Well, I’ll get straight to the point. This is the Moto Edge 50 Fusion. This will launch for $23,000 without bank offers. This comes with a 50-megapixel Sony’s LYT700 sensor. First time in India with OIS. 144Hz curved POLED display, IP68 rating, 68W charging. Like, hold on. What is the catch here? Like, well, we’ll tell you. Let’s freaking go. You get this box, and upon opening the box, it actually gives off a good fragrance. You get the phone, a case, very little paperwork, a Type-C to Type-C cable, and a 68W, quite lightweight PD charger.
The really good thing is, look, this is a Realme 67W charger, and this is a Motorola 68W charger. This is so slick and small, plus it can charge your smartphone, laptop, and everything, and since this is a GAN charger, it will also last longer and waste less power. Thumbs up, like this is some eco-friendly innovation; I don’t think Mother Nature would hate this. Now, before we get to the lit camera part, there are three interesting things about this phone. Here are the interesting things about the Edge 50 Fusion, like starting with the build. I mean, this looks and feels exactly like its elder brother. The Edge 50 Fusion also has a premium look with a vegan leather finish and a metallic side frame. And it comes in three Pantone colors: forest blue, hot pink, and marshmallow blue. And I personally like this color here. And when you turn the phone, the display has, like, really few bezels. And see, I’m playing this movie Bloodshot on Netflix side by side with the phone 2A, and the Edge 50 Fusion here looks good. By the way, do you guys want us to compare the Edge 50 Fusion with the phone 2A or not, CE4? 10k likes, and we do that. Rest; the display is bright enough outdoors. Like this, it is 40 degrees in Delhi. You can see the icons, pages, and everything. And it has an IP68 rating. That means it can handle these kinds of But only with fresh water. This means… What does this mean, sir? This means you should watch this video over there, and you’ll get to know it. Another interesting thing, along with the display, is the performance here. See, you get these specs on the H50 Fusion. Oof, RapDragon and its weird naming scheme. Also, there’s a 12GB RAM plus 256GB storage version.
Also, if you have a look at the benchmarks, they seem good, but benchmarks and graphs don’t tell you the real-life story. How is it in real-life scenarios? So, I was on a video call with Shobic on WhatsApp and watching the Google I.O. live stream on YouTube and Android 15, and the H50 Fusion handled this task pretty well. On a serious note, how is the gaming? So, let’s fire up COD and see how it performs. So, you can play with high graphics at maximum frame rates. And the gameplay here was smooth, like there wasn’t any heating or anything. Also, this has 15 bands of 5G, and Motorola claims this is the best under 25,000. So, we did a speed test side by side on both of these phones on the Airtel 5G network. And the interesting thing is that it always had higher speeds than the Nokia 2A. We tried it multiple times, and sometimes it was 20–30% higher at 5G speeds. Also, one interesting thing to add is that it supports VONR. So, if you have a Jio SIM, you can turn on voice over 5G in settings, and now, if you see side by side with the setting turned on, when I make a call, the SIM stays on 5G and doesn’t switch to 4G during the call. This saves battery life and gives better call quality. So, from a performance point of view as well, the H50 Fusion is holding up pretty well. Another department where Motorola phones hold well is the software. So, you get the latest Android 14 out of the box, running on Motorola’s new skin, Hello UI. You will get 3 slash 4 years of software updates, and the software is almost 99.9% clean. Now you’ll be like, bro, why 99.9%? While I was setting up the phone (see here), I got this pop-up of the additional app that would be installed on the phone.
So you have Adobe Scan and LinkedIn, which you can easily uninstall with a tap. But other than that, see here; this is the weather widget. If I tap on it and grant permission, it’s asking for it, and I see you get ads in this app. Plus, you get this notification from the weather app, and if I’m trying to swipe it off, it’s coming back. I believe this is fine, but since I saw it, I mentioned it. Like you get all the hello UI features like Moto Connect, family space, and Moto Secured folder. So I can add my other Instagram account and use it separately. In the quick gestures, see here, you get quick capture, so whenever I have to click a picture, all I have to do is this, and the camera app is open. Oh, and I take a photo, and here is my selfie. Also, get ready for support here so I can connect my phone with the laptop, and if I enable cross-control, I can control my phone with the laptop’s mouse and keyboard. I can drag an image from my laptop, and here I can drop it to WhatsApp directly. And there are tons of features over here; the Hello UI has them and requires a separate video to break down and show all the features. So press that gray subscribe button so you don’t miss that wait. In terms of battery, you get a 5000mAh battery, and in my usage, it easily lasts you through your day without any issues. And it has 68W fast charging; a charger is included in the box. Also, a small thing to mention here is that you get a USB 2.0 port, so it doesn’t support a wired connection, or you cannot do a display via this port. Now, coming to the most lit part of the phone, the camera. So, you get a 50-megapixel main camera. This is a Sony LYT 700 sensor for the first time in India. And you also get a 13-megapixel ultra-wide-angle camera. The good thing is that there is no 2-megapixel BS. So, that’s there. And hold on. This time, we’ll take photos of our Dinesh G, not JIG. And in daylight, it is in good condition; it takes good photos; the color sharpness and light control are good. But if you see this picture, in some situations, if I zoom in to Dinesh’s face, it has that slight bit of over-sharpness. In ultra-wide angle, it is okay, like the colors and all is fine in this picture, but when you click pictures again in the sun, the HDR gets all haywire, like this is clicked using the main camera and this is clicked using the ultra-wide angle camera, like there is a difference in the colors, light control, and everything. But in this price range, you get a decent ultra-wide-angle camera. And on the front, you get a 32-megapixel selfie camera that can record in 4K, which is pretty good. And even the selfies here are quite good, like the same tone colors and the light control, and they all look pretty good. And in videos, this was interesting. If you’re shooting in 4K at 30 FPS, you can switch between the ultra-wide-angle camera and the main camera while the video is going on, and that’s like 2024 4K video recording on all cameras. It is going pretty well. Also, there’s this horizon lock, wherein if you even rotate the phone, the video stays stable. It’s a useful mode because it always keeps the subject in the center. So, overall, the main camera and the selfie camera here are good for the price.
So, what’s the conclusion here? So, here’s what I have understood so far. I was seeing the recent smartphone sales in India, and Motorola has almost doubled the sales and is closer to OnePlus. So I believe they already had good software, and now good specs under budget are working for them. And even if you see this Moto H50 Fusion, it’s a good overall phone for the price. The 8 plus 128GB variant starts at 23,000, and the 12 plus 256GB variant starts at 25,000. You also get a 2000 discount on iCSI bank cards, which further brings the price down to 20,999. The sale date is May 22nd. Use it if you have it. The only area they could watch out for is software updates. Rest assured, the pricing here seems quite good, and this is what Motorola has been doing for the past two years.
