Undoubtedly, the first feature of Motorola Edge 40 that attracts the attention of every user is its very beautiful appearance. The charming design of Edge 40 makes this phone stand out from the crowd of mid-ranges in the market. We have the green Motorola Edge 40 for review, which has a synthetic leather body, this leather texture is also seen in the body of the black and red models, But Motorola designers have gone for matte plastic in navy color.

The artificial leather used in the body of Motorola Edge 40 has a very pleasant feeling, this feeling, along with the ease of using the phone, thanks to the weight of 171 grams, thickness of 7.6 mm, and curved sides of the body, makes Edge 40 one of the most comfortable phones on the market today. The curvature of the back panel is connected to the sides of the aluminum frame of the phone with a slight curve; Motorola has also made the frame of the device to match the body color to make the phone look more uniform.

Besides its beauty, the Edge 40 body has very good resistance; So that Motorola has been able to get the IP68 certificate for its mid-range phone; In the sense that Edge 40 can last for 30 minutes in 1.5 meters of water.

The design charms of Motorola Edge 40 are not limited to its back and aluminum frame; Motorola designers have used a screen with curved edges and narrow borders on the front of the device; Features that generally belong to the world of flagship phones and we see few mid-range devices with them.

The screen-to-body ratio of the Motorola Edge 40 reaches around 91%, a number that even surpasses Samsung’s Galaxy S23 Ultra. The display of the Motorola phone uses an OLED panel with dimensions of 6.55. This panel supports a refresh rate of 144 Hz and videos with HDR10+ standard, and with FHD+ resolution, it offers a very good density of 402 pixels for a clear and sharp display of images and texts.

Thanks to the curved edges of the screen and reducing the thickness of the top and bottom edges of the panel, Motorola has managed to create a very lovely screen. To measure the quality of the panel, as usual, we go to the results of Zomit tests and measurements so that we can better and more accurately compare this new mid-range with competitors.

When you enter the settings of the display section, you will have access to two options, Natural and Saturated, of course, the Saturated profile is active by default. If you choose the Natural profile, the screen can cover 98% of the basic color space (sRGB). In the Natural mode, the color accuracy is evaluated very well, there is only a slight tendency towards the cold side, which you will not notice much.

In Saturated mode, which is enabled from the beginning, the screen covers 145% of the sRGB color space, about 100% of the DCI-P3 color space, and about 95% of the Adobe RGB advanced color space. According to these tests, the display of Motorola Edge 40 has a very good coverage of the color space and no fault can be brought to it.

Next, we examined the screen of Edge 40 in terms of brightness level. According to Zoomit tests, manual brightness increases to about 670 nits, and if you watch HDR content, the brightness number can go up to a maximum of 1475 nits, which is a good and attractive performance and puts the Motorola representative ahead of many competitors of the same price.

On the other hand, the minimum brightness of the Motorola representative’s screen is 3 nits, which is considered a reasonable number and helps you to watch the content of the phone without straining your eyes even in absolute darkness and very low light.

Regardless of color accuracy, color space coverage, and even brightness, the Motorola Edge 40 display has a 144 Hz refresh rate, which makes you feel very fast and fluent while working with the panel. The refresh rate of the panel changes between 60, 90, and 120 if Auto is selected and rarely reaches 144 Hz. The various features of Motorola’s new mid-range display make it easily surpass most of the competition.

Unlike many other big companies such as Samsung, Xiaomi, or Huawei, Motorola does not have a dedicated user interface and launches its phones on the market with pure Android; Of course, you should keep in mind that the pure Android of Motorola phones is slightly different from Google’s own phones; Because Google itself uses Pixel Launcher and a number of exclusive features in Pixel phones, on the other hand, Motorola has made small customizations on Android and added features.

Undoubtedly, the feeling of each phone’s operating system or its user interface is largely a matter of taste; Despite this, working with some phones has a very attractive feeling, and without a doubt, the Motorola Edge 40 belongs to this category. The representative of Motorola is sold with Android 13 and has a simple yet lovely user interface and switching between different parts of its software is done as smoothly as possible.

