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Getting Started. Planning for Retirement. Retired: What Now? Personal Finance. Credit Cards. About Us. Who Is the Motley Fool? Fool Podcasts. New Ventures. Search Search:. Daniel B. Kline TMFDankline. Sep 20, at AM. The Edge Plus has nearly all the features of the competition, as far as raw hardware is concerned, and — despite my grievances — a solid design to boot. Motorola opted for quite a display panel for its flagship return.
Talk about different! I wish you could dial in the change system-wide. The size, resolution, refresh rate, and aspect ratio of the screen are all fine. Motion looks incredibly smooth, thanks to the speedy 90Hz refresh rate , as on-screen elements zoom up and down with nary a stutter. I really like the advanced controls for flashing notification lights, dark mode, and such. Most of the time. My big gripe with the phone is the way the curved glass treats the light coming from the display.
The screen is markedly darker along the edges where the curve sits and, in some cases, causes blue shift when viewing white content. This is simply the physics of light passing through bent glass. I find it utterly aggravating — just as I did on older phones that relied on this setup. It makes the narrow screen look and feel even more narrow, effectively reducing the usable size of the screen. I wish Motorola had chosen another display style. Newer phones have eschewed such steep curves with improved visibility as a result.
More importantly, the phone always felt fast and light on its feet. Absolutely nothing bogged the UI down, even a big game such as Fortnite. Motorola equaled its direct competitors with respect to battery life, at least by some measures.
The 5,mAh is the same size as that in other flagship and even flagships, such as the Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra. Motorola claims the battery delivers more than two days of uptime. Over the course of six days, I had a hard time killing the battery entirely. You know what they say about the Energizer Bunny.
Screen-on time typically ranged over seven hours for my use. The phone is a bit limited with respect to charging speeds. It handles 15W wired and wireless charging. In fact, the Xiaomi Mi 11 Ultra supports 67W wired and wireless charging. Last, it handles reverse charging at 5W.
This means you can top-up select accessories, such as wireless headphones. What matters most? The battery gets you through the promised two days. Motorola has been trying hard to build its camera cred and the Edge Plus may be its best effort yet. The phone packs a MP main sensor that bins down by a factor of four to 27MP.
The 25MP selfie camera also bins down by a factor of four to 6MP. You can record video up to 6K. Related: The best camera phones you can get.
The app is fairly robust. Shooting modes include: portrait , cutout, macro, spot color, night vision, cinemagraph, panorama, live filter, and high-res, and video modes include macro , slow motion, time-lapse, and AR stickers. I like that the mode picker is just three things: camera, video, and a tray with everything else. The settings are extensive and allow for plenty of customization to the app.
As always, you can launch the camera app with a quick twist of your wrist. The shots I took with the phone turned out well, for the most part.
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