Motorola launched another G Power series phone after the G37 Power, G57 Power, and G67 Power, and now we have the Moto G77 Power. By the way, there’s a specific kind of phone buyer Motorola has been chasing for years now for their Power series phone, and it isn’t the one reading spec sheets on paper. It’s the person who wants to stop thinking about a charger. The Moto G77 Power, priced at Rs 25,999, is Motorola’s latest device to their power hungry users, and this device is built around a 7,000mAh cell, a Sony primary camera, and three good-looking Pantone colour variants. I spent more than two weeks with the device and also spent some time with it at our Digit Test Labs to check its brightness, colour accuracy and full benchmarks to check whether the number on the spec sheet actually holds up in the real world. Here’s my full review of the Moto G77 Power.
The design of the Moto G77 Power looks exactly like other G Power series phones. You get a vegan-leather finish on the back of the Pantone Nautical Blue colour variant. The back has a soft, grippy texture instead of glass. I used it without a case for the full two weeks, and I didn’t face any issues using it.
But the first thing I noticed was the weight in my pocket. At around 210 grams and 8.6mm thick, I felt it sitting there on my commute in a way my old phone never did. I got used to it by day three, but the weight is justified because it comes with a 7,000mAh battery.
I also caught a bit of rain on my way home one evening and wiped it off without worrying, which is what the IP64 rating came in clutch for me. Plus, it also has MIL-STD-810H certification, meaning it’ll shrug off the kind of daily bumps.
The power button sits right where my thumb lands and also works as the fingerprint reader. I unlocked the phone one-handed on the metro every single day without missing once. The 3.5mm jack is still here, which mattered to me since I plug in wired earphones at my desk.
The Moto G77 Power is available in three colour variants: Pantone Fuchsia Red, Pantone Impenetrable, and Pantone Nautical Blue.
Moto G77 Power features a 6.72-inch FHD+ LCD display with a 120Hz refresh rate. I watched a few episodes of Heeramandi on this phone over two nights, mostly to see how the costumes and set colours held up. They read close to how I remember them on my iPhone, and that surprised me for an LCD panel. Our Calman test returned a Delta E of 1.54, and the Colour Gamut test measured 97.3% coverage. Both numbers back up what I saw while watching.
I also rewatched a couple of Delhi Crime episodes at night with the lights off, and this is where the LCD limit showed up. Dark rooms and shadows came out as a lifted grey rather than black, and I could see the backlight bleeding a bit at the edges during the darkest scenes. This is not something I noticed casually. I had to be watching in a dark room to catch it.
I used the phone to check maps while walking in the harsh sunlight of Delhi summer, and sometimes I had to struggle to read something on the display. Motorola claims 1,050 nits peak brightness. We measured 1,040 nits at Digit Test Labs, which is close enough that I would not call it a false claim.
Under the hood is the MediaTek Dimensity 6400, a 6nm chipset we’ve already seen in the Moto G37 Power earlier this year. Motorola pairs it with 8GB of LPDDR4X RAM plus a RAM Boost feature that borrows storage space to simulate extra memory, which helps keep background apps alive longer than the physical RAM alone would manage.
In daily use, it felt fine. WhatsApp, Instagram, Chrome, switching between them while replying to work messages- none of it made me wait. But when I left apps open in the background for hours and came back to find them, it reloaded the whole app.
I played BGMI for about an hour over two weekends, at Smooth plus Extreme settings since that is what the phone can play at 60fps. Gameplay ran without stopping, but I did notice frame drops during firefights with more than four players on screen.
To test more, I ran some benchmarks on this device. The phone scored 383 on 3DMark Wild Life Extreme, and 560,337 on AnTuTu. Geekbench 6 returned 816 single core and 1,262 multi core. By the way, none of these are gaming flagship numbers.
What I did not feel was the phone slowing down the longer I played. Our CPU Throttling Test showed the chip holding on to 87% of its starting performance after sustained load, and that tracked with my experience. The phone got warm in my hand after 40 minutes of gameplay in BGMI.
Right out of the box the Moto G77 Power comes with Hello UI based on Android 16 and here as well it looks close to stock Android, and I mean that as a compliment. Swiping through the home screen and opening the app drawer at 120Hz felt smooth the whole two weeks, no stutter, no frame skipping that I could notice. Opening and closing apps has a short, quick animation rather than the bounce or zoom effect some other brands add, and I preferred it that way.
But this time around, Motorola is giving some third-party apps on their device, like Newsroom and other apps, which can be uninstalled.
I used Moto Actions to chop for flashlight a few times when I was looking for my keys at night, and it worked on the first try each time.
‘Ready For’ feature came in handy once when I connected the phone to my TV to show photos to my parents, though I did not use it often enough to call it a daily feature for me. Attentive Display kept the screen on while I was reading long work emails, which saved me from tapping the screen every few seconds.
On the back, you get a 50MP Sony LYTIA 600 primary sensor with PDAF supported by an 8MP ultrawide sensor, while a 32MP sensor covers selfies up front.
The Sony sensor is clearly the star. Daylight shots are detailed, well-exposed, and colour-accurate, without the oversharpening, but sometimes it over-processed the images, which turns them into softer pictures with less detail. The PDAF keeps focus locked on quickly and reliably.
In portrait mode, the human subject looks good, without being too soft. The bokeh effect is very good but it sometimes struggles in edge detection.
The 8MP ultrawide is the more ordinary half of the pairing, fine for landscapes and group shots, but detail softens fast the moment you crop in, which is fairly standard at this price. Low light from the main sensor holds up reasonably well without excessive noise, and Night mode stretches that further, though anything genuinely dark still runs into the natural limits of a sensor without OIS.
The 32MP front camera deserves a specific callout, selfies are sharp and naturally lit in good conditions, comfortably ahead of the 16MP (or lower) selfie cameras many rivals still ship at this price. Both front and rear cameras record video up to 2K at 30fps, but the video quality if not on par.
This is the highlight of the Moto G77 Power because it comes with a massive 7,000mAh battery with 30W fast charging.
In terms of screen-on time, on a normal weekday, work calls, Instagram scrolling on my commute, an episode of something on Netflix at lunch, and messaging through the evening, I ended the day with 40 to 50 percent left on the battery. On a lighter day, I skipped charging entirely and still had over 30 percent by the next evening.
Charging is handled by 30W TurboPower, and to charge a 7,000mAh battery, this took too much time to fully charge. I charged this device from 0 to 100 per cent, and it took me 1 hour and 40 minutes.
The 6W reverse wired charging is a small but genuinely useful extra, letting you top up a pair of earbuds, or you could save your friend’s dying phone.
I went into this review expecting the battery to be the only thing worth talking about, and it is still the reason to buy this phone. But the display held its own on my benchmark tests and in day-to-day experience as well; the Sony camera handled daylight and low light better than I expected at this price, and I did not run into software stutter once in two weeks of daily use.
The trade-offs are real too. Gaming has a ceiling I felt directly during BGMI sessions, the LCD panel loses to AMOLED the moment you watch something dark, and the phone sits heavier in the pocket than most phones I have carried this year. If none of that bothers you, and battery anxiety is something you deal with often, the Moto G77 Power at Rs 25,999 is worth your money.