What’s in the box? – Unboxing of MOTOROLA Edge By HardReset.Info

Welcome and from easy Motorola edge, and today I'll go over unboxing along with a brief overview of the device itself, so starting off. This is the box that it comes in. Obviously, so no one really cares about the box. So, let's get rid of it fairly quickly. We get some paperwork uh again. No one really cares about that.

We get a casing. Probably some people will care about this one. It seems fairly nice case. I'm going to set it to the side and come back to it shortly. Let's get the paperwork out of the way.

Then we get the phone itself now it's already set up, so I won't be need for that. Then some more paperwork along with the sim ejector. Again. No one cares about this. We get an 18 watt, charger, um kind of mediocre charger.

Honestly you get some headphones wired ones. The device has a headphone jack, as you can see over here, so nice touch that they added those uh. Then we get also the charging cable, as you can see. So it's a type a to type c um. This is typical stuff.

Now, let's get that out of the way and move to the phone itself, so let's first pop in or pop on the case, which kind of destroys, in my opinion, the look of it um. So, as you can see, the case adds a fairly hefty amount of bulk, especially at the top and bottom, and that's primarily where it can only hold other than that it kind of, as you can see, flaps at that's primarily because it doesn't have any edge to catch on to it. The display is taking most of the sides, so they can only catch it on the top and the bottom, but it seems like it's fairly thick on the top and the bottom as well, so it should protect the device fairly well now also it has those bezels on the top and bottom. So you can place your phone on its face like so, and your screen won't get scratched, um so yeah, let's pop it off honestly, not the biggest fan of it, it's nice that they included it, but not my taste in case. So, let's pop it all hello device there we go.

So, let's max out the brightness, so as you can see, the device comes with a fairly stock. Android Motorola is perfect at it. Um they don't really add many blows to it. They only add a couple different things like see this little button right here, uh, that's to enable the gesture navigation, which I guess they kept still the option there, even though they now have it in the setup screen so kind of not sure what's there, but it's still nice, and they also have their motor app, which adds a bunch of different uh parts to well the settings. I would say so.

If we go into model actions, you can see that there's a couple different shortcuts and usability options that you can find in here, along with the gestures and stuff like that, so fairly, nice and that's primarily where you can find all the motor apps along with in the settings. I believe it's also in here somewhere, or at least I remembered it was, but, as you can see apart from that, it's a fairly stock feeling android not much to it now. Moving on to the main part of this, which is probably the display um, it's a 6.7 inch display with a resolution of 1080 by 2340. It's an older displayed and comes up comes with 90 hertz refresh rates. So lets you'll get this nice smooth, animations um.

I'm really happy that they added the 90 hertz here. That really adds to the experience of the device and the device with its price and overly specification aims to be a mid-range device. There's also a well there's, also a flagship that they make. It looks exactly the same as primarily the majority of these specs in terms of the display same it's the Motorola edge plus, but it comes with a better processor and graphics, and their display apparently is certified to HDR 10 plus instead of just 10 like this one, but also cost twice as much. Basically, so you get better.

Oh, you get flagship specs, but you also pay premium for it, and this device is more catered to the people that want to have a something that looks like flagship and semi performs like it, but don't want to actually pay a thousand dollars for a phone, so um moving further along with the display now the front of the display. You have the kernel blur gorilla, glass, 5 and also because of the resolution. The display has a density of 38 or 285 pixels per inch so fairly dense, display um. Honestly, it's just kind of at this point from what I've seen a trend in 2020, at least for all the mid-range devices and even some flagships to come with a 1080p resolution. Personally, I'm not really a huge fan of having anything higher.

It doesn't really benefit me much. I can't see the pixel density that well, so anything higher than 1080p, just kind of to me is whatever it's more of a boasting. I guess about look at our phone. It has higher resolution, even though you won't be really able to use it. In my opinion, and primarily most of the devices in 2020 had the pixels per inch somewhere around 400, so it shoots basically around the flagship specs here in terms of the display um.

