Hands On with the New Moto Edge
Today, 8:00 AM by Rich Brome @rbrome.bsky.social
Motorola is rounding out its 2025 lineup of phones with the new edge (2025). This mid-range phone has a fancy curved-edge display that gives it a unique look and feel. It helps the phone have thinner bezels, and look and feel extra-thin. What's it like in person? Read on for our hands-on report.
The edge (2025) has a nice design. It feels impossibly thin, aided by the curved edges of the display. The curved back feels nice, but having both the front and back be so curved means the actual sides are thin little slivers. That outer frame feels like it could be metal, even if it's probably not. Which is to say there is a feeling of quality.
It all this just trick to make the phone look and feel thin? Not quite; the thin-ness is real, despite the unusually large battery. But the shape does help it feel even thinner than it already is.
Very thin sides mean even skinnier side buttons. The buttons may, in fact, be too small for my preference. They work fine, but not with comfort.
Motorola was quick to point out the "quad-curve" aspect of the display, where the top and bottom edges have some curve to them, too. I believe them, but it's so slight that I couldn't really tell. And I'm not sure why that's supposed to be selling point anyway.
The phone has a "leather inspired" material on the back that's grippy and soft. It feels nice. I also like how Motorola has leaned into color and teamed up with Pantone for that. This particular phone is a very handsome shade of dark green.
Moto has added a dedicated "AI" button to the side. I have AI fatigue these days, but I do appreciate any extra shortcut button that can help me access certain features more quickly.
The edge has some nice specs, including an IP69 dust/water rating, Gorilla Glass 7i protecting the front, and military-grade rating for ruggedness. It also has a display that's even sharper than the common FHD+ resolution, which is rare for this price range.
The battery is 5,200 mAh, a tad larger than the usual 5,000 mAh that most phones max. out at. It also has insanely fast charging up to 68W, plus 15W wireless charging.
It also has a 50 megapixel Sony Lytia (that's good) sensor on the main camera, a wide-angle camera, and a 3x optical telephoto camera (10 megapixel).
I like Motorola's camera software. It offers a good balance of features and usability.
In sum, this looks like a promising mid-range phone. Its unique selling points are how thin it feels, and the very thin bezels around the display. These successfully give the phone a futuristic air about it. If you're interested in a phone like Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge but don't want to pay that premium price, the new Motorola edge (2025) should be worth a look.
About the author, Rich Brome:Editor in Chief Rich became fascinated with cell phones in 1999, creating mobile web sites for phones with tiny black-and-white displays and obsessing over new phone models. Realizing a need for better info about phones, he started Phone Scoop in 2001, and has been helming the site ever since. Rich has spent two decades researching and covering every detail of the phone industry, traveling the world to tour factories, interview CEOs, and get every last spec and photo Phone Scoop readers have come to expect. As an industry veteran, Rich is a respected voice on phone technology of the past, present, and future.
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Edge+ on the horizon?
