My wife's Moto G is getting a bit long in the tooth. It takes about 10x longer than my phone to do anything, and has been knocked around a bit by our toddler.

I was planning on getting my wife the Moto G5 (standard not plus) this weekend, but I just happened to come across info that the G6 might be announced in a few days. Seems they do tend to announce new models in Feb. G5 from Amazon.com is about US$180, a new phone might be US$250.

She uses it for basic stuff - email, txt / Whatsapp, and ad-hoc family photos. She has the original Moto G with a 4.5" screen or so and likes it, will go to 5.0" at most. Not really looking at other brands, but if there's anything awesome with a small screen it might be interesting. Main advantage I can see of waiting is it might be usable for a bit longer - probably has a slightly faster processor and slightly newer OS.

Any opinions on whether we should hold off the few weeks it might take for the G6 to be available? Not the plus model, standard.

NB: this is an old thread. I updated it just now to compliment Moto on releasing Android 8.1 for an 18 month old phone :)