Motorola Edge 30 Pro launches in India: Cheapest Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 flagship

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The first smartphone in the world to launch with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chip is now also the most affordable phone to use that flagship Qualcomm chip! The Motorola Edge 30 Pro has launched globally, including India, and is right now the best conventional phone Motorola sells. It succeeds last year’s Motorola Edge 20 Pro with some substantial upgrades made to a few key areas; notably the performance and the cameras.

Before we head into the features, here is what it costs. The Motorola Edge 30 Pro comes in only a single variant, having 8GB RAM and 128GB storage. India will get the Cosmos Blue and Stardust White colour variants and will have to pay Rs. 49,999. As part of the bank offer, buyers will get a flat Rs. 5000 instant discount on Flipkart and Rs. 5000 cashback on retail stores. This is applicable on SBI credit cards. The brings the price down to Rs. 44,999. The phone will go on sale starting March 4, 2022 and will be available via Flipkart and other retail stores.

As the rumours suggested, the Motorola Edge 30 Pro is largely based on the Motorola Edge X30 launched in China last November. The star of the show is the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chipset, which is currently fastest chipset that Android phones can use. We have already seen this chipset on the Xiaomi 12, Xiaomi 12 Pro, iQOO 9 Pro and the Samsung Galaxy S22 series.

This chipset is accompanied by 8GB of LPDDR5 RAM and 128GB of UFS 3.1 storage. The phone will boot Android 12 out of the box and the new Motorola MyUX skin resembles the Material You theme of the Pixel 6 series. Hence, you are getting almost the Google Pixel experience out of the box.

The phone itself looks similar to the recently launched Moto G series devices, but with tasteful design elements. The Edge 30