{"id":110,"date":"2025-02-23T11:09:35","date_gmt":"2025-02-23T11:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.sm1th.uk\/?p=110"},"modified":"2025-02-18T12:37:12","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T12:37:12","slug":"motorola-g8-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.sm1th.uk\/index.php\/2025\/02\/23\/motorola-g8-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorola G8 Power"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1012\" height=\"1011\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.sm1th.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/g8power.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-111\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.sm1th.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/g8power.jpg 1012w, https:\/\/blog.sm1th.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/g8power-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.sm1th.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/g8power-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blog.sm1th.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/g8power-768x767.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1012px) 100vw, 1012px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Image credits amazon.co.uk<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>For the first decade of my driving I was like a kid in a sweet shop, I wanted so many different cars but could only have one at a time. My average ownership was about 6 months before I&#8217;d swap it for something else. It took a good few years before I even had to experience the yearly MOT inspection because I never owned a car long enough. I would generally flip between polar opposites of cars. I&#8217;d get something huge with a big engine, and then get sick of struggling to find a parking space big enough or the excessive fuel consumption. I&#8217;d then get something absolutely tiny with a engine that would be better suited to a motorcycle to resolve the issue, only to hate the lack of power and space. What I&#8217;d not learnt yet was that sometimes a compromise in the middle is the best option.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This phone was a purchase similar to the manner of how I&#8217;d buy cars. I&#8217;d suffered with powerful phones with tiny batteries and gone completely the opposite way. A underpowered phone with a huge battery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This Motorola G8 was a decidedly basic phone with basic specifications apart from one thing, a 5000mAh battery. This was one of the biggest on the market at the time, with the average only being 3000mAh in 2020. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Being able to use the phone without having to worry about the battery percentage at all was refreshing and I didn&#8217;t want to go back. However everything else about it was lacking in comparison to the phones I was coming from with flagship level chipsets. At the time this was a big deal to me so I resold it after a fairly short time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I remember it having a strange stutter, which drove me mad. Scrolling would have micro stutters, even watching high resolution videos did it. Which is strange because I&#8217;ve used much lower powered devices since this one and never experienced this again. There&#8217;s not an awful lot else I remember about this phone, it was in those murky Covid times where we were all sat about extremely bored and days merged into years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first decade of my driving I was like a kid in a sweet shop, I wanted so many different cars but could only have one at a time. My average ownership was about 6 months before I&#8217;d swap it for something else. It took a good few years before I even had to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-myphonehistory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sm1th.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sm1th.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sm1th.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sm1th.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sm1th.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sm1th.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sm1th.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions\/114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sm1th.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sm1th.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sm1th.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}