[Motorola Edge + (2020) Guides, News, & Discussion] crnkoj:
I know its late for first impressions, since the phone was released 1 year ago and motorola has released "an upgraded version" (honestly cant see much of an upgrade apart for the 144hz oled, more so mostly downgrades), but i just got it in a, in my opinion rather good, deal from lenovo directly for 499e new.

Ill start with negatives first as there are rather few that i saw until now.

Most of them have to do with the curved display:

1. The edges are extremely curved, have color distorsion and the part of the display is there but unusable for reading, hence the real estate is smaller as advertised. The display is not optimally calibrated, is slightly blue and you can change it manually (like on samsung or lg phones)

2. The aluminum frame at the side is slightly protruding from the the rest of the phone, so when holding it with one hand its somewhat annoying/irritating, almost painful when holding it for prolonged times. Somewhat slippery with dry hands. No protective casing.

3. As far as i can tell the camera isnt able to do more than 120fps in slow motion (i dont think its 240fps), even if i try with gcam only 1/4 works, with 1/8 not working. This is quite the schocker as most other sd865 phones can do 960fps, or at least 240/480fps

4. Gcam (7 and 8) works good with the main and the tele camera, but fails with the ultra wide (white dotted lines/raster on the whole image). The good thing is, the stock camera seems to be a modified gcam version.

5. apparently only 2 OS updates (one being Android 11, so only 12 coming) / but on the bright side, the edge 20 pro will get only 1 ^ ^ Naturally its not as good as Samsung or Google but its for half the price.

6. No custom Roms, apparently bootloader unlock damages the FP function (not sure if in android 11 as well)

7. Only single sim - at least the international variant. No SDcard

Positives

1. The phone feels really solid in the hand. It is a real premium feel. Entirely comparable to the samsung note series

2. The battery life is awesome. Currently at 42% and over 5 Hours SOT

3. The main camera and the ultrawide make great photos, the tele is somewhat underwhelming (zoomed in main photo, has almost same detail as the tele picture native)

4. 12GB ram, 256GB UFS 3.0, USB 3 connection, Displayport/HDMI support all for 499e

5. The motorola desktop experience, works like samsung dex, really useful gimmick

6. doesnt heat up much, consistent performance

7. 90 Hz display, doesnt eat up as much battery and subjectively its not different to 120hz

8. The moto gestures and functions are absolutely awesome. Especially the Peek Display. I really missed this from the moto z i had and sold a few years ago.

9. loud stereo speakers, though they could use a bit more bass and less mids and highs. There is some kind of equalizer which doesnt seem to have too much effect though.

10. For me with smaller hands the width is perfect for single handed use, both left and right sided. Though because of the high display its sometimes hard to press things on the top.

11. Almost no bloatware (except for the google bloatware) so basically as if you would be getting a pixel phone.

12. Bootloader unlockable.

13. 3.5mm Headphone jack.

14. Charger and headphones in the box!

Will be adding things when i use it more. If anyone has questions i can try to answer them. And if anyone doest agree with me, bring it up so i can try it out.