With its standout endurance, sleek looks, and smooth performance, the Motorola Edge 60 Pro feels more premium than ever – but it'll cost you.
- Good value for money
- Excellent battery life
- Premium design
- Curved display
- $200 more expensive than last year
- Fast charger sold separately
Motorola’s Edge series has consistently delivered the goods, and the Edge 60 Pro shows no signs of slowing down. At $1,199, the Edge 60 Pro has migrated out of the mid-range and entered the semi-premium tier on price, although spec-wise it's still behind Apple and Samsung.
Nothing stands out as particularly worrisome, but it still has some catching up to do, especially when it comes to lifespan. It has less than half the lifetime support of more expensive devices, with just three years of operating updates and four years of security updates. The phones it's trying to compete with come with up to seven years of ongoing support.
It should certainly be applauded for retaining its noticeably different design. In a lineup of devices released in 2025, the Edge 60 Pro certainly stands out. It’s attractive not only in terms of its aesthetics but also its killer battery life.
Display and design
The Motorola Edge 60 Pro continues one of this line’s key attractors – looking great. The device still sports its sleek form factor and lightweight design at just 8.12mm thick. It does stand out, whereas every other handset now really looks like an iPhone in a different font (camera bar).
There’s still plenty of screen real estate with a 6.7-inch pOLED display with brightness up to 4,500 nits, which looks great even on a bright sunny day. The refresh rate has reverted back to 120Hz from 144Hz in last year’s model, but that’s still in line with the standard for most of today’s phones.
The Edge Pro 60 continues to sport a curved display (now extending to the edge at the top and bottom as well as the sides). Once a signal of premium manufacturing, it's a trend other brands have moved away from.
While the namesake curved edge is a key part of the sleek design, it’s once again finicky in its execution. The detractors of the curved display will call out the more expensive repair costs, but my issue is the UI challenges. Not every app is designed with curved displays in mind, and this results in some small nuisances. A lot of apps put more detailed interactions behind "hamburger" or "meatballs" UI buttons, and more often than not, they're at the edge of the screen and take a few too many taps to get working.
Once again, colour is decided in partnership with the Pantone Colour Institute, with the Edge 60 Pro coming in Pantone colours such as Shadow and Sparkling Grape. Shadow is more of a grey or pastel olive than a more standard black that it alludes to, but it does look especially good and feels premium with the faux-leather finish. It certainly stands out in a sea of glass-backed devices.
The provided protective case is nicely colour-matched. If it wasn’t any clearer that Motorola really wanted to push the premium feel of the Edge, then there’s what it calls its “signature packaging fragrance”, which provides a delightful new car phone smell.
As with previous Moto Edge devices, while flashy, it’s no pushover when it comes to durability. It has IP68 dust and water resistance, and IP69, which means it's rated for protection against pressure jets. For the display, it uses Corning Gorilla Glass 7i, which Motorola says is two times stronger than the previous generation but is still only designed to handle drops from heights of one metre.
The latter is indeed necessary. I don’t go out of my way to harm devices in my reviews, but the thinness of the device, combined with the rest of its measurements, does mean it tends to slide out of your pockets when sitting more than other devices. After falling onto the floor from desk chair height, car seat height and impact from the seat of a Melbourne tram, I’m happy to report the display is in very good nick.
Performance and battery life
In terms of performance, the Edge 60 Pro is powered by the MediaTek Dimensity 8350 Extreme processor. While it’s a mid-range processor, it’s still plenty zippy when it comes to everyday tasks without any lag. Mobile gaming is nice and smooth, and I didn’t notice any overheating when playing mobile games like Balatro, Genshin Impact, or Marvel Snap. None of which had any noticeable impact on battery life either.
That’s because the Motorola Edge 60 Pro comes with a beefed-up battery of 6,000mAh, up from 4,500mAh on the previous model. That works out to the kind of battery life that easily gets you through one day and through the next with plenty of buffer between charges (with light to medium use, such as social media). Even playing the above mobile games on a road trip for extended periods of time, I still had plenty of charge at the end of the day.
It’s up there as possibly the best battery I’ve ever tested. Not so great for your screen time if you're trying to cut back, you’ll definitely be glued to the thing for hours.
When the battery does run down, you can charge wirelessly up to 15W or charge with up to 90W wired; however, you’ll need to provide your own charger, unlike with previous models. With the 90W charger, Motorola claims you can get a full day's charge back in just six minutes. But with a 60W charger, I could charge back up to full from 20% in just under an hour.
If you’ve got enough juice to spare, you can charge someone else’s phone with reverse charging, but only wired. It’s also pretty slow, reduced to 5W from 10W on last year’s model.
Cameras
The Motorola Edge 60 Pro’s tri-camera system is decent for the price with a 50MP primary lens, 50MP ultrawide and 10MP telephoto lens. It has the sort of performance I would be very happy with for regular day-to-day use, such as happy snaps for social media.
However, it’s definitely a weaker part of the device. While shots are almost always clear (some close-ups and motion shots can have a little blur), colours tend to oscillate between over-saturated in bright sun or very dull in most other contexts. It struggled to find the middle ground of true-to-life colouring.
It handles low-light photography well, especially when the subject is nice and close or for nighttime cityscapes.
Motorola Edge 60 Pro camera samples
Check out these camera samples taken on the Motorola Edge 60 Pro. Click or tap on any photo to see a larger version.
Motorola Edge 60 Pro – Final Thoughts
At the end of the day, the Motorola Edge 60 Pro is a very good device. Its incredible battery life is its best selling point. If you want something that’s going to last all day while you go about your life, then it’s a very attractive offer. But its price has gotten ahead of where its other specs are. At $1,199 it's pushing into flagship territory, and for $50 more, you could get an iPhone 15.
You'll have to compromise on battery life, but the Motorola Edge 60 Pro sits at a price point where spending a little more on a true flagship like the Samsung Galaxy S25, iPhone 16, or Pixel 10 might be worth it in the long term with double the updates and more premium features.
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