After a month with the Motorola Edge 60, I think it's as good as the most expensive phones I've tested

Motorola Edge 60 two-minute review

I’ve tested loads of great low-cost phones over many years, but it’s rare for me to think “I’d actually buy this if I was on the market” given how I am used to premium mobiles. However, the Motorola Edge 60 earns this distinction thanks to its high-quality build at a shockingly low price.

The Moto Edge 60 is the latest member of Moto’s ‘top-end’ (i.e. not as cheap as its other options) range of Android phones and was released alongside a bigger sibling, the Edge 60 Pro, which I tested first thinking it would be the more interesting phone. How wrong I was.

At a glance, you’d think that the Edge 60 would be a contender for our list of the best cheap phones: relatively affordable, low specs, overshadowed by a more impressive device and finding one area in which to punch above its weight (in this case, and again just at a glance, the design department).

However this Moto is a wolf in… well, wolf’s clothing, and it offers enough value for money that I think it should be in contention for our overall list of the best phones you can buy.

The phone's design is a work of art. Moto’s Edge phones have long been some of the most attractive due to the collaboration with Pantone to offer them in funky and interesting colors, but it rounds out the package with a lovely-to-hold textured back, gentle curved-edge display, lightweight body and seriously study protections.

The screen is just as appealing, offering the same specs that you’d get in a phone twice the price, and holding up surprisingly well in the sun thanks to a high max brightness. There’s also a nice big battery, fast charging and way, way more storage than I’d expect to see in a phone at this price.

I need to mention price here, but every time I want to reference it I end up double checking “wait, is the phone really that cheap?” The price is lower than I can wrap my head around given the design and specs at play.

Some usual sore spots amongst Moto phones are offset here by the low price of the thing. The processor isn’t particularly speedy but I never found an issue with day-to-day tasks or even light gaming. The cameras would be fine for a mid-range phone but are surprisingly good at this price point; how many budget phones have zoom lenses these days?!

If there were any issues, it was in the software. Load up the phone and it’s chock-full of bloatware, a problem that can be solved by quickly deleting all the pre-installed apps and adding your own. And I found a few issues in the camera app that might compel you to take a little extra time when snapping pictures, but neither of these issues are deal-breakers by any means.

For the last few years, the cheap phones I've reviewed have mostly been blocky, low-cost devices that have ignored design or style in favor of hardcore specs. Motorola shows us that you can have an attractive phone that still works well, with specs that keep the phone running smoothly, all while keeping the price low. If I needed to buy a phone right now, to the Motorola Edge 60 I would go.

Motorola Edge 60 review: price and availability

• Released in April 2025
• Costs £379 (roughly $520, AU$700)
• No US release expected; AU possibly

The Motorola Edge 60 was released alongside its Pro model in April 2025, and was followed not long after by the Fusion.

You can pick up the phone in its sole configuration (12GB RAM, 512GB storage, blue model) for £379 (roughly $520, AU$700). A US release is unlikely due to differences in Moto’s release patterns there; it’s more likely in Australia as the Fusion sibling released there but we don’t know for sure if it’ll release.

For contrast the Pro model costs £599 (roughly $800, AU$1,250) while the Fusion sells for £299 / AU$699 (roughly $400); here’s where I’d compare it to the previous-gen version if I had one, but Moto skipped the non-appendix member of the family in 2024. However last year’s Edge 50 Fusion went for £349.99 / AU$599 (roughly $475) so it’s the best point of comparison.

With a price tag like the one it has, the Moto Edge 60 straddles the budget and mid-range phone markets, tempting to people who are on a budget but don’t want to settle for any old phone.

Motorola Edge 60 review: specs

Motorola Edge 60 review: design

• Only premium-looking phone at this price
• Lightweight with textured rear
• Comes in one color: blue

Design-wise, the Edge 60 isn’t that different from its contemporaries or predecessors, but I dubbed the Pro the “best-looking phone of the year” and this model is the same — the only real change Moto made is a good one.

Motorola’s long-standing partnership with paint company Pantone continues with the Edge 60, but only to a limited degree: there’s only one single color option. This is called Gibraltar Sea and it’s a royal blue that’s dignified, though I can’t help but feel longing for the selection of vibrant colors other Edge mobiles have come in. Apparently in some countries a green version called Shamrock is available, but in the UK it’s just blue.

Like other members of the cohort, and most past generations of Edge, the 60 has a curved-edge display a premium though divisive feature which makes handsets feel a lot more comfortable to hold… though sometimes prone to accidental touches (something I never encountered).

On the back, the camera bump doesn’t poke out too far, and is incorporated into the rear of the device as you can see in images. The back is smooth and textured — apparently it’s made of silicone but it feels just like leather to me.

