Design

• 160.69 × 73.06 × 8.24 mm, 186g
• Curved Glass display
• Plastic frame

Motorola makes many phones, and they are often accused of looking too familiar. The Motorola Edge 60 Pro isn’t going to change that. 

It has a curved glass screen, once a high-end trait, now more a contentious style. I still like how it makes a phone feel thinner, though. 

The Motorola Edge 60 Pro is 8.2mm thick but feels slimmer. It also has a synthetic leather effect rear panel, at least in this PANTONE green finish. The blue and purple versions have their own textures, all intended to make a plastic rear avoid feeling cheap. Glass is not an option this time around. 

These phones also have plastic side walls, and this may be my biggest design issue with the Motorola Edge 60 Pro. The Edge 50 Pro had an aluminium frame, as did the Edge 40 Pro from 2023. 

Motorola has downgraded things this year to save money. And that’s seen in the style of glass protection too. The Motorola Edge 60 Pro has Gorilla Glass 7i, a mid-range toughened glass that sits below Gorilla Glass Victus. 

You know what used Victus? The Edge 40 Pro, although that was arguably an altogether higher-end mobile at the time. 

These cuts effectively become invisible if you use the bundled case, though, a slim clip-on design that covers the sides. While not ultra-protective, it does retain the Edge 60 Pro’s thin feel. I recommend using it. 

I would also recommend considering a screen protector, as this phone does not come with one applied. Ruggedisation specs are otherwise good. The Motorola Edge 60 Pro is rated for IP68 and IP69 water resistance, meaning it’s ready for submersion in water and even water jets. 

It’s moderately light at 186g, has a good in-screen fingerprint scanner and doesn’t feel large considering its substantial screen. 73mm is not wide. 

The stereo speakers are solid too. There’s an honest attempt at conjuring a sense of bass, and sound is pumped out of the top and bottom of the screen area, ideal for gaming. I’d take a touch more maximum volume, but the level is already decent here. 

Screen

• 6.7-inch 120Hz OLED screen
• 4500nits claimed peak brightness (923 nits full frame tested)
• 1220 x 2712 resolution

The Motorola Edge 60 Pro has a 6.7-inch OLED 120Hz screen that Motorola claims can reach 4500 nits of brightness. 

This ultra-high power isn’t particularly evident in day-to-day use. It’s fairly clear outdoors on a bright day, but not obviously brighter than the phones I used last year. 

To see what’s really going on, I took out the screen-measuring colourimeter. It suggests the Motorola Edge 60 Pro will hit around 460 nits in normal indoors conditions, or up to 923 nits when displaying a full screen of white in either bright conditions or when playing HDR video. 

Perhaps there’s a way to get the Motorola Edge 60 Pro  to ramp up to 4500 nits, but you’re not going to see it, say, when looking at a website out in the sun. 

Spurious claims aside, this is a more than respectable screen. It’s of a good size for watching YouTube, and the colour is poppy, with a Natural mode available if you prefer a more reserved look. Contrast is top-tier thanks to the OLED panel, HDR video is supported, and the 1220 x 2712 resolution is — to my eyes, at least — pin-sharp. 

Cameras

• 50MP Sony LYTIA 700C wide camera
• 50MP ultra-wide camera
• 10MP 3x “zoom” camera

The Motorola Edge 60 Pro has three rear cameras, and none of the filler ones you often see in more affordable phones. There’s a 50MP wide camera, a 50MP ultra-wide and a 10MP 3x zoom.

Compared to the last-generation Edge 50 Pro, we get a higher-resolution ultra-wide but otherwise fairly comparable hardware. 

As I always find with these phones that have a fairly long-throw dedicated zoom, shooting photos with the Motorola Edge 60 Pro’s 3x zoom is great fun. I found that view ideal for capturing images at a gig, even if in those darker scenes with motion, you do need to take a whole load of pics to get a great, non-blurred one.

Despite the 10MP resolution, zoomed images still have a good amount of detail. 

The 50MP wide and ultra-wide have more per square inch of image, of course, but it’s in these two cameras that I see some of the classic little issues of Motorola cameras. 

Both of these cameras can take great pictures, and the main camera in particular uses an impressive-sounding Sony LYTIA 700C sensor of 1/1.56” size. It’s a biggie. 

My issue is that the ultra-wide and wide shots often have a slightly different character. The Motorola Edge 60 Pro’s main camera will often use more intense dynamic range enhancement, and produce more vivid images. Bluer skies, greener foliage, that kind of thing. 

These feel like stylistic deviations rather than a real indication of what the hardware can do. And, in classic Motorola fashion, when you look really close at the images of the wide cameras, there’s a certain processed or painterly effect to fine detail in many shots. 

It’s a common effect of pixel binning the very best avoid, as while the Motorola Edge 60 Pro’s 50MP cameras look great on a spec sheet, they are really designed to capture 12.5-megapixel pics.

Switch to video, and the Motorola Edge 60 Pro lets you shoot at up to 4K resolution at 30 frames per second. No 4K/60? That’s right. 

