Motorola Edge 50 Neo, Know the features and price
Smartphones with vegan leather finishes are becoming more commonplace these days, and the Motorola Edge 50 Neo has one too. The phone also has flat edges on all four sides, and the result is a smartphone that is easy to grip, even without a cover. That's a good thing because the Edge 50 Neo ships with a thin plastic cover that was quite slippery, and I found myself using the phone without a cover.
Jagruk Youth News Desk, New Delhi, The Moto Edge 50 Neo is powered by a MediaTek Dimensity 7300 chipset and is slated to receive five years of OS updates and security updates. It is one of several smartphones that compete in this price segment, such as the Nothing Phone 2a, Poco X6 Pro, Vivo T3 Pro, iQOO Z9s Pro, Realme 13 Pro, and the OnePlus Nord CE 4 5G.
The Motorola Edge 50 Neo is available in a single 8GB+256GB RAM and storage configuration that is priced at Rs. 23,999. However, the price of the handset occasionally drops under the Rs. 20,000 mark during sales on Flipkart or the company's online store.
Motorola Edge 50 Neo Design: Stylish, Easy to Grip
Dimensions - 154.1 x 71.2 x 8.1mm
Weight - 171g
Colours - Grisaille, Latté, Nautical Blue (in this review), and Poinciana
Smartphones with vegan leather finishes are becoming more commonplace these days, and the Motorola Edge 50 Neo has one too. The phone also has flat edges on all four sides, and the result is a smartphone that is easy to grip, even without a cover. That's a good thing because the Edge 50 Neo ships with a thin plastic cover that was quite slippery, and I found myself using the phone without a cover.
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The texture back panel on the Motorola Edge 50 Neo makes it easy to grip
On the back, there's a Motorola batwing logo in the middle of the panel, while a small section at the bottom, made of plastic, contains the words “Pantone Nautical Blue”. This is included on all Motorola smartphones with colourways developed in partnership with Pantone.
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Like most of the company's smartphones released in recent years, the camera module is located at the top left corner of the rear panel, which means it won't lie completely flat on a table or similar surface, even with the thin plastic case on. The words Dolby Atmos appear in faint letters on the top edge next to a microphone, while the bottom edge includes a USB Type-C port, a speaker grille, and a SIM card tray.
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The Motorola Edge 50 Neo runs on Android 14, and it has the company's Hello UI, a minimally tweaked version of Google's Android interface. It also includes several useful software features not found on smartphones from other manufacturers, including Moto Unplugged and Family Space. You can also use Motorola's wrist-based gestures to launch the camera or turn on the flashlight.
Motorola Edge 50 Neo regularly sends out notification spam (tap to expand)
Unfortunately, the smartphone also offers unwanted software that is automatically downloaded as soon as you set up the smartphone. These apps are downloaded via the MotoHub app, which also delivers content notifications to the smartphone every couple of hours. While it's not uncommon to see these annoyances on the more affordable Moto G series phones, it's disappointing that they're also seen on the company's Motorola Edge series of smartphones.Infinix Zero 40 5G Review: Mid-Range Hero?
This is one of the first handsets from Motorola that are slated to receive five years of OS upgrades and five years of security updates. While Motorola has a slightly spotty record when it comes to delivering timely software updates, it's good to see a long-term commitment to keeping its phones up-to-date. For example, the more expensive Galaxy A35 will receive Android OS updates up to Android 18, while the Edge 50 Neo is expected to get an update to Android 19.
We also run synthetic benchmark tests on smartphones to see how they fare against similarly priced smartphones, and the Motorola Edge 50 Neo outperformed the Nothing Phone 2a in some benchmark tests while it fell behind the OnePlus Nord CE 4, which has a more capable Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 chipset.
You can refer to the table below to see how the Motorola Edge 50 Neo fares in popular benchmark tests against the OnePlus Nord CE 4 and the Nothing Phone 2a.
Motorola has equipped the Edge 50 Neo with a 6.4-inch pOLED screen with a resolution of 1,200x2,670 pixels. This display is bright enough when used indoors and outdoors, and I found that it offered good visibility when I was outdoors in the afternoon. The phone takes a couple of seconds to automatically adjust brightness in dim environments.