If your next phone must have a headphone jack, Motorola’s Moto G Stylus 5G 2025 strikes the best balance of performance, aesthetics, features, and price. Not only does it have a jack, but it also stores a stylus inside, which puts to shame any other company that has cited space-saving reasons for closing the port. The beautiful blue vegan leather finish on the back really makes this phone stand out, putting the Blue Man group to shame. Powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 6 Gen 3 chipset, performance is nice and smooth, and you get a 120-Hz 6.7-inch OLED screen to boot. It’s thin, despite the 5,000-mAh battery, which lasts a whole day and then a few days with average usage. And the 50-megapixel main camera is reliable day or night as long as you hold steady when you tap the shutter button.
Motorola packs this phone with 256GB of storage, double the usual amount; There’s also a microSD card slot to expand space, wireless charging, and an IP68 rating, so it will survive accidental drops in the pool. Motorola also offered for the first time Two Its Moto G phones have been getting Android OS upgrades for years, which means you could hold off on it for a while before it gets new features. (You’ll still get three years of security updates.) Just remember that Moto phones are heavily discounted during big sale events, so I recommend waiting for the sales.