Motorola Edge 60 Fusion review

Android 15 and Hello UI

The Edge 60 Fusion comes with Android 15 pre-installed and Motorola's Hello UI on top. If you've used Motorola phones in the past, you will feel right at home.

The company promises 3 major OS upgrades and 4 years of security patches.

There are no major changes to the UI compared to Android 14 and the previous version of Motorola's Hello UI, but the company added a couple of AI-powered features.

Besides Google's Gemini AI, Motorola also provides its own AI helper, called Moto AI, and it's designed to be accessible from anywhere. The prompt bar is always visible in the app tray and anywhere else across the UI you can invoke it with a double tap on the phone's back.

You can ask Moto AI for pretty much anything on the fly, including stuff related to the phone itself. It can provide a summary of your notifications, record, transcribe, and summarize content on the screen, save photos, screenshots and text notes, and create images from scratch.

Moto AI features

Another new addition to Hello UI is Smart Tabs. They appear as separate tabs in the app drawer. You've got Newsfeed, which is pretty self-explanatory, and Journal. The Journal tab pulls out your recordings, photos, notes and other journal entries from the dedicated Journal app.

Smart Tabs

Perhaps the best features are under the Smart Connect host of functionalities. You can connect, control and seamlessly transfer files between Smart Connect-enabled devices, which are Windows 11 PC and other Motorola and Lenovo devices, including tablets. You can even control the phone using your PCs mouse and keyboard.

Hello UI and Android 15

There's also a wireless desktop-like environment. You can connect the phone to a smart TV or a monitor to bring out that desktop-like environment and use the phone as a trackpad and even as a keyboard. There's also a dedicated gaming mode, so you can bring out your game on the big screen. These are connectivity features that are usually found in more expensive handsets.

Smart Connect isn't new to the Motorola ecosystem, but with Android 15, Motorola has enabled voice commands, leveraging AI. You can cast your phone's screen to the TV or extend it to the PC or even search for a file across all connected devices with a simple voice command.

Hello UI and Android 15

AI aside, tapping on the phone's back is a nice shortcut gesture. It's called Quick Launch and it's not limited to starting Moto AI specifically. You can alternatively set it to open a specific app, start/stop music playback, or go back to the homescreen or the last used app, among others.

As usual, Motorola's UI offers several other physical shortcuts like this, including the karate chop to toggle the flashlight and the quick wrist twist to start the camera.

Benchmark performance

In limited markets, like India, the Motorola Edge 60 Fusion is available with a Dimensity 7400 chipset.

Our global review unit comes with the Dimensity 7300 instead. The MediaTek Dimensity 7300 chip may be a relatively new chipset with a 4nm manufacturing process, but it's largely based on the older Dimensity 7050.

The CPU department operates with 4 x 2.5 GHz Cortex-A78 cores and 4 x 2.0 GHz Cortex-A55 cores, while the GPU is the Mali-G615. The new chip promises a 25% improvement in efficiency compared to its 6nm predecessor.

Another difference between the older 7050 and the current 7300 is the ISP. Now, the Imagiq 950 12-bit HDR is capable of dual video capture using two cameras simultaneously.

Memory options are more limited than last time, but the Edge 60 Fusion now starts from 8GB/256GB. The only other variant is 12GB/512GB. Both configurations use LPDDR4X RAM and UFS 2.2 storage. However, unlike last year, you can expand storage using an external microSD card.

When it comes to performance, the handset felt responsive and snappy most of the time. We have no complaints here.

As you can see, the Motorola Edge 60 Fusion isn't the best performer in its class, but it's a step up from last year's model. The Dimensity 7300 SoC is slightly better than the Snapdragon 7s Gen 2 powering the Edge 50 Fusion and it trades blows with the Samsung Galaxy A36's Snapdragon 6 Gen 3.

It's important to note that the Poco X7 Pro is an outlier in the group. It's an unmatched Dimensity 8400-powered device for under €300. Still, based on performance alone, the Nothing Phone (3a) or the Infinix Note 50 Pro+ are another two options which may also be worth considering as they are both more powerful than the Edge 60 Fusion.

Sustained performance

The Edge 60 Fusion's sustained CPU performance during our CPU stress test was alright, but not what we were expecting. The Dimensity 7300 shouldn't be too hard to keep cool, but we saw occasional drops in CPU performance in this test.

CPU and GPU stress tests

On the other hand, the GPU remained stable throughout the GPU stress test, which returned 99% stability.