After wrapping off all the rumors and leaks, Motorola has finally unwraps its new premium mid-ranger titled as the Motorola Edge 60 Pro. With a slick design, flagship-level specs and a focus on photographic prowess, the Edge 60 Pro looks to take the fight to its more established competition. But does it offer enough to make an indelible mark in today’s super-competitive smartphone world? Here’s our hands-on take on the device’s key specs, performance, features, and first impressions.
An Eye-Catching Design
First things first — the Motorola Edge 60 Pro is a looker. It’s the way the phone feels in your hand with its curved poled display, slim profile, and matte glass back. It is offered in elegant colors like Moonlight Pearl and Twilight Blue, and each of them will provide clean and no-fuss looks. It’s nice to see a IP water/dust rating for a device in this price range.
Construction is solid, and Motorola has kept the phone relatively light despite the high-caliber hardware inside. It is the kind of device that commands attention, whether sitting on the table of a cafe or in a rush mirror selfie.
Performance The Best of Both Worlds
On the inside, the Motorola Edge 60 Pro is driven by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 chipset, coupled with up to 12GB of LPDDR5 RAM and 256GB of UFS 3.1 internal storage. It may not be a top-flight Snapdragon 8 series chip, but the Gen 3 packs plenty of punch, particularly when combined with Motorola’s close-to-stock Android 14 experience.
The phone can take on everything from multitasking to intensive apps without a hitch in day-to-day use. Gaming is impressively smooth, with Call of Duty: Mobile and Genshin Impact running at stable frame rates on high settings. But thermal performance is also well controlled, as the enhanced cooling system built into the Motorola-made device demonstrates.
Camera: 50MP Magic With OIS and AI Boost
Photography is a major selling point of the Motorola Edge 60 Pro, and with good reason. At the back, the phone gets 50MP main sensor with Optical Image Stabilization (OIS), 13MP ultra-wide + macro sensor and 2MP depth sensor. On the front, there’s a massive 50MP selfie camera with autofocus, which sounds like a winner for selfie enthusiasts and content creators in general.
In broad daylight, the Edge 60 Pro takes sharp, detailed photos with true color. The dynamic range is huge and Motorola’s software processing ensures shady areas and highlights are all very well balanced. The ultra-wide lens provides reasonable coverage without wide-angle-style distortion, and the macro mode isn’t entirely a gimmick, it churns out passable close-up shots.
Low-lighting has been improved too, with an excellent night mode providing detailed photos without too much noise. The 50MP selfie camera provides social-media-friendly shots that are sharp and colourful, and autofocus is a huge advantage on group shots and in low light in particular.
Features and Battery Life
Features-wise, Motorola has left nothing on the table. The Edge 60 Pro has an in-display fingerprint sensor, and stereo speakers enhanced with Dolby Atmos, as well as 5G support, Wi-Fi 6E, Bluetooth 5.3 and NFC. It is also among the only handsets in this segment to offer support for Moto Secure, Think Shield for mobile and Ready For, which lets users wirelessly connect to external displays and use the phone like a desktop.
Power isn’t an issue since a decent 4600mAh battery takes care of the battery life and the ZenFone 8 can last through a day of moderate or heavy use easily. More impressive still is the 125W Turbo power fast charging, which can power the phone up from 0 to 100 in about 25+ minutes. There is also support for 50W wireless charging, which is something you do not often get in this price range.
Price and Availability Motorola Edge 60 Pro
Priced at ₹34,999 in India for the 12GB RAM + 256GB storage model, the Motorola Edge 60 Pro emerges as a solid rival to phones like the OnePlus Nord series, iQOO Neo 9 and Samsung Galaxy A series. It can be bought on Flipkart, Motorola’s online store and major retail stores.
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