Moto Edge 60 Fusion review: A clean OS experience, good design, and satisfactory battery life
Motorola has been making not just foldable smartphones for the past two years or so but also mid-range devices that aim to offer somewhat flagship design and looks with its Fusion series. The new Moto Edge 60 Fusion is priced at a base price of ₹22,999 (256GB) for the base model and goes against the likes of the OnePlus Nord CE4 (128GB) and iQOO Z9s Pro (128GB), so let’s try and check what all it delivers in this competitive price range:
The device sports a silicon vegan leather back on the Pantone Zephyr (the one I tried), Pentone Amazonite colours and the Pentone Slipstream with Gorilla Glass 7i on the front over the 6.67-inch (20:9 aspect ratio) curved display. The phone has a full plastic frame with rounded corners.
The textured back features the dual camera system plus LED flash and 3-in-1 light sensor and the Moto logo bang in the middle. The right side houses the volume buttons and power/lock keys that have decent feedback; the left side is left all plain; the top has the secondary mic.
The bottom locates the dual hybrid SIM card and microSD card tray, primary mic, USB type-C port as well one outlet for loudspeakers. The other outlet for the loudspeaker and ear-speaker grille next to the front camera is camouflaged quite nicely so it doesn’t appear like a sore thumb.
The phone is IP69 dust and water-resistant and also comes with MIL-STD 810H certification for its build. It weighs 180 grams and is quite comfortable to carry around but is definitely not meant to be called a compact phone.
The 6.67-inch full HD+ (1220x2772) pOLED display is bright, and has punchy colours—though I prefer to use it in the natural mode under Settings and can handle HDR content for streaming just well enough. The curved display can catch some accidental touches every now and then when watching something in landscape mode though its reflection on edges isn’t too high compared to previous Moto models.
Coming to the camera department, the phone sports a dual camera system at the back—a 50MP (f/1.8) main camera (with OIS), a 13MP (f/2.2) ultra-wide camera; and a new light sensor for ambient, flicker reduction and better colour detection. The phone can take detailed shots and handles exposure in outdoor conditions well. There’s a bit of an issue with focusing on the subject in medium to dark lighting conditions where it can jumble up some shadows and colours.
The camera app otherwise is smooth but can be a little sluggish when going through options and taking shots in low light. You can shoot and later in JPEG plus RAW formats from the camera. The front-facing 32MP (f/2.2) camera is quick to capture shots and has decent contrast as well as dynamic range to take good selfies. You can shoot 4k videos at 30 FPS from both front and back cameras.
Moto’s Edge 60 Fusion comes equipped with the MediaTek Dimensity 7400 chipset (up to 2.5Ghz octa-core processor, Arm Mali-G615 MC2 GPU) coupled with 12GB (or 8GB) LPDDR4X RAM and 256GB UFS2.2 storage (can be further expanded to 1TB using a microSD card). It runs on Android 15 with the March security patch installed.
The phone doesn’t come with any unwanted bloatware apps out of the box but with the last update, it did ask if the user wants to install 3 new games and suggested them again. Even if installed, you could uninstall all three games.
Moto has added some AI-related features to the device, including Object Eraser through the Google Photos app, and the ability to summarize notifications, take notes and transcribing, or creating images with generative AI through its floating bubble or by double tapping the back (can be configured for something else, too)—these features require you to sign in with your Moto Account in the first place.
The phone handled day-to-day tasks well and didn’t show any sluggishness when scrolling inside social media apps or using messaging apps while playing music in the background. You can notice its limitations: WiFi cannot be used with WiFi hotspot enabled, and for gaming, only games like Genshin Impact at around 40FPS and Wuthering Waves at lower FPS can be played—anything else higher would struggle.
Moto promises 3 OS upgrades and 4 years of security updates for this device.
Powered by a 5,500mAh battery unit, the phone lasted a day quite frequently and charged from 1 per cent to full in a little over an hour using the bundled 68-watt fast charger. The dual stereo speakers are quite loud and have decent depth to them for gaming and video playback indoors. WiFi and GPS performance are also quite satisfactory while the 5G network reception didn’t disappoint. However, the phone can become a little warm with the WiFi hotspot enabled for an hour over a mix of 5G and 4G usage.
If you prioritize minimal bells and whistles over the base OS, want a good multimedia experience, and do use some AI-related features every once in a while, the Moto Edge 60 Fusion is a good option worth considering. However, if top-notch camera and performance are your only factors, you might be better off with something else.
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