Stylish design and improved capabilities for gamers… and fully charged in just 19 minutes
Motorola returns to the Arab market with a new advanced phone, the Motorola Edge 30 Ultra, with an elegant design and advanced imaging capabilities, in addition to its ability to transfer the image to large screens, wired or wirelessly, and work on it as if it were a computer through own style. Asharq Al-Awsat tested the phone, and we mention a summary of the experience.
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> Elegant design: The first thing that the user will notice when trying the phone is the 3D curved glass exterior design that gives it great elegance, in addition to the use of anti-fingerprint coating for a soft touch.
The edge of the phone features side lighting designed to allow display of new notifications and alerts, as well as for incoming phone calls, with the ability to choose from 5 color options.
* Impressive images: The phone offers a high-resolution rear camera system; To help capture a dazzling picture with the first 200MP main camera sensor, which is designed to capture more light by combining 16 pixels into one unit. This results in clear and bright images even in low light conditions.
The phone supports High Dynamic Range image capture to save images with balanced highlights and shadows and high-resolution images, even in varied lighting. The sensor also introduces an optical stabilization system to help eliminate unwanted vibrations, and deliver crystal-clear images and videos.
The phone offers an additional 50-megapixel camera that supports taking pictures with very wide angles and in high quality. It also supports optical zoom (using lenses) up to 4 times, as well as support for zooming twice to capture facial features with very great accuracy, without the need to bring the distance between the phone and the face to be photographed. And when shooting in portrait mode, the focal length between the width of 35 millimeters, the standard 50 millimeters, or the zoom of 85 millimeters can be used, and the third camera that captures the 12-megapixel image can zoom the image up to 16 times. As for the front camera for taking selfies, its accuracy is 60 megapixels, and it can take high-quality pictures.
> Video Recording: Now we move on to video presentation capabilities, as the phone supports 8K Ultra HD recording with more than 33 million pixels, the highest video resolution found in a smartphone to date. The phone also supports 4K display recording that meets strict HDR10 standards for accuracy, color gamut, brightness and contrast, to fill shows with dazzling shades of color and more realistic detail.
Connecting to Devices: The phone supports “Ready For” technology, which allows it to be connected to TVs and computer screens wired or wirelessly with ease, and broadcasts game shows and video calls from the phone to the big screen, in addition to the ease of running applications from the phone on the computer running the system Operating Windows, transferring files and photos between them seamlessly, and even copying and pasting content between devices seamlessly.
This, and it is possible to play more than 100 high-quality games, with the service “Xbox Game Pass” directly on the phone, and the ability to add more new games continuously.
Technical Specifications
The diagonal of the phone screen is 6.67 inches, and it displays the image with a resolution of 2400 x 1080 pixels, and a density of 395 pixels per inch, with support for the HDR10 standard to display the image, and it is resistant to scratches; Because it is made of Gorilla Glass 5, it has a built-in fingerprint sensor behind it that works very quickly. The screen supports 144Hz image refresh rate, to deliver smooth, interactive and more immersive gaming experiences.
The phone uses the “Snapdragon 8 Plus 1 generation” processor manufactured with a precision of 4 nm, which is one of the most powerful mobile phone processors on the market, and it is an eight-core (3.19 GHz, 3 cores at 2.75 GHz, and 4 cores at 1.8 GHz). This processor provides support for 5G communication technology, and artificial intelligence in order to speed up its work and achieve greater smoothness, while improving the main experiences of the device, and preserving battery life. The Snapdragon Elite Gaming feature reduces on-screen touch response time by using a touch-sensing rate of up to 360Hz when gaming, and receives real-time graphics and performance updates.
As for the rear camera system, it consists of 3 cameras that work with a resolution of 200, 12 and 50 megapixels for wide, long and very wide photos, with dual (flash) lighting, while the front camera has a resolution of 60 megapixels, and it supports taking pictures at wide angles.
The phone supports Dolby Atmos technology for stereoscopic audio using speakers on both sides of the phone, and it uses 8 or 12 GB of memory (depending on the version) and offers 128 or 256 GB of built-in storage, in addition to support for “Wi-Fi” networks. And b, g, n, ac, 6e, ultra-high speed, “Bluetooth 5.2”, and Near Field Communication (NFC) technology, with the use of the “Android 12” operating system.
The battery has a charge of 4610 mAh, and it supports 125W ultra-fast wired charging (the phone can be charged from zero to one hundred percent, in just 19 minutes, and it can be charged for 10 minutes and run for regarding 8 hours) or 50W wireless In addition to supporting 10W reverse wireless charging for charging various devices and accessories. The thickness of the phone is 8.4 mm, and it weighs 198.5 grams, and it supports the use of two SIM cards, and is available in two colors, black and white, at a price starting from 3999 Saudi riyals (regarding 1066 USD), depending on the version.
