1y ago

What's the catch with Motorola Edge 30 Neo?

www.phonearena.com Motorola Edge 30 Neo specs

Motorola Edge 30 Neo specifications - Display: 6.3 inches P-OLED; Camera: 64 MP (OIS, PDAF); Processor: Qualcomm Snapdragon 695 SM6375 (6 nm); RAM: 6GB; Battery: 4020 mAh

It's actually compact, cheap, has oled, in-screen fingerprint reader, stock Android, NFC, Snapdragon SOC, supports GSI and has unlockable bootloader. Seems like a perfect phone (well except nonexpandable storage), so what's the catch?

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It isn't that compact. Comparatively, sure, but objectively, no. My samsung s10e is smaller and more lightweight and it's not even that compact in my opinion. There hasn't been a truly compact mainstream phone since the Sony xperia xz1 compact. Before that it was the moto g. IPhone mini was pretty small, but fuck apple though.
- Agree, but at the same time we also haven't seen a true big phone as well. Something like the Galaxy Mega, Huawei Mate 20X or Xperia Z Ultra.
  Its very unfortunate we only get phones between 6.0" and 6.8".
  
  Like this?
- Seen it in person yesterday and while it's not iPhone Mini-compact, it is very tiny compared to my Redmi Note 10 Pro
  
  zenphone might be another option for you too, I know that one was relatively standard/normal sized. Can't call them compact, in my opinion.

Does it support custom ROMs? I go4 a Motorola g73, perfect phone, except there's not a single custom ROM that supports it.
- Supposedly so; apparently it supports Project Treble, so you can technically flash any GSI on it.
  
  All Android phones support Treble if they have Google services, right?
  I haven't used a GSI before. How are they? What's the difference between a GSI and a custom ROM?

Its not compact, not waterproof, no wireless charging and not available in the US.
- it is compact in terms of Android devices, don't care for waterproofness, fair point for wireless charging, I'm not American.

Also large battery (4000mAh)
- That's actually small. For 6.3 inches I would expect 4500-5000.

The catch is probably Motorola's lackluster software update commitment (I think it's around 2 years. It's already been updated once, so you only have 1 big OS update left.) and the terrible chipset. The Snapdragon 695 isn't that much better than the Snapdragon 732G and the Snapdragon 732G phone I had was constantly dropping frames in the simplest animations even 2 years ago. This is not a good buy.

I think Motorola is just being smart. Now that xiaomi crap is becoming either too expensive or plain shit they saw a niche and they're filling it. Recently got the g84 and I can't believe what I got for my money - I guess they reduced their margins so they can own the lower end. Or medium end to be honest

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