Motorola Edge Plus Complete Walkthrough (w/ Camera Comparison & Battery Test) By TheUnlockr

I've been waiting for Motorola to finally abandon motor mods and make a proper flagship look. I don't go to why motor mods aren't my favorite concept. You could start, though, with the sheer cost of them, but the truth is that once Motorola committed to them and the three years of supporting them on phones going forward, it's sort of forced their engineers and their designers hands. They were stuck in this shape with these components and while I do commend Motorola for making me bet on something and then following through with their promise to support it for as long as they did. Those three years came up not too long ago. To me at least, though, innovation at the top end of Motorola phones died with those restrictions that motor mods put on those devices.

Well, now that their commitment is done, it seems they finally made a proper flagship. This is the Motor edge+ and now Motorola did send me a new motor edge, plus to borrow, so I figured I would try to do a complete walkthrough run it for you guys now, if you're not familiar, complex-- walked in these channels, where I try to go through every single feature, I, possibly can on a new device so that you guys are better prepared. Should you be in the market to actually go buy? One with that said, there is a lot to go through. So let's get started with the hardware. The first thing you'll notice about it.

Is this very tall very curved front screen. The screen is a six point: seven-inch F HD Plus OLED display that has a 21 by 9 aspect ratio. So it's skinny but tall and a 90 degree curve on the sides between both of these things and that new smoky sangria color. It definitely helps the device stand out now before you say it, while pretty yes, that curved screen does make you accidentally tap things while using it. Occasionally.

Thankfully, though, Motorola was smart enough to put easily to disable the screen on the edges and pull the content in, you can double tap this floating icon, which will dive into more later in this video and that'll turn on and off the curved edges for the current app and remember that going forward. You can also, though, go into the display settings and turn off for apps in there or turn it off for all apps as well. One thing Motorola did with that curve, though that is super useful, actually is ability to add trigger buttons up there to use when playing a game. You can actually map these to any on-screen controls for the game, you're playing and be able to tap them instead, which is clever. Another thing to know about this screen is that it's a 90 Hertz panel, so it'll have faster scrolling, as well as higher frame rates for games that support it.

You can also turn this on and off in the settings, and at least it seems, so it isn't an up to 90 Hertz option. It's just set straight to 90 Hertz. That screen is also HDR, 10, plus cable, so it'll be able to display HDR content. If you find any places like YouTube and Netflix and some games support it, but you usually see like an HDR badge on the specific content. If it is supported, we also have support for a hundred percent of the DCI p3 color space in 10-bit color depth.

Inside that screen we have a 25 mega pixel F 2.0 aperture camera with 0.9 micron sized pixels, like with most phone cameras. Nowadays, it bends these pixels together by default in sets of 2 by 2 in order to get larger pixels that let in more light, but at the trade-off of resolution. This means that you get a 6 megapixel image when done, but with much larger 1.8 micron sized pixels. You can also set it to the full 25 megapixels. If you want in the camera settings that front camera is also capable of recording at 1080p at up to 30 frames, a second and here's.

What that looks like and the microphones sound like the phone comes in two colors that have were mentioned: smoky sangria and this Thunder gray that I have here. Both colors were supposedly inspired by Murano glass, blowing I kind of see it. The phone has a 6000 series, aluminum frame with curly last five on the front and back we have no IP rating, but Motorola says it's splash resistant now that usually just means it'll be ok, if you spilled liquid on it, but much less. So if you drop it in liquid moving around the phone, we have nothing on the left say for that really curved screen on the right. We have our volume, rocker and power button that power button actually also has some texture to it.

So it's easier to find along the edge, and you can choose for double tapping it to either launch the Amazon assistant. If you have her app installed the Google Assistant or launch the camera at the top of the phone, we have a surprise on a flagship nowadays, a 3.5 millimeter, headphone jack on the bottom. We have our NATO SIM card slot. There is no micro SD card slot FYI, and we have one of our two stereo speakers. The other is in the earpiece that are apparently tuned by a company called waves, audio, which once won a tech game for breakthroughs in the field of recording in 2011, whatever they did, though, it's loud and crisp in between both of those we have our USB-C port that is capable of charging the whopping five thousand William battery inside here at 18 watts when using the included turbocharger.

So, as is the usual here on the channel, let's see how that does now. In addition, this we also have 15 watt wireless charging as well, and we also have 5 watt wireless power-sharing, so you can charge other cheek cable devices on the back in a pinch and the edges even light up to tell you where, on the back to place the device which I just thought was a nice little touch for battery life. Motorola claims two days and while the battery is a massive 5,000 William battery, that I was once told by an engineer is basically the limit that we can put in phones right now. Two days does seem pretty ambitious. So while it's a very unscientific test, lets at least test it using the screen, speakers and internet connection running it once by playing a 1080p, YouTube video and see how long that lasts.

Under the hood, we have a Qualcomm snapdragon 865 chipsets paired with 12 gigs of lpddr4 AM and 256 gigs of new FS 3.0 internal storage. That, apparently, is a turbo write feature and can write data to it add up to 800 megabits per second, which I honestly can't think of a reason why you would ever need that speed on your phone, but still, why not I guess for security. We have an in display fingerprint reader. That is snappy enough and there is no facial recognition that I can find in the security settings. So that's your sole option.

