Motorola has officially presented the Edge 50 Pro as the first entry in the Edge 50 series. Equipped with a Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 chipset and a 144 Hz pOLED display that outputs at 1220p, the Motorola Edge 50 Pro also has a 50 MP f/1.4 primary camera supported by OIS and a 4,500 mAh battery that supports 125 W wired and 50 W wireless charging for the equivalent of $383.
Can anyone speak of the software quality and support of Motorola? Also the support of custom ROM after the official support/updates ended.
Software quality is great. Very near stock with a few great tweaks. Moto gestures are amazing, I use the chop-flashlight constantly and I know lots of people do too.
The updates suck honestly though. Security updates 1-2 months behind and you’ll get 2 version upgrades… eventually. Edit: their higher end phones get two, reportedly their budget line gets 1 usually…
Still though I like their phones. But as a techy guy I also know I won’t stick with a phone more than 2 years anyhow.
Some of their phones are guaranteed to get 1 OS update. 1.
Sony seems to be a king in the mid range recently. More expensive than Motos and Xiaomis - sure.
Sony Xperia 10 V
" Sd card slot.
Almost Pixel at home
All Sony phones (including their flagships) get two years of OS updates and three years of security patches. That’s rumoured to change this year but the Xperia 1 III and 5 III are not getting Android 14.
Are ya sure about the updates?
Sony lists software updates history. Some devices get proper updates like Pixels or Samsungs.
Which to me was really surprising. Japan can be really weird about software.
Lmao I totally glossed over that ya were talking bout Sony lmao
I can’t directly, but most of my coworkers are on Motorola phones, and they all seem to at least like them.
Edit: like them as in not get frustrated with their phone being stupid, and enough to buy a new Motorola phone when they need to chage their phone. No idea about custom ROMs or software support…in fact I probably should have just kept this whole thing in my head…
My experience is dated, but figured I’d share it in case no one else has any input.
I owned a few Motorola Android phones before and after the Google involvement. I think my most recent purchase was 2015.
At that time, they were extremely “pure android” with very few additions beyond the stock experience. The things they added were way ahead of their time - I still think those devices had the best “always on” display implementation to this day, and they did it way before it became a norm.
Their software and update support was rivaling Google at the time, and most other manufacturers were still in the days of 2 years of updates if you’re lucky.
They just stopped making phones it seemed like. I ended up moving towards Pixels over the years, but Moto is the one company that would tempt me to switch back. That or maybe HTC but they’re dead.
Hope you get a more recent answer - I didn’t even realize they were still making phones to be honest.
Can’t speak for quality. But, don’t expect quantity. There are moto devices who are yet to receive the android 14 Update.
Not great. My moto g7 power seems to be an exception as it has really good Lineage OS support.
Very stock Android, but they use older hardware for these phones and it shows. I had a moto g power, at one point it had to install updates and when it rebooted it sat at a blank home screen for ten minutes before showing any icons. I ditched Android altogether and went iPhone, but I heard really good things about pixel phones, so I switched back and gave my old phones to my kids.