The New Moto G Stylus Might Be the Fastest Charging Phone Under $400

Motorola’s new $400 Moto G Stylus for 2025 is getting the big feature that I want to see in more expensive phones: superfast 68W wired charging.

Outside of this Motorola phone, it’s primarily OnePlus and gaming phones from Asus and RedMagic that hit these speeds, and it could make the Moto G Stylus a very convenient phone to use. To put this into perspective, I’m currently testing Motorola’s $300 Moto G Power that offers 30W charging and a 5,000mAh battery, the latter of which is also in the new Moto G Stylus. The Moto G Power recharged from empty to 61% in 30 minutes. If the Stylus holds to this pattern, we might be able to get a nearly full battery within that time.

At a time when budget phones are getting more features to compete with more expensive smartphones that cost twice or three times the price, Motorola is trying to make its new Moto G Stylus phone stand out with features like fast charging. The 68W wired charging is joined by 15W wireless charging, which Motorola notes will require the company’s own TurboPower wireless charger to reach.

The Moto G Stylus has a Sketch to Image feature, which sounds similar to the one we’ve seen powered by Samsung’s Galaxy AI in the Galaxy S24 and S25 lines. You can use the stylus to draw in the Moto Note app, and artificial intelligence will “bring consumers’ drawings to life” according to Motorola. The Chicago-based company also says the Stylus will also support AI photo enhancement features to improve images, regardless of the lighting conditions of the picture, and other Google AI features like Circle to Search.

The Moto G Stylus has a 6.7-inch 1,220p display that runs at a 120Hz refresh rate and a 3,000-nit max brightness level that is rather impressive since the phone costs $400. The Moto G Stylus comes in two colors with wild names: Pantone Gibraltar Sea and Pantone Surf the Web. Both appear to be different shades of blue with the former veering on navy while the seems looks closer to purple. The phone has IP68 water protection, which Motorola says will allow it to be submerged in 1.5 meters of water for up to 30 minutes.

The Stylus has a 50-megapixel main camera and a 13-megapixel ultrawide camera, the latter of which can also take close-up macro photos. There’s also a 32-megapixel front-facing camera for selfies and video calls. Inside the phone is Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 6 Gen 3 processor, which is also used in the $400 Samsung Galaxy A36. The Moto G Stylus has 256GB of storage alongside 8GB of onboard memory, with the option to virtually increase through a RAM Boost feature.

While we need to test it, on a specs level there’s a lot of value to appreciate with the Moto G Stylus, even compared with phones such as the $500 Google Pixel 9A. I do wonder about software and security support since it remains an area where the Stylus lags Samsung and Google. The Moto G series in 2025 gets two years of software updates and three years of security updates. For an extra $100 you can get a Pixel 9A with seven years of support, and Samsung provides six years to the similarly priced Galaxy A36.

But if fast charging speeds and a long battery life are your biggest priorities, the Stylus may indeed be worth the look, as long as you only want to use the phone for its three year security support period.