motorola edge 60 pro review: A phone to keep up all day

Motorola’s latest performance handset, the edge 60 pro launched last month alongside the razr 60, and after we took their foldable for a spin it’s time to check out their latest smartphone.

Priced at $1,199, the edge 60 Pro includes a more premium hardware stack than its foldable cousin, including added durability with IP68/IP69 dust/water resistance and Mil-Spec certification for drops, extreme temperatures and more. 

Sporting Mediatek’s Dimensity 8350 Extreme chipset which includes on-device AI processing, the phone also includes 512GB of storage and 12GB RAM that can be bumped with motorola’s RAM boost and will keep you connected all day with a massive 6000mAh battery and 90W TurboPower fast charging.

The edge 60 Pro lets motorola show off their design chops, with a borderless 6.7” Super HD (1220p) display featuring curved edges on the side for a svelte profile.

There’s a triple camera array on the rear headlined by a 50MP Sony LYTIA 700C main sensor on the rear with a 50MP selfie camera on the front.

The phone runs Android 15 with Google and motorola’s AI inclusions built-in offering features like Circle to Search and more. 

I’ve been using the edge 60 Pro as my main phone for two weeks now, and here’s how it went. 

Hardware

Design

I’m first to complain about borderless design, my ham fists tend to clench phones leading to phantom touches. The edge 60 Pro has done a good job of ignoring those, so I’m left enjoying the simple, super slim profile of the phone, which slips easily in and out of a pocket. 

There’s a soft, nylon-inspired texture on the rear which feels soft, which comes in two colour options provided by PANTONE, with either PANTONE Shadow and PANTONE Sparkling Grape on offer. 

The review unit came in Pantone Shadow which is a solid, unobtrusive option, but the Grape option looks magnificent. 

You do get a shell to protect the phone included in the box – well done Motorola – and it fits like a glove, snapping on and leaving those curved edges on the display open, while offering protection on the corners against drops. 

You do get additional peace of mind with the edge 60 Pro, with Motorola having the phone certified for drop protection, temperature and humidity resistance and more with MIL-STD 810H mil-spec certification. It also carries an IP68/69 dust/water resistance rating so you can use it almost anywhere without fear of breakage. 

While the phone has very slim edges, there’s a very nicely clicky volume rocker and power button on the right, with a new feature for the edge series in the form of a dedicated Moto AI button on the left side.

Display and Audio

As with most phones, the display is the highlight and the borderless 6.7” pOLED display on the edge 60 Pro is no different, though there’s still stereo speakers with ATMOS support on-board.

The display itself is super bright, capable of up to 4500 nits peak brightness – so there are no issues seeing the phone indoors or out. 

The ‘Super HD’ 1220p resolution and 120Hz refresh makes the display crisp and easy to read. The display is also Pantone Validated and includes HDR10+ support, offering over a billion colours, and 100% DCI-P3 support so it looks amazing. 

The dual speakers on the front offer stereo sound with Dolby Atmos support for immersive audio. It’s a decent audio system, but works better with headphones.

Performance and Connectivity

Motorola have change processor on the edge 60 Pro, moving from the Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 in last years edge 50 Pro to a Media Tek Dimensity 8350 Extreme. The phone also comes with 12 GB DDR5 RAM with 512GB of UFS 4.0 storage , so file system access is quite fast. 

The Media Tek Dimensity 8350 Extreme chipset powering the edge 60 pro is surprisingly capable for the handset, though has some rough edges when launching large apps and games.

The RAM boost option Motorola provides in their settings smooths out some of the rough edges, using that fast UFS 4.0 file storage as virtual RAM.  Leaving the system to manage RAM Boost on its own saw it mostly grab another 4GB (for a total of 16GB), while you can force it to the full 12GB – I didn’t find it made too great a difference to performance. 

I ran the phone through 3DMark and GeekBench and here’s how it went. 

Camera

There’s a triple camera included on the rear of the motorola edge 60 pro, headlined by a 50MP Sony LYTIA 700C main sensor with 10MP telephoto up to 3x optical zoom, and 50MP ultrawide, while on the front you get a 50MP sensor for those all-important selfies. 