But what it kind of succeed at is the screen to body ratio. Now on here you can well, you don't really see the bezels. You only see if you see something dark. It's the discoloration of the display. It's a bit of a downside to this display that literally wraps around as you can see.

So this is still the display and, as you can see, you can see icons on here, so the display rubs literally around the entire phone, and it is something nice to look at, although, like I said um, it does have some drawbacks with the discoloration, because it's so wrapped, it's basically a 90, uh 90 angle right here. It makes it feel parish on the sides, and I'm not sure if I kind of like that aspect myself, I'm using a mate 20 pro, which also has a rounded edge, but they're, not as drastic as you can see as they are on here. So I, like the rounded displays, I'm not sure if this one won't be too much honestly, but I bet there's some people that will really enjoy it honestly from using this at the moment. Since I have the phone in my hand, it does feel really nice, with the downside of those discolorations and also, as you can see, because on this display is taking the majority of the screen. The only bezels that you have is on the top and the bottom primarily at the bottom.

That's where you can see it, and also you have the hole, punch, camera which is really minimalistic. It's if you choose the right wallpaper for this phone, I'm pretty sure you won't even see that there is a hole punched in there, assuming you don't actually pull down the notification panel, which will show it briefly um, but if they do it, they do fairly good job at hiding it. As you can see, when you pull down the notification panel, it goes all the way down and has this black bar. So you don't actually see it on the white background now moving on to the next part, it would be the camera setup. As you can see, there is a quad camera setup or at least three cameras.

I wouldn't call the last on the camera really, but the main pixel shooter is a 64 megapixel wide sensor, it's the main one. Then you have an eight megapixel telephoto lens 16 megapixel ultra-wide and the last one, like I said, um that I wouldn't really consider a camera. It's the time of flight 3d depth sensor, so it will basically sense the depth how far an object is to, for instance, improve the both effect um and all those combine um. It's nothing really special here. Furthermore, it shoots videos, for instance, at 4k, 30 and 1080p has 30 and 60.

Furthermore, it does also have some stabilization in it and overly when it comes down to photo quality. I have to say it's its decent uh from what I've I can't really test it. I literally had this device right now, and it's still fairly light outside um. The only thing I can't test really is the night mode, but from what I've seen the device kind of struggles with the um a bit darker areas, when you have environments, for instance like at night, it will make just colors will be muddy and the pictures will be overly less detailed and a little well. They will lose a lot in quality, but in normal lighting conditions I would say that it actually captures better photos than what I have been using myself, like I said previously, the mate 20 pro and I can actually show a couple comparisons that I have captured, so there's the backyard that I have captured.

Assuming I haven't reset the device which I guess I did um. So I guess that's sad. I kind I can't really show it. It's been reset, so don't have those pictures any more um, but it did capture them um, fairly, detailed, uh, more detail than, for instance, what my phone can do and uh two years ago, that was one of the like highest specs phone in terms of the camera performance um. So this device from what I've tested took better more detailed photos.

Uh and also more color accurate. They were more well representative of what I have seen outside, rather than what my phone actually takes. Um but, like I said from what I've seen the phone struggles during night, which this is something that my old phone does succeed at, and it does it fairly well, so I guess you get something for something um I can actually, you know place a prop right here and capture a couple photos see how detailed they all come out. So, let's pop it open and see what it will do, that gives you a little guide right here, cool. I don't really care there.

We go, so you can already see the drastic both that is happening in the background now. One thing that I realized uh from using this device for like an hour or so is their notification, sounds they're kind of obnoxious and feel a little too over the top, I'm not the biggest fan of it. I prefer something simple, quick and uh, not as well loud as you can see. The photo is fairly detailed, although it does struggle at one point where most of the photos that I take do struggle, which is the top right here. Majority of the phones, for some reason have problem with capturing the detail in this red area.

So again, this is one of the phones that does struggle with it as well. Now let me try to maybe get a better photo of it. Maybe I can make it work out better, so it doesn't seem to be getting any better now, not exactly sure how to enable the macro lens. Oh, wait. I think I do there we go.

