New rumors indicate that the successor to the Moto G9 Play phone will have a slightly more straightforward product name to go with its 2021 launch. This moniker has appeared on the Geekbench database, and has subsequently been confirmed on Google's Play Console. Both of these new listings point to budget specs for the upcoming device.
https://www.notebookcheck.net/The-Motorola-Moto-G-Play-2021-is-apparently-confirmed-through-new-leaks.510928.0.html
I can't keep up with Moto's relentless releases; they carpet bomb the market!
I can't figure out what's up with Moto. They had a short period of really, really great phones that were widely revered, notably the X Pure Edition and first-gen Z phones, but then they trailed off, making new phones each year that were merely side-grades or barely upgrades to those. Years later, they've yet to release a worthy successor to those phones, and so I'm still using them. If they would just release a phone similar in size to them, with modern mid-grade hardware (6xx or 7xx-series Snapdragon, 4+ GB RAM, 64+ GB UFS 2.0+ storage, SD slot) at a similar price to what those were (~$400), they would probably kill. Getting tired of the choices being phones for several hundred dollars plus or super-cheap ones with 4xx-series CPUs. And OnePlus would be a good option except they absolutely refuse to add an SD card slot.