Motorola will be holding an unveil event on April 22 to announce the new Edge series of smartphones. The Lenovo-owned company is expected to announce Motorola Edge and Edge+ smartphones. The latter is a 5G flagship phone powered by Snapdragon 865 mobile platform whereas the former is an upper mid-range phone with 5G capabilities. Ahead of the April 22 launch, the Motorola Edge has been spotted on Geekbench benchmarking platform.
The Motorola Edge+ was spotted on Geekbench 5 at the beginning of this year. Now the vanilla Edge phone has surfaced on Weibo with Qualcomm’s octa-core chipset that has a base frequency of 1.8GHz. Based on the reports surrounding the Motorola Edge, it can be said that the Qualcomm SoC that powers it is the Snapdragon 765.
The Geekbench 5 listing of the Motorola Edge reveals its “racer” codename and further states that it is equipped with 6 GB of RAM and Android 10 OS. It recorded a single-core score of 505 and a multi-core score of 1410.
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Motorola Edge specifications (Rumored)
The specifications of the Motorola Edge phone are no secret as they had emerged in the previous month. The handset will be flaunting a waterfall OLED panel of 6.67 inches with extremely curved edges. It will be a punch-hole screen that will offer full HD+ resolution and a refresh rate of 90Hz. The display cutout will be housing a selfie camera of 25-megapixel.
The back panel of the phone will be fitted with a triple camera system that will comprise of a 64-megapixel primary shooter, a 16-megapixel ultrawide lens and an 8-megapixel telephoto sensor.
The Motorola Edge may draw power from a 4,500mAh battery. Some of the other features that are expected to be available on the Edge include fast charging support, in-display fingerprint reader, dual speakers, NFC, 3.5mm audio jack and USB-C. There is no word on its pricing.
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