Today Motorola introduced its latest high-end gadgets for 2020 – and the corporate delivered fairly the shock, not solely returning again to the flagship market, but additionally delivering some fairly extremely aggressive {hardware} on this vary for the primary time in years.
The new edge and edge+ from Moto are respectively premium and no-compromise flagship telephones which can be clearly meant to lure in clients who over the previous few years won’t have thought-about a Motorola telephone in these classes.
The edge+ primarily sports activities all bells and whistles you may think about in a 2020 system – a brand new Snapdragon 865 telephone, a triple camera-setup together with a large 108MP digicam sensor, a 90Hz excessive refresh-rate display screen, 5000mAh battery, wi-fi charging, IP68 ranking, and even a headphone jack. The extra cost-sensitive edge sports activities the identical design and display screen, however comes with a Snapdragon 765 SoC and sheds a number of different options from the package deal.
Let’s go over the main points:
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Motorola 2020 Flagships |
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| edge | edge+ | |
| SoC | Qualcomm Snapdragon 765 1x Cortex-A76 @ 2.3GHz 1x Cortex-A76 @ 2.2GHz 6x Cortex-A55 @ 1.8GHz Adreno 620 |
Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 1x Cortex-A77 @ 2.84GHz 3x Cortex-A77 @ 2.42GHz 4x Cortex-A55 @ 1.80GHz Adreno 640 @ 587MHz |
| Display | 6.77″ AMOLED FHD+ 2340 x 1080 (19.5:9) 90Hz Refresh Rate |
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| Dimensions | 161.6 x 71.1 x 9.29 mm
188 grams |
161.1 x 71.Four x 9.6 mm
203 grams |
| RAM | 6GB LPDDR4X | 12GB LPDDR5 |
| NAND Storage |
128GB UFS 2.1 | 256 GB UFS 3.0 |
| Battery | 4500mAh (17.32Wh) typ. | 5000mAh (19.25Wh) typ. |
| 15W Fast Charging | 18W Fast Charging | |
| – | 15W Wireless Charging 5W Reverse Charging |
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| Front Camera | 25MP f/2.0 |
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| Primary Rear Camera | 64MP 1/1.72″ 0.8µm 4:1 Binning to 16MP / 1.6µm f/1.eight w/ OIS |
108MP 1/1.3″ 0.8µm 4:1 Binning to 27MP / 1.6µm f/1.eight w/ OIS 6K video recording |
| Secondary Rear Camera |
16MP Ultra-Wide-Angle f/2.2 117° FoV |
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| Tertiary Rear Camera |
8MP Telephoto 3x optical zoom f/2.Four w/OIS |
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| Extra Camera |
– | ToF Sensor |
| 4G / 5G Modem |
Snapdragon X52 Integrated
(LTE Category 24/22) (5G NR Sub-6 4×4 100MHz |
Snapdragon X55 (Discrete)
(LTE Category 24/22) (5G NR Sub-6) mmWave on Verizon within the US |
| SIM Size | NanoSIM + NanoSIM | NanoSIM |
| Wireless | 802.11a/b/g/n/ac BT 5.1 LE, NFC, GPS/Glonass/Galileo/BDS |
802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ax BT 5.1 LE, NFC, GPS/Glonass/Galileo/BDS |
| Connectivity | USB Type-C (2.0) | USB Type-C (3.1) |
| 3.5mm headphone jack | ||
| Special Features | On-screen fingerprint sensor, Stereo Speakers |
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| IP54 Rating | IP68 Rating | |
| Launch OS | Android 10 | |
| Launch Prices | 699€ | 1199€ $999 (Verizon unique) |
Starting off with the inner {hardware}, each telephones include the newest SoCs of their respective classes. The higher-end edge+ sports activities the Snapdragon 865 for the very best Android efficiency in the marketplace proper now, whereas the common edge sports activities a Snapdragon 765 – a nonetheless respectable SoC however not fairly as aggressive because the final generations of flagships.
Motorola additionally equips the DRAM and storage in a different way primarily based on the mannequin. The common edge sports activities 6GB of LPDDR4X and 128GB of UFS 2.1 storage, while the sting+ comes with 12GB of LPDDR5 and 256GB of UFS 3.Zero storage.
Both telephones share related designs and in reality have the identical display screen specs: A 6.77” AMOLED display screen at FHD+ (2340 x 1080) decision, and each that includes an elevated 90Hz refresh charge – actually maintaining them updated with current developments within the smartphone market.
The “edge” moniker of the telephones could be attributed to the truth that these are curved…
