Motorola Edge 20 and Edge 20 Pro are official: Good looks, appealing pricing

The new Motorola Edge series is finally here, and the Edge 20 and Edge 20 Pro phones with a bunch of new features and improvements. Motorola’s new phones are flashy, elegant, and on par with the competition. They also have appealing pricing. We already covered the entry-level model from the series, the Motorola Edge 20 Lite, in another story, so make sure to read that one too. Here is everything you need to know about Motorola’s premium 2021 phones - the Edge 20 and the Edge 20 Pro.

Motorola Edge 20 Pro

Design

Motorola’s top Edge 20 model, the Edge 20 Pro, is also the most premium-looking. This phone is designed to be modern and on par with the competition. Two of its color variants, Midnight Blue and Iridescent White, have a shiny glossy finish that looks really pretty. There is another color option called Blue Vegan Leather, and just like its name suggests, it has a leather-covered back with a blue accent, making for a better grip and getting rid of fingerprint marks. The camera module is still covered by glass though.

The front of the Edge 20 Pro has a punch-hole selfie camera located in the middle. On its back, there is a triple-camera module that slightly protrudes from the body. Don’t be fooled by the brand’s logo below next to the cameras, the fingerprint scanner is an in-display one, just like it was on last year’s Motorola Edge phones. The display of the Edge 20 Pro is covered by Corning Gorilla Glass 5, and the back of the Motorola is also glass.

The new Pro model has an IP52 water dust resistance rating and a thickness of just 7.99mm. The IP52 rating means the phone can withstand the occasional drops of water. The speaker is located on the bottom side of the phone next to its USB-C charging port which also doubles as a display port. The Edge 20 Pro weighs 190g for its glass-covered versions and 185g for the vegan leather one.

Display and cameras

This premium-looking Motorola is pretty good in the display department. The screen is no longer curved like the 2020 phones from this series. The Edge 20 Pro has a big, 6.7-inch 144Hz OLED with an FHD+ resolution and a 576Hz touch sampling rate. This makes the screen perfect for playing games. It also means that you can expect one of the most fluid Android experiences.

As for the phone’s cameras, they sound impressive too. The Motorola Edge 20 Pro’s triple-camera system consists of a big, 108MP main camera sensor with an f/1.9 aperture and the company’s Ultra Pixel technology, which means it captures bigger pixels, improving the overall picture quality. The second camera is an 8MP 5x zoom telephoto lens with OIS, allowing the Edge 20 Pro to have up to 50x hybrid zoom, white the stabilization keeps your image steady.

The third camera is a 16MP ultrawide shooter with macro vision. The Edge 20 Pro can record a video in 8K 24fps. Selfies taken with this phone should be sharp too, as it packs a 32MP punch-hole-style shooter with an f/2.25 aperture.

Performance, storage, and software

The new Pro phone is powered by a Snapdragon 870 processor that is 5G enabled. This processor is an overclocked version of the Snapdragon 865 which was used in last year’s Motorola Edge+.

As for the memory, the Edge 20 Pro is here to impress. It packs a whole 12GB of RAM and 256GB of storage. This phone does not only support 5G, but also the new Wi-Fi 6 standard and Bluetooth 5.1.

Motorola’s near-stock software philosophy continues with this phone as well. The Edge 20 Pro comes with Android 11 out of the box and brings all of the company’s software tweaks many people have come to love. This phone supports Motorola’s Ready For platform. Ready For lets you connect with your big screen TV or your desktop computer wirelessly. That way you have access to your games, photos, videos, and more on another device of yours. You can also simultaneously see both your phone and your computer’s files on your desktop screen.