Motorola Edge Plus is All Set to Launch In India Today

Motorola Edge Plus is all set to launch in India today. The company will be unveiling the smartphone at 12 pm (noon), however, it is unclear if it plans to host an online event to detail the flagship. The phone was launched in the US last month, and it comes with a 90Hz curved OLED display and multiple cameras at the back with a 108-megapixel main sensor.

Key specifications include a 108-megapixel main camera at the back and a Snapdragon 865 SoC from Qualcomm. The Motorola Edge Plus runs on stock Android 10 and retains the 3.5mm audio jack.

Motorola Edge Plus Key Specs

Operating System

• Android v10 (Q)

Display

• 6.7 inches (17.02 cm) bezel-less display with punch-hole display
• Gorilla Glass 5 Protection

Design

• Plastic Back
• Splashproof, IP52

Performance

• Qualcomm Snapdragon 765G Octa-core Processor
• 4 GB RAM
• 128 GB internal storage, expandable up to 1 TB

Camera

• 64 + 16 + 8 MP Triple Rear Cameras
• 25 MP Front Camera

Battery

• 4500 mAh battery with Turbo Power Charging

Connectivity

• Dual SIM: Nano + Nano (Hybrid) with VoLTE support
• SIM1: Supports 5G, 4G, 3G
• SIM2: Supports 4G, 3G

Special Features

• On-screen Fingerprint Sensor
• Face Unlock
• 3.5 mm headphone jack present

Coming to the specifications, the Motorola Edge+ details are already known because of its launch in the US market last month. The phone runs on stock Android 10 and features a curved 6.7-inch full-HD+ OLED display with a 90Hz refresh rate. The phone is powered by the Snapdragon 865 SoC, paired with 12GB of RAM. Internal UFS 3.0 storage is at 256GB. There is no option to expand it further using a microSD card slot.

As for the optics, the Motorola Edge+ has a 108-megapixel primary camera with f/1.8 aperture, a 16-megapixel ultra-wide-angle camera with f/2.2 aperture and 117-degree field of view, and an 8-megapixel telephoto camera that comes with OIS support and provides 3x optical zoom output. There is an additional Time of Flight (ToF) sensor as well. Upfront, there is a 25-megapixel camera with an f/2.0 aperture.

Motorola Edge+ comes equipped with a 5,000mAh battery that supports 18W fast charging, 15W wireless charging, and 5W reverse wireless charging. The phone supports an in-display fingerprint sensor. Connectivity is handled by 5G, Bluetooth 5.1, Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/ax (Wi-Fi 6), 3.5mm audio jack, GPS, A-GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, and BDS.

Motorola Edge Plus Features

The Edge Plus comes in one configuration, with 256GB of UFS 3.0 storage and 12GB of superfast LPDDR5 RAM. Both of those specs equal the OnePlus 8 Pro, which costs $100 less than the Edge Plus will. But since Edge Plus will be offered by Verizon, Motorola’s phone has been developed to support the full range of Big Red’s network, including its high-speed millimeter-wave 5G infrastructure something the OnePlus 8 Pro cannot claim.

Design

The name of Motorola’s new flagship is derived from its display, and it’s that display that informs most of the Edge Plus’ design. Motorola has dubbed this an “Endless Edge” panel because it curves a full 90 degrees around the left and right sides of the phone. It’s sort of like the screen on the new OnePlus 8 Pro, except more extreme.

In fact, the curve on this display is the most dramatic we’ve ever seen, on any phone. Holding the Edge Plus in your hand, you begin to worry about inadvertently interacting with the screen when you don’t mean to. Fortunately, Motorola has tuned the palm-rejection software well enough that I didn’t find myself accidentally triggering items on the fringes of the screen.

That’s a good start then — but is the curve actually useful? That’s a tougher question to answer. Phone makers have been experimenting with curved panels for a long time, though the benefits have never been clear. The Edge Plus utilizes the sides of its display for two purposes: as a place to stash additional shortcuts, and to convey battery status and notifications visually, particularly when the screen is off.

