The Motorola Edge 60 Pro sits in the premium price space, and while it’s a mostly-good phone, it doesn’t quite have enough to offer to make it actually great.
| Pros | Cons |
|---|---|
| Slender curved design looks really nice | Screen refresh rate degraded compared to the Edge 50 Pro |
| Side mounted AI key for Motorola AI | Can’t configure the AI key for anything else |
| Good battery endurance over time | Last year’s model came with a charger |
Score: 3/5
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In this review
Motorola Edge 60 Pro Specifications
Motorola Edge 60 Pro Design
Motorola Edge 60 Pro Camera
Motorola Edge 60 Pro Performance
Motorola Edge 60 Pro Battery
Motorola Edge 60 Pro Conclusion
Ethical disclaimer: The Motorola Edge 60 Pro used in this review was loaned to me by Motorola Australia, and will be going back once this review is done, as is the case with 90%+ of the products I review.
So why point it out? That’s because that’s the sole input Motorola has had into this review; all test results, observations and opinions within this review are mine and are not subject to any commercial considerations, sponsorships or other undue influences.
As it should be – but online these days, that’s all too often sadly not the case. For more on ART’s ethical position, see here.
Design
In a shock move, the Motorola Edge 60 Pro is the successor to the Motorola Edge 50 Pro that I reviewed last year.
Wait… that’s not shocking at all, that’s expected.
What is at least surprising is how, while the Motorola Edge 60 Pro is a newer handset, in some ways it’s not an improvement from the older Motorola Edge 50 Pro, and that starts with the display.
Like the older Motorola Edge 50 Pro, it’s a curved display, which gives it a style that few phone makers are still running with; I’m well aware that some folks love the look of a curved display, while about the same number seem to absolutely hate them.
There’s no style change here, however there are technical differences that do have an impact on the usage of the newer phone.
On the plus side, Motorola’s seriously amped up the brightness, with a peak 4500 nit display, up from the peak 2000 nits of the older handset. Manufacturer peak figures are always, shall we say, rubbery in terms of real world applications, but there’s enough of a jump there to make this a much more suitable display for viewing in direct sunlight.
That’s the good side, but on the bad side while you’re still looking at a curved 6.7 inch 2712×1220 pixel display, it maxes out a 120Hz, where the older screen could punch up to 144Hz. That’s a refresh rate distinction most likely to affect any Android gamers out there, though the range of 144Hz capable Android games isn’t particularly wide.
In Australia the Motorola Edge 60 Pro sells in just two colours; either the Pantone Shadow or Pantone Sparkling Grape, which is the vibrant purple colour that Motorola loaned me.
It certainly stands out, as does the (sigh) vegan leather back. I think regular readers know the drill by now; I don’t like soft back fake “leather” as a feel on phones, so I’m quite grateful that Motorola does provide a slender purple case in the box to keep it away from my fingers.
One interesting design note here is that while the actual back is a consistent purple colour, the supplied case is a speckled purple, giving it a slightly different look. You don’t often see that when manufacturers try to match a case to a phone.
Motorola Edge 60 Pro, naked edition. Note the uniform purple colour.
Motorola Edge 60 Pro fully clothed in its speckled thin case.
The Motorola Edge 60 Pro ups the durability ante relative to its immediate successor, offering IP69 rated water protection as well as Corning Gorilla Glass 7i.
No, I didn’t subject it to a series of drop tests until it shattered, because most of those tests outside lab conditions are so particularly awful.
Camera
The Motorola Edge 60 Pro has a trio of rear lenses to shoot with, comprising a 50MP wide sensor, 50MP ultrawide and 10MP 3x optical zoom telephoto lens, while at the front there’s a single 50MP sensor for all your selfie needs.
Motorola’s history with cameras at this more premium end of the spectrum has long left me a little wanting… and that’s not particularly changed with the Motorola Edge 60 Pro.
It’s a capable enough phone for everyday photo uses, but by default it tends to shoot rather dull photos; not just “naturalistic” against the way that many phones tend to overstate vibrancy, but just really plain.
On the telephoto side, basic shots at up to the maximum 3x optical length are fine, as you’d expect, and you can push that all the way up to 50x.
Not a terrible shot, but I would like to get closer to the Harbour Bridge.
3x zoom gives me a much better view. What happens if I zoom in to the max, though?
AAARGH!
Rather predictably, you shouldn’t do that, because the results are really quite bad.
These extreme digital crop zooms remain a selling point in that they sound impressive when you’re buying a phone, but the results are always awful.
The ultrawide lens also does double duty as a macro lens, which is quite a common play for smartphones. What annoyed me here was Motorola’s automatic macro switching, which you 100% should disable as soon as you can, because it’s so wildly inconsistent around when it chooses to kick in. When it does so, the framing of your shot will jump markedly, which is always annoying.
