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I’m Happy the 2026 Moto G Power Is $300 but Bummed It Lacks Wireless Charging

Motorola switches up some of the features on its lower-cost phone while adding an improved selfie camera and a larger battery.

Motorola added several notable improvements to the $300 Moto G Power that the 2025 model lacked. But the company did so at the expense of one of the prior phone’s best features: wireless charging.

I’m bummed about this news. I liked the 2025 Moto G Power because I could recharge it with a cable or wirelessly and was delighted to find such flexibility on such an affordable phone. But perhaps one of the reasons Motorola removed the feature was because it upgraded the new Moto G Power’s battery to a 5,200-mAh capacity. That’s 200 mAh more than the 2025 Moto G Power. Maybe Motorola is thinking you won’t need to recharge the phone as frequently. The Moto G (2026) and Moto G Play (2026) also got larger batteries.

Despite lacking wireless charging, it supports a respectable 30W wired charging speed.

The new Moto G Power runs on the MediaTek Dimensity 6300 chip and 8GB of RAM, the same processor and memory that the 2025 edition had. The 2026 Moto G Power has RAM Boost to help it run more apps and tasks. We’ll have to test it to see if there’s a noticeable difference between the new Moto G Power’s performance and its cheaper 2026 siblings, the Moto G Play and Moto G. The phone runs Android 16, and has Google’s Circle to Search along with the Gemini AI assistant.

Many of the 2026 Moto G Power’s other features were in the 2025 edition, which is largely a good thing. It has IP68 and IP69 ratings for using underwater, so it should handle having a drink spilled on it with no problem. It has a 6.8-inch 1,080-pixel resolution display and a pair of lenses on the back: a 50-megapixel wide-angle camera and an 8-megapixel ultrawide. The Moto G Power has a new 32-megapixel front-facing camera, which should improve photos and video calls from the 2025 Moto G Power’s 16-megapixel selfie camera.

The Moto G Power comes in white (Pantone pure cashmere) and dark blue (Pantone evening blue) and will go on sale Jan. 8 in the US, with initial availability at Motorola’s website, Best Buy and Amazon. It will also be available at wireless carriers over the coming months.

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Today’s NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for March 18, #1011

Here are some hints and the answers for the NYT Connections puzzle for March 18 #1011.

Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today’s Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles.

Today’s NYT Connections puzzle is pretty tricky, but musicians might find the blue group easy. Read on for clues and today’s Connections answers.

The Times has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle. Go there after you play to receive a numeric score and to have the program analyze your answers. Players who are registered with the Times Games section can now nerd out by following their progress, including the number of puzzles completed, win rate, number of times they nabbed a perfect score and their win streak.

Read more: Hints, Tips and Strategies to Help You Win at NYT Connections Every Time

Hints for today’s Connections groups

Here are four hints for the groupings in today’s Connections puzzle, ranked from the easiest yellow group to the tough (and sometimes bizarre) purple group.

Yellow group hint: Time between two things, maybe.

Green group hint: That smarts!

Blue group hint: Rockers know these well.

Purple group hint: You might write one out to pay a bill.