The edges offer a volume rocker and power button on the right edge, and a USB-C port — sadly no 3.5mm jack, though the phone is so thin that I don’t even know if one would fit. To be precise it measures 161.2 x 73.1 x 7.9mm and weighs 179g.

Another premium feature on offer is the protection: the phone has IP69 protection against immersion in water and fine objects, and also the military-standard MIL-STF-810H rating which means it’s safe in certain rugged conditions.

The bespoke AI key of the Edge 60 Pro is absent here, an omission I’ll detract exactly no points for as it wasn’t very useful and I’m happy to see it go.

• Design score: 4 / 5

Motorola Edge 60 review: display

• 6.67 inches, 2712 x 1220 resolution
• 120Hz refresh rate, 20:9 aspect ratio
• Easy to see in sunlight

Motorola has put a 6.67-inch pOLED screen in the Edge 60, a size which must be the most popular across the entire Android market… though bear in mind the curved edges of the mobile mean it’s not all viewing space.

The resolution is 1220 x 2712 which matches the Pro and it’s stretched on a 20:9 aspect ratio. The refresh rate is 120Hz and the phone supports HDR10+; most of these are standard for Androids, especially at this price.

The max brightness of 4500 nits is great though, ensuring that you can see the screen in the sun (or blind yourself when you turn on the device at night).

It’s hard to fault the Edge 60’s screen, given that you can pay more than double the amount to get the same specs. It’s good-looking with vibrant colors and a few customization options too.

• Display score: 4 / 5

Motorola Edge 60 review: software

• Android 15 with three guaranteed updates
• Moto AI app isn't very useful
• Packed with bloatware

Motorola remains one of the few Android phone makers to use stock (or near-stock) Android, even though myriad tweaks ensure that the software on its phones feel distinct to on Google phones.

The Edge 60 comes with Android 15, the latest iteration of the software for 2025, and Moto has pledged at least three years of software updates. Given the arms race that is ‘phone companies announcing long shelf lives for their phones’, three years falls short of a fair few rivals (and even the Edge 60 Pro), but this will only be an issue for people who want their phone to have every new feature as it comes – the mobile will likely get security updates for much longer.

Despite not having an AI key like the Pro, the Edge 60 still comes with a Moto AI app which is a smart assistant and image generator rolled into one. However Google Assistant is much quicker for triggering tasks around your phone and image generators aren’t exactly things most people use every day, so I didn’t do much with Moto AI beyond checking it out for this review.

One thing you can do with it is create a wallpaper for your phone. Customization has always been strong on Motorola phones and that’s no different here: you can change font, color scheme, icon shapes, the animation that appears when you unlock the phone with your fingerprint, the light that appears on the screen curves when you get a notification, and so on.

As a final gripe: Android has always been popular as it’s a clean, simple user interface, but Motorola has included bloatware in the Edge 60 Pro. No, I’m not talking about the ever-growing list of Google apps that all Android phones come with, or even Moto’s own suite of apps (the function of many of which remains unclear).

But when I booted up my phone it already had apps like TikTok, Amazon Music, LinkedIn, Opera and whatever Perplexity is. I’ve never used any of these apps and don’t plan to start just because they’re cluttering up my phone screen.

• Software score: 3.5 / 5

Motorola Edge 60 review: cameras

• 50MP main, 50MP ultra-wide and 10MP telephoto cameras
• 50MP front-facing
• Pictures look dull and colorless
• Offers the standard range of camera modes

Having tested countless Motorola phones over the years, I’m used to the camera array being their Achilles’ Heel; I gave the Pro model only three stars out of five in this department. However the Moto Edge 60 has the exact same camera set-up for a much lower price, making it a pretty great-value budget camera phone.

There are three rear cameras on the Edge 60: a 50MP main, 50MP ultra-wide and 10MP telephoto for 3x zoom and yes, before you ask, that’s surprisingly solid hardware for a phone at this price. I don’t remember the last time I saw a budget phone with a zoom lens.

Photos taken on the main camera look decent, as they’re clear and bright, although not especially vibrant in terms of color and I did see a few white areas get blown out in multiple photos I took.

The ultra-wide camera has a few issues – pictures could be quite distorted around the edges, and the color profile of snaps taken on it were quite different to ones taken on the other cameras (look at how the sky changes in samples below).

But getting to enjoy a zoom camera helped me calm these woes. The 3x zoom lets you get closer to details or create a nice depth of field for close-up shots, and you can even zoom digitally up to 30x but these images were really blobby and unclear.

