Motorola Edge 40 emphatically sets a new mid-range Android phone benchmark

This is where things start to get a bit serious. Alternative flagship phone, as a category. Well, almost, very serious. Expectations are high, also because this is where the monetary outlay starts to get serious. It wouldn’t have been easy for Motorola, a brand you’d probably better recognise as Moto, to make a phone that’s competitive enough, and then goes a step ahead, without an impact on the price tag. Yet, a fine balance seems to have been achieved with the Moto Edge 40, a phone that’s banking heavily on a lot of segment firsts.

The Edge 40 is the first phone in the world to be powered by MediaTek’s new Dimensity 8020 chip – a risk, but from what we have experienced, one that’s paid off handsomely. Motorola didn’t stop there. They claim this is also the world’s slimmest 5G phone with the IP68 water resistance rating. Now that is a very specific claim, but we’d want you to make note of this – IP68 means water resistance up to a maximum depth of 1.5 meters for up to 30 minutes.