Motorola Moto G75 phone

November 21, 2024 — BarryK

Bought this today. Reason, want to make videos for YouTube, and my current phone (until today) can do 1080p at only 23.98 fps (frames per second) -- even though the documentation says it will do 30 fps. 1080p is OK, but want higher frame rate.

A couple of days ago, posted about first video upload to YouTube:

PupMTP file transfer, first video — November 17, 2024

I bought my Huawei Y9 in January 2020, so almost five years old. It is still working and the battery is still good, though it has been recharged daily for five years. Don't like to waste a good phone, but now it will be a backup. So the hunt was on for a new phone...

Want a phone that will do 1080p at 60 fps, and with image stabilization. OIS (Optical Image Stabilization) looks good. There are flagship phones that have lots of features but very expensive. But, I only want to spend just enough to get 1080p @ 60 fps and OIS; the cheapest that I could locate, that is sold locally, is the "Motorola Moto G55 5G"; however, it only has 4GB RAM.

My Huawei phone has 4GB RAM and I don't have any problem with that, but these days even fairly cheap phones have 8GB RAM. So ruled out the G55, though the AU$299 price is very attractive. Going up in price, narrowed it down to these two:

Nothing Phone 2a 5G
Motorola Moto G75 5G

The Nothing Phone looks good, a lot for the price; however, two things ruled it out. Price, yes, only AU$426 (128GB storage) or AU$496 (256GB). The two things that ruled it out for me:

A couple of users reported bubbles forming on the edges of the display. Maybe this was just an early production problem.
Dimmed screen uses PWM 2160 Hz.

Point-2 is very interesting. Many OLED and LCD screens use PWM (Pulse Width Modulation) to dim the screen. What this does is turn the pixels on and off very rapidly, such that the overall effect for your eyes is that the screen looks dimmer. What does this do to your eyes though, full brightness, then off, alternating rapidly? It leads to eye strain and headaches.

Apparently, some good quality phones use DC dimming. That is, the DC voltage fed to the pixels is reduced, hence the screen becomes dimmer.

The Nothing Phone 2a has an AMOLED screen. I did some online searching and found that the Nothing 2a phone uses DC dimming down to 50% brightness, and below that uses PWM at 2160Hz. See here, though, they describe above 50% as "DC-like" which I don't understand:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-A5h7UynfnQ

The Motorola G75 has an IPS LCD screen, and I discovered that it uses PWM for dimming, but at a very high frequency; 40,000Hz. See here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/PWM_Sensitive/comments/1gbunmt/moto_g75_opple_results/

The high frequency is apparently easier on the eyes, though personally I remain to be convinced. Anyway, bought the G75.

Very nice phone. Flat screen (I dislike screens with curved edges), 8GB RAM, 256GB storage, 50MP main camera with OIS, records up to 4K (UHD, 2160p) at 30 fps. etc. Specs here:

https://www.gsmarena.com/motorola_moto_g75-13372.php

Motorola's webpage:

https://www.motorola.com.au/smartphones-moto-g55-5g//smartphones-moto-g75-5g/p

Here is a YouTube video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdrnGTm7AKI

The G75 is very new, only got released in Australia this month. Cost was AU$497, including ear-buds and a soft plastic protection back. Some dramas transferring data from my old phone, as I don't use online sync'ing; was able to do it via a USB cable.

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