This is not a limitation of the processor or the sensor hardware, and seems a strange cut-off when even the Edge 20 Pro from 2021 was able to shoot at 4K/60 or 8K/30. 4K video looks detail-packed, and the phone can use both the ultra-wide and 3x zoom cameras while shooting video too. But this is clearly a weak point of the Motorola Edge 60 Pro. 

This phone’s selfie camera has a 50MP sensor just like the ultra-wide. And that resolution is used to provide two views for the front camera: one for solo selfies, and a wide one for group pics. Selfies are decent, but don’t come expecting incredible detail, as fine areas like facial hair end up looking a bit processed and synthetic in indoor lighting. 

Performance

• MediaTek Dimensity 8350 4nm CPU
• 12GB RAM
• 512GB storage

The Motorola Edge 60 Pro has a MediaTek Dimensity 8350 processor. While it comes from a less respected brand, it’s significantly more capable than the Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 of last year’s Edge 50 Pro. 

It brings a solid, yet not mind-blowing, increase to general CPU performance, but a terrific one to graphics and gaming power. The Motorola Edge 60 Pro doesn’t shine quite as brightly in this year-on-year generational context. For example, the Edge 40 Pro is slightly more powerful, despite being an older model. 

It was also a more expensive phone, though, back in 2023. And that the mid-range Motorola Edge 60 Pro essentially offers us the flagship performance of a couple of generations back is not bad at all. 

It pips the Nothing Phone 2 for graphics power, and roughly matches it for CPU performance too. 

One potentially major problem is that the Motorola Edge 60 Pro suffers from very marked GPU throttling when, based on my testing, the phone’s internal temperature reaches 40 degrees centigrade. At this point, which happened after seven minutes of gaming in my test, the phone drops to around 43% of its max power. 

I used to see such drops all the time in flagship phones. But you might have hoped the Motorola Edge 60 Pro would fare better, given it has a relatively new late-2024 chipset. Of course, this throttling behaviour was likely tailored by Motorola to avoid obvious overheating. 

The day-to-day feel of the Motorola Edge 60 Pro is great. It’s fast and responsive, and the relatively elegant haptics also add to the overall experience. 

Software & AI

• Android 15
• Has some new AI features
• Generally clean interface

Motorola has been praised for years for its light-touch approach to Android. But, like every other tech company, it has not been able to resist the draw of AI. 

The Motorola Edge 60 Pro features a customised AI interface available through the phone’s search bar. It also hangs around as a shortcut on the side of the screen by default, but I’d strongly recommend deleting that, as I found it got in the way all the time. 

When you look deeper, though, you realise these supposed AI features are largely just shortcuts to core phone features like the voice recorder and camera. And you can’t even fire them up using a voice prompt, as the actual voice assistant is plain old Google Gemini. 

This isn’t really AI at all. It’s just a shortcut bar piggybacking off the Google Gemini interface. But maybe that’s not such a bad thing when a separate AI voice assistant from Motorola is not something anyone needs. 

There’s a Magic Canvas generative image AI app, but it’s basic and only produces 1MP photos. 

The parts of the Motorola Edge 60 Pro that do stand out in a more positive light are the things Motorola has had for years. Its lock screen design is quite charming, and more customisable than it was a few years ago. And there are gestures for feature toggles like the Do Not Disturb mode and torch. 

Battery Life

• Fab battery life
• Slower charging than previous generation
• Wireless charging (15W)

The Motorola Edge 60 Pro has terrific battery life, with even better real-world stamina than I might have expected given its 6000mAh battery life. I came from using the 5000mAh Xiaomi 14T, and this phone is leagues ahead of that one. 

At times, I’ve had more than 50% battery left by the end of the day, which is a rare occurrence given my phone usage. 

I’ve noticed no activities that seem to drain the Motorola Edge 60 Pro battery at an alarming rate either, making this mobile an excellent workhorse for media and gaming. Motorola gets extra points for fitting the 6000mAh in a frame no thicker than last year’s 4500mAh Edge 50 Pro too. 

Super-long battery life is easily my favourite element of this phone. And it’s thanks to one of the few interesting recent developments in mobile phone tech, a new style of Li-On battery that enables higher power density. 

It’s a good job it’s strong in this area because once again, the battery side also brings downgrades compared to previous generations. The Motorola Edge 60 Pro is rated for up to 90W charging, compared to 125W in the Edge 50 Pro and Edge 40 Pro. 

I found, using an 89W Motorola charger, it reaches 50% charge in 17 minutes, while a full charge takes around 46 minutes. Charging times are a lot longer than last year, but I’d take that over an Edge 50 Pro with relatively short battery life any day. 

The Motorola Edge 60 Pro also supports 15W wireless charging and 5W reverse wireless charging. But 15W charging of a 6000mAh cell will take ages. Cabled charging makes more sense for most here. 

As with so many phones today, the Motorola Edge 60 Pro does not include a charger. The official 125W and 89W Motorola adapters are available online. 

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