Motorola is holding its return to flagship units operating for the second 12 months in a row with at present’s world announcement of the Edge 20 Pro, Edge 20, and Edge 20 Lite. The top-end 20 Pro features a periscope-style telephoto lens for the primary time in a Motorola system and features a Snapdragon 870 processor.

All three units assist sub-6GHz 5G, supply 108-megapixel rear-facing cameras, and embody 6.7-inch OLED screens with quick refresh charges. They’re resulting from arrive in August in Europe, Latin America, and Asia. While Motorola doesn’t supply specifics, it says that it plans to deliver a 5G Edge system to North America this fall.

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Priced at €699 (about $830), Edge 20 Pro comes with many options frequent to the premium midrange class, together with a Gorilla Glass 5 entrance panel, a 144Hz display screen refresh charge, and 12GB of RAM with its succesful 800-series chipset. Its fundamental rear digicam makes use of a 108-megapixel 1/1.52-inch sensor and f/1.9 aperture, specs that line up with final 12 months’s Edge Plus digicam. There’s additionally a brand new 8-megapixel 5x telephoto periscope-style digicam with optical picture stabilization. A 16-megapixel ultrawide does double responsibility as a macro digicam, together with a 32-megapixel selfie digicam round entrance.

A few specs don’t fairly measure as much as the flagship class, although, which was one thing we famous about its “great but not quite good enough” Edge Plus predecessor. For starters, Motorola is only committing to one OS upgrade for the device, which ships with Android 11. The 4,500mAh battery might be charged through quick 30W wired charging however there’s no assist for wi-fi charging. And its IP52 score means it’s protected towards splashes of water, however isn’t assured to outlive full submersion just like the IP68-rated Samsung Galaxy S21.

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The €499 (about $590) Edge 20 will get the identical 6.7-inch OLED with 144Hz refresh charge (although simply Gorilla Glass 3 on the entrance), however features a stepped-down Snapdragon 778 processor. Rather than the periscope zoom, it gives a stabilized 8-megapixel 3x telephoto digicam, however its fundamental and ultrawide cameras match these on the 20 Pro.

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The budget-friendliest Edge 20 Lite, priced at €349 (about $415), makes use of a MediaTek Dimensity 5G-B chipset, features a 6.7-inch OLED with a slower-but-still-fast 90Hz refresh charge, skips the telephoto digicam altogether, and features a greater 5,000mAh battery. It maintains the IP52 score of the opposite two units and nonetheless contains 30W quick charging.

We appreciated final 12 months’s Edge telephones, significantly the extra attractively priced midrange Edge, and numerous that was due to some sturdy digicam capabilities. It’s promising to see Motorola leaning into that energy with a brand new telephoto lens, although the very best tier system nonetheless seems to lack a few key specs to compete properly in its class. Maybe the midrange will likely be Motorola’s candy spot once more this 12 months.