Everything about it seems usable but only 32gb of storage is a total dealbreaker imo. Android itself will already take half that space and you will struggle not filling up the dozen gb with apps and downloads. Remember, not everything can be moved to an SD card.

It's about as good as you can get for a new phone at $100, but in this case I'd just recommend buying something second hand or spending more to get something good.

I've been a fan of the Moto G series for a while. I think they're solid phones but maybe a year or two behind in features compared to their peers. The biggest gripe of mine is that their midrange phones don't, or didn't used to, have NFC capabilities. I dearly miss the Moto Actions though. Chopping to turn on the flashlight is amazing!

Ehhh, they're okay.

They're prone to lag and janky transitions. The kind of phone you get when you can't get something better, then end up regretting not just using your old one and saving up another twenty or thirty bucks for something else

That being said, if you're locked into using a specific carrier, and that's the only real and affordable option, you could do worse. You should see the shit phones that are handed out for the subsidised phones by tracfone. Shitty nokias that are barely usable for calls and text. Good luck trying to fill out online forms on some of those; the g play is better than that. And better than most of the "burner" phones you can get cheap.

Supposedly, the 2022 version is a tad better than the 2023 version, though I can't tell much of a difference myself. I end up doing the whole debloat thing for friends and family members. Plenty of them are using budget options by default, so I've handled a dozen or so of them now.