The early reactions to Motorola's new generation of hardware have been tepid at best. Even so, if you're one of the people looking forward to the recently-announced US launch for the 2016 version of the Moto G and the new G Plus, Motorola is hoping to sweeten the pot on the already budget-priced phones. Both Best Buy and B&H Photos are offering free $50 gift cards to their respective stores for early buyers.

That means the 16GB Moto G gets an effective price of $149.99 (assuming you can use every penny of that gift card), which is a pretty fantastic price for a phone with a Snapdragon 627 processor, 2GB of RAM, and Android Marshmallow. The 32GB G goes down to $180, the base 16GB G Plus is $200, and the 64GB version of the G Plus is $250, which again, is a pretty great price for a phone with those specs.

Here are the listings for all of the Moto devices plus gift cards so far. Note that Best Buy is missing the 16GB black G and the 16GB white G Plus for some reason, and a few of the B&H listings have the wrong prices attached - chock it up to early errors. You have plenty of time to wait.

Best Buy:

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B&H is only offering the gift cards with pre-orders, but Best Buy's promotion goes all the way to July 30th. The phones are scheduled to land in the US on the 12th. Other retailers may follow suit, though we haven't seen any announcements thus far.

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