Motorola offers most of its personalization capabilities at the heart of an application called Moto App to keep the overall experience of the operating system as pure as possible. In the Moto app, you can find changes like gestures, fonts, or floating windows.

Motorola Edge 40 offers you many features; For example, you can choose how the curved part of the screen will look like when you receive notifications or how you can use the Split screen feature faster. You will have access to the Ram boost function and you can have your own space on the phone.

Perhaps the main software weakness of Edge 40 is limited Motorola support. The mid-range Edge 40 will receive 2-year OS updates; While competitors such as Samsung and Xiaomi offer up to 4 years of updates for their mid-range phones.

There is a turn, the turn of the hardware sector is coming; Where it has become more important than before in the last few years; Because in today’s world, the smartphone has the task of performing a large part of the daily tasks and even being a game console with you, and therefore it must be able to provide the necessary power to the user. Understanding the needs of users, Motorola engineers have gone to a suitable chip from MediaTek called Dimensity 8020.

The Dimension 8020 chip is produced with 6nm TSMC lithography, uses a combination of 4 cores of 2.6 GHz Cortex-A78 and 4 cores of 2.0 GHz Cortex-A55 as the central processor (CPU) and for graphics processing it uses a 9-core Mali- The G77 relies on

Motorola Edge 40 in two versions 128 | 8 and 256 8 is sold and it is not possible to increase the storage memory. The storage memory of Edge 40 is of UFS 3.1 type, and therefore we expect to see a good reading and writing speed. As you can see in the table, the reading and writing speed of Motorola Edge 40 surpasses many competitors and is behind Poco F5 by a small margin.

In daily use, Motorola Edge 40 works very smoothly and the phone quickly enters various programs. There is no slowness in the user interface environment and switching between apps is done at a good speed. For a better understanding of the hardware power of Motorola and the possibility of comparing it with phones of the same price, it is better to go to the tests performed in Zoomit.

Edge 40 also maintains its superiority over Realme and Samsung phones in graphics processing; But against the Poco F5, it remains behind the competition with a distance of 44%.

To better understand the power of Motorola Edge 40 and compare it with competitors, first see the table below to explain a little more about the hardware of this mid-range and its performance in games.

Motorola Edge 40 is considered one of the best phones in the market in terms of performance stability; So that it was able to pass the 20-minute and heavy Zomit test with about 99% stability. The representative of Motorola maintained its performance during heavy processing and multiple stress test cycles, and the temperature rose to a maximum of 42 degrees.

Motorola has launched its representative with a 4400 mAh battery, a capacity that is numerically lower than competitors, and the Chinese probably failed to use the usual 5000 mAh capacity to keep the weight and thickness of the phone down. This decision is expensive for the Edge 40, and in the test of Motorola’s new mid-range battery, it can’t perform as well as it should.

According to the battery tests and the experience I got from Motorola Edge 40 at Zoomit, I can say that the Motorola representative has a normal charge and if you have heavy use, you will have to plug it in with a 20% charge before the night arrives at around 6 o’clock. ; Of course, fortunately, in the field of charging speed, the weakness of charging is compensated to a large extent.

Motorola’s new mid-range supports 68W fast charging, and more importantly, the adapter is included in the device box. Edge 40 fast charging technology helps you to charge the phone up to 60% in just 15 minutes and up to 92% in 30 minutes. You have to wait about 40 minutes for the charging percentage to reach 100%, which is considered a good performance.

At a time when most budget phones have at least three cameras, Motorola has equipped its representative with only two wide and ultrawide cameras, and there is no telephoto, macro, or depth camera; Of course, we have to admit that most of the macro cameras or depth gauges available in budget phones are practically ineffective, and their presence or absence does not make much of a difference, and perhaps it can be said that the story is more about advertising and mind games.