The shortcuts are handy, though hardly game-changing. This feature, called Swipe In, works exactly how it says on the tin — you swipe inward on a tab along the right side, and six tasks or apps show up. You can customize this list how you like, and to Motorola’s credit, it’s much more responsive and easier to trigger than Sony’s infuriating Side Sense functionality on its Xperia devices, which is supposed to work in a similar fashion yet fails about half the time.

Curve aside, though, the Edge Plus is actually a very distinctive-looking flagship. Between its sharp corners, super-narrow 21:9 proportions, and prominent pill-shaped rear camera module, there’s never really been a Motorola phone like it before. It sort of resembles the Samsung Galaxy Note 10 Plus, except taller and chunkier, owing to its larger battery. Edge Plus is a hair heavier than Samsung’s phablet too, by about a quarter of an ounce.

I’d hesitate to call the Edge Plus elegant, though. Our review unit is Thunder Grey — though it’s really more of a steel blue hue — and looks nice enough from the back. But the super-thin frame sandwiched between the two glass panels is painted a glossy black, which is more evocative of cheaper handsets and doesn’t really mesh with the satiny cool luster of the rear.

Along the top and bottom, the frame flares out and bows in down the middle in an unusual way. Weirdly, Motorola shoehorned all the regulatory labels, like the phone’s model number and CE logo, into that lower part of the frame between the SIM card tray, speaker grille, and USB Type-C port. It’s almost like they forgot to include them and were forced by law to scramble and etch them in at the last minute.

One final point on the Edge Plus’ design, and it’s a downer: Motorola has neglected to make this device IP-certified water-resistant, which is actually pretty rare these days. Nearly all high-end models from all the major phone makers can be submerged without damage, but the Edge Plus only boasts protection against spills and splashes.

Display

High refresh-rate, full-HD OLED displays have gone from a luxury to the status quo for Android flagships. The Motorola Edge Plus falls in lockstep with that trend, thanks to a 90Hz panel that offers fluid scrolling and increased responsiveness to taps and gestures.

In terms of smoothness, 90Hz is better than the 60Hz of traditional displays, but not quite as slick as the 120Hz offered by the Galaxy S20 line and OnePlus 8 Pro. The Google Pixel 4 and the regular OnePlus 8 also tout 90Hz panels.

The Motorola Edge Plus features a big screen, though it conceals its size well. Technically, it measures 6.7 inches from corner to corner — which seems quite unwieldy, until you factor in the curves on either side and the narrow 21:9 aspect ratio, both of which improve ease of use with one hand.

The Edge Plus’ panel is a pretty one too, even if it’s not among the brightest we’ve tested. The screen in Motorola’s flagship peaked at 550 nits under our light meter. That’s decent, though it’s several hundred nits less than what Moto’s fiercest rivals offer, like the iPhone 11 Pro (752 nits) or the Galaxy S20 (857 nits).

When it comes to general display quality and color, though, the Edge Plus is on point. Watching the trailer for F9, the upcoming Fast & Furious film, I remarked at the lush greens and clouds of uprooted earth as Jakob Toretto — John Cena’s character — bounded his Shelby Mustang across a tropical forest and off a mountain cliff.

The cinematic aspect ratio made the clip especially captivating, because it immersed the action in a wider context, with Toretto’s pony car looking so small amidst the dust, debris, and explosions flying about from every direction. The Edge Plus’ display is an ideal one for watching movies.

Motorola’s flagship rendered 134.5% of the DCI-P3 color space on its default Saturated setting, which sits in between the OnePlus 8 Pro (116.9%) and Samsung Galaxy S20 Plus (162.5%). If you’re looking for a more realistic color, there are Boosted and Natural options as well, with the latter tuned to deliver sRGB coverage.

Bold as the Edge Plus’ hues are, it’s not the most accurate panel we’ve tested in terms of color reproduction. While set to its most-lifelike Natural profile, the best the phone could offer in our Delta-E test was a 0.29 result. In this particular benchmark, numbers closer to zero are preferred, and the OnePlus 8 Pro (0.26) and iPhone 11 Pro (0.28) fared slightly better, while the Samsung Galaxy S20 Plus actually lagged behind the pack (0.36).

