Watch out, iPhone Air — the superslim Moto Edge 70 has arrived with a lower price, two cameras and a big silicon carbon battery

The Moto Edge 70, Motorola's response to the Galaxy S25 Edge and iPhone Air, has been announced with a bunch of features that could make it the new leader in the developing thin phone segment.

For one, the Edge 70 costs just £699 — £400 and £300 cheaper than the S25 Edge and iPhone Air, respectively. That's despite the Moto still measuring 5.99mm (0.24 inches) thick and 159 grams (5.61 ounces) in weight, which is only marginally thicker than the Samsung and Apple equivalents while being slightly lighter.

Moto Edge 70 specs

Despite being rather thin, the Edge 70 features a sizeable 4,800 mAh silicon carbon battery. Moto promises this will let the phone survive up to 50 hours of mixed use, or up to 29 hours of "continuous video playback." The 68W wired charging and 15W wireless charging with Qi2 support capabilities are worth noting too, but the potential of a thin phone with true flagship endurance is tantalizing to say the least.

Motorola has built the Edge 70 from aluminum, but with a "nylon-inspired" back panel to give the phone an interesting, soft-to-the-touch texture. The company's partnership with color company Pantone continues with the Edge 70, which comes in your choice of Gadget Grey, Lily Pad, or Bronze Green. Each color comes with a unique set of camera accents to make a phone with that rarest of qualities in 2025 — a unique design identity.

You'll also find Pantone in the Edge 70's cameras to help with color accuracy. And they're impressive cameras too for a slim phone, consisting of 50MP main, 50MP ultrawide and 50MP front selfie sensors. The back camera block also features a dedicated light sensor to aid with color reproduction.

Durability has obviously been a priority for Moto, as the Edge 70 has a sack full of certifications to prove its toughness. It's MIL-STD-810H compliant to guarantee protection against extreme heat and cold, and it's capable of surviving drops of up to 1.5 meters. There's also the more common IP69 and IP68 dust/water resistance ratings to show the phone can survive immersion in water and against water jets.

Interestingly, despite all these impressive qualifications, the Edge 70 features a Gorilla Glass 7i display, rather than a tougher Victus or Armor glass that many of the best Android phones use. Hopefully that doesn't leave the Edge 70 with a weirdly high risk of scratching.

Speaking of the display, the Motorola Edge 70 uses a 6.7-inch AMOLED panel with a 1.5K resolution, an adaptive 120Hz refresh rate and a claimed peak brightness of 4,500 nits. If that's accurate, it should look way brighter than either the S25 Edge or iPhone Air — neither of which has a particularly dim display.

Bundled in with the Edge 70 is Moto AI 2, featuring common AI tools like audio transcription, summaries, playlist suggestions based on messages or email threads, the option to research on-screen content via Perplexity AI, and Moto's Next Step tool to decide which of these features may be most useful at a given moment. The promised update schedule is four years of OS updates and six years of security updates — a little short compared to what you get from other leading phone makers.

Driving things is the Snapdragon 7 Gen 4, which is a lower-powered chip than you'll find in other thin phones. Perhaps it's a worthwhile sacrifice to keep the price down for some users, but it'll be an obvious weakness once we get the phone in our testing labs. Accompanying the chip is either 8GB RAM and 256GB storage, or a 12GB/512GB combination.

I can't help but worry for the Edge 70, since the otherwise striking Galaxy S25 Edge and iPhone Air have seemingly left phone buyers cold. Moto could be trying to get in on a market that just doesn't exist. But all the same, I have a suspicion that, by showing up with a better combination of specs and a lower price, Moto may have a template for future skinny phones to use.

Full testing pending, I look forward to seeing the reaction to this phone from Samsung and Apple fans who find the S25 Edge and iPhone Air lacking. However, it isn't clear yet if Motorola intends to bring this to the U.S. There's a good chance given its track record for the Edge series, but it'd be likely to come out later.

A second phone and a pair of bassy buds

Moto had more to share than just the Edge 70 today. We also got another phone — the Moto G57 Power, plus some Moto Buds Bass true wireless earbuds.

The £229 Moto G57 Power's headline spec is its 7,000 mAh battery. This enormous power source is guaranteed to last at least 1,000 charge cycles before degrading below 80% of original capacity — meaning it's likely to be an extremely long battery life that will stay that way for at least three years, assuming you're charging once a day.

Alongside the battery is 30W wireless charging, a 50MP main/8MP ultrawide camera combo on the back, a Snapdragon 6s Gen 4 chipset, IP64 and MIL-STD-810H durability ratings, plus a 6.72 FHD 120Hz display with Water Touch tech to help it remain usable in wet conditions.

As for the earbuds, the Buds Bass offer a large 12.4mm dynamic driver to help bring out those low notes, along with active noice canceling, complete with transparency and adaptive modes, to help keep external noise away when needed. Moto promises 9 hours of battery within the Buds Bass, and 43 in total including the charging case. It's an attractive little package, especially at the low price of £49.99.

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