Motorola's 2024 flagship is the Edge 50 Ultra, and despite a few hiccups here and there, it is looking like great value for the money…
The Edge 50 Ultra is Motorola 's new flagship phone for 2024, and it certainly stands out with the option of a wooden back and features like super-fast 125-watt charging speeds that you won't find on a Galaxy or an iPhone.
Before we dive deeper, let's also clarify a thing about the name of this phone. Last year Motorola's flagship was the Edge 40 Pro, but this year the Edge 50 Pro is the mid-range model and this here Edge 50 Ultra is the flagship. Tricky stuff, but we guess Ultra is Motorola's new catchy word for 2024.
Speaking of the back, Motorola has altered the camera island, which used to look a bit messy in previous generations. Now it looks more orderly, almost like a blanket that only reveals the outlines of where the camera island is.The 125W fast charger in the box is great to have Among the issues with the main camera are slight oversharpening, which you would notice on a larger screen, as well as lack of HDR preview in the camera app, so what you see in the viewfinder will be different than the picture you actually capture.
However, just in terms of pure detail, this zoom camera ranks very highly, beating even more renowned Galaxy and Google rivals.Detail is just not on par with other phones, and you have significant issues with oversharpening. In the corners, we see the quality drop noticeably as well.Selfies come out okay, but we measured detail levels are a bit behind that on rivals in the same price class, and there is a bit of excessive sharpening applied to images.
Stock widgets appear broken too, the Google At a Glance widget took up two rows of icons, instead of one. Simple things like Motorola's choice of sound effects for notifications also just don't sound right. In some places, it seems like someone at Motorola just took stock Android with little extra thought or refinement.
The 10W reverse wireless charging is also super neat in case you decide to buy Motorola's first wireless earbuds, the Moto Buds Plus, or any other earbuds that allow wireless charging.50W wireless charging is also pretty neat, as long as you have a wireless charger that supports this level of charge output. Unfortunately, we could not test wireless charging speeds on this phone.
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