{"id":592181,"date":"2025-11-25T05:20:24","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T05:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/592181\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T05:20:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T05:20:24","slug":"motorola-edge-70-review-gsmarena-com-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/592181\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorola Edge 70 review &#8211; GSMArena.com tests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Introduction<\/p>\n<p>Motorola has joined the race for the thinnest and lightest smartphone with the newly launched Edge 70. It is the global version of the China-locked Moto X70 Air, and making it the headliner of the next-gen Edge series is a brilliant move.<\/p>\n<p>Motorola&#8217;s Edge series has been experimenting for quite some time with all sorts of phone types &#8211; compact and lightweight, thin and powerful, camera-centric, and artsy, even with wooden back panels. The Edge 70 appears to be a natural continuation of what Motorola has been doing in the past few years, as opposed to the shot in the dark by Samsung and Apple.<\/p>\n<p>The Motorola Edge 70 highlight features are its 6mm thin profile, 159g of weight, and the impressively large for these measurements 4,800mAh battery.<\/p>\n<p>The Edge 70 packs a 6.7-inch OLED with 1220p resolution, 120Hz refresh rate, HDR10+ support and Gorilla Glass 7i protection. The chipset of choice here is the Snapdragon 7 Gen 4 coupled with 12GB RAM by default.<\/p>\n<p>The camera department includes a 50MP OIS primary for wide and 2x zoomed photos, a 50MP AF ultrawide camera for panoramic and macro shots, and a 50MP selfie imager. All cameras support a minimum of 4K30 capturing.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1764048020_479_gsmarena_006.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"Motorola Edge 70 review\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Motorola has also fitted a relatively large battery &#8211; a 4,800mAh cell with support for 68W wired and 15W wireless charging.<\/p>\n<p>Durability has not suffered by making the phone thinner &#8211; the Edge 70 is both IP68 and IP69 rated, as well as compliant to a number of MIL-SDT-810H standards.<\/p>\n<p>Motorola Edge 70 specs at a glance:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"article-blurb article-blurb-findings\">&#13;<\/p>\n<li><b>Body:<\/b> 159.9&#215;74.0x6.0mm, 159g; Glass front (Gorilla Glass 7i), aluminum frame; IP68\/IP69 dust tight and water resistant (high pressure water jets; immersible up to 1.5m for 30 min), MIL-STD-810H compliant.<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li><b>Display:<\/b> 6.70&#8243; P-OLED, 1B colors, 120Hz, PWM, HDR10+, 4500 nits (peak), 1220x2712px resolution, 20.01:9 aspect ratio, 446ppi.<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li><b>Chipset:<\/b> Qualcomm SM7750-AB Snapdragon 7 Gen 4 (4 nm): Octa-core (1&#215;2.8 GHz Cortex-720 &amp; 4&#215;2.4 GHz Cortex-720 &amp; 3&#215;1.8 GHz Cortex-520); Adreno 722.<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li><b>Memory:<\/b> 256GB 12GB RAM, 512GB 12GB RAM; UFS 3.1.<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li><b>OS\/Software:<\/b> Android 16, up to 4 major Android upgrades.<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li><b>Rear camera:<\/b> Wide (main): 50 MP, f\/1.8, 24mm, 1\/1.56&#8243;, 1.0\u00b5m, multi-directional PDAF, OIS; Ultra wide angle: 50 MP, f\/2.0, 12mm, 120\u02da, 1\/2.76&#8243;, 0.64\u00b5m, PDAF.<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li><b>Front camera:<\/b> 50 MP, f\/2.0, (wide), 0.64\u00b5m.<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li><b>Video capture:<\/b> Rear camera: 4K@30\/60fps, 1080p@30\/60\/120\/240fps, gyro-EIS; Front camera: 4K@30fps, 1080p@30\/120fps.<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li><b>Battery:<\/b> 4800mAh; 68W wired, 15W wireless.<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li><b>Connectivity:<\/b> 5G; eSIM; Wi-Fi 6e; BT 5.4; NFC.<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li><b>Misc:<\/b> Fingerprint reader (under display, optical); stereo speakers (with Dolby Atmos); Smart Connect support.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It seems like Motorola really has it all figured out. Let&#8217;s find out if that&#8217;s really the case.<\/p>\n<p>Unboxing the Motorola Edge 70<\/p>\n<p>The Motorola Edge 70 ships inside a thin paper box that contains the phone and a USB-C cable.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1764048023_479_gsmarena_001.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"799\" alt=\"Motorola Edge 70 review\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Motorola has also bundled a transparent MagSafe-ready case, which is nice. It&#8217;s used for both wireless charging and attaching any third-party MagSafe accessories on the back of the phone.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1764048024_141_gsmarena_002.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"799\" alt=\"Motorola Edge 70 review\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Introduction Motorola has joined the race for the thinnest and lightest smartphone with the newly launched Edge 70.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":592182,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3159],"tags":[547,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-592181","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-mobile","9":"tag-technology","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115608658795020170","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}