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We ’re barely four calendar month into the year , and Motorola has already had a meddling 2024 . After launchingmultiple newMoto G phonesthis twelvemonth , the company has now announced its Modern Motorola Edge 50 series .
There are three phones in total , and they seem like formidable alternatives to some of the good Android phones available today — include thePixel 8andGalaxy S24series . Here ’s what you need to know .
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Motorola Edge 50 Ultra
Let ’s start with the most interesting of the trio : the Motorola Edge 50 Ultra . This is Motorola ’s principal flagship release of 2024 , and look through the specification canvass , there ’s alotto like about it .
We ’ll set out with the design , as it ’s one of the Edge 50 Ultra ’s most striking features . The speech sound comes in three clear-cut style , including Forest Gray , Peach Fuzz , and Nordic Wood . The first two styles give the Edge 50 Ultra a vegan leather back . Forest Grey is a deep , dark grey / light-green color , while Peach Fuzz wrap up the speech sound in a bright , vivacious orange hue .
As if that was n’t interesting enough , the Nordic Wood alternative has a real wood backside — a nice nod to the good old days of wood backs for the Moto X series . All three version have a sandblasted atomic number 13 frame , IP68 dust / piss impedance , and Corning Gorilla Glass Victus cover the display . mouth of the exhibit , it ’s a 6.7 - in OLED panel with a 1220p solving ( 2712 x 1220 pixels ) and HDR10 + documentation , a 144Hz refresh charge per unit , and 2500 nits of peak brightness .
The camera package is also foretell . The Edge 50 Ultra catch a 50 - megapixel main photographic camera , a 50MP ultrawide television camera ( with autofocus ) , and a 64MP telephotograph camera with 3x opthalmic zoom . The front camera is also a 50MP sensor .
What about the other glasses ? You get a Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 chipset , 12 GB or 16 GB of RAM , 512 GB of 1 TB of storage , a 4500mAh battery , 125 - watt pumped up charging , and up to 50W wireless charging . What more could you involve for in a 2024 flagship ?
The Motorola Edge 50 Ultra will be available starting at 999 euros ( $ 1,063 ) .
Motorola Edge 50 Pro
take a minuscule measure down is the Motorola Edge 50 Pro . There ’s no Grant Wood selection for this design , though it does come in a few different vegan leather styles — Black Beauty , Luxe Lavender , and Vanilla Cream . There ’s also a special Moonlight Pearl pattern that ’s handcraft in Italy . Motorola says it make the Edge 50 Pro “ soft and smooth to the touch modality , ” and I can not wait to get my hands on it .
The Edge 50 Pro has the same 6.7 - inch display as the Edge 50 Ultra , though the peak luminance is capped slightly lower at 2000 nit . The 50MP independent television camera returns , though you ’re downgraded to a 13MP ultrawide tv camera and a 10MP telephoto photographic camera — still with 3x ocular zoom .
Inside the phone is the Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 , 12 GB of RAM , and 512 GB of storage . The shelling and charging spectacles are identical to the Edge 50 Ultra . You also still get an IP68 rating . For a “ value flagship , ” this is a middling impressive package .
The Motorola Edge 50 Pro will be usable starting at 699 euros ( $ 744 ) .
Motorola Edge 50 Fusion
at long last , we have the Motorola Edge 50 Fusion . This is the low tier of the three phones , but for the price , it looks like a very self-colored budget option .
Like the Ultra and Pro , the Edge 50 Fusion has a 6.7 - column inch OLED projection screen . It ’s a slightly lower Full HD+ resolution with a 120Hz refresh rate . It is not as telling as the Edge 50 Ultra and Pro , but it ’s also not bad by any mean . There are just two cameras this time around , including a 50MP principal tv camera and a 13MP ultrawide camera . The selfie television camera is a 32MP sensor .
Depending on where you grease one’s palms the phone , the Edge 50 Fusion comes with either a Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 or a Snapdragon 7s Gen 2 chipset . The phone also has a 5000mAh shelling , an IP68 rating , up to 12 GB of RAM , and up to 512 GB of storage . Two of the colors boast a vegan leather back ( Hot Pink and Marshmallow Blue ) , while the Forest Blue color is PMMA — aka polymethyl methacrylate … aka plastic .
The Motorola Edge 50 Fusion will be available start at 399 euro ( $ 425 ) .
You can’t buy these phones … yet
So , what ’s the apprehension with these Motorola phones ? There ’s just one problem : They are n’t available in the U.S. quite yet . As of correctly now , the Edge 50 series is only set in motion in select European , Latin American , and Asian market . However , that is place to deepen .
Motorola says it is “ unrestrained to divvy up its commitment to expanding the Edge family in North America this year . ” That means we can expect at leastsomeof the Edge 50 phone to make their way to the U.S. — if not all of them . As a refresher , Motorola launched theEdge Plus ( 2023)andEdge ( 2023)in the U.S. as rebranded versions of its Edge 40 smartphones . There was a delay between the Edge 40 departure and its U.S. counterparts , so do n’t be surprised if the Edge 50 serial does n’t find its agency to North American shore until by and by this summer .
While that ’s not 100 % ideal , it count like it should be worth the wait — peculiarly for the Edge 50 Ultra and Edge 50 Pro . It ’s difficult to stand out in the flagship smartphone space in 2024 , but from where I ’m standing right now , Motorola may manage to do just that .
