Crazy Consumer Electronics World: IFA 2014: Motorola unleashes Moto G sequel: the Moto G

The new Moto G is here, and while it's confusingly called the Moto G again, the new version of the phone is packing some serious specs while maintaining a budget price point.

Last year's model was a roaring success thanks to a decent spec list at a low, low price. While the new model is around 15% more expensive, the new elements on offer do go some way to making up for that.

We're talking a 5-inch 720p screen, dual front-facing speakers and a microSD slot as standard this year, along with dual SIM support in some countries.

It comes with 8GB internal storage space too, which is a little low for the amount of apps you might want to download, but at least that's mitigated by the expansion slot.

Same but better

The design language from last year has been kept, with the swooping lines on the back giving it a good feel in the hand, and the coloured back options are once again out in force.

The internals are decent enough too: a Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 quad-core chipset clocked at 1.2GHz might not sound like much, and probably won't be able to give blazing speeds all the time, but for the price will likely be more than good enough.

Motorola also reckons you'll easily get a day out of the battery, which comes in a shade over 2000mAh, and with the lower-power processor and lower-res display, that sounds pretty possible.

The Moto G is out now, and will start at £145 in the UK, $269 in Australia and $179 off contract in the US. Stateside dwellers can grab the new Moto G from the Motorola online store starting September 5.