Motorola's latest addition to its smartphone line-up, is the Motorola Edge 60 Fusion. Packed with fine specifications and a tidy price, Motorola wants to show that a good smartphone does not have to cost a thousand euros or more. DroidApp tested the phone and discusses it all in the Motorola Edge 60 Fusion review.
Motorola Edge 60 Fusion review
With its Edge series, Motorola releases several devices in a broad segment. Recently, we arrived at the 'Edge 60 series'. Given the past, it seems inevitable that this is the only Edge 60 device, but for now at least, this is the only device in the series. Over the past few weeks, we have put the smartphone through its paces. You can read about our experiences in the Motorola Edge 60 Fusion review.
Unboxing
More and more brands choose not to include a charger with a new device. This is also the case with the Motorola Edge 60 Fusion. However, the manufacturer does supply a few other things with it. So, of course, we see a USB-C cable, a SIM needle and some paperwork. Interestingly, a case of sorts is also included. It protects the smartphone purely in basic terms, as it is only clipped around the corners, but it is nice that Motorola at least supplies something along.
Design and interface
The design of the Motorola Edge 60 Fusion is not very different from its predecessors. Motorola - like almost all other brands - applies its own design language, and that immediately gives the familiar look. The Motorola is comfortable in the hand and that is partly due to the back made of vegan leather. We have the Edge 60 Fusion in the colour 'Pantone Amazonite', or a turquoise colour. The vegan leather back does seem to attract some dust and you can see that reflected on the material, from dust hairs that are difficult to wipe away.
The smartphone does not feel thick and bulky, despite not being a small device. This is where the limited weight of 178 grams works well. The volume keys and power button are located on the right side, the left is empty. At the bottom, we find the USB-C connector, as well as the slot for the SIM card. At the back is the slightly thicker camera module with three lenses.
Motorola has placed a 6.67-inch slightly curved screen on the front of the smartphone. This is an AMOLED panel with a resolution of 2712 x 1220 pixels and a refresh rate of 120Hz. On sunny days, the screen is easy to read, so even with summer approaching, you don't have to miss anything that happens on your screen. Inside the notch is a 32-megapixel front camera, and of course we will come back to the camera in more detail later in the Motorola Edge 60 Fusion review.
Interface
Motorola's interface is as we are used to, very uncluttered and close to the 'pure' Android interface. As such, it works nice and fast and is well laid out. What does differ is the bloatware Motorola adds to it. Numerous apps like Opera, Facebook and LinkedIn are directly on it, along with several apps from Motorola.
Swipe gestures take you to notifications and quick settings. It all looks sleek, as you would expect from a Motorola Android device. In the menu, you'll find an overview of apps, as well as the News Feed and Journal.The news feed is pretty useless to us, as you can't set the Netherlands as a region, so the news from the United States is served. You can also hide this tab. Journal shows what content you are using with the AI tools, which we will cover below.
In the interface, you will also find various AI features on the Edge 60 Fusion. These can be found in the menu, in the bottom bar. Here, you can quickly go to options to summarise your notifications, record, transcribe and summarise texts, quickly save screenshots and text notes or create a Magic Canvas; a picture with generative AI. This does require you to log in with a Motorola account, or a Lenovo ID. Too bad, because as far as we are concerned, these kinds of features should just be available without an account. By the way, the AI functions can only be used in English, Portuguese and Spanish. For example, taking a generation AI photo, the function is pretty good to use. However, this does require an internet connection.
The function to summarise notifications works moderately, but this is not necessarily due to Motorola, but to the fact that the Dutch language is not supported. The same goes for the other features, making them pretty useless for most Dutch users at the moment. You can also hide the entire search bar, although you can also use the bar to search for apps installed on the phone.
Communication and multimedia
Besides space for a SIM card, the Motorola Edge 60 Fusion also offers space for an eSIM. Call quality is fine and there is really nothing to criticise here. For phone calls, you can use the standard Google Phone app and for sending messages, there is the Google Messages app and the Gboard keyboard.
