The most impressive thing is the battery life. There is a 5100 mAh cell and this phone easily lasted two full days of average use. Even regular users should expect to go a full day without needing to recharge. When you do If you need to recharge, you can use the included 68-watt charging adapter or a wireless charger. Motorola is one of the few phone makers to include a charger in the box, although it began changing this practice in 2024.
Where it loses points is the camera system. A 50MP main camera is joined by a 50MP ultrawide camera and a 60MP selfie camera. In my photo comparisons, the Edge+ took some sharp photos, but struggled to keep up with the cheaper one. Google Pixel 7A. Motorola’s results are often oversaturated and over-lit, and tend to give results that are slightly off skin tones. In low light, she frequently had to retake photos because the first result came out blurry. If the camera is important to you, I would avoid buying any Motorola phone. Instead, consider the Pixel 7A or the Samsung Galaxy S24.
Motorola promises three updates to the Android operating system and four years of bimonthly security updates.
Runner-up
This 2023 phone is the result of a rare (public) partnership between Motorola and its parent company, Lenovo. If you’re familiar with Lenovo’s popular ThinkPad line of business laptops, the ThinkPhone (7/10, WIRED recommended) attempts to emulate the look, right down to a customizable red button on the left side of the phone that should look like the Red Knot on the keyboard of a ThinkPad. Technically it’s a business phone, but you can buy it unlocked from Motorola or Lenovo, and I like it!
It’s similar to the Edge+ in many ways, although some small changes explain the slightly lower price. For a start, No It has a curved glass screen, although if you’re like me, you might like it. The OLED screen is a little smaller, at 6.6 inches, with a refresh rate that goes up to 144 Hz (still more than enough). It is powered by the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 chipset, which is still a flagship processor but is not as powerful as the current Gen 2 or Gen 3.
Still, the 5000 mAh battery lasts two days and there’s a 68-watt charger in the box, along with wireless charging support. It retains an IP68 water resistance rating, has NFC for tap-to-pay support, and comes with 256GB of storage.
There is a 50MP primary sensor, a 13MP ultra-wide-angle, and a 32MP selfie camera. I preferred many of the photos from the Lenovo ThinkPhone to some of those I took with the Motorola Edge+, but these cameras still don’t measure up to their peers. Still, it’s currently $400, so it’s a great phone at that price.
Motorola promises three updates to the Android operating system and four years of bimonthly security updates.
A folding motorcycle
Motorola’s first foldable smartphone from 2020 had many flaws, but its 2023 successor ups the game in several ways. The Razr+ (7/10, WIRED recommended) is a foldable phone: it is the successor to the smartphone Paris Hilton’s iconic pink flip phone. Yes, you can open the phone to answer a call and close it to end the call.
When closed, the larger 3.6-inch OLED exterior display can show you notifications, apps, and handy widgets for weather, calendar events, and news. It even allows you to play simple games. You can also use the top primary cameras, which would normally be on the “back” of the phone but are now on the front, to take selfies and use this external screen as a viewfinder. They are some of the sharpest selfies you will ever take.
