Motorola unveiled the caller Edge 70 Plus smartphone, a peculiar variation Swarovski crystal Razr 70 (aka Razr 2026 successful the US), the caller Watch Ultra with immoderate Polar smarts built-in, and a magnetic wireless charger called the Motorola Snap astatine the IFA 2026 conusmer electronics show. Here's our hands-on with the phones and watch.
Motorola Edge 70 Plus
The Motorola Edge 70 Plus is the latest successful the large Edge 70 family, which already has the vanilla, the Pro (and Pro+), the Max, the Fusion (and Fusion+), and the Ultra.
The Edge 70 Plus comes successful 4 Pantone-curated colors. Motorola has gone beyond simply changing the overgarment occupation – the finishes usage antithetic textures and materials to springiness each mentation its ain character. Pantone Mountain View is simply a heavy wood greenish with a smooth, silk-inspired finish, portion Pantone Gray Lilac mixes mauve and grey and uses an acetate finish. Pantone Milky Blue is simply a brushed bluish inspired by aboriginal greeting skies, and Pantone Sage is simply a muted eucalyptus-like green; some usage Motorola's soft-luxe textured finish.
The Plus is each astir the design. It's a comfy telephone successful manus acknowledgment to its two-sided quad-curved signifier origin - some the beforehand and rear solid are curved astatine the sides and apical and bottom. It makes for a svelte and creaseless surface, and it sits nicely successful the hand.
The surface is simply a 6.78-inch 144Hz AMOLED, and it's precise contrasty and colorful. The slim bezels combined with the curved corners marque you consciousness similar you're holding thing but screen. Especially without a case.
Each Pantone mentation has a antithetic decorativeness connected the back, which results successful a wholly antithetic consciousness successful the hand. The Gray Lilac and Sage (that's the lighter green) are the slightest grippy. The Mountain View and Milky Blue each person a much tactile texture. The Blue is the grippiest of each four.
The antithetic finishes
Let's speech buttons, ports and openings. The SIM slot is connected the bottom, adjacent to the USB-C port, and 1 of the 2 stereo speakers. The different talker is successful the earpiece astatine the top. The Dolby Atmos logo is connected the apical rail, adjacent to 1 of the microphones. The powerfulness fastener and measurement buttons are connected the right.
The sides, controls and ports
Like different Motorola phones, the Edge 70 Plus should beryllium reasonably resilient. The comparatively pedestrian IP64 standing aside, it's besides MIL-STD-810H certified with SGS investigating covering biology stresses specified arsenic utmost temperatures, precocious humidity and precocious altitude. The beforehand and rear are besides protected by Gorilla Glass 7i, which Motorola claims offers up to doubly the scratch absorption and improved driblet show compared with competing lithium-aluminosilicate glass. As usual, the military-grade certification doesn't marque it a rugged telephone oregon warrant endurance nether those conditions.
Pantone goodness - Gray Lilac and Milky Blue
The Edge 70 Plus is powered by the 4nm Snapdragon 7s Gen 3, paired with 8GB of LPDDR5X RAM, which tin beryllium expanded virtually to 24GB utilizing Motorola's RAM Boost feature. The Edge 70 Plus runs Android 16 retired of the box, with Motorola's acquainted bundle attraction connected top. Google's AI features are beforehand and center, including Gemini and Gemini Live, portion Circle to Search is besides supported for rapidly looking up thing displayed connected the screen.
Inside, the telephone packs a important 6,500mAh battery, with Motorola claiming up to 42 hours of speech time, 34 hours of video streaming oregon 23 hours of societal scrolling. It supports 45W TurboPower wired charging, arsenic good arsenic bypass charging, which tin powerfulness the telephone straight during gaming to trim vigor and artillery wear.
You'd deliberation there's a batch of camera hardware, judging by the camera land connected the back. You'd beryllium wrong. You get a azygous 200MP camera with OIS, all-pixel autofocus, and an f/1.8 lens. It's joined by a 2MP dedicated macro lens and not overmuch else.
There's a 32MP selfie connected the other side.
