Moto G5S and G5S Plus Release Date, News and Rumors

Update: The Moto G5S and Moto G5S Plus were no-shows at Motorola's recent event, leaving it unclear when they will arrive..



There’s going to be no shortage of motorola telephones to choose from this year, as following the launch of the dazzling moto g5 and moto g5 plus earlier in 2017 the corporation now appears to be coming back with stepped forward versions, referred to as the moto g5s and moto g5s plus.

Those new telephones are set to provide more than only a mild specifications bump, with greater high-quit designs and within the case of the g5s plus even a dual-lens camera possibly to be protected.


We’ve amassed the whole lot there may be to understand about the 2 telephones thus far, so study on beneath for all the details on the specifications, functions and likely fee and release date.

Cut to the chase

• What is it? The next budget phones from Motorola
• When is it out? Sometime this year
• What will it cost? Probably over £170 (around $210/AU$275)

Moto G5S and Moto G5S Plus release date and price

We don't yet realize while the moto g5s and moto g5s plus will land. we thought they is probably announced at an event on july 25, but alternatively we were given the moto z2 pressure.

On every occasion the two phones release it’s in all likelihood that they may price slightly more than the £one hundred seventy (round $210/au$275) moto g5 and £249/$229 (round au$290) moto g5 plus, but probably not too much greater, as motorola is positive to want to hold them a ways greater less expensive than the approaching moto x4 and moto z2.

Moto G5S and Moto G5S Plus screen

Hottest leaks:

• A 5.2-inch Moto G5S
• A 5.5-inch Moto G5S Plus
• 1080 x 1920 resolutions

It seems very possibly that the moto g5s can have a 5.2-inch 1080p screen, whilst the moto g5s plus may have a five.five-inch 1080p show.

That become all be confirmed by a leaked presentation slide that seemed very convincing, and has in view that been echoed by means of dependable tipster evan blass.

It’s not the most interesting element of these two phones because the moto g5 and moto g5 plus each have already got 1080p displays, but the new phones have each seemingly had a length improve, as their predecessors are five.zero and 5.2 inches respectively.

Moto G5S and Moto G5S Plus design

Hottest leaks:

• Full metal body
• Tiny antenna bands
• A similar overall look to the G5

A leaked presentation slide told us that the moto g5s would have a full metal body, and next leaks have subsidized that up.

You could see within the gallery of leaked snap shots below that it does indeed look all-metal (as does the moto g5s plus, that's the telephone pictured with a twin-lens digicam).

That’s a exchange from the moto g5 range, as while they have got metallic backs their aspects are plastic. the g5s and g5s plus also look to have a whole lot smaller antenna bands than their predecessors, making for a much greater polished, high-priced-searching layout standard.

Some place else, they appearance comparable primarily based on those snap shots, with a round digital camera lens at the back, a motorola dimple below it and a home button (in all likelihood housing a fingerprint scanner) under the display screen.

You could also make out what seems to be a 3.5mm headphone port, and on one aspect there are power and extent buttons, while the other aspect is button-free. a greater current image (beneath) leaked via @heyandri suits up with these, showing the same design and details.

We’ve also heard that the Moto G5S will come in grey, gold and blue, while the Moto G5S Plus will apparently be available in gold, grey, silver (with white front) and gold (with white front).

Moto G5S and Moto G5S Plus camera and battery

Hottest leaks:

• Dual-lens 13MP cameras on the Moto G5S Plus
• A single-lens camera for the Moto G5S
• A 3,072mAh battery for the G5S Plus

While the standard Moto G5S is expected to have just a single-lens camera, the Moto G5S Plus looks to have a dual-lens one.

There’s plenty of evidence for that, from the leaked images above, to the mention of one in a leaked presentation slide, and a couple of other leaks which go into more detail, claiming it will have two 12.9MP or 13MP snappers.

One is said to be a color lens with an f/1.7 aperture, while the other is apparently monochrome and has a smaller f/2.0 lens opening.

That black and white and color combination gives it a similar setup to the Huawei P10, and will likely allow it to use both sensors at once, combining the resulting images for increased detail and contrast.

Images also suggest that the G5S Plus will have a dual-LED flash on the back, along with a single-LED flash on the front (to help out a selfie camera that’s rumored to be 8MP).

We know far less about the cameras on the standard Moto G5S, but it’s likely that it too will have an 8MP front-facing camera, along possibly with the same color lens as the G5S Plus has, just without the monochrome one.

As for the battery, it’s rumored that the Moto G5S Plus will have a 3,072mAh one (up slightly from the 3,000mAh unit in the G5 Plus). However, there’s no news on the size of the battery in the standard Moto G5S.

Moto G5S and Moto G5S Plus internal specs and OS

Hottest leaks:

• A Snapdragon 626 chipset
• 4GB of RAM
• 64GB of storage

The latest leak suggests the Moto G5S Plus has a mid-range Snapdragon 626 chipset, 4GB of RAM and 64GB of storage, and that it will run Android 7.1.1.

That’s ever so slightly different to a previous rumor which pointed to a 2.0GHz octa-core Snapdragon 625 chipset (the same as the Moto G5 Plus has), along with 4GB of RAM and 64GB of storage.

An even earlier source also claimed it would have an octa-core chipset, but didn’t name which, and that it would run Android Nougat.

There’s no word on the internal specs of the standard Moto G5S, but they’re likely to be slightly lower, though it’s sure to run the same version of Android.

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