Sizzling on the heels of the latest iPhone Air launch, it seems to be like Motorola would be the subsequent firm to enter the slim-phone ring with the Edge 70 handset.
The information comes courtesy of serial leaker Evan Blass who took to X to showcase what seems to be advertising and marketing materials for the supposed Motorola Edge 70, showcasing a really slim kind issue and a luscious inexperienced colourway with accented digital camera lenses.
The advert describes the cellphone as being “impossibly skinny”, however what’s attention-grabbing to see is the brand new that means that the corporate’s current “what’s your edge?” slogan takes on following the discharge of the Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge, which is essentially the most prolific Android cellphone but to stick to an ultra-slim construct.
At this level, nothing else is thought concerning the system apart from that it seems to proceed Motorola’s partnership with Pantone as you’ll be able to simply make out one of many firm’s framed color strips on the backside of the cellphone, so there are certain to be different colourways on the horizon.
There’s additionally no different point out of further telephones launching alongside the usual Edge 70. For context, final 12 months’s Motorola Edge 60 vary included the higher-end Edge 60 Professional, the common Edge 60 and the extra reasonably priced Edge 60 Fusion.
Motorola’s Edge handsets additionally usually have an ‘Extremely’ choice, however this leak, if true, would all however affirm that there isn’t a Edge 60 Extremely coming to market and that Motorola has shifted its focus completely to the newer vary.
Whereas the usual Motorola Edge 60 has a decent array of options, it suffered with HDR points, whereas costlier Edge 60 Professional ended up being certainly one of our favorite mid-range handsets of the 12 months to this point.
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Identical to its supposed follow-up, the 60 Professional was additionally splendidly slim, although its 8.2mm chassis is considerably thicker than the 5.8mm Galaxy S25 Edge and 5.6mm iPhone Air.
Provided that Samsung’s and Apple’s telephones are so new, it’s laborious to inform but whether or not the gamble to push ahead with slimmer telephones will repay, significantly as the necessities essential for constructing such a slim system often come at the price of a number of key options.
The iPhone Air, as an illustration, has a smaller battery than the extra reasonably priced iPhone 17, so we’ll have to attend and see whether or not or not shoppers suppose that the trade-offs are price it. Nonetheless, having another choice within the ring can solely assist to innovate the sector, so regulate Tech Advisor for extra information on the Motorola Edge 70 because it seems.