Camera

Motorola has never been particularly renowned for its cameras, but the Edge Plus looks to change that reputation for the better. Motorola makes the effort with a quad-lens rear camera system that interestingly utilizes the very same 108MP sensor found in the $1,399 Galaxy S20 Ultra. Here, though, you can have it in a device that costs $400 less.

As for the other cameras on the Edge Plus, they comprise an 8MP telephoto capable of 3x optical zoom, a 16MP ultrawide lens and a time-of-flight depth sensor, which is inconspicuous hiding in the strip adjacent to the flash.

Motorola is very proud of what the Edge Plus can accomplish with that main 108MP optic, though. Like a few of the company’s past phones, the Edge Plus utilizes quad-pixel binning, which in this case results in 27-MP shots with optimal exposure and dynamic range that should be especially useful in low light.

While the 108MP option is always available to you, more often than not you’re better off sticking with the default option to benefit from all of Motorola’s computational photography tricks unless you really need those thousands of extra pixels for cropping after the fact.

The Edge Plus’ photos are generally good, but sometimes exhibit a narrow range of focus. In capturing the wreath of flowers you see above, Motorola’s camera ever so slightly blurs some of the petals at the perimeter. While I like the added clarity the Edge Plus lends to the darker, more shadowy portions of the image, its rendition, unfortunately, lacks the vivid hues particularly the lush lavender present in the iPhone 11 Pro’s shot.

The Edge Plus can suffer from trouble dealing with highlights, as this shallow depth-of-field portrait demonstrates. While the image overall is quite good and I actually like that Motorola’s software subtly dims the background, to allow the model to stand out more the sunlight is totally blown out, and particular details, like the fabric of the woman’s shirt, are fuzzier.

In comparing ultrawide photos between Motorola and Apple’s flagships, it’s easy to see that the Edge Plus’ zoomed-out shooter sports a narrower field-of-view than the one inside the iPhone 11 Pro’s. There are certain advantages to this, as the line of trees in the distance is generally sharper through the Edge Plus’ lens, compared to the iPhone’s.

But if the purpose of an ultrawide vantage point is to really pull back as far as you can, the iPhone’s optic is more useful. Additionally, the white balance of the Edge Plus’ shot is a tinge too warm, and Motorola’s flagship seemed to have a bit more trouble resolving those brighter, blown-out areas of the image, like the side of the shed to the right.

I came away more impressed by the Edge Plus’ rendition of this image of a tree from a distance on a cloudy day, taken with its 3x optical lens. While the Galaxy S20 Plus’ lighting is probably a bit more accurate, I prefer just about everything else in the Edge Plus’ attempt.

The tree is much sharper and brighter, with slightly punchier colors that catch the eye without venturing into oversaturation. The details on the house in the background are more precise as well, and there’s less of a blur when you peer in on the street sign to the right.

However, when I used the same two phones to cut in close on a pair of model cars, the Edge Plus shot turned out to be a bit of a letdown. While Samsung’s algorithms have a known tendency to over-sharpen images and heavily bolden edges, at least the S20 Plus’ version of things is in focus.

The Edge Plus got the colors right, but everything else turned out to be a smeary mess, with a haze applied to blown-out regions of the frame despite the fact tap-to-focus was used in both instances.

It's a shame because sometimes, Edge Plus can pick up phenomenal detail. The ultrawide lens doubles as a macro shooter when used with the corresponding mode, and it can churn out some pretty impressive results, like this dive into a leaf.

Look at the way the plant’s texture catches and manipulates light at the granular level, and those drops of dew sitting delicately in place to the right. I’m not usually one to take advantage of macro modes in phone cameras, but the Edge Plus has made me want to experiment with them.

Motorola’s Night Vision mode is pretty decent as well, to its credit. The Pixel 4 is my favorite low-light shooter, but I think I’m more pleased with the way the Edge Plus captured this cozy fireplace scene.

