Look aside, there are some significant differences between this new Edge and the Plus model that launched earlier this year. Instead of a truly top-of-the-line chipset, Motorola used Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 765 on Edge. It’s certainly not lazy though: We’ve recently seen this powerful processor used in LG’s Velvet, and it’s long been rumored to power Google’s new Pixel 5 smartphone. That chipset choice also means the Edge loses the mmWave 5G support that the Edge Plus had, which isn’t a big surprise – those network deployments aren’t as common as 5G sub-6 networks, which the cheaper Edge does support for.
The standard Edge also uses a slightly more tame camera setup than the Edge Plus. Its main rear shutter is a 64MP affair with an f / 1.8 aperture (compared to a 128MP sensor on the Edge Plus), and it’s flanked by a 16MP wide-angle camera, along with an 8MP zoom telephoto camera. 2x optical. Motorola also confirmed that the US version of Edge would ship with 6GB of RAM and 256GB of storage, a noticeable increase from the 128GB of storage we’ve seen in some international variants.
We liked the Edge despite the clear lack of polish at times, and hopefully Motorola has fixed some of its issues ever since. Still, when you consider how many high-profile phones will use the same chipset, we can’t help but wonder if Edge will face the same issues as its expensive counterpart.