The 50MP main and 10MP telephoto sensors use Optical Image Stabilisation (OIS), while the Ultrawide sensor supports up to 120˚ Field of View. 

The main sensor takes great shots in good lighting, with the camera picking up good details and colour. Low-light shots are good with a decent amount of ambient light.

The optical zoom works well all the way through the 3x optical, with the 50x Super Zoom offering some surprisingly good shots at the distance, while the 50MP ultrawide gives you high quality options to make sure you can capture everything you want in the frame.

Battery and Charging

In terms of battery and charging, this is a phone designed to keep up with you. Packing a massive 6,000mAh battery which supports 90W fast charging, as well as wireless charging, the edge 60 Pro is really an all-day device. 

Unfortunately, you will have to purchase a 90W charger to take advantage of the TurboPower charging support, with motorola only including a USB Type-C to USB Type-C cable in the box.

It doesn’t look like Motorola sells a 90W charger, just a 125W charger which is available through various retailers for $89. 

As far as use and charging goes though – the edge 60 Pro is a beast. Using a 140W USB-C charger, I was able to get to almost 70% charge in 30 minutes before full charge in just 53 minutes.

Software

Android

Running Android 15 out of the box, with Motorola’s HelloUI, it’s a familiar feeling for Android users straight out of the box. 

The motorola inclusions to the software are minimal, yet intelligent with smart gestures and easily accessible theming and customisation. The overall experience offers all the features of Google’s Material You, with intuitive theming and wallpapers, custom colors, fonts, and icon shapes.

The largest driver for customisation is definitely the Moto app, which takes newer users through the Motorola experience and guides them through the customisation process.

Updates

Motorola has committed to three OS updates on the edge 60 Pro, with four years of bi-monthly Security Maintenance Releases (SMR). 

Out of the box, you’ll get a couple of Over-The-Air (OTA) updates to bring the phone up to the June 2025 update and then again to August 1st. So you can expect an update once every two months. 

At this point, it’s a good reminder that Google and Samsung, and OPPO to a large extent, include five to seven years worth of OS and SMR updates for their devices – especially at this end of the range, however you will get regular updates. 

Moto AI

The addition of the physical Moto AI button on the left side of the phone brings fast access to the assistant. 

The Moto AI LLM has input from Perplexity and CoPilot, letting you do a wide variety of AI based functions including image generation. Motorola has launched new AI prompts: Pay Attention, Remember This and Catch Me Up. 

• Pay Attention is similar to the Pixel Recorder, offering an AI powered recording app that can summarise your meeting at the end.
• Remember This, gives you a way to remember things – take a pic or note, label it and you can get Moto AI to remember it later – you have to label the inputs as you go which can be tedious, but works for something you want to remember.
• Catch Me Up is their summary tool, and if you trust AI to summarise your work, SMS or anything else.

For me, I didn’t get a lot of utility out of this dedicated Moto AI button and the only option in settings is to turn it off. This being Android there does seem to be some work towards getting around this, but it’s a little disappointing to have no native options to change the behaviour of this button.

Final Thoughts

The edge 60 Pro carries a lot of the weight of the motorola line at the premium end for traditional smartphones, with the foldable razr series the next step up. 

Motorola have again nailed the design of the phone. It’s slim, and the curved display makes it feel slimmer than it is. That display is nice & bright, and looks great playing back video, with a decent set of speakers also included.

The Media Tek processor is mostly capable, however it does tend to struggle under a bit of load – mostly noticeable when launching a big app or game, or switching apps. Once loaded it’s good, however I expect more from my $1,199 phone. 

The software side of things could also be improved by longer support, and while there’s some new AI prompts to go along with the dedicated Moto AI button, most users would likely get more utility from having it configurable to launching apps. 

The edge 60 Pro is a great designed smartphone, however it may be worth waiting for a good special to get you hands on one to drop it to a more wallet friendly price. 

If you want to get your hands on the motorola edge 60 pro, you can check it out at JB Hi-Fi, Harvey Norman, Mobileciti, Amazon, and motorola.com.au