The main camera of Motorola Edge 40 uses a 50-megapixel OmniVision OV50A sensor with a size of 1/1.55 ​​inches and 1.0-micrometer pixels. This sensor is behind a lens with an aperture of F/1.4 and OIS optical stabilization. The main camera supports multi-directional phase detection autofocus. The images of the main camera are recorded with a resolution of 12.5 megapixels due to the sensor using the Quad-Bayer color filter and combining the information of all 4 adjacent pixels.

The ultrawide camera also has a 13-megapixel SK Hynix HI1336 sensor with 1/3.0 inch dimensions and 1.12-micrometer pixels. The ultra-wide camera also supports autofocus and therefore can record close-up or macro photos.

As seen in the examples below, the Edge 40 photos are not perfect in terms of dynamic range, and the presence of the sun on the left side of the image has caused some of the details to be lost. In recorded samples, the level of detail is assessed as appropriate; But it is not great. By zooming in a bit on the photo, you will notice that the details of the facade of the building are soft and there is some noise.

Images captured with the main camera are in good condition in terms of contrast, and most problems become apparent when you zoom in on subjects a bit. Let’s go to ultrawide photos; Where we see a drop in the level of detail on the sides of the photo and the subjects look soft. The following examples are not perfect in terms of dynamic range and we see a higher noise level than the original camera.

Despite the shortcomings in the sample ultrawide photos, I still find the overall quality of the images to be adequate and the level of detail in the middle of the photo is good considering the nature of the ultrawide camera.

In the continuation of the review of the Motorola Edge 40 camera, let’s go to the portraits recorded with this mid-range camera; Where the subject is recorded with sufficient detail and the accuracy of the cut is appropriate.

Portrait images aren’t without their problems, and the background isn’t matted enough to create enough depth. In the example of a portrait recorded in zoom mode, the amount of background opacity has increased and the portrait has taken on a better state; But in the end, image processing seems to have some shortcomings.

Motorola Edge 40 has a 32-megapixel selfie camera with a pixel size of 0.7 micrometers. This sensor is placed behind a lens with an aperture of F/2.4 and can record photos with good details and appropriate color accuracy; Of course, the selfie recorded in portrait mode has exactly the problem mentioned in the previous section, and the depth of the photo is not high enough and the background is not sufficiently matted.

As night falls and the environment darkens, smartphone cameras face many challenges, especially when dealing with the middle segment of the market. The main camera of Motorola Edge 40 shows good performance at night and can record light sources in a balanced way. In terms of details, the samples recorded at night are evaluated as suitable and the resolution of the photos is also at a satisfactory level.

The ultrawide image captured at night is cooler than the main camera, and you can clearly see that the subjects are warmer in the example on the right. The ultrawide camera produces photos with average detail at night, and noise is also seen in the samples, which, of course, seems normal to a certain extent and is not unusual.

Next, we will have a look at the Motorola Edge 40 image gallery. Before finishing the review of the Motorola Edge 40 camera, I should mention that the ultra-wide camera of this phone can record close-up photos thanks to its automatic focus, and these samples are generally of very good quality compared to some competitors of the same price.

With a combination of reasonable hardware, charming design, and pleasant pure Android experience, Motorola tried to launch the Edge 40 as an attractive mid-ranger and grab a bigger share of the smartphone market. This veteran manufacturer has succeeded to a good extent in reaching the formula of success; So the ergonomic and colorful design of the phone, along with the flawless screen and the pure Android experience, will probably tempt many people to buy the Edge 40.

Motorola Edge 40 is not a perfect phone; Some of the competitors of the same price of this phone have a more efficient camera, offer a longer battery life to the user, and are supported by their manufacturer for a longer period of time; Therefore, if long-term use of the phone is important to you, you should go for other products; Especially if we compare the more expensive price of the device with a product like Galaxy A54 or even its hardware power with a more powerful product like Poco F5.

Personally, I remember the Edge 40 phone as a lovely experience; Because its beautiful and eye-catching user interface along with its good specifications made my opinion attracted to the new Motorola product.