Motorola’s first Edge 60 phone feels like canvas

The canvas decorativeness lone comes connected this teal mentation of the Edge 60 Fusion.

Motorola announced the archetypal telephone successful its midrange Edge 60 series, which ships with a caller twist: a faux-canvas finish. The Edge 60 Fusion looks the portion otherwise, with its molded camera module and amazingly slim body, but the basal specs lucifer the debased terms tag — conscionable £299.99 (around $390) successful the UK.

The canvas-effect decorativeness mightiness beryllium 1 of the phone’s main draws, but it’s lone disposable connected the “amazonite” (read: teal) mentation of the phone. It’s besides launching successful bluish and pinkish colors, but these usage a faux leather decorativeness instead. Every mentation has IP68 and 69 ratings, meaning the telephone is afloat protected against dust, immersion successful water, and high-pressure sprays.

There’s immoderate planetary saltation successful the Edge 60 Fusion’s specs, but the exemplary launching successful the UK is slim for its size, astatine little than 8mm thick, contempt fitting successful a reasonably ample 5,200mAh artillery down its 6.67-inch OLED screen. Models elsewhere battalion an adjacent bigger 5,500mAh cell, but tally a interaction thicker.

The Fusion comes with up to 12GB of RAM and 512GB of storage, but is apt to beryllium held backmost by the comparatively basal MediaTek Dimensity chipset utilized — either a 7300 oregon 7400, depending connected the market, but there’s not overmuch quality betwixt them. Cameras are constricted excessively — it whitethorn look similar 4 connected the back, but 1 is the flash and different a flicker sensor, truthful you lone truly get a 50 megapixel main lens and a 13 megapixel ultrawide.

The Fusion is expected to beryllium the archetypal successful a bid of Edge 60 phones — determination were 5 models crossed past year’s Edge 50 line. None of those launched successful the US, and this year’s phones apt won’t either, truthful American buyers volition person to marque bash with January’s $299.99 Moto G Power, which lacks the Fusion’s OLED show and canvas feel, but has wireless charging. Motorola is expected to denote its updated Razr flip phones soon, with rumors predicting a woody finish, successful a throwback to 2014’s wood-backed Moto X.