Moto G5 Plus launch in India today: Watch live stream from 12 PM

Lenovo owned Motorola Mobility is all set to launch its latest smartphone Moto G5 Plus in India today. Moto G5 Plus is also expected to go on sale from today, via the official e-commerce partner Flipkart.

Published: March 15, 2017 9:55 AM IST

By Deepak Gupta

Moto G5 Plus launch in India today: Watch live stream from 12 PM

Lenovo owned Motorola Mobility is all set to launch its latest smartphone Moto G5 Plus in India today. Moto G5 Plus is also expected to go on sale from today, via the official e-commerce partner Flipkart. Moto India and Flipkart has been teasing the phone launch for  last few days. Although, the company has revealed the specifications, it didn’t give much details related to pricing. The Moto G5 Plus India Launch would start at 12 PM and the live stream can be watched below.

Moto G5 Plus was launched alongside its cousin Moto G5 at the Mobile World Congress 2017, Barcelona. Among many other features, Moto G5 Plus highlights and all-metal unibody design and fingerprint sensor integrated into the home button on front panel. The fingerprint sensor, complement by Moto Action feature enables swipe gesture navigation, also touted as One Button Nav. Notably, Lenovo claims the rear camera on Moto G5 Plus is ‘the most advanced’ camera setup in this segment. The device runs on Android Nougat 7.0 out-of-the-box and offers near stock Android experience.

To recall, Moto G5 Plus sports a 5.2 inch FullHD AMOLED display with Corning Gorilla Glass 3 and is dual-SIM enabled. It is powered by an octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 SoC clocked at 2.0 Ghz, coupled with Adreno 506 GPU. Moto G5 Plus sports a f/1.7 aperture 12 megapixel rear camera with dual-autofocus and dual LED flash. Also, the camera on Moto G5 Plus support 4K video recording and playback. It has a f/2.2 aperture 5 megapixel front camera for selfies and video calling.

The handset packs with 3000mAh battery with TurboPower charging support. The company claims that in just 15 minutes of charging, battery life can boost upto 6 hours.  Moto G5 Plus comes in three variant – 2GB RAM/32 GB storage, 3GB RAM/32 GB storage and 4GB RAM/64 GB storage. Well, it is not clear yet, which variants would be launched in the country and so we look forward to an official word on it at today’s launch event. Also, corresponding to its UK and European prices, the Moto G5 Plus can start from Rs 15,000 and price for the top variant might go up to Rs 19,000.

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In terms of connectivity, Moto G5 Plus offers 4G LTE, Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, GPS/ A-GPS, NFC, Bluetooth v4.2, 3.5mm audio jack, and Micro-USB along with accelerometer, ambient light sensor, gyroscope sensors on board as well.

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