The look is otherwise minimal, with few manufacturer logos, and little to distract from the phone’s style. Thankfully, there’s a pretty good 5.2-inch LCD display that we enjoyed using. It’s very similar to the previous generation, the Moto G4 Plus, and while it’s not the ugliest phone around, the chunky feel and large bezels really detract from an otherwise good phone. If that’s not enough, you can expand either of these handsets by up to 256GB with a MicroSD card.Īs much as we hate to admit it, the Moto G5 Plus looks dated, and more than a little bland. It’s all square in the storage stakes as well, with both phones offering models with 32GB and 64GB (on the international Honor 7X) of internal storage. The Honor 7X does have a slight edge here, offering a 3GB model as the baseline, rather than the 2GB on the Moto G5 Plus, but since the impact RAM has on performance is debatable, we’d prefer not to let this dictate too much of the final score. Both handsets have options for the amount of RAM, and both top out at 4GB for the top model (though it’s the international model of the Honor 7X offering 4GB). Moving on to memory, and we see some more close calls.

The tests in our Honor 7X review revealed that the Honor phone is the slightly stronger performer. When we tested the 7X’s predecessor, the Honor 6X, back in March 2017, we noted that the Kirin 655 in that phone was roughly equivalent to the Snapdragon 650. But it’s going to be hard for the aging Snapdragon 625 in the G5 Plus to compete against the Kirin 659 in the Honor 7X. The Moto G5 Plus is equipped with a Snapdragon 625 processor that makes day-to-day performance smooth and silky, one of the key reasons we recommended the phone in our Moto G5 Plus review. GSM / CDMA / HSPA / EVDO / LTE, Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n

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