheapest phones to feature a 120Hz refresh rate display, and even though it’s of the LCD variety, the screen is bright, crisp, and impressively color-accurate.

Yes, the phone has a plastic unibody but also sports a nice texture on the back that not only looks cool but keeps fingerprints at bay. The Moto G60s is relatively light for its size, and the battery life is amazing in day-to-day use. Plus you get a huge 50W fast charger in the retail box.

Of course, you won’t find a flagship chipset in a €249 phone, but despite the humble results in our synthetic benchmarks, the Moto G60s works smoothly and consistently. The glaring omission and the phone’s biggest drawback is the lack of 5G connectivity.

The camera system is a bit lackluster, and you won’t win any Pulitzer in photography using it, but that’s okay in this price range.

On the other hand, the overall package is pretty good and in the end - if you don’t mind big phones, don’t care for 5G, and want to save some money, the Moto G60s is amazing value, and simply an excellent device.

Design

The Moto family is an ever-growing operation. It's like there’s some kind of internal competition to launch the absolute highest number of phone models in a year. With so many models, it’s hard to be creative with the design.

I wouldn’t call the design bland or uninteresting, it’s just classic Motorola style. The Moto G60s sports a plastic unibody with a cool pattern on the back, and the back is slightly curved/chamfered toward the edges. Even though the phone is pretty big, it’s very comfortable to hold.

There’s a rectangular camera bump housing the three main cameras, the depth sensor, and the LED flash, and it’s almost flush with the body of the phone. An old-school capacitive fingerprint reader proudly bears the Moto logo next to the camera system in the upper center of the phone.

It’s the usual business around the sides - you’ll find a USB-C port on the bottom, next to a microphone and a mono loudspeaker. The hybrid SIM/SD tray is on the left, there’s a 3.5mm headphone jack on the top, and all your physical buttons are on the right side of the frame.

The power button has ridges so you can feel it easily without looking, there’s a volume rocker and a dedicated Google Assistant button as well. All the clickies are tight and easy to press, despite being a bit on the narrow side.

Display

The display of the Moto G60s is the real star of the show. Don’t forget, this is a €249 phone, so it’s not surprising that the panel is an LCD one. What’s surprising is that it’s a really good display.

Even though the pixel density (395 PPI) is on the lower side due to the sheer size of the thing (6.8 inches), it’s still pretty sharp and also quite bright. We measured 598 nits of peak brightness and it’s a case that shows how subjective these measurements can be.

The display is bright and readable under direct sunlight, unlike many other models that managed to score 800+ nits of peak brightness, and yet look dim in the sun. Go figure, it might have something to do with the active backlight or the reflectiveness of the panel.

Another impressive thing is the high refresh rate - this panel goes up to 120Hz. There are three settings in the menu - 60Hz, 120Hz, and Auto. Things look pretty smooth at 120Hz, even though the Helio chipset inside is far from flagship silicon.

Equally impressive is the color accuracy of the display - 1.73 average DeltaE, come on! This puts many flagships to shame. There are two settings regarding the color representation - Natural and Saturated. I advise using the former - the colors are warm and true to life.