Motorola has just announced a pair of 5G smartphones. Named Edge and Edge+, the name comes from the term that the company used for the devices’ display – “Endless Edge.”
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The flagship, Edge+ has a 6.7-inch HDR10+ AMOLED display. While FHD+ resolution is not exactly impressive for a 2020 flagship, it does compensate with a 90Hz refresh rate. Under the hood, it has a Snapdragon 865, 12GB of LPDDR5 RAM, and 256GB of UFS 3.0 storage. There’s no provision for a microSD card.
Its triple rear camera system is composed of a 108MP main sensor, an 8MP telephoto lens with 3x optical zoom and OIS, a 16MP ultra-wide unit which also works as a macro camera, and lastly, a ToF unit. Upfront, you get a 25MP selfie snapper tucked in a punch hole.
Edge+ packs a 5,000mAh battery with 18W fast-charging via a USB-C port as well as 15W Wireless Charging. It can also charge Qi-compatible devices at 5W.
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Edge, the mid-range variant shares the same 6.7-inch screen, minus HDR10. It runs on a Snapdragon 765G backed by 8GB of RAM (4GB for NA variant) and 128GB of storage that can be expanded with a microSD card.
It also boasts the same triple camera setup as the plus, except that it uses a 64MP sensor as main. It also has a 25MP front snapper. The device has a 4,500mAh battery with 18W wired fast-charging and no wireless charging capability.
Both run on Android 10 with a promised update to at least Android 11.
Global variant of the Motorola Edge+ is priced at 1,199 Euros (PhP65,713.88), while the mid-range Edge will retail for 599 Euros (PhP32,826.30).
Emman has been writing technical and feature articles since 2010. Prior to this, he became one of the instructors at Asia Pacific College in 2008, and eventually landed a job as Business Analyst and Technical Writer at Integrated Open Source Solutions for almost 3 years.