Pixel 4’s attempt is brighter overall, but the Edge Plus’ shot is much sharper something you especially see in the links of the chain mesh, the embers below, and the bricks inside. On the other hand, there’s a warmth and color to the way Google’s software painted this scene that I miss in the Edge Plus’ version, though it’s not a huge loss.

Finally, we turn to the Edge Plus 25MP front-facing camera, which also incorporates quad-pixel binning to let as much light in as possible. In spite of that, though, I’m more pleased with the iPhone 11 Pro’s self-portrait. It’s sharper, my winter hat is clearly more in focus, and my skin tone, the shadows, and the color overall are simply more natural across the board. Looking at my Edge Plus selfie long enough, I start to worry I might have jaundice.

The Edge Plus offers the ability to capture 20MP stills as you’re recording from the main camera, and the company promises the resulting shots aren’t compressed screenshots of recorded videos rather, they’re full-resolution images that rival what you’d be able to get if you were snapping photos under normal circumstances. In our testing, we found that to be true; while the video snapshots had slightly more grain to them, the dynamic range and detail were comparable to an identical photo snapped normally.

Performance

Like many other Android flagships, the Edge Plus benefits from Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 power. With 12GB of speedy LPDDR5 RAM, we expected this phone would fly, and fly it does.

Asphalt 9 Legends is a popular mobile racing game we often play during most of our phone reviews here at Tom’s Guide. That’s both because it’s one of the most graphically demanding titles on both Android and iOS and because, in my experience, no phone has ever run it flawlessly.

Even flagships suffer the odd dropped frame here or there, but the Edge Plus might be the first to pass the test with flying colors. In one race in the Himalayas, falling rock and debris tumbles into the road as you’re driving; I don’t ever recall that particular environmental hazard unfolding quite as smoothly — without no framerate hit to speak of — as it does on Moto’s new flagship.

In the system-wide multicore Geekbench 5 test, the Edge Plus delivered a score of 3,350 points, landing just behind the OnePlus 8 Pro (3,379) and a bit further behind the iPhone 11 Pro (3,517). Additionally, in the OpenGL version of GFXBench’s Aztec Ruins graphic test for high-tier devices, the Edge Plus notched a respectable 20 frames per second, which was dead even with the performance of OnePlus’ flagship.

As a real-world test, we task devices with converting a short 4K video to 1080p using Adobe’s Premiere Rush app and then clock the time spent to finish the job. It took 1 minute and 32 seconds for the Edge Plus to turn that clip around, which happened to be 11 seconds less time than the OnePlus 8 Pro needed, with its 8GB of RAM to the Edge Plus’ 12GB.

The iPhone 11 Pro, however, smoked both devices (as it typically does in this test), requiring only 45 seconds to transcode the very same file.

The Edge Plus’ performance story, then, is encouraging but also predictable, given the processor inside and all the memory Motorola supplied that silicon with. What’s more interesting is the work the company has done on the 5G side of things.

Motorola claims the Edge Plus is the fastest 5G phone in the world, thanks to a unique antenna array and clever tuning by the company’s engineers. It is a somewhat vague claim, it has to be said, as the company doesn’t cite live data speed comparisons against other 5G phones to support that assertion.

For what it’s worth, Motorola says the Edge Plus was able to record just over 4 Gbps downlink in a “simulated” 5G mmWave environment, though current 5G networks cannot deliver that kind of performance today. Additionally, because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and the limited range of mmWave networks, we’re not in a position to test the Edge Plus’ fastest download speeds against a competitor, like the Samsung Galaxy S20 Plus.

The Edge Plus will also support Verizon’s sub-6GHz 5G bands, as Verizon expands its 5G coverage later this year.

Battery

Sized at 5,000 mAh, the battery inside the Edge Plus is one of the largest you’ll find in any phone today. To put that into perspective, it’s 500 mAh larger than the batteries the OnePlus 8 Pro and Galaxy S20 Plus use, and equal in capacity to the battery inside the considerably more expensive Galaxy S20 Ultra.

