Curvy and colourful

Review: Motorola Edge 60 - Elegant mid-range phone with good cameras

The mid-range model in Motorola's Edge 60 series offers a really good camera setup at a not particularly high price.

Published 22 May 2025 - 10:10

For a couple of years now, Motorola has been collaborating with Pantone, which creates various eye-catching colours that Motorola uses. Making colourful phones might not sound like the most original thing one can do, but according to Motorola, it has been a success that has given the company a different image and helped them reach new target groups.

It's not the only way the focus is on design in the Motorola Edge 60 series. The phones also have curved screens, with this generation being slightly rounded at the top and bottom, although the rounding here is less than on the sides. The back is also curved and has a surface of rubber-like plastic.

Using plastic instead of glass is both cheaper and makes the phone more grippy. The challenge is to ensure it doesn't make the phone feel cheap. I think Motorola has succeeded, partly with their colour choices and partly with the surface finish, which is subtly different between the various colour options. The one I'm testing has a green back with wavy stripes that provide texture. It is also available in a more neutral dark blue colour.

The Motorola Edge 60 is the mid-range model of the three phones in the Edge 60 series that have just been launched. The price is 5500 kronor, and for that, you get a phone with a 6.67-inch screen, 256 GB of storage (with space for a memory card), and a triple camera setup with wide-angle and telephoto lenses. If you choose the Motorola Edge 60 Fusion for 1000 kronor less, you lose the telephoto lens and get a simpler wide-angle camera; otherwise, it's pretty much the same phone. If you choose the Motorola Edge 60 Pro, you pay 2000 kronor more and get the same camera setup but with, among other things, faster processors, a larger battery, and faster charging.

Curved screen

The screen is excellent, of OLED type and with a significantly high maximum brightness that works well even in direct sunlight. The curved edges at the top and bottom are mostly a subtle design detail, while the sides are more noticeable. There is very little black edge on the sides of the screen. This is not entirely good. If you need to press something near the edge of the screen, it can sometimes be difficult to reach and get a response. The phone feels quite narrow in the hand, but it is still harder to use with one hand than you might think.

The screen is complemented by stereo speakers with clear and loud sound with good spatial feel.

The phone is powered by Mediatek Dimensity 7300. It was released last year but has proven to be a platform that provides reliable mid-range performance, and to this Motorola adds its fast interface. The result is a phone where you rarely notice that it is not this year's top chipset under the hood.

Battery performance, on the other hand, is directly and clearly impressive, with over 15 hours of screen time at maximum brightness in our test. This cannot only be explained by the battery being unusually large at 5200 mAh, but Motorola must also have optimised power consumption.

No charger is included, but if you buy one from Motorola or someone else, it can be charged with up to 68 watts, which gives approximately from one to 30 percent in 10 minutes and 50 percent in 20 minutes.

The camera setup on the mobile consists of a main camera with 50 megapixels and a 1/1.56-inch sensor, a telephoto camera with 10 megapixels and a 1/3.94-inch sensor with three times optical zoom, and a wide-angle camera with 50 megapixels with unspecified sensor size. The main camera and telephoto camera have essentially identical specifications to the corresponding cameras in the Samsung Galaxy S25, a phone that costs just over twice as much. The wide-angle camera in the Edge 60, however, is better with its higher resolution and autofocus that can be used for macro shots. The image results are also comparable to the Galaxy S25, both in daylight and darkness, zoomed in or out. In my opinion, the Motorola Edge 60 has slightly more natural colour reproduction, but the images feel a bit more sharply enhanced, which is especially noticeable if you enlarge them and look at them at 100 percent. I also compare it with the cheaper Motorola Edge 60 Fusion, and then the image result from the main camera is identical, I find it hard to see any improvement from the more expensive wide-angle camera, but the zoom camera certainly makes a difference. I think I can take pictures with up to ten times magnification that look okay as long as I don't zoom in on them.

Android with AI

The phone runs Android 15 and is promised three years of system updates and four years of security updates. Motorola's user interface includes what is recognisable from Google's own, but with some unique solutions in the form of motion gestures, how the app catalogue is organised, and a preference for installing third-party apps.

Artificial intelligence is of course also a feature in the mobile. The functionality is identical to that in the Motorola Edge 60 Fusion, so if you've read that review, you'll recognise it.

Motorola's Moto AI feels a bit tentative. Of course, there's Google's own Gemini, Circle to Search, and more in the mobile, but with Motorola's AI assistant, you can also ask it to pose a question to Copilot or Perplexity. It feels like an example of a situation where having options just makes it more confusing. Moto AI also replaces the phone's search function, which is not entirely successful. If I want to find an app on the mobile, a large language model must be called first, which takes a while.

With Moto AI, I can at least generate images from text prompts, get text polished, and transcribe voice calls to speech (not when you're calling, just face-to-face). These are functions familiar from other manufacturers and potentially useful. According to Motorola, Swedish language support will come later, but in practice, it mostly works to communicate in Swedish already. Transcribing text to speech, for example, works quite well even in Swedish.

A unique feature that Motorola has added is called “remember”. Here you can take a picture or screenshot and add a few lines of text, and through AI, a kind of diary entry is created with a description based on both what the picture depicts and your notes. A major downside, however, is that this diary is not easily accessible, either via Moto AI or in the app catalogue. I often can't even find them using the phone's search function. The only sure way to find the notes I've made is to create a new one. From the notification that an entry has been created, I can then click my way to the diary. For this to be useful, the diary must of course become significantly easier to access.

Admittedly, you get almost everything you get in the Motorola Edge 60 for 1000 kronor less if you choose the Edge 60 Fusion, but if you want an elegant mid-range phone with really good cameras for the price, the Motorola Edge 60 is an excellent choice.

Questions and Answers

What accessories are included? No charger, but a hard case made of recycled plastic from the Swedish company Good Company.

Is the phone waterproof? Yes, and not just according to IP68, which is common for top models, but also IP69, which means it can withstand being sprayed with water under pressure.

Where is the fingerprint reader located? In the screen. I don't think it's very good, quite soon after I've registered my fingerprints it starts having trouble recognising them.

An alternative

In terms of price, the Motorola Edge 60 corresponds to Samsung's popular mid-range model Galaxy A56. Samsung's phone is a bit faster but feels bulkier and doesn't have as good a camera setup.