A few other snafus affected my results with the camera: at one point Portrait Mode decided to keep my background perfectly clear but add ‘bokeh’ solely to me, in the foreground, and sometimes AI modes like Night Mode would change quite substantially between capturing a picture and it being processed in the gallery, in at least one case creating a much worse image.

In terms of a feature set, Motorola includes all the standard ones (like Portrait and Night, which I’ve mentioned before, and slow-mo video, panorama, time lapse, you know the ilk). But there aren’t any unique additions that change the game.

The selfie camera clocks in at 50MP and it performs pretty identically to its rear counterpart: it’s bright and clear but colors could be more exciting. Portrait Mode was, at least on this camera, pretty accurate in what it blurred.

• Camera score: 3.5 / 5

Motorola Edge 60 camera samples

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Motorola Edge 60 review: performance and audio

• Mid-range Dimensity 7300 chipset
• 12GB RAM and 512GB Storage
• Dolby Atmos-tuned stereo speakers

A clear sign of a cheap phone is its processor but the MediaTek Dimensity 7300 used in the Edge 60 handled everything well (a surprise since we found it struggled in the CMF Phone Pro 2). Moto has already used this chipset in the Edge 50 Neo but that had less RAM.

Using the Geekbench 6 benchmarking test, the Moto returned an average multi-core score of 2988, which is roughly the same as the Edge 50 Pro – you’re not getting blazing-fast speeds but for most everyday tasks it's totally fine.

That shows in day-to-day use: I rarely found performance issues during testing except during gaming, which occasionally could be stuttery or laggy but for the most part was fine too. Just don’t expect to play top-end mobile games and get out unscathed.

As mentioned before, the Edge 60 only comes in one configuration, and it’s a surprising one for a low-cost phone. You get 12GB RAM, which undoubtedly helps with the performance speeds of the phone, and 512GB which is practically unheard of at this cost. That’s absolutely loads of extra space for photos, apps or downloaded games.

Moto doesn’t put 3.5mm headphone jacks in its Edge phones any more so you can only enjoy wired audio with an adaptor from its USB-C port. Your other ways of listening to audio are via Bluetooth or the stereo speakers which are, despite being Dolby Atmos tuned, just phone speakers – not exactly an audiophile’s paradise.

• Performance score: 3.5 / 5

Motorola Edge 60 Pro review: battery life

• Large 5,200mAh battery
• 68W wired charging
• No wireless or reverse charging

Motorola has packed the Edge 60 Pro with a massive 6,000mAh battery, which is markedly bigger than the cell in its predecessor, though thThe Moto Edge 50 comes with a 5,200mAh battery, which marks a small size increase from the last-gen Edge members, but overall is pretty standard for a phone of its size in 2025.

In my testing the battery easily lasted a full day of use, but I wouldn’t rely on it to make it through a second day of use without charging; if you do much gaming or video streaming you might only get one day of use out of it per charge, although that’d involve a fair amount of screen time.

Through normal use I generally saw the phone drop to between 20% and 50% by the time I went to bed, which rules out a second day of use but shows there’s wiggle room for me to use it more.

The Edge 60 supports 68W wired charging, which is a nice bristling speed that’ll see the battery charged in well under an hour – from empty, it takes just over 45 minutes to get to full if you’re not using the phone.

• Battery score: 4 / 5

Motorola Edge 60 review: value

If you skipped straight to this section: I’ve spent the past six sections waxing lyrical about how every aspect of the Motorola Edge 60 punches above its weight.

By ‘weight,' of course, I mean price. You’re getting a phone that’s better-looking than its same-price rivals as well as one that’s equipped by a better camera array, offering more storage, packing a more attractive display and lasting longer.

The value proposition here is seriously impressive, and I give the full five stars because I don’t see any companies doing better. Obviously if you find this thing at a discount, it would be an even better value, but don't wait for a sale to pick it up.

• Value score: 5 / 5

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How I tested the Motorola Edge 60

• Review test period = 2 weeks
• Testing included = Everyday usage, including web browsing, social media, photography, video calling, gaming, streaming video, music playback
• Tools used = Geekbench 6, Geekbench ML, GFXBench, native Android stats

Our usual testing period at TechRadar is two weeks but I ended up using the Motorola Edge 60 for over a month. The first few weeks were lab tests while in the last few I used it as my normal phone, and it had a lot of crossover with the Pro model which I tested beforehand.

Lab tests included benchmark and battery tests while everyday use saw me use the phone for gaming, photography and video streaming, amongst other tasks.

I've been reviewing smartphones for TechRadar for six and a half years now, and have tested plenty of Moto devices (including loads of the Edge family).

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First reviewed June 2025