The third era Motorola Edge is right here. The vanilla Edge fashions persist with mid-range duties and goal to be an excellent center floor between the flagships and the lites of the collection. However past that there isn’t a lot consistency in what makes an Edge and Edge. Here’s a three-way comparability between the Edge 2020, 2021 and 2022 fashions.
Motorola Edge (2022)
One fascinating factor to notice is that the Motorola Edge (2022) is the primary cellphone to make use of the brand new Dimensity 1050. This can be a 6nm chip with mmWave 5G as its key promoting level. It additionally has two Cortex-A78 CPU cores (2.5GHz) and 6 A55 cores (2.0GHz), plus a Mali-G610 MC3 GPU. It’s no match for a Dimensity 8000, however is quick sufficient for the mid-range and can supply sooner Web speeds than telephones that solely have sub-6GHz 5G.
Right here the chipset is paired with 8GB of RAM, 256GB (non-expandable) storage and a principally inventory Android 12 (with some My UX tweaks and enhancements). The cellphone runs on a 5,000mAh battery with 30W TurboPower charging like its predecessor, however this 12 months 15W wi-fi charging is supported (as is 5W reverse charging).
You have to provide your personal charger, although, there may be solely a USB-C cable within the field. Notice that the USB-C port is wired just for 2.0 speeds, so there isn’t any assist for Motorola’s Prepared For.
The Edge (2022) doesn’t have the slender profile of the 2020 mannequin, however it’s smaller than final 12 months’s cellphone. It measures 160.86×74.24×7.99mm and weighs 170g (making it 30g lighter than the 2021 mannequin). The physique is rated IP52 (mud protected, resistance to dripping water).
The show is the smallest but with a 6.6” diagonal on the 1,080 x 2,400px OLED panel (20:9). Measurement apart, that is the most effective show but because it retains the 144Hz refresh fee of its predecessor, however it beats it on high quality because of its 10-bit panel with HDR10+ assist. The swap again to OLED allowed the fingerprint reader to return to its below show place.
The rear digital camera additional mixes issues up with a 50MP essential module (1.0µm pixels) with an f/1.8 lens and the primary Optical Picture Stabilization (OIS) within the household. It’s joined by a 120° extremely large digital camera with a 13MP sensor (1.12µm) and an impressively vibrant f/1.5 aperture. If that wasn’t sufficient, this digital camera can even snap macro pictures. Lastly, there’s a depth sensor.
The primary digital camera can report 4K at 60fps and slow-mo movies at 1080p@120fps. The extremely large cam tops out at 1080p@30fps. The selfie digital camera on the entrance is as earlier than, a 32MP sensor (0.7µm, 4-in-1 binning) with 1080p@30fps video seize.
Just a few different issues to notice embody the twin audio system with Dolby Atmos sound. There isn’t any 3.5mm jack on board, nevertheless. Apart from the USB port connectivity is all wi-fi – Wi-Fi 6E (2.4, 5 and 6GHz), Bluetooth 5.2 and NFC, plus assist for all the foremost positioning constellations. As for the 5G connection, you get sub-6 and mmWave with one bodily nanoSIM and one eSIM.
The Motorola Edge (2022) seems solely on the US web site for now and the corporate is but to disclose the entire launch particulars, however we’ll maintain an eye fixed out. Additionally, there is just one colorway obtainable.