Durable and sleek, charming but confusing

Test: Motorola Edge 60 Pro - Slim mix

Both affordable and luxurious. Motorola's Pro model in the Edge family combines durability with a slim design, a good screen with long battery life, and also has a versatile set of cameras.

Erik Mörner

Published 13 June 2025 - 15:12

You undoubtedly get a lot for your money when you choose the Motorola Edge 60 Pro. Despite having Pro in the name, this is not a phone with the most extreme components or performance. However, this does not mean that Motorola avoids pushing the boundaries in several areas, and the phone meets many of the desires one might have for a phone today. Above all, it is thin and light with a clear focus on design. The collaboration with colour experts Pantone makes Motorola's phones stand out and have their own expression compared to many others. Practically speaking, when we use the phone, the screen stands out. It is good and bright. As the name of the phone suggests, the screen has curved edges, which makes the phone feel extra thin when you hold it in your hand, and visually it can be effective. However, it may not always be practically good because the reactions to touches on the edge are not always the best, and the colour reproduction can also vary.

Motorola's interface, the customisations they layer on top of Android, are characterised by relatively close collaboration with Google, and Motorola does not have many of its own apps. Instead, they rely on, for example, Chrome as a browser, Google Photos for image viewing, and so on. However, Motorola is keen to add a lot of third-party apps you didn't ask for, which can be an annoyance. Thankfully, it's quite easy to uninstall apps you don't use.

Destroys more than it helps

In addition to more or less good extra apps, Motorola has also loaded the Edge 60 Pro, as well as several of its other models, with Moto AI. Despite promises of being a personal little helper, summarising notifications from my apps, recording and summarising meetings, creating playlists, and helping me remember important things, I find it very difficult to find any use in these services. Motorola has established collaborations with a number of the most profiled AI companies, with the most well-known, Open AI and their Chat GPT, as a clear exception.

An example of what Moto AI does is summarising app notifications. However, it only works on a few apps, focusing on personal messages, such as Instagram.

When I glance at the phone after having it in my pocket, I am met with a dozen notifications and press the AI option “Update me”. The AI is supposed to bring out the most important and summarise, but what it does is rather the opposite. More or less regularly, it removes the most important and replaces that word with the word “something”. Yes, Moto AI does not fully support Swedish, even though it seems to understand Swedish passably. Instead of actually seeing what my contacts have written, I therefore get phrases in the summary like "Christoffer wants to remind you of something” instead of the original message where it stated what he actually reminded me of. Or “David is asking you about the status of something. The same thing there, I have to go back to the real message to get any value at all. Since Moto AI's summaries often mix up account names with what someone actually wrote, make pure mistakes, and formulate, for example, “Hannes Är uppehåll på att du inte skriver till henne och har där lappat en brev” it only adds confusion in these examples.

I would therefore say that Moto AI adds extremely little at present, but it is also optional to use, so it doesn't necessarily lower the phone's rating. However, let's say that there is great potential for improvement. Returning to the physical phone itself, Motorola has at least got most things right, and this means that the overall impression goes a long way.

First-class battery life

An unusually powerful battery means that the phone lasts a long time between charges, and when it does need charging, it goes quickly with 90 W fast charging. The cameras are versatile, provide good colour reproduction, and perform well even in the dark, but without having the larger sensor that the market's best, and significantly more expensive, camera phones are endowed with. The Motorola Edge 60 Pro doesn't have extreme zoom, but three times optical zoom goes a long way. Worth mentioning here is that the Edge 60 Pro shares the same camera setup as the cheaper Edge 60, so the difference lies instead in performance, battery capacity, and charging speed. Both phones are in many areas at least as good or better in practice than many significantly more expensive flagships. Because even though it doesn't have the very latest top processor, the power is more than sufficient.

Questions and Answers

What are the curved edges of the screen good for?

Mainly it's about design, making the screen feel larger and the content almost flowing over the edge. But Motorola also has edge lighting so you can see notifications even when you place the phone face down, although it's barely noticeable.

Do I get a charger and case?

No, no charger, but a case in the same colour as the phone is included.

Is the phone durable?

Yes, unusually durable, it withstands both dirt and water under pressure.

An Alternative

With a price around 7000 kronor today, the Edge 60 Pro is in the same price range as the Samsung S25, but Motorola often has significant discounts, so it may be worth waiting and keeping an eye out.