Throw out your foldable phones, thin phones are where it’s at now, and every manufacturer worth its salt is trying its best to squeeze as much capability out of as thin a device as possible.
We’ve already seen the Galaxy S25 Edge and iPhone Air, and now it’s time for Motorola to have a go at creating a super-thin smartphone. It seems to be doing that with the Moto Edge 70, and while you may expect it to play second fiddle to Samsung’s and Apple’s devices, Motorola has a couple of aces in the hole that could give it a serious, um, edge.
The Edge 70 could thrive where other thin phones have struggled
Packing some serious battery oomph
Thin phones are generally seen as those with a thickness underneath 6mm, and hitting under that measurement tends to make a phone comfortable to hold and wonderfully light. But it also comes with some serious downsides, most notably the battery. Quite simply, there’s not much room to fit in a large cell.
The Moto Edge 70 may buck that trend, if Motorola’s promotional material does in fact refer to that phone. An image found on Motorola’s Polish website shows a phone render with a chunky 4,800mAh battery. While this is about average compared to most flagship phones, which hover around the 5,000mAh mark, it’s leagues ahead of Samsung and Apple, which have 3,900mAh and 3,149mAh cells in their phones, respectively. If the Motorola phone does manage to jam in a significantly larger battery while keeping the thickness under 6mm, that could be a serious win for the company.
As if that wasn’t enough, there are also rumors that Motorola will also include the same 68W charging rate from the Edge 60 as well — a significantly faster charging rate than most other mainstream flagships on the market.
We don’t know many other details about the Edge 70 at this time, but if it is the same phone as the recently teased China-only Moto X70 Air, then we may see one of the latest Gen 5 Snapdragon chips, though whether the Edge 70 will use the Elite variant or not remains to be seen.
Motorola may not have the luster it once had, but its releases continue to speak for themselves, with a quality that means it’s still worth paying attention to.
