Motorola Edge 60 Neo

The Edge 50 Neo was my Phone of the Year for 2024 and very often my SIM Card finds its way back to the unit. So many reasons to love it which you can read about in my full review here on my Blog from October of that year. Because of this (and my love for all things Moto) I've been really looking forward to this updated version. If you read that review, you might wonder how on earth they could impress me with any changes. But I'm looking at specs now to find out...

Usually at the end of my phone reviews I'll do a recommended/not recommended with certain caveats or ways in which it could be better. The review of the Edge 50 Neo is notable for not having any of that at the end, it was such a well-rounded device with everything I could possibly want. So more the fear now will be whether or not they are going to take anything away from my apparently perfect phone!

So let's scout through the specs at GSMArena in the usual way and see what we can pick up. I guess Gorilla Glass 3 on the front could have been a more robust version and sure enough, Gorilla Glass 7i has been added to the 60 instead, which should make for less chance of scratching/breaking on impact (though my carefully-used 50 has none of that, 18 months on). The IP6/8 on the 50 has been upped to include IP6/9 for 'high pressure water in industrial environments' and MIL-STD-810H compliance retained.

I'm delighted to see that they haven't followed the general trend in making the phone bigger as it retains the dinky 6.36" screen. With the exact same dimensions it's a truly pocketable, one-handed phone, for those who have good eyes still (or happy to wear glasses when needed if they're old and knackered like mine)! The lovely P-OLED panel looks to be the exact same with optical, under-glass fingerprint scanner. The specs also show that it has an LTPO display still with AoD which was a bit of a worry for me, given that they supplied the 'global' Edge 60 Pro with a non-LTPO display and only people in India could get the LTPO version.

Being released in autumn 2025 it would have certainly been nice to see it arrive with Android 16 instead of 15, but with Android kinda plateauing out largely these days and the promise of 5 OS updates retained this time, it's not such a worry really. Still wonder what Moto are going to do with M3E (if anything) on their HelloUI on top of Android.

The chipset has been upgraded from the Mediatek Dimensity 7300 (4nm) to 7400 (4nm). If there was one area where an increase in performance could have been implemented, maybe this was it - but in my review of the 50 I also noted that for most people, almost all of the time, it was just fine. The slowdown I noted was during heavier data-copying tasks, but not at all day-to-day stuff. The 7400 was used in this year's Edge 60 (well, the Indian one anyway) and yes, it's an incremental update and I shall be keen to see the difference in real-world use.

The internal storage options are much the same from 128GB/8GB to 512GB/12GB depending on region for availability I guess. My 50 is 256GB/8GB and it seems to hit the sweet spot there, having no trouble running multiple tasks and even driving Smart Connect regularly. One tech-spec that is different though is that the storage on the new 60 is uMCP instead of UFS 2.2. What difference this makes, it seems, relies on a whole bunch of different factors which one needs to be a tech-head to understand and follower on benchmark tests! I'm perfectly confident that this will not cause a huge issue for Joe Public.

I expect Smart Connect to be exact same as all the Moto phones now, not wired, but wireless now works perfectly well given a decent home network.

The battery is something of note as the 50, with stonkingly good performance in this respect in my findings from its 4,310mAh unit has been usurped by a 5,200mAh unit in the 60. I can only imagine that this will take the 50 experience of a good two days to a 60 one of a good long weekend! From what I can uncover online, this battery is Lithium-ion still rather than Silicon-carbon, used in the upcoming Edge 70 by Moto and other OEMs far-east. The 68W wired and 15W wireless Qi charging have both been retained but I'm guessing now that there's not going to be a charger in the box! Maybe in some regions they will retain that practice.

The stereo speakers on the 50 were just great and my guess is that they will be just the same on this 60. Yes, they could be better, but again, for most people, most of the time for most uses they are very good and punch above their weight. There's only so far that an OEM can go with physics in a tiny little phone like this. Bluetooth has been upped from 5.3 to 5.4 but I guess that's really not hugely significant.

For those wanting to use cameras in their phones, it looks like the setup is identical in the 60 to the 50 to me, so check out my above-linked review for thoughts on the 50MP f1.8 main shooter with OIS, 10MP f2 3x optical zoom with OIS, 13MP f2.2 wide-angle with Macro AF and 32MP f2.4 Selfie - as it looks like it'll all be the same findings.

And that's about it really. Certainly an evolutionary, iterative update - but one which I shall be ordering on Day 1 for myself, not waiting for Moto PR to send a review unit! And the icing on the cake, for me, is that it's still going to be available in Pantone's Poinciana, the lovely red colour that my 50 has. The other colours are going to be Latte, Frostbite and Grisaille - no Nautical Blue and Mocha Mousse gone. Looks like it's going to be the same £399 release price, which will, no doubt, within months, be right down to £299 (if not £249). So those with an ounce of sense (not me) will, of course, bide their time!

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