So we have the macro right here. So let's see how the micro does now, I already tested it as well, so I know it works fairly. Well, as you can see, I can get really close up to the subject. It's basically about well, two fingers away in terms of like thickness, I would say um kind of weird measurement uh, it's about couple centimeters, I would say uh or about an inch away um. So, let's try to make, as you can see, it can get really close up and we'll still keep the detail in it.

So maybe that was a little too close here. Let's see the other one okay, so this one was the other one. It does make them a little blurry. I can really understand why um, but, as you can see, it does fairly well in terms of the performance right here, I'm going to set it to the side and just as a comparison, I'm going to capture a photo using my phone, also in macro just so you can get a comparison, I believe in terms of a macro. If I could actually get the light there um, my phone might be doing a little better.

So, as you can see in terms of the micro, there is well not really a no comparison here, um in terms of the detail. Now, in certain cases I did manage to capture fairly close comparisons um, but for some reason this was not it. Maybe the reflective surface wasn't uh. The phone wasn't too happy about it, but you can clearly see the drastic difference now, apart from the color, which honestly seems a little too saturated in here and a little too well to desaturate it on my phone, the micro isn't the greatest and probably optimal conditions. It can do a great job or decent job, but it still kind of falls and locks behind now.

What this phone also has, which I was kind of surprised, is the video mode for macros. You can record footage and macro, and let's see if I can actually gather you can see, you can normally record something. Let me mute it quickly and let's go to the gallery, move this out of the way and there we go so let's actually put it in landscape and go out to rotate there we go as you can see. There is no actual stabilization, I would say it's kind of wobbly all over the place, but the quality is actually really decent. I have to say so.

Maybe the photos were just kind of off here and because of the lighting, I'm not exactly sure um. But okay, moving on from the back cameras, which are fairly good, like I said, uh we're going to go to the front one, which is an only single lens, megapixel wide sensor that can shoot videos at 1080p at 30 frames. So just as an example, we're going to launch it right now, flip it over and well there I am now. I can already see that the colors are a little off here. Um.

I think it's a little too saturated, at least in terms of my face and also looks like it does some kind of smoothing here: um, um, I don't have a skin of a 15-year-old, I think so yeah now, let's see how it will do in terms of a photo. Well, that's disorienting when it flips the photo, but you can see, apart from the skin smoothing, which is fairly minimal, still there, that it does capture, for instance, things like hair really. Well, I have to say there is no bouquet effect, though, as you can see from the background right here so yeah, let's see if we can actually find a mode for this, it looks like there isn't any so assume the only both effect you will get is and the if you're, using the rear camera and then go for something like a normal portrait mode when it detects a face. Otherwise, as you can see, this has no okay effect whatsoever, okay, so moving on to the actual specifications of the device. So this is a mid-range phone, and it comes with a mid-range processor which is a snapdragon 765g.

So it is a 5g enabled. It also has the couple of variants in terms of a memory, so it has four gigs or six gigs and both of them have only one option in terms of a storage which is 128 gigs with an UFS 2.1, which is a little of a shame. I would really like to see a 3.0, so you could get really fast transfer speeds, for instance, from your computer to the device, and vice versa and overall rights to the device itself um, but still um. I guess that is a mid-range device, so it comes with a mid-range option right here now: the storage, apart from having only 128 gigs, it is expandable via a SD card, so thumbs up for that really enjoy the fact that they decided to actually give you the ability to expand the storage, and, apart from that, the device has also a 4500 William hour battery. So it's a really big battery here, and it should last you a really decent amount of time.

Now from what Motorola claims it's apparently like a two-day battery, but because of that battery the device is a little chunkier. As you can see, it is not the thinnest phone on the black here, comparing it to this one, for instance. So it does add a fairly well really substantial amount of thickness to it. There we go so um, but honestly with that, with the phone being thicker than the majority of the other ones, it doesn't actually feel really bulky and hands uh. It does feel really slick actually uh, that's primarily because of the actual screen being long and slim and kind of wrapping around um the majority of the thickness, I would say, comes from also the screen itself.

