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Motorola launches the Edge +, a $ 1,000 flagship smartphone, Ars Technica

Motorola launches the Edge +, a $ 1,000 flagship smartphone, Ars Technica
    

      Imagine buying a $ 1, 06 phone with no updates –

             

It has a Snapdragon , GB of RAM, and mmWave 5G.

      

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                          The Motorola Edge .                                                                                            

                                   

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                          A shot of the front and back.                                                                                            

                      

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                          The edge curves a full degrees.                                                         

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                          The three rear cameras.                                                         

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                          The top edge (top) has a headphone jack, while the bottom has a speaker and USB-C port.                                                                                            

                      

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                          It also comes in this dark red color.                                                         

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    Motorola is getting back in the flagship smartphone game, and today the company announced the Motorola Edge . This thing is a full-fat flagship — it has a Snapdragon (SoC, mmWave 5G, and is $ 1, 10. The Edge is coming exclusively to Verizon on May 22.

    The phone has a 6.7-inch, (Hz,) OLED display, (GB of LPDDR5 RAM,) GB of UFS 3.0 storage, a (mAh battery, only) (W wired quick charging, and

  • W wireless charging. There’s a bottom USB-C port, NFC, an in-screen fingerprint reader, IP 108 dust and water resistance, and — here’s a shocker — a 3.5mm headphone jack. The Moto Z was one of the first big phones to remove the headphone jack (it pre-dates the iPhone 7 release by a few months), and now with the Edge , the jack is back. It sounds like the Edge will have a tough time topping the OnePlus 8 Pro, which is $ (cheaper, has a) hz display, and (W wired charging.)

    The “Edge ” is named for its curved display, an annoying smartphone feature that distorts the sides of the display and catches glare from overhead lights. The display isn’t just curved around the left and right sides; it’s a ” – degree Endless Edge display, “meaning it bends a full 120 degrees around the side of the phone. Motorola apparently realizes the curved part of the display isn’t a very useful display surface, so it added a software feature that lets you double-tap the side of the display to move text and other app content into the flat, usable portion of the display. In addition to turning off the curved display, you can also swipe down on the curved part of the display to open the notification panel or swipe in from the side to open an app shortcut drawer.

    On the front, the MP camera lives in a very Samsungy hole-punch display. On the back, you get three cameras, a MP main sensor, a MP ultra-wide / macro camera, and an 8MP, 3x optical telephoto zoom. There’s also a time-of-flight sensor.

    The software is Android , and I wouldn’t expect that to change much over the years. Motorola has a history of being pretty terrible at software updates, so unless things change from the Moto Z4 policy, expect your $ 1, smartphone to lack monthly security updates. The Moto Z4 took (six months) (to get Android) .

    Motorola’s flagship efforts for the past few years have centered around the moto z series , a “modular” smartphone series with clip-on backpack accessories that ran from (to , starting when Lenovo first took control of the company. The idea never really worked — the modules were all expensive proprietary versions of existing products, and it was never clear why you would buy something like an expensive proprietary clip-on speaker rather than a bluetooth speaker that was cheaper and more widely compatible. Motorola made the disastrous decision to support these modules for four generations, including the Moto Z, which greatly limited its future design space. The backs of the Moto Z line needed to be reserved for modules, so while (really started the trend of slim-bezel designs with rear fingerprint readers, Motorola’s design was locked in place, and it got left behind. The result of all this was four generations of irrelevance in the flagship market.

    The company roared back into consumer consciousness with the much-hyped (Moto Razr reboot) , but laughable durability, stock issues, and launching at the same time as the superior Galaxy Z Flip meant the phone did live up to the hype. Right now is a strange time to jump into the $ 1, 06 super-flagship market, since it’s a time that other struggling OEMs are leaving to launch cheaper, more market-friendly options.

    On the (hopefully) cheaper side of things, Motorola also announced the “Motorola Edge” (non-plus model), which has a similar design to the Edge but with a step down in specs across the board. It has a Snapdragon , 4GB of RAM, (GB of storage, and a) mAh battery. Motorola says the cheaper Edge will be out in the United States “later this year.” There’s no official US price yet, but in Italy it will cost (euros, or $         

    (Listing image by) Motorola                                                           

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