Motorola Edge 30 Review: Lacks the EDGE over its rivals

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Some phones like to sell you a gimmick or two -- flashy design, or the highest resolution camera, or the fastest charging solution you can imagine in a phone! And then there are phones that just try to do a bit of everything and end up not good at most things! If you catch the drift, you have got the sense of what we are going to say about the Motorola Edge 30! After a fantastic package that was the Motorola Edge 30 Pro, Motorola's outing in the sub- ₹30,000 space is rather an uninspiring offering.

On its social media portals, Motorola claims the Edge 30 to be the slimmest, thinnest and what not! It also debuts the Snapdragon 778G+ chipset, which is currently the fastest 700 series chip we have seen on our shores. It even gets two 50MP cameras on the back, and a 144Hz pOLED display! A drool worthy spec sheet! But is that as drool worthy to use as in the real world? I used the Edge 30 for about 10 days to find out.

For a phone that is called the "Edge", it is obvious to expect something edgy; something flashy that turns heads. The Motorola Edge 30 sadly isn't any of that. Handsome looking? That for sure but eye-catchy it is not! By giving the Edge 30 a boxy look, Motorola definitely tried to step into the design segment which companies like Apple, Samsung, and others are following but by making the Edge 30 far more lighter. As the phone is sleek (6,79mm), and light weight (155 grams) it feels very handy and comfortable to hold. However, The back panel including the camera hump attracts smudges. Moving to the front, the Motorola Edge 30 has a decently big display of 6.5 inches with thin bezels, a selfie camera at top center, and in-display fingerprint sensor at the bottom.

A big screen with decent viewing angle, quick touch