Moto G57 Power Review: Same 7,000mAh, Rs. 7,000 More

A battery with a phone wrapped around it, priced like a phone with a battery.

There is a kind of Indian buyer this phone was made for, and everybody knows one. The parent who wants a phone that lasts from morning chai to the next morning's chai. The college student who lives on YouTube with the speakers up. The delivery rider who cannot stop to charge. For them, the G57 Power's sheet reads like a checklist: 7,000mAh, stereo speakers with Dolby Atmos, a headphone jack for the wired earphones that never need charging, and a MIL-STD-810H rating, which means the body has passed a set of drop, vibration and temperature tests.

At Rs. 14,999 that was a very easy recommendation. The question this review has to answer is whether it still is at Rs. 21,000 and up.

The things that do not wear out.

The battery. 7,000mAh in a phone 8.6mm thick and 210.6g. That is not a record any more, but it is still a big cell, and a 33W charger comes in the box, which at this price is no longer a given. The phone itself tops out at 30W, so expect a long top-up rather than a quick one.

The sound. Stereo speakers and a 3.5mm jack. Neither is glamorous. Both are things you notice every single day, and the jack is getting rarer every year.

The toughness. IP64 covers dust and splashes, not a swim. MIL-STD-810H and Gorilla Glass 7i are what you want for a phone that will be dropped off a bike seat at least once.

The main camera. A 50MP Sony LYTIA 600 sensor at f/1.8. On paper that is a sensible daylight camera; there is no optical stabilisation, so we would not expect much at night, and we have not shot with it.

Rs. 7,000 more, and nothing new to show for it.

The G57 Power launched at Rs. 14,999 for 8GB and 128GB, the only configuration sold here. Motorola raised that to Rs. 15,999 in April, and the list now reads Rs. 21,999. Live listings on 23 October ran from Rs. 21,000 to Rs. 23,000. Measured from the launch price, that is about 40% to 53% more for the same phone. Motorola cited rising component costs for the April increase. But a value phone's whole argument is its price, and this one's argument has lost about Rs. 7,000.

The rest of the compromises were there on day one and were easier to forgive at Rs. 15,000. The screen is LCD, not AMOLED, rated up to 1,050 nits in high-brightness mode. The selfie camera is 8MP. Storage stops at 128GB with no card slot. And the software promise is short: 1 Android upgrade, to Android 17, and 3 years of security patches. A phone bought this month at Rs. 21,000 will be out of security updates about 2 years from now.

The best argument against it is its own sibling.

The Moto G67 Power sat at about Rs. 25,000 on 23 October, a few thousand rupees above the G57 Power's band. For that it moves up to the Snapdragon 7s Gen 2, a 32MP selfie camera and 4K video, on the same 7,000mAh battery and the same 30W charging. At launch the 2 phones were Rs. 1,000 apart and the G57 Power was the smart pick. Now the gap buys a real step in chip and cameras, and the G67 is the Moto we would rather own.

If battery life is the brief and you have up to Rs. 30,000, our best battery life phones between Rs. 20,000 and Rs. 30,000 ranks the field on endurance. And if the original Rs. 15,000 budget is fixed, the G57 Power has simply left it; look at the phones still sold there rather than stretching for this one.

We have not used this phone. This review is based on Motorola India's published specifications, India launch coverage and live retail listings checked on 23 October 2026.