Going to the multimedia of the Edge 60 Fusion, there is at least the nice screen. With bright colours and excellent brightness, watching a movie is no punishment on the phone. The Edge 60 Fusion's sound quality is nice. The volume can be loud, but we miss the warmth in the sound and it also sounds a bit shrill. For the price, it's certainly not a drawback of the phone, but don't expect sound quality like we encounter on more expensive phones.
Camera
Three camera lenses on the back of the Motorola Edge 60 Fusion ensure you won't miss a moment. This is a 50-megapixel main camera, 13-megapixel wide-angle and a light sensor lens, as Motorola itself calls it. In the camera app, you can specify a preference for the image style. Here, you can choose natural, or with automatic enhancement. With this, the recording time is longer, though. The camera app itself works as you would expect and does a good job. It's also full of options, so you won't get bored with that. You can zoom up to 2x with the camera.
Looking at the quality of the photos, we are positively surprised. Not always a device around 300 euros scores well with the camera. The photos are richly saturated and show enough detail. Sometimes, we find the colours a little puffed up, but not so much that it is very disturbing. Thereby, it sometimes happens that the photos sometimes come out a little flatter, but these are points we notice when viewing on the big screen. In short; the Edge 60 Fusion shoots really good photos, and certainly for the price. This also applies to the evening photos, where the pictures are perfectly usable! The selfie camera shoots neat selfies.
Below is a photo we took with the phone. Want to see more; no problem. You can find the Fusion's digital photo album here.
Video camera
The Motorola Edge 60 Fusion's video camera manages to capture images quite nicely, yet we experienced an irritation factor here. While walking, the colour/exposure is constantly being adjusted, which means that images always get a little colour variation. You can see this, for instance, in the colour green of forests, or the sky that then becomes a tad darker or lighter. You can see this particularly well in the second video.
Performance and battery life
The MediaTek Dimensity 7300 is the octa-core processor that keeps the Motorola running. Together with 8GB of RAM, this makes the device nice and fast. In recent times, we haven't noticed any annoying slowdowns or hiccups. The internal storage comes out to 256GB.
Battery
The Motorola Edge 60 Fusion's battery has a capacity of 5200 mAh. In practice, it appears to do just fine with the tasks you want to do in a day. If you are a less intensive user, then a day and a half or maybe just under two days is no problem either. With the mobile network switched on, we quite easily achieved a screen time of over six hours. That's a neat score! If the battery is empty, you can charge it with a maximum charging power of 68W. You do have to buy the charger yourself.
Update policy
Motorola has taken updating smartphones more and more seriously in recent years. Yet with the Edge 50 series, it was a jumble of update promises. For instance, the cheaper Edge 50 Neo was provided with updates for longer than the more expensive model in this series. Motorola provides the Edge 60 Fusion with three OS updates and six years of security updates. So until spring 2031, you're good to go with that. The smartphone runs on Android 15 with the March patch. So the latest Android version to become available for the device is Android 18. For the price of the smartphone, this is an excellent update guarantee.
Review
The Motorola Edge 60 Fusion is a surprisingly fresh smartphone that is very well priced. With the Motorola Edge 60 Fusion, you have a device with perfect value for money. For just over 300 euros, you have a very good phone that is nice and smooth and has a great screen and camera. The update policy is also more than fine for this device, which means you can enjoy your smartphone for a nice long time. At the bottom line, we come across very few downsides. Points of attention are mainly that the AI functionality is of almost no use here in the Netherlands and that the video camera could use an update.
Want to try the Edge 60 Fusion yourself? You can do so right away in three fine colours. There is a soft pink, the turquoise colour as in the review and a grey-blue colour. You can buy it at Coolblue, MediaMarkt, Belsimpel, Bol.com and Mobiel. Temporarily, you get the Moto Buds for free with it.
