The Moto G47 Power Leaks With a 7,000mAh Battery. It Costs More Than Last Year’s Model and Has Half the Memory

The Moto G47 Power packs a 7,000mAh battery and 30W charging for about $302 (€270), with Czech stores expecting stock on October 23. You’ll see why it costs more than last year’s Moto G57 Power despite half the RAM and storage, and who should still buy it.

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The Moto G47 Power just leaked in full, and it’s already sitting in Czech online stores ahead of launch with a 7,000mAh battery and a price of about $302 (€270). Motorola’s “Power” phones are the ones people buy when they want a cheap phone that lasts two days, and this year’s model shows exactly how rising memory costs are reshaping budget phones in 2026. Here’s what the leak reveals, how it stacks up against the regular G47 and last year’s G57 Power, and who should actually buy one.

Official-looking renders and a spec sheet surfaced on X, following an earlier European energy-label listing that confirmed the battery size.

Czech retailers have since filled in most of the gaps.

Motorola hasn’t announced the phone yet. But when retailers list a price and an arrival date, a launch is usually days away, not weeks. One Czech store expects its first units on October 23.

Here’s where the G47 Power gets interesting, and not in a good way.

Against the regular Moto G47, the Power is a decent deal. You give up half the RAM, but you save about $55 and gain a much bigger battery and faster charging.

Against last year’s Moto G57 Power, though, it’s a step back. The G57 Power launched in Germany at €250 last November with the same 7,000mAh battery and 30W charging, plus twice the RAM, twice the storage and a sharper Full HD screen. The G47 Power costs about $22 (€20) more for less.

Motorola isn’t being greedy here, at least not entirely. Memory chips got much more expensive this year as factories shifted production toward AI data centers. RAM and storage are now among the costliest parts in a budget phone, so brands are cutting them to keep prices near their old levels. We’ve seen the same squeeze at Samsung, where the Galaxy A08 4G costs twice what the A07 did with the same chip and memory.

mAh (milliamp-hours) measures how much charge a battery holds. At 7,000mAh, the G47 Power’s battery is about 35% bigger than the regular G47’s 5,200mAh.

Motorola rates it for up to 78 hours of use, which works out to roughly three days. That’s a lab figure with light use, so expect less if you game, stream video, or use navigation a lot. Still, combine a big battery with an efficient 6nm chip and a lower-resolution screen, and this should comfortably be a two-day phone for most people.

Charging gets a bump too, from 20W to 30W. That won’t make it fast by 2026 standards, and you should expect well over an hour for a full charge, but it’s a meaningful gain for a battery this size. There’s no charger in the box, so budget extra if you don’t already own a 30W USB-C brick.

The phone can also push 6W out through its USB-C port, enough to top up earbuds or a smartwatch in a pinch.

RAM is a phone’s short-term memory. It decides how many apps can stay open in the background before the phone has to reload them. Android apps keep getting hungrier, and Google’s own AI features, like Gemini, need room to run. With 4GB, expect apps to reload more often when you switch between them, and expect the phone to feel slower in two or three years.

The screen is the other compromise. It’s a 6.67-inch LCD at HD+ resolution (1604 x 720), which works out to about 264 pixels per inch. Text looks fine at arm’s length, but it’s noticeably softer than a Full HD panel when you read small print. On the plus side, it refreshes at 120Hz, which keeps scrolling smooth, and it gets bright enough for outdoor use at up to 1,050 nits. Gorilla Glass 7i on top adds solid scratch resistance for the price.

Our take: the lower resolution actually helps the battery, since the chip has fewer pixels to push. It’s a trade that makes sense on a phone built for battery life. The 4GB of RAM is harder to defend.

The MediaTek Dimensity 6300 is a 6nm budget chip with two faster Cortex-A76 cores at up to 2.4GHz and six efficient Cortex-A55 cores. It’s been around since 2024 and shows up in many sub-$300 phones.

Last year’s G57 Power used Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 6s Gen 4, which has four faster Cortex-A78 cores. In everyday terms, that means the older phone opens apps and handles light games a bit more quickly.

For WhatsApp, YouTube, banking apps, maps, and casual games, the Dimensity 6300 is fine. For anything heavier, this isn’t the phone. You do get 5G, which some phones at this price still skip.

The 108MP main camera sounds like a flagship spec, but megapixels aren’t the whole story. The phone merges groups of nine pixels into one, a trick called pixel binning, to produce brighter 12MP photos. In good daylight, you’ll get sharp, detailed shots. In dim rooms, small budget sensors still struggle.

The “3x lossless zoom” is a crop from that big sensor, not a separate telephoto lens. It works in daylight and beats digital zoom on a 50MP camera, but it falls apart at night.

The 2MP macro camera is mostly there to fill the spec sheet. The 8MP selfie camera covers video calls. Based on the regular G47, which shares the same camera setup, video tops out at 1440p at 30fps, with no 4K option.

This is where Motorola’s budget phones keep beating rivals:

It ships with Android 16, plus Google’s Gemini assistant and Circle to Search. Motorola hasn’t said how many Android upgrades the G47 Power will get. Its G-series phones usually get far fewer than Samsung’s, so don’t buy it expecting six years of new features.

The regular G47 is sold in Europe, Asia, and other markets from April. Motorola has also been pushing its “Power” phones in India, where the line has been a steady hit with buyers who want long battery life above everything else. A filing on the UAE’s telecom certification site under model number XT2625-15 suggests the G47 Power will travel well beyond Europe.

The G47 Power is Motorola’s way to keep a big-battery phone under the €300 mark in a year when memory prices made that very hard. It kept the 7,000mAh battery and 30W charging, the two things Power buyers care about most, and cut where it thought you’d notice least.

Phones with 8,000mAh to 10,000mAh silicon-carbon batteries now lead, mostly from Chinese brands. Our best battery life phones list ranks the longest-lasting picks across budgets, including models that charge far faster than 30W.

Yes. Verizon now carries the Motorola Razr Fold, Motorola’s book-style foldable, though one special edition costs $100 more there than buying it unlocked. It’s a very different phone from the budget G-series, aimed at people who want a tablet-sized screen.

Good budget phones now offer 120Hz screens, 5G, and big batteries for under $300.

It works for basic use, but it’s tight. Google now steers 4GB phones toward Android Go, a lighter version of Android. That’s why the itel City 300 5G runs Android Go on 4GB instead of the full system.

They help, but they aren’t proof against every drop. IP ratings matter more if you work around water or dust. Phones like the Honor 600 Elite 5G, which survives 85°C water jets, carry tougher IP69 ratings than the G47 Power’s IP64.

Vincee Cole is a technology journalist with four years of experience covering the full spectrum of modern tech — from consumer devices, artificial intelligence, to quantum computing, blockchain, and digital assets. His reporting cuts through complexity to deliver stories that are sharp, grounded, and relevant to both general readers and industry insiders. Previously, he worked with fintech research teams across Southeast Asia, analysing how emerging technologies are reshaping financial systems at scale.