Design
- Solid build quality
- Beautiful metal-and-glass design
- Very good, speedy fingerprint sensor
Display
- Beautiful, bright AMOLED display, with wide viewing angles and punchy colors
Software
- Mostly stock Android UI, which will appease the Android purists
Performance
- Good speed/performance in daily use
- Gaming performance is not the best in class
Camera
- Compatible with all existing Moto Mods (battery life extender, projector, camera mods etc)
- Good rear camera that captures detailed images, especially in good lighting conditions
- Good front-facing camera too - produces a pleasant level of sharpness to accompany its solid details capture
- Camera has longer exposure times when shooting photos under low light
Audio
- Good call quality
- Good audio quality
- Good speaker loudness
Battery
- Outstanding battery life - comfortably one of the best in the business
- Turbo charging support (full recharge time of about 110 minutes)
More
- Water-repellent nano-coating on the phone's surface
- Excellent implementation of the modular accessory system, just like its bigger brothers - the Moto Z and the Moto Z Force - which makes this phone truly versatile and offers an affordable entry point into the Moto Mods ecosystem
- When it comes to expanding the functionality beyond what a traditional smartphone is capable of doing, no other system or implementation does it better than Moto Mods!
- On the whole, even without any Mods, the Moto Z Play is a complete package and offers good value - the mods are the icing on the cake
- Slightly unwieldy