Moto G Power 2021 - Gray - Made for US

We got three of these brand-new. The first 6 months using this phone were fine. After that, it's been a struggle: Security updates from Motorola would happen every month. We could count on our phones to do the update without knowing, then reboot. If we had an alarm, tough luck, it wasn't going to do anything until we logged in after the sneak update. The camera constantly crashes and even with no other apps open, you can't count on it launching and keeping anything you take a picture of. I got in the habit of launching the camera, force stopping it and launching it again. That seems to work consistently. If you have more than 2 apps open at a time, it's not going to work well and switching between them is nearly impossible. I'm relieved that I haven't had to experience an emergency with these phones. I can't depend on it if it's my life on the line. I'll ask a stranger to call emergency services before I try it on this phone. I've also resorted to doing a full factory wipe on the phone every month for the past year. That seems to help and at least for the first few weeks after, it's somewhat usable. Yes I've tried memory managers (paid and free) and it has minimal effect on the performance of the phone. Regular phone calls: the first call of the day is unanswerable. Always. You tap answer, slide up, press the answer button on anything paired to it, it will do one of 2 things: not respond to your tap or swipe, or it will answer, but the screen stops working for a full minute. A year and a half later the updates finally stopped but so did any support from Motorola. Due to being kind of stuck with the phones, we decided to tough it out. This is our 3rd and final year. Come tax time we're throwing these out the window and running back to Samsung. The more expensive Motorolas might work fine, but the experience with the "power" has caused me to never want to find out. The motion feature to turn on the flash light has been valuable, but doesn't make up for anything else. The Moto 'Power' line of phones is garbage and not worth the price. It was attractive because it was carrier unlocked, but that doesn't help the lack of basic functionality when I need it.