Motorola Defy (2021)

Extremely resilient design ; Quite cheap for a rugged phone ; Clean Android with Moto additions

Slow performance ; Below-average 720p display ; Basic camera set-up

The Motorola Defy lives up to its classic branding with an extremely tough yet surprisingly easy to live with handset that doesn’t cost the earth, but with inevitable compromises.

Grade A battery life ; Durability and build quality ; Mostly smooth software experience ; Sufficiently powerful chipset

Unsatisfactory screen: poor color accuracy and maximum brightness ; Video and sound recording quality are very poor ; Bad haptics and sluggish typing experience ; Photos do the job, but are still below average

Good battery life ; Additional button for quick shortcuts ; Good grip ; No cover needed ; Gorilla Glass Victus screen

Impractical one-handed use ; Limited camera performance ; Large and heavy ; Thick bezels around the screen ; Android 10 (in September 2021!) and 2 years of security patches ; No removable battery

The Motorola Defy 2021 is a curious smartphone, which tries to ride on the nostalgia factor in a very small group of people, quite unlike the massive fanbase that the Razr or the retro Nokias had. To complicate matters further, it was launched in a...