Motorola Edge 70: What's Looks

Motorola Edge 70: What's the catch

 All right, this phone has a very different story. In a world where phones are getting super duper expensive, this is not. In a world where phones are getting slim by compromising on features, this is not. And finally, in a world where only few phones come close to Samsung and Apple, this just beats both. If you haven't guessed it yet, I'm talking about the allnew Motorola H70 that just launched in India. The phone launched at a starting price of 28 triple 9 with bank discount and I've

been using this for the past few days. Now, you guys have a lot of questions about this phone. How's the camera? How's the battery? How's the performance? Is this phone actually good? Or is there something fishy going around? I'll tell you everything and there's a lot to talk about. Let's get started. First things first, how's the Indian unit different from the global unit? See, in looks, in weight, in thickness, it's exactly same as the global unit, but the battery size in

India is increased to 5,000 m, which is good. And the RAM is reduced to 8GB, which is also not the end of the world. India, the Indian variant can record 4K 60 on all the cameras, which was restricted only to 4K 30 in the global unit. The retail box also did not get the case or the screen protector which is something they still bundle globally. Now apart from all this, there's one more thing that has changed a lot in the Indian unit and that is software experience. I'll come to that in a bit.

But first, let me show you the reaction of everyone who held this phone in their hands for the very first time. Yep, that's what I was talking about. Everyone, literally everyone was like, "Wow, the inhand feel of this phone is so so good." The thickness, the weight, the grip, everything is just perfect. Coming from phones that are 7, 8, and 9 mm thick, 5.9 mm felt refreshing. And holding any other phone after using this 159 g phone felt more like a dumb. The frame is also aluminum, which is nice.

And there's good enough IP rating along with military grade certification. So yeah, it's beautiful as well as durable. And if I talk about the design, this is how it looks from behind. On first look, it's pretty much like any other Motorola phone out there. But once you look closely, you'll see these accented camera rings and AI key, which just adds to the personality. The camera module also look a bit busy with four circles, but only two of them are cameras. And yeah, apart from this bronze screen,

there are two more colors to choose from. On the front, you get a big enough AMOLED panel, but unlike most Motorola phones, this one is not curved. It's in fact flat, which a lot of people actually prefer. It's a 6.67 67 in AMOLED panel with 120 Hz refresh rate, but it's not an LTPU panel. And even though it has Gorilla Glass 78 protection on the front, I'd strongly recommend using a screen protector because our unit has already got some minor scratches. Visibility wise, I did not experience any issues indoors or

even in direct sunlight, and the optical fingerprint scanner also works well. The only thing is that the movie watching experience could have been better if it had HDR in Netflix, which is not the case. One thing that actually surprised me the most are the speakers on this phone. Seriously, for a slim phone like this to have such good stereo speakers is just criminal. I mean, just listen to it next to the iPhone Air. Next up, the performance of this phone is also pretty solid. You get Snapdragon

7 Gen 4, 8 GB of LPDDR5X RAM, and 256GB of UFS 3.1 storage. And in benchmarks, it scores pretty well. beat N22, Geekbench, 3D Mark, or even CPU throttling. We ran the benchmarks multiple times, but it never crashed, and the temperatures were also well in control. I even tried out some games on it, and the phone was taking it very smoothly. I got an average FPS of 117 on PGMI, 45 to 15 Genshin, and COD Mobile was also playing without any hiccups. And if I talk about the day-to-day usage, the RAM management did not

disappoint. Camera app is fast enough, and there were no bugs, too. The only thing is that the UI did not feel as optimized as it should be and the app opening animation sometimes lack. But yeah, it can all be fixed with an update. Speaking of updates, the phone come with hello UI based on Android 16 and there's a promise of 3 years of OS updates and four years of security patches. The software is obviously quite featurerich with AI features like update me, remember this, and more. But there

are a lot of pre-installed apps this time and the glass ad is also shown on the lock screen. The good thing is that you can uninstall all the pre-installed apps and disable the lock screen ads too. Apart from that, the Haptics integration is decently integrated into the UI and the feedback is quite good for a slim phone. All right, it's time to talk about the cameras. All three camera sensors are 50 MP here. There's a 50 MP main camera, 50 MP ultra wide, and a 50 MP selfie camera. The main camera

whenever in mood takes some stunning effortless shots. This is dog taking some vitamin D. And look how beautiful this photo came. The ultra wide camera does lose some detail and clarity and there's also some color shift, but give it some good lighting and it will not disappoint you. The selfies also capture good amount of details. The colors might look boosted, but you will love the end result mostly. These are some more photos that I took from this phone. Some are macros, some are 2x shots, some

night shots, a couple of portraits, and in all of them, I found the camera to be decent enough. Yes, it doesn't always capture the accurate colors, but the photos still look good. Another good thing about the cameras on this phone is that you can record 4K 60 on all three sensors and the videos come out crisp and stable. Overall, it's not the best camera in the segment, but it gets the job done. Plus, it even has the ultra wide camera which even iPhone Air doesn't. In terms of battery, the 5,000

mAh silicon carbon battery easily give you 6 to 7 hours of SUT even with gaming and movie watching. And the 68 watt charger in the box takes the phone from 5% to full in about 45 minutes. And not just that, you also get 15 watt wireless charging support, which is nice. Connectivity is also pretty sorted on this phone. You get Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.4, NFC, dual SIM support, and 16 5G bands. The USB port is type 2.0 and there's no eim support here unlike the global variant. Overall, I think Motorola has done a pretty good work

with this phone. They have come up with a slim phone that is actually practical and it's also not breaking the bank. If you're someone who's looking to buy a well- balanced phone with an extremely good in-hand feel, the S70 could be a very good option. The only area where Motorola needs to do some more work is software optimization because that actually matters a lot. So yeah, that's it from my side. If you guys have any questions about H70, feel free to ask us in the comments and we'll answer them.

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