Of course, the Edge Plus packs no shortage of power-draining features and hardware, between its speedy processor, mmWave radio and that fast-refresh, high-resolution display. In other words, even despite that beefy battery, this isn’t the longest-lasting phone on a charge — though it should still last long enough for most people.

Motorola’s flagship averaged a time of 10 hours and 55 minutes in Tom’s Guide’s custom battery test, where phones endlessly load a series of web pages over a data connection until they run out of juice. The Edge Plus ran the test a total of three times while setting to its 60-Hz display mode for the best possible result.

Nearly 11 hours is very good, though not quite the best we’ve seen in this price range. The aforementioned OnePlus 8 Pro actually fared slightly better, pulling out an 11-hour, 5-minute average, likely on account of the fact it has less RAM to power and doesn’t connect to mmWave networks. A better comparison would likely be the Galaxy S20 Plus, whose 10:31 average the Edge Plus still topped by roughly half an hour.

When it’s time to juice back up, Edge Plus buyers will be pleased to know there’s both wireless and wired charging onboard, though the wired “fast” charging system only tops out at 18 watts. That’s nearly half the wattage of the OnePlus 8 Pro’s wired and wireless Warp Charge systems, and well below the 25-watt adapters Samsung ships with its flagships.

But, of course, a big battery needs an appropriately fast charging solution, and the Edge Plus plainly doesn’t have one. Motorola’s phone reached just 28% from empty after 30 minutes using the stock brick. Over that same timeframe, the OnePlus 8 Pro reached 63%. The Edge Plus isn’t a cheap device, but Motorola certainly cheaped out on the packaged adapter — or at least it didn’t do the

Software

Motorola has never really taken excessive liberties with modifying stock Android, and that’s largely true of the Edge Plus as well. The company has advertised a new software initiative beginning with this device, titled My UX, that allows users to customize visual aspects of their experience, like fonts and icons — though it’s largely based upon the theming engine that’s already baked into Android 10.

That’s probably for the better, though, as what few touches Motorola has exerted on Google’s operating system tend to be generally useful. There are the aforementioned audio enhancements, as well the Moto app that the phone maker loads onto all its devices, offering optional physical shortcuts to quick-launch the camera and flashlight. You don’t have to use them if you don’t want to, and they never get in the way.

Motorola has opted for an optical fingerprint sensor for authentication on the Edge Plus, and it works well. It’s not the fastest scan in the world, but I didn’t find it to be especially picky about orientation or pressure, and I didn’t experience many false negatives during my time with the phone. There’s actually a nice haptic “pop” that occurs when unlocking the Edge Plus, and it must be said that this device’s haptics is very pleasing overall, especially when typing.

The Edge Plus defaults to an unusual live wallpaper, depicting rolling waves from a top-down view as you scroll through home screen pages. Normally I wouldn’t call attention to a phone maker’s custom wallpaper, but this one is especially strange because it’s extraordinarily laggy at times.

Occasionally it plays back with all the fluidity of a poorly-optimized GIF, and it’s far too low resolution to look nice on the Edge Plus’ crisp display. To make matters worse, when you’re not interacting with it, the water just kind of freezes in place — not a good look.

Thankfully, you can change that wallpaper; what you can’t change is the Edge Plus’ weak update roadmap. Motorola typically commits to only one major software upgrade for its devices, which is disheartening but unfortunately common in the realm of cheap Android phones in which Motorola typically operates.

But, of course, the Edge Plus is not a cheap Android phone. And when we asked the company if they were modifying that stance in this case, a spokesperson told us that while Motorola “does not have an absolute commitment to numbers of upgrades, Edge consumers can expect security updates every other month and a quick upgrade to Android 11.”

Most devices in the Edge Plus’ price range receive two major Android updates over the course of their lives, and Google promises three for its Pixel phones. So the fact that Motorola won’t go on record and commit to two — especially when the Edge Plus’ software is so similar to stock Android, at least outwardly — is maddening.

Motorola Edge Plus (Expected) Price in India

The Motorola Edge+ will be unveiled at 12 pm (noon) IST, however as we mentioned, the company has not revealed whether it wants to host a virtual event to take the wraps off the new phone. If it does host an online event, Motorola will stream it online via its YouTube channel and social handles.