Overall, the Edge 70 Plus feels similar a well-rounded precocious mid-ranger, with Motorola putting arsenic overmuch accent connected plan arsenic it does connected the spec sheet. The distinctive Pantone finishes and quad-curved assemblage springiness it plentifulness of character, portion the large 6,500mAh battery, 144Hz AMOLED and 200MP main camera screen the essentials. The Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 is decidedly mid-range, and the 2MP macro feels similar an afterthought, but our archetypal impressions are nevertheless affirmative – we'll reserve the last verdict for the afloat review.
The Motorola Edge 70 Plus volition rotation retired to prime countries successful Europe and the Middle East successful the coming weeks. We'll update you with immoderate pricing details arsenic they go available.
Motorola Watch Ultra
Next up, Motorola's latest smartwatch. Given its sanction - Watch Ultra - it's wide that this is Motorola's premier wearable astatine the moment.
It's a 46mm-sized circular ticker with a stainless-steel lawsuit and Gorilla Glass 3 connected top. Motorola hasn't yet revealed the authoritative weight, but it feels dense and weighty successful the hands (and connected the wrist). It's rated IP68 and 5ATM, portion artillery beingness is quoted astatine up to 2 days with the always-on show disabled, oregon up to 24 hours from a 15-minute charge.
The ticker comes successful a classical prime of either metallic oregon achromatic and supports modular 22mm straps. Motorola has 4 connected connection - the 2 breathable silicone options successful PANTONE Black Beauty and PANTONE Mountain View, positive genuine leather bands successful PANTONE Black Beauty and the brownish PANTONE Nuthatch.
The Moto Watch Ultra
Specs-wise, the Moto Watch Ultra is Motorola's astir susceptible smartwatch yet, built astir Wear OS by Google and Qualcomm's Snapdragon W5+ Gen 1 platform. It brings LTE/eSIM connectivity for calls, messages and notifications without a phone, on with dual-band GPS, Google Pay and entree to Wear OS apps done the Play Store. It's besides the archetypal Motorola wearable with Motorola Qira integration connected compatible Motorola and Lenovo devices.
Fitness and wellness tracking is simply a large focus, with Motorola erstwhile again partnering with Polar. The Watch Ultra offers slumber and betterment tracking done Nightly Recharge and Sleep Plus Stages, the Serene breathing mode, a dedicated Running Coach, enactment and strength tracking, calorie estimates and Energy Sources analysis.
A premium timepiece
Motorola Razr 70 with Crystals by Swarovski
The Motorola Razr 70 with Crystals by Swarovski is fundamentally the regular Razr 70 dressed up for Motorola's Brilliant Collection. It comes exclusively successful the Pantone Meteorite hue, with a quilted soft-luxe texture connected the backmost serving arsenic the backdrop for 35 hand-positioned Swarovski Crystals successful Silver Night. They're individually placed crossed the rear sheet and springiness what is already a fashion-conscious foldable a considerably much jewellery-like appearance.
The phone's hardware is unchanged from the regular Razr 70. You get a 3.6-inch outer show and 6.9-inch Extreme AMOLED folding display, a dual-camera strategy headlined by a 50MP camera, and a 4,800mAh battery, which Motorola rates for much than 36 hours of use.
The Razr 70 with Crystals
Arguably the coolest item isn't connected the back, though. Motorola has fitted a overmuch larger 32-facet Swarovski Crystal straight into the hinge, truthful it catches the airy whenever you unfastened oregon adjacent the phone. It's a neat small flourish due to the fact that it draws attraction to the Razr's defining carnal diagnostic alternatively than simply adding much decoration to the rear. A wide protective lawsuit is included arsenic well, truthful you wouldn't person to fell each those crystals nether an opaque case.
Motorola hasn't announced a terms for the Swarovski Razr 70 yet, truthful it's hard to accidental precisely however overmuch of a premium each that sparkle volition command. The institution lone says this is simply a constricted variation that volition beryllium offered successful astir markets globally, with pricing and nonstop availability to beryllium announced locally.
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