Motorola Edge 60 Fusion review

High-end 6.67-inch OLED

The Edge 60 Fusion gets a new, upgraded 6.67-inch OLED panel with higher-than-usual 1220, x 2712 px resolution. It's a step up from last year's model and is not a screen you will typically see in this price bracket. It also supports HDR10+ and offers 10-bit color depth.

Unlike last year's 120/144Hz situation, all markets get 120Hz now, but we don't see that as an issue. 120Hz is still the standard these days, and anything above that hardly brings improvements to usability, let alone with a midrange processor.

The display looks good in person; it doesn't shift colors or contrast based on the viewing angle.

Motorola has also equipped it with a wet touch technology so the touchscreen doesn't trip when you attempt to use it with wet fingers. DC dimming is also present for those who may be sensitive to the invisible flicker OLEDs have usually.

Luminance-wise, the screen gets pretty bright. It can only achieve 469 nits maximum brightness in manual mode, but in auto mode, the panel boosts up to 1,376 nits, which is perfectly fine for comfortable outdoor use. Even some higher-end phones don't get as bright.

Refresh rate

The device has three refresh rate modes - Auto, 60Hz and 120Hz. The Auto mode dials down to 60Hz or even 90Hz where appropriate.

The indicator shows 60Hz when the screen is idling, jumping to 120Hz in most apps except Google's apps, which seem to cap at 90Hz (including Chrome). Video streaming apps such as YouTube run at 60Hz.

Battery life

A limited number of markets, like India, get the phone with a 5500mAh battery and Dimensity 7400 chipset.

Our Motorola Edge 60 Fusion unit features a 5,200 mAh battery and runs on the Dimensity 7300 SoC. We had high expectations for the battery life out of this combo, especially since the chipset is known to be quite power-efficient. And we indeed got good overall scores, but we've seen better out of other phones using this hardware.

Update, 11 April: After further retesting after this review was published, we got an improvement in the web browsing/social media runtime score as well as in the video runtime score, and this has been reflected below.

The overall Active Use Score of 14:18h is really good, and it's even edging out the direct competitors by a small margin. We also see an improvement over last year's Edge 50 Fusion.

Charging speed

The Edge 60 Fusion supports the same 68W Power Delivery protocol as its predecessor, but with a slightly bigger 5,200 mAh battery. It looks like this hasn't affected the charging times, as it charged back up in roughly the same time. We used Motorola's 68W Turbo charger for our test - it even comes bundled with the phone in some markets.

The phone is one of the fastest in its class and can refill its battery from 0 to 100% in just 44 minutes.

The software allows you to limit the charge to 80% to preserve battery health over time, and in case you are not a fan of fast charging in general, you can also turn off the "Charge Boost" option altogether.

Speakers

The Edge 60 Fusion features a hybrid stereo speaker setup with the top speaker acting as an earpiece as well. Unlike its predecessor, the newer Edge Fusion gets Dolby Atmos tuning.

Compared to its predecessor, the new Fusion is louder and offers slightly better sound quality. The device got an "Excellent" -22.6 LUFS score, which is quite loud. The Edge 60 Fusion is also perhaps one of the best-sounding phones in its class. It has a deeper and warmer sound than most, without muffling the vocals and high-frequency sounds.

So if you are looking for a phone with a nice set of stereo speakers in this price range, the Edge 60 Fusion should definitely be among your first considerations.

Use the Playback controls to listen to the phone sample recordings (best use headphones). We measure the average loudness of the speakers in LUFS. A lower absolute value means a louder sound. A look at the frequency response chart will tell you how far off the ideal "0 dB" flat line is the reproduction of the bass, treble, and mid frequencies. You can add more phones to compare how they differ. The scores and ratings are not comparable with our older loudspeaker test. Learn more about how we test here.