The phone is teased to be exclusively available on Flipkart, at least among the e-retailers. The Motorola Edge+ is priced at $999 (roughly Rs. 75,300) in the US and we expect the India pricing to be around the same range. It has been released in the US in Smoky Sangria and Thunder Grey color options. All official details regarding pricing, availability, and color options in India will be detailed later today.

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Finally, Motorola Edge Plus

Motorola Edge Plus smartphone was launched on 22nd April 2020. The phone comes with a 6.70-inch touchscreen display and an aspect ratio of 21:9. Motorola Edge+ is powered by an octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 processor. It comes with 12GB of RAM. The Motorola Edge+ runs Android 10 and is powered by a 5000mAh non-removable battery. The Motorola Edge+ supports wireless charging, as well as proprietary fast charging.

As far as the cameras are concerned, the Motorola Edge Plus on the rear packs a 108-megapixel primary camera with an f/1.8 aperture and a pixel size of 0.8-micron; a second 16-megapixel camera with an f/2.2 aperture and a pixel size of 1.0-micron and a third 8-megapixel camera with an f/2.4 aperture and a pixel size of 1.0-micron. The rear camera setup has autofocus. It sports a 25-megapixel camera on the front for selfies, with an f/2.0 aperture and a pixel size of 0.9-micron.

Motorola Edge Plus based on Android 10 and packs 256GB of inbuilt storage. The Motorola Edge Plus is a single SIM (GSM) smartphone that accepts a Nano-SIM card. The Motorola Edge+ measures 161.10 x 71.40 x 9.60mm (height x width x thickness) and weighs 203.00 grams. It was launched in Smoky Sangria and Thunder Grey colors. It features an IP54 rating for dust and water protection.

Connectivity options on the Motorola Edge Plus include Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/Yes, GPS, Bluetooth v5.10, NFC, USB Type-C, 3G, and 4G (with support for Band 40 used by some LTE networks in India). Sensors on the phone include accelerometer, ambient light sensor, barometer, compass/ magnetometer, gyroscope, proximity sensor, and in-display fingerprint sensor. The Motorola Edge+ supports face unlock.

Motorola Edge Plus Full Specifications

General

Brand	Motorola
Model	Edge+
Release date	22nd April 2020
Launched in India	No
Form factor	Touchscreen
Dimensions (mm)	161.10 x 71.40 x 9.60
Weight (g)	203.00
IP rating	IP54
Battery capacity (mAh)	5000
Removable battery	No
Fast charging	Proprietary
Wireless charging	Yes
Colors	Smoky Sangria, Thunder Grey

Display

Screen size (inches)	6.70
Touchscreen	Yes
Aspect ratio	21:9

Hardware

Processor	octa-core
Processor make	Qualcomm Snapdragon 865
RAM	12GB
Internal storage	256GB
Expandable storage	No

Camera

Rear camera	108-megapixel (f/1.8, 0.8-micron) + 16-megapixel (f/2.2, 1.0-micron) + 8-megapixel (f/2.4, 1.0-micron)
Rear autofocus	Yes
Rear flash	Dual LED
Front camera	25-megapixel (f/2.0, 0.9-micron)
Pop-Up Camera	No

Software

Operating system

Android 10

Connectivity

Wi-Fi	Yes
Wi-Fi standards supported	802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/Yes
GPS	Yes
Bluetooth	Yes, v 5.10
NFC	Yes
USB Type-C	Yes
Headphones	3.5mm
Number of SIMs	1
SIM Type	Nano-SIM
GSM/CDMA	GSM
3G	Yes
4G/ LTE	Yes
5G	Yes
Supports 4G in India (Band 40)	Yes

Sensors

Face unlock	Yes
In-Display Fingerprint Sensor	Yes
Compass/ Magnetometer	Yes
Proximity sensor	Yes
Accelerometer	Yes
Ambient light sensor	Yes
Gyroscope	Yes
Barometer	Yes