That’s not the story of the Motorola Edge 60 Pro, but the reality here is that for $1,199 there are better and more capable phones you could buy, with the Samsung Galaxy S24 FE being the most obvious example right now, though I am also seeing cheaper Google Pixel 9/9 Pro models slipping to this kind of price as well ahead of the formal reveal of the Pixel 10 lineup.
Motorola Edge 60 Pro Sample Photos
Performance
The Motorola Edge 60 Pro eschews the Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 of its predecessor in favour of a MediaTek Dimensity 8350 Extreme processor, paired up with 12GB of RAM and 512GB of storage. There’s no variants on sale in the Australian marketplace, and no support for storage expansion either.
At its $1,199 price point, the Motorola Edge 60 Pro has a lot of competition in what I usually call the lower end of the premium price space, including Motorola’s own new foldable, the Motorola Razr 60. So how does the Motorola Edge 60 Pro compare in benchmark terms? Let’s start with Geekbench 6’s CPU test:
The jump up from the Motorola Edge 50 Pro is notable, though year-on-year upgrades really don’t make sense any more, but the industry monoliths that are Samsung and Apple respectively do deliver better performance for this price.
It is a slightly closer race if we look at benchmarked GPU performance, using 3DMark Wild Life Extreme:
I’ve said it quite a lot over the past few years; most premium phones have more power than you need, so the differences here don’t always relate to an observable lack of power when using the Motorola Edge 60 Pro in day-to-day operation. Still, if you want the best for your money – and you should – like its predecessor, the Motorola Edge 60 Pro does struggle to keep up.
I’ve long favoured Motorola’s approach to Android, which favours a near-vanilla Android look and feel, outside of Motorola’s fun Moto Actions such as chopping the phone to engage the flashlight.
That does have to be balanced against Motorola’s update strategy, which has long lagged behind that of its competition. That’s still true here too, with the promise of 3 OS upgrades and 4 years of security updates, well behind Samsung or Google on the Android front; Apple never makes pronouncements about iOS updates, but there’s not yet been an iPhone that didn’t get at least 3 OS upgrades, and typically more than that.
Premium phones in 2025 are also heavily pitched around their AI capabilities, and Motorola’s play here is via a dedicated AI button on the top right hand side of the handset.
It’s a button, filled with AI.
It’s quite high up on the side of the phone, which does mean you’re not likely to hit it accidentally, though annoyingly it’s only configurable for Motorola’s AI or disabled entirely; it would have been nice to see configuration options for other applications or as a camera shutter, Motorola!
We’re still playing in a largely generative image and summary space here, much the same as every other phone maker right now.
I’m not big on this kind of AI use most of the time, it’s true, but it does strike me that Motorola’s mostly just aping what Google already does with its public-facing Android AI efforts, rather than providing anything that felt particularly new or compelling here. As always, your tastes and usage of AI may differ to mine.
Battery
The Motorola Edge 60 Pro is a thinner curved phone, and historically that’s been a recipe for lower battery capacities. Motorola must be working to a different recipe, however, because the Edge 60 Pro ships with a 6,000mAh battery, which is nice and large – at least at a numerical level.
Naturally, your usage of that battery, and specifically the apps you rely on the most will tell the true story of its battery endurance. First stop for me is my standard YouTube-based battery benchmark to get a picture of its likely battery performance.
For more on how I test mobile phone batteries, see here.
That 94% figure, while not the absolute best at this price does still indicate a phone that should last out a day’s moderate usage without too many problems.
What’s pleasing with the Motorola Edge 60 Pro’s battery endurance are the second and third hour figures, where the drop in power is equally moderate. In more anecdotal testing, a day’s usage is easy to accomplish, and for those who only use their phones lightly a second day feels achievable. As always, hammer a phone hard with apps and it will still go flat within a day.
The Motorola Edge 60 Pro doesn’t ship with a charger, just a USB-C to USB-C cable, and here again relative to its predecessor it’s seen a slight technical drop in capability too.
The Edge 50 Pro came with a 125W charger in the box, but if you buy the Motorola Edge 60 Pro you’re not only sans charger, but also buying a phone that’ll only charge at up to 90W. That’s still fast – I suspect a lot of buyers won’t really notice if they’re doing the classic play of charging overnight – but it’s still a downgrade year on year.
Motorola Edge 60 Pro: Alex’s Verdict
Motorola makes a lot of phones, but in the premium space outside foldables – where its Razr line has provided some generally excellent competition to the likes of Samsung – it’s struggled to produce really compelling handsets.
That’s ultimately the issue with the Motorola Edge 60 Pro. It’s not a bad phone, and it does have some nice features, including that curved display and bright and fun colour choices and good battery life. However, once you compare it to the other phones you can get for this kind of money, it just becomes that much less interesting a device at this price point.
The reality here is that the Motorola Edge 60 Pro’s price will inevitably drop, and there’s likely to be a sweet spot where it’s much better value when it does, same as any other Android phone. At launch, and at $1,199 unless that curved style really does excite you, it’s a tough phone to recommend.
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