Meet the Motorola One 5G Ace, which has apparently become available directly through the nation's leading "Un-carrier" with little to no fanfare late last week. Of course, this is not an entirely new phone, having seen daylight several months ago.
Prior to hitting Magenta's postpaid sales
channel, the 6.7-inch mid-ranger made its commercial debut at AT&T Prepaid
and Metro by T-Mobile for reasonable list prices of US$ 259.99 and US$ 279.99
respectively. While T-Mo is rarely capable of beating the affordability of its
prepaid daughter operator's devices, this bad boy is the exception to the rule,
fetching US$ 264 at the time of this writing for postpaid customers of the
second-largest wireless service provider stateside with no special discount
involved as far as we can tell.
Naturally, you're free to split that
already crazy low price into 24 monthly installments of 11 bucks a pop if you
so choose, and no, you don't have to trade anything in, port in an existing
number, or even open a new line of service if you don't want to do that.
Compared to the slightly costlier OnePlus
Nord N10 5G, the Motorola One 5G Ace is impressively larger, with a bigger
5,000mAh battery also on deck, not to mention a faster Snapdragon 750
processor. Obviously, this is not a perfect handset, not even by
budget-friendly standards, lacking the N10's 90Hz display refresh rate
capabilities and suffering a little in the camera versatility department with a
largely useless macro shooter joining a solid 48MP primary imaging sensor and
8MP ultra-wide-angle lens on the plastic back.
All in all, though, the aforementioned
specs and the always popular combination of 6 gigs of memory and 128 gigs of
internal storage space make this excellent Motorola phone an absolute must-buy
for 5G-loving bargain hunters on T-Mobile.
