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Moto edge plus 202211/4/2023 Those numbers aside, the important thing to know is that battery life on the Edge+ is great. At the end of a 9-hour day with over 4 hours of screen time (much of which was spent watching live Twitch streams), the Edge+ ended the day at 11:08 PM with 54 percent battery still remaining. That's slightly smaller than the 5000 mAh Motorola used in the Edge+ (2020), but it's also larger than the 4500 mAh battery inside the Galaxy S22+. Just as impressive as the Edge+'s performance is its battery life. Related: Snapdragon 8 Gen 1: Why Is It So Good? Navigating the UI feels fantastic, apps open quickly, and the Edge+ does an excellent job keeping multiple apps open and running in the background without force-closing them. Paired with the 144Hz refresh rate, this is a smartphone that moves with incredible speed. The Motorola Edge+ (2022) is powered by the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chip and 12GB of RAM. Those are a lot of negatives for the Edge+, so let's switch to something the phone excels at: performance. You can technically avoid these hiccups by forcing the Edge+ (2022) to always run at 144Hz, but doing so decimates otherwise great battery. I've also encountered issues where the home screen randomly starts moving at 60Hz for no apparent reason. Videos in the Twitch app lower the refresh rate far too much, causing them to look jittery and laggy. In the Twitter app, for example, opening an image causes the app to run at 60Hz until you manually close and open it again. The 144Hz panel looks excellent when it works, but far too often, it gets tripped up and deactivates when it shouldn't. It's a necessary feature, but it needs more fine-tuning from Motorola. Watching a video or looking at a photo? The 144Hz is temporarily reduced to conserve battery life. ![]() Like other phones, the Edge+ automatically scales the 144Hz refresh rate to lower settings when it isn't needed. Colors are vibrant, the text is plenty crisp, and that 144Hz panel lets everything move with incredible fluidity. The Edge+ (2022) touts a 6.7-inch OLED display with a 2400 x 1080 resolution and a 144Hz refresh rate - faster than the 120Hz setting on the S22, iPhone 13 Pro, and other handsets. Those specs all translate to an excellent display for the Edge+. Thankfully for Motorola, things take a more positive turn when looking at the display. But for a smartphone Motorola's trying to sell for $1000, those minor details are things it needed to get right. And that's a fair point! If this were another mid-range Motorola phone that cost $300 or $400, I'd be OK with a boring design, awkward buttons, a lousy vibration motor, and disappointing water resistance. Some people may look at those complaints and call them nitpicks. It's technically more durable than the Edge+ (2020), but it's still a considerable step backward compared to virtually all of the competition. The Edge+ (2022) is not fully dust-tight and cannot be submerged in any amount of water. But IP52 is much less comprehensive than the IP68 ratings found on most other flagship smartphones. IP52 means the phone is mostly protected against dust and can survive spraying/dripping water (such as a rainstorm or splashes from a sink). Motorola listened to people's feedback and added waterproofing to the Edge+ (2022) - but only barely. Related: This Crazy Patent Shows How The Apple Watch Could Get A Bigger Displayīut the design complaints don't stop there. It feels weak, is annoyingly loud, and reminds me of vibration motors used in Motorola's budget handsets. What's not an upside, though, is the Edge+'s vibration motor. The one upside is that the integrated fingerprint sensor in the power button has proved consistently fast and reliable. The power button is easy enough to reach, but the volume rocker is so far up that I repeatedly hit the power button when trying to adjust the volume - even after over a week of daily use with the phone. The power button and volume rocker are placed near the top of the right frame. I'm also not a fan of the Edge+'s buttons. No matter how often I try wiping off and cleaning the back, it's littered with smudges and streaks in seconds. ![]() Motorola sent me the former of the two, and while it has eye-catching color shifts in certain lighting, the reflective nature is ruined by how many fingerprints the glass back attracts. ![]() The Edge+ (2022) is available in Cosmic Blue and Stardust White colors. A bland design isn't a huge offense in its own right, but those boring aesthetics are also paired with some odd hardware decisions.
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