The Moto G62 runs Android 12, so it's not particularly up to date when it comes to the OS core. We did get a couple of small updates on our review unit over the past few weeks, so while Motorola may be a bit behind schedule with the OS releases, ongoing support isn't lacking. As is the norm with Motorola handsets, you'd be getting a largely stock UI, with minimal in-house tweaks, including some long-standing proprietary features.
The UI and overall appearance are close to stock Android. That includes the large pill-shaped quick toggles in the notification shade and it also means no auto brightness toggle - Google keeps that in the display settings and Motorola follows suit.
The recent apps menu that displays apps in a carousel formation and the app drawer are unchanged as well.
Lockscreen • Homescreen • Folder view • App drawer • Task switcher • Notifications • Quick toggles
As is usually the case, Motorola has added a handful of useful extras. They are all placed in a Moto settings app that lists them in categories.
The first one is Personalization which allows you to tinker with fonts, app icons layout, accent colors, icon shape and themes.
One thing that's hard to quantify is the Moto G72's scaling which by default is smaller than usual - in a good way, if that makes sense. You can of course change that to your liking in either direction, but the default strikes this particular reviewer as just right.
Moto app • Moto app • Moto app • Personalization
The more useful additions, however, involve gestures. The iconic ones - karate chop for turning on the flashlight or twisting your wrist to open up the camera app are here. There's also the Power touch (double tap on the power button) that brings out an additional app panel from the right edge of the display. It works exactly how the smart sidebar does in other Android skins.
The Attentive display keeps the screen on when the front camera detects a face looking at it so the display won't go dark when you are halfway through an article. Peek display lights up the lockscreen once the device senses you are close and you pick up the phone. It uses the proximity sensor and the accelerometer to detect motion. And in case there's a notification, you can just tap and hold on to the notification icon to see a quick preview of the text. The Peek display feature is almost as good as an Always-on functionality, but we would have preferred to have the ability to choose.
Moto gestures • Quick launch • Quick capture • Display features
A relatively new feature is the Overcharge protection toggle in the Battery menu. It will cut off charging once it detects that the phone hasn't been unplugged for three days straight and keep the battery charged at a much healthier 80%.
Predictably, the Moto G72 is missing the "Ready For" feature Motorola is offering on some of its Edge models.
The Moto G72 runs on the Helio G99 chipset, a no-frills Mediatek chipset with no 5G connectivity. Manufactured on a 6nm process, it's geared towards efficiency, though its octa-core CPU is still decently capable thanks to a couple of Cortex-A76 cores clocked at up to 2.2GHz (the other 6 Cortex-A55 cores max out at 2.0GHz). The GPU is a Mali-G57 MC2.
A single storage option appears to be in existence, the 128GB easily expandable via microSD (though you'd have to sacrifice the second SIM for that). RAM is either 6GB or 8GB (our review unit).
The Moto G72 is on par with the G62 (SD480) in single-core CPU performance, but a bit behind the G82 (SD695). Other SD695 handsets also have an advantage over the Moto, while the Exynos 1280 Galaxy A53 5G and A33 5G are even further ahead. The gaps are narrower in multi-core testing, though the G72 does maintain its spot in the lower half of the charts.
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The Moto G72 climbs higher in Antutu, actually, marginally beating the Galaxy A53 and ranking inbetween SD695 competition.
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GPU performance is once again in the 'satisfactory' category - you won't be getting any fps records out of the Moto G72, and competing offerings based on the Snapdragon 695 will deliver a better gaming experience.
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One of the benefits of lower-end chipsets is that they tend not to throttle - they may not be putting out huge numbers, but they can maintain them essentially indefinitely. That's what we observed on the Moto G72 in both the CPU Throttling test and the stress tests in 3DMark.
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