As you can see, it does drop fairly far back, so that is why I would say it's so um thick here and apart from that, the battery going back to it. It comes with a like, I said, before, an 18 watt, fast charger. Now this is probably the lowest point of the device right here, the charger and the charging speed of it at well only 18 watts. So personally, I would really like to see something better. I would gladly pay more for a faster charger, especially for such a huge battery right here.

It will be at the slower side of the charging spectrum right here and probably a major majority of the other phones will charge faster. Now I do have one phone around here that I did review recently, where, if I place it there, we go the lg velvet, which is similar in design uh a little bigger though- and I believe this one has even worse charging now, comparing it just side by side, as you can see, they are quite a different. They are similar specs both have the same processors about the same amount of ram around it. Just this one is thinner and has a different display, still curved it's just not that much has an oh notch here and has the not so preferable. Lg, skinning yeah and the cameras are worse, but in this in terms of device like this, because this is basically at the same market here.

So things like the Realme x50, the lg velvet, this one or even one plus eight, and they're all competing against each other and honestly um. This device will be, in my opinion, better than the majority of them. I have tested well in past couple days a majority of those phones um, and I am actually pleasantly surprised by this device. It hits for the like flagship killer, uh phone um with having mid-range specifications but being decent at those specifications and still not breaking your wallet and probably the last thing that I will say is the build quality of it. So we have the plastic back.

It does kind of look like glass honestly, but it is plastic. It has no wireless charging. So that's a little of a shame. Uh it has aluminum frame, so that will add a little to the actual rigidness of the device which well is pleasantly pleasant to see, considering that the most of the device is the screen, so any kind of probably bends to it might well literally break the screen. I assume I haven't checked it um and apart from that, the device comes in two different colors, so we have the solar black and midnight magenta the color.

I have right here. Let's see if I can quickly find it is the solar black. So this is how it looks like now. It doesn't actually look like black, honestly. It also has a rainbow effect, as you can see in the camera.

So not sure if this would classify this as black and what else is there to say the device all has all the things that you would expect like, NFC fingerprint now, as you can see, there is no fingerprint anywhere around here and the fingerprint is actually under the display. Now, I'm going to quickly add it so just so, you can see how quick it works. So, let's find it is it. So it's going to be right here. There we go, and I'm going to quickly set it up, so we can go see how well this will work.

Okay, so, as you can see, we have added the fingerprint and select the device, so it's not the fastest one. I think OnePlus's fingerprint are better in terms of how quick they respond to it, but it's still not bad, it does its job, and it doesn't fairly well, I would say um now, one additional things that are odd. Motorola did add a couple different things um for their display uh because of its curve, and they added some kind of like notifications that can be displayed on the side um. Now, when it was laying down, I think when I had some kind of notifications- and I would wave my hand in front of it- it did light up the edges like just a single head right here um, and they also have some notification messages or well notification lighting. I will assume, but only when you place the phone on its screen, which personally I am not a fan of doing that this kind of makes me not too comfortable placing the phone on its screen.

I prefer to just slap it on the back where, when it gets scratched, it won't be agitating me so nice that they included something just kind of prefer to not actually have to place it on my screen and yeah. So that's about it um. The last thing that I'll add is the price which is around 550 dollars. So at this price range it does compete against the small majority of the um mid-range phones, and it is marketed for that and, honestly, it's a perfect device. I really enjoy the fact that Motorola added or well didn't add uh unnecessary bloat, which they're fairly good at, like I said before, just by having the almost stock android feel really enjoy that.

The only thing that I would well and that I like more than the android stock feeling is the OnePlus is uh one UI or no, not one UI, the whatever their UI is called. But it's also one uh like the android version, but they added a little more to it, which I really enjoyed and yeah. So that will conclude the overview of the device and if you found this very helpful, don't forget to hit like subscribe, and thanks for watching you.

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