Besides the standard pin password pattern, etc. for connectivity, we have Bluetooth, 5.1, Wi-Fi, 6 and sub 6 and millimeter wave 5g for more info on Wi-Fi, 6 and 5g, and how they'll all actually work and the benefits of them check out. My new explainer series called decoder that I'll link here. Moving around the back. We have our triple camera system.

That also includes a time-of-flight sensor to help with autofocus, portrait mode and AR applications. The verse of these cameras is our main camera, which is a hundred and eight megapixel f1 point in aperture camera with a one by one point. Three inch sensor size optical stabilization and point eight micra sized pixels. Now that may sound very familiar as it's a Samsung sensor and is the one from the galaxy s 20 ultra. One key difference here, though, is that Motorola is bending those pixels in a two-by-two configuration, whereas Samsung did a three by three ones.

So you get a twenty-seven megapixel final image with 1.6 micron size, 2 pixels, compared to the 12 megapixel 2.4 micron sized ones that the s20 ultra gets now. I asked why they didn't follow suit to get the still high enough resolution, but with even better low-light with even larger pixels, and they said something to the effect that they have experience and expertise in bidding in two by two, and so that's what they went for. Take that answer, as you will hear, are some comparison photos from that main sensor versus the s20 ultra and a few other devices, though, for your critiquing pleasure. Next, we have a 16-megapixel F, 2.2, aperture, ultra-wide 117 degree, field of view, camera with one micron sized pixels that aren't Bend at all, and here is that versus some other flagship phones, ultra-wide cameras as well that ultra-wide camera by the way is also a macro camera that when you tap the macro mode in the camera, UI it switches to it and allows you to focus on things much closer to the lens than normal. This also works in video macro mode as well.

By the way- and lastly, we've three times- optical zoom, 8, megapixel, F, 2.4, aperture camera with one micron size, pixels that again aren't Bend, and that also has optical stabilization as well, and here is that versus some other flagships, telephoto lenses as well for video, we can shoot in up to 6 K at 30 frames a second again stepping down from the 8k Samsung you're shooting in, but the autofocus is snappy. So maybe there's something to that. We also have slow motion in F HD up to 120 frames per second now, let's quickly dive into the other camera modes on the phone. First, we have portrait which uses software to blur the background behind a subject to create a faster aperture look from a mirrorless or DSLR camera. We have portrait video, which is the same as portrait photo, but it attempts to do so in a video and as with most phones right now that have this feature, it's not great cut out.

This mode works like portrait mode, but instead of blurring the background, it actually automatically cuts you out from the background and then lets you use their built-in app to replace it with any other image. Think of it like an even crappier version of your background or placement for your video conferencing, apps spot color lets you tap a color in the image when taking a photo, and then we'll only show that color in the final image, you can also adjust this with a slider at the bottom. Cinema graph allows you to take a short video of something, and it'll take a frame from that to make as a still image. You can then highlight any part of the image to have that highlighted part move, and you can then export this out as a GIF or video to share online. We have a standard panoramic mode that lets you start taking an image and then pan the camera to have it stitch.

Multiple images together to create a wider panoramic shot, there's an option in here for ultra res, which allows you to shoot in the full hundred nine megapixels of the main sensor. If you need to say crop into it later, to get other photos out of it, but at the cost of some dynamic range live filter is basically Instagram photo filters, but baked into the image when you take it. That honestly seems dumb to me as you can't undo them and, in my opinion, you'd be better off taking the image and then adding the filter after instead there's also a manual Pro mode where you can manually control, ISO, shutter, speed, etc. , and instead of it being a separate camera mode. You choose it's a button at the top of your normal camera mode, which is nice time-lapse.

Lets you record a video, and it'll automatically play it back sped up, and finally, we have night vision which uses AI and multiple shots of various exposure levels, including long exposure, shots to pretty much better low-light image. Moving on to software, it's running on android 10 and as with most Motorola phones, the experience is pretty close to what we would consider stock Android. They usually don't add any new I layer on top of it, like most manufacturers do so. What we do have is their usual motor features that can all be found in the Motor app, and honestly I prefer it. This way we have things like twisting the phone twice to open the camera, making two chopping motions to turn on the flashlight, lifting the phone to silence, an incoming call and a game, optimization feature etc.

, and these can all be turned on or off, along with a few other, genuinely useful additions in that app. Because of the curved display on here. We also have a few that were added like the ability to use that edge as a notification, light of sorts and even have it only on if the phone is facing down, which is clever, since we already have Motor's pretty well-received peak display here that you can tap or approach to have it show notifications as well, and you can also turn on edge touch, which is the floating icon that I mentioned earlier. That can be double tap to turn on and off the edges for apps, but also can be swiped on for various other actions as well and again, as with all of these, they can be turned on and off depending on your liking. Now the Motor edge+ is going to launch for 999 dollars and will be initially available, at least as an exclusive on Verizon.

Sadly, and of course, as with all Verizon phones, you'll be able to unlock it after it's been running on their network for 60 days there you go. What do you guys think? What do you think of the camera compared to those other ones? I mean, especially like the fact that it is the same sensor as the Samsung. How do those two compare to you guys? Let me know in the comments below about that about anything else. You want to talk about with this phone I would love to hear your opinion. I always do if you like this video, though please thumb up or share.

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