Motorola just gave its stylus phone a promotion—and brought a tablet along for the ride. Meet the Moto G Stylus (2026) and moto pad (2026), a pair clearly designed to work together rather than live separate lives in your bag. The idea is simple: sketch on one screen, continue on another, and pretend you are far more organized than you actually are.
Moto G Stylus – 2026
The Moto G Stylus (2026) finally treats its pen like more than a checkbox feature. The upgraded stylus now supports pressure sensitivity and tilt detection, which means it behaves more like something artists might actually want to use instead of something you pull out once a month to sign PDFs. Motorola is also layering in AI-powered tricks like turning rough sketches into finished images and solving handwritten math, which sounds suspiciously like homework insurance disguised as productivity.
The device benefits from a 4 nm process Snapdragon 6 Gen 3 chip, and while it is a lower mid-range chip, it is equipped with snappy memories, namely LPDDR5X and UFS 3.1 storage. Like many modern Android devices, it also has RAM Boost, allowing up to 24 GB of total RAM when the situation calls for it. RAM Boost, btw, pairs 8 GB of physical RAM with up to 16 GB of virtual memory. Meanwhile, storage tops out at 256 GB, but you can find more space with a dedicated microSD card slot that supports up to 1 TB.
The phone itself gets a serious upgrade elsewhere, too. There’s a 120 Hz 6.7” Extreme AMOLED1.5K Super HD display that can blast brightness (5,000 nits) high enough to survive outdoor use without the usual squinting ritual, plus durability ratings (IP68 and IP69 protection, as well as meeting MIL-STD-810H standards) that suggest it won’t panic at dust, rain, or the occasional accidental sink encounter. Did I also mention that Water Touch automatically adjusts screen sensitivity, thus allowing you to stay in control in the rain?
Faster charging and wireless charging support round things out, quietly pushing this closer to midrange-plus territory than typical stylus phones usually dare. Speaking of charging, it has a massive 5,200 mAh battery that can potentially keep you going for up to 44 hours, and when it is time to top it up, the 68 W TurboPower charging will get it back up in minutes. There’s also 15 W wireless charging for folks who prefer to cut the cord.
Moto Pad – 2026
Then there’s the surprise guest: the Moto Pad (2026). Motorola hasn’t made much noise in tablets for a while—or since 2011 with the XOOM 2, to be precise—so its return here is clearly a planned surprise to get the industry buzzing.
The new slate comes with an 11-inch 2.5K display with a 90 Hz refresh rate, Dolby Atmos speakers (via quad speakers, if I may add), and accessories that turn it into a portable sketchbook, note station, or second screen companion for the stylus phone. It is designed to extend what the phone starts, not replace it.
Put the two together, and Motorola is pitching something different from the usual “here’s a phone, and also here’s a tablet.” This is closer to a lightweight creativity setup that travels with you. Not quite a full ecosystem takeover, but enough to make the stylus feel like it finally has somewhere to go after leaving its silo.
It runs on a MediaTek D6300 5G chip, and packs a huge 7,040 mAh battery for up to 12 hours of streaming in between charges, and tops up with 20 W charging.
Pricing and Availability
The new Moto Pad – 2026 will be available at T-Mobile and Metro by T-Mobile on April 30. T-Mobile customers can also buy the device from Motorola.com starting on said date for US$249.99. Meanwhile, you can learn more here.
As for the Moto G Stylus – 2026, it will be available universally unlocked at BestBuy.com, Amazon.com, and Motorola.com on April 16 for US$499.99. It will also be available at Google Fi Wireless on April 16, with subsequent availability at Spectrum Mobile, Cricket Wireless, AT&T, Xfinity Mobile, and Optimum Mobile. In the meantime, you can dig into more information here.
Images: Motorola.
