The BEST mid-range Phone?! Motorola Edge 50 Pro review

In my Motorola Edge 50 Pro review, I answer the big question: should this mid-range smartphone be on your list? And what separates it from the Edge 50 Fusion and Edge 50 Ultra? Let’s find out!

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CHAPTERS
00:00 - Intro
00:45 - Pricing and specs
02:10 - Design
03:39 - Performance
06:18 - Camera
08:47 - Moto Buds+
09:51 - Conclusion

[MarkEllisReviews]

Are you a mid-range or a flagship kinda smartphone person? And why?

[charananekibalijaun]

Bought one, using it right now, and i am absolutely loving it, it's a gorgeous phone ❤

[nltemin]

Taking picture of pants and that jhonny sins smile had me ... Burst out😂
Sorry to say but you are awesome

[GuddzGonzales]

I really love how genuine this review feels. It's definitely something everyday people can relate to. Thanks a lot, I really appreciate your work!

[rodneyjust]

Sub earned! Love your sentiment, mine exactly - anything in the past couple years works great for everyday tasks! I've been a moto lover for years, but the cameras have been blah. If they've fixed it, GAME ON! LOVE Moto gestures, chop, 144hz, 68+ watt fast charging,

[shannonrae]

I haven’t owned an Android device in nearly a decade. Back then they were still very glitchy and mine was no exception. I’m assuming all those things are in the past, but I’ve also grown so accustomed to the iPhone. Great review!

[jonnymarkbeadle]

If you're talking about Pantone, the colours company, it's pronounced how you see it: Pan (as in frying), Tone (as in musical note). Also, I hadn't noticed you waving phones about, but now I can't unsee it.

[sahilalikhan]

I just order it and i can't wait to use it because i have a very old phone so its very good time to change my phone and i like the curve display thanks to you i can finally buy a new one.

[henriquemagalhaes]

great review. you got yourself a new subscriber!

I'm exactly the same type of user and I agree with you, mid range phones are very good.

as long term motorola user, the only issue and I'm not sure about their support. it was a mess with the edge 30 ultra and 40 pro. Don't know how will they fare this time but don't expect much improvement, they hace huge delays delivering new software updates or fixing issues. If you don't care about any of this you'll be fine.

[TheLewisMeister-vhdl]

It also supports Hi-Res Audio and Hi-Res Audio Wireless.

[luiztomikawa]

I can definetly understand that sentiment now...

I had a Moto G2 for a short time, the charging entrance of the phone broke, and thus i had to switch it because it was impossible to charge the phone. But for the short time i used it, it was slow, laggy, in a few months i could few myself not being able to use it because of how slow it was.

So around 2018 or something like that, i switched the Moto G2 for the Moto G5. In the begining it felt great! Had more than double the RAM (Moto G2 had like 512MB RAM and the Moto G5 has 2GB) But now The moto G5 is Unusable... the Keyboard itself is an app, so when you open the Keyboard on another app, it lags everything, because it can't handle both things open at the same time. (Just Android alone takes 800MB of RAM, so everything that uses a keyboard is doomed because there is no RAM to spare)

Now i got an Moto G7. Still Old. Still only has 4GB of RAM. But now it can run everything comfortably. It does lag in some ocasions or another... but i can play games on it. I can write messages without needing to wait 3 seconds for each letter i touch to actually register and appear in the message (which is just an average, but not really far from my experience with the moto G5 nowadays)

So yeah, i can see how the past few years of "modern smartphones" doesn't feel that different from each other anymore, when they have more than 8GB of RAM and the processors are good, and the Storage system like eMMC or UFS are nowadays better there's really no real bottleneck anymore for most tasks.

The only thing now that i'm considering before upgrading my phone is to wait for a new midranger that already starts at Android 15, so it can have a longer longevity with the updates... Android 14 is already coming to the end of it's life cycle, so I'm going to wait for the Android 15 to trickle down to the midrangers before buying a new phone, (Since Motorola is really bad at updating their OS, just like 2 or 3 updates and then you're left behind) I guess anything with more than 50% power than my current phone is good enough for nowadays.

[crdkuvm]

I have a Google pixel 6a and I say phones are really getting better time to time

[terrym]

Will you be reviewing the Edge 50 Ultra?

I've taken a punt on one from Motorola UK which has it priced at £849.99 with free pair of Moto Buds Plus, and a free one year's screen damage cover.

In a recent Motorola UK's spin game I won a 15% discount on any purchase, so Edge 50 Ultra is costing me £722.49.

[KP-kysn]

To all those people complaining about 500+MB storage capacity and yet most of us have access to cloud services via google drive etc. 500mb is already way enough.

[blackballed]

This is a good phone for sure but I think a better bet is picking up a s23 ultra from last year for about the same money as much better phone and Moto have a sketch record with software updates. So the s23 ultra will get longer updates.

[mjdb]

Other reviewers complain that the camera is sluggish and having shutter lag. Did you experience this as well?

[danielleu.]

I'm waiting for this us release. I have the edge 2021. (It's not curved) And I love it. But due to wear and tear it's slowly giving up 😂

[greengem]

Software support on Motorola phones is quite poor in my experience. For that reason alone, I would not buy one.

[MrWh]

I highly recommend to try the Lenovo's DEX model. The wireless connection to a smart tv in my G84 is far more reliable and faster than my Fold 5. One is cost 380AUD, one is Cost 2500 Aud.

Sure, the OS update support isn't as long as Pixel and samsung, but the cost is just right fir Moto.

[ASignOfTheThymes]

At the £600 UK release price, no, it shouldn't be on your shortlist - or at least, respectfully, not until Motorola sort out some needed fixes and bring the price in line with how Motorola positioned the phone in other markets, if they ever do -

- issues which unfortunately, apparently, haven't been sorted out with the latest firmware/software patch release.

For instance, a lot of reviews have picked up on dropped frames when shooting in 4K, especially noticeable when panning, if you want fluidly smooth, look elsewhere for now, along with other issues.

I'm a big Motorola fan and new phones come off the production line so quickly, it's hard for companies to keep up with firmware/software patches, just that unfortunately Motorola have a poor reputation for timely patches/fixes, though I note that Motorola they have issued a statement that they intend to improve on that. Is that good enough?

I would wait and see. Meantime, if Motorola insist on sticking to the EU/UK release price, there are a lot of phones to consider at this price point, and far less, that give you better bang for your buck, depending on how you cherry pick! For instance, cameras are the important one, for me.