Motorola Edge 50 Neo | Unboxing, Camera, Gaming & Beyond!

Confused dot com slash whut not sure about you kides but your uncle spurt starting to get a wee bit confused about all these fresh new Mortal Edge FS being spaffed out and I know I'm getting to that age where I am quite easily confused and sometimes put my pants on backwards but seriously there's more Edge 50 blowers now than the ra Baldwin brothers and this here Edge 50 Neo is the latest satisfyingly strokable blower that Motorola has ho into the mix it offers similar specs to the edge 50 Fusion but for precisely 50 Quid more how apt so is it actually worth those five crisp teners to upgrad to the edge 50 Neo well let's whip it on out the box test out the camera Tech the gaming chops all that good stuff and for more on the latest and greatest Tech please do po subscribe and do that notifications Bell cheers oh it's What's in the box? another one of these heavily perfumed boxes again smells like a who's handbag as my old Granddad would say and what you actually get stuffed inside of there besides the modal Edge 50 Neo well you've got your USB charging cable bit of Quick Start Guff Pokey s pin some of the key stats apparently it's red a for energy B for drop resistance beef for reparability yeah Y and you've also got an eco-friendly phone case crafted by Swedish company a good company and this is apparently made with Swedish plants potentially the bog bilbury or the creeping ladies Tresses something like things that a Lord of the Fring Rings anyway that's everything packed inside of the box so as usual Bug roll adapter going to have to provide that one yourself so that's the box now let's Design actually check out the Moto Edge 50 Neo and this handset actually defies the ed50 design conventions set out by its siblings cuz as you can see you've got a perfectly flat display here it doesn't curve around the edges like all of its bras and personally I prefer a flat display I find it's a bit more user friendly could have done with a bit more curvature on those edges just to make it a bit more comfortable improve the hand feel and the Neo isn't just one of the most compact Motorola phones of 2024 it's one of the most mini mobiles of the entire year so far pleasurably dinky at just 6.4 in so it's only a might bigger than the likes of the pixel 9 and the pixel 9 Pro pretty skinny bezels surrounding that display so not much extra bulk or girth added on there pretty skinny overall and weighs just 171 G that's mostly down to the fact that you've got a plastic frame here which which does make the Neo feel a bit more budget and hey flip the ed50 Neo around and you've got mola's usual fake leathery ass Shenanigans got to say one of the best looking back ends in the business feels really nice and soft to the touch and I like the way that the camera bump almost Blends in with the back there as well you've got a slight Ridge there but otherwise nice gentle Contours and I as Panton has stamped its mark on there as well cuz you can grab the Neo in a choice of four different Panton colors on the half of which I can actually pronounce so you've got lat here which is of course a creamy Brown you've got nautical blue no slaps on the back for guessing the color of that one you've also got P Pana poana it's it's red basically all right and then last up this one here which is Gili it's kind of a Bluey gray I guess it's all right it wouldn't be my first choice now the moral Edge 50 New York spots a bit of Gorilla Glass 3 plon up front which I believe is slightly crappier than the cheaper Edge 50 Fusion that one had a bit of Gorilla Glass 5 and you don't get a pre-installed screen protector here on the Neo either so you might want to slap one on just in case of course you got that casee bundled in the Box as well and it's also past some military standard 810h testin so for instance it can survive in incredibly crappy weather as called as minus 20 degrees so good use for my fellow Northern chams I could also apparently survive temperatures about as hot as Satan's taint around 60° and the ed50 ne also ip68 rated so fine around dust and dirt and sand and small partically crap like that it can also be fully submerged in water a sink or a bathtub or whatever just towel it off good and proper should be absolutely fine and one of the best Features things about M roller blows is that lovely stock Android Vibe it's nice and crisp and clean minimal buggering about it's got similar Aesthetics to those pixel phones just with a bit of a m mola tweak and of course you got that brilliant motto app as well which allows you to quickly and easily personalize your device changing up the fonts the icon shapes the UI colors you got a brilliant selection of gestures on here as well the likes of flip for do not disturb very handy when you're getting caus in the middle of a meeting or something you got your three-finger screenshot and of course my personal favorite the fast torch M secure add some excellent bonus bits to the already fantastic Android security offering speaking of which as well as the IND display Optical fingerprint sensor which seems to work just fine you've also got a good bit of Face Unlock action it's pretty handy if your fingers are moist or a bit grubby as you can see they're pretty fast to act if not quite as secure as the old fingerprint sensor you got some extra stuff like that gaming mode which we'll touch on in a bit and it looks like you got basically the full Suite of motor roller apps stashed on here including good old family space and the Smart Connect app it's pretty good for quickly sharing with your laptop or using your smartphone camera as a webcam for your zoomy chatty Shenanigans as for the storage well 256 gigs of the stuff crammed in here not quite as generous as what the fusion offered and not only is that not expandable via micro SD you've actually only got space for one sim card in there you do at least have support for eim and unfortunately bit of crapware star to creep its way onto Motorola FS these days the usual bloody offenders LinkedIn Facebook booking.com there's nothing sacred anymore however there is some really good news with the Neo as well because While most Moller smartphones typically only the offer two or three years of Android OS updates and security patching mod roller has very kindly updated that to five full years of updates for this bad boy so that should really help boost the Longevity if you want to blow it to stash in your pants for the next several years any Screen & audio have the 50 Neo Sports a ped display just like its siblings are though L bit more compact here and with completely flat finish you've actually got a 2670 by 1220 pixel resolution so it's sharper than the likes of the fusion got some Ultra crispy visuals hitting 460 pixels per inch you've apparently got HDR 10 plus streaming support Netflix hasn't registered that yet but hopefully it will do soon certainly the contrast is as good as you'd expect from an OLED those colors do appear slightly muted on the default natural setting but you can give them a bit of a kick up the ass in the display settings make them more Vivid and vibrant and it's a proper bright panel as well clear outdoor visibility even when it is actually a bit Sunny not that us Brits have anything to worry about there for the next several months and it's ltp Tech as well so the refresh rate scales as high as 120 HZ for supported apps and it can also shift all the way down to just 1 Herz which is really handy for the always on display helps to conserve power you got the usual ey care Shenanigans to to prevent your peepers from melting including nightlight for filtering blue light in the evenings but a flicker prevention as well and you've also got a stereo speaker setup here on the Motorola Edge 50 m with full Dolby Atmos support your lugs will be spaffing in sheer Joy certainly folically challenged Northern knobbers have never sounded better proper pocket pleaser at just 6.1 in unlike the prostate Poppin pixel 9 Pro XL or of course the bloody fold soly got a respectable Peak volume there and the clarity doesn't fall to bits when you do Max it all the way out could perhaps use a a wee bit more of a kick in the base department but you know it's absolutely fine if you're youtubing or whatever besides that no headphone jack so yeah you will have to get wirelessly connected to your headphones if you don't want to dongle it up now Performance & gaming the performance was a bit of a surprise I've got to admit on The Mod Rola Edge 50 Neo you've got mediat Tech's dimensity 7300 stuffed in here the same chipset that powers the C MF phone one by nothing which is of course super cheap at just 200 quids as back to my review model by 8 gigs of RAM the everyday running absolutely fine a little bit of slow down in the camera up once or twice but the gaming effort was what really took me by surprise because it's shockingly smooth when you load up a bit of weather and waves even when you boost some of those Graphics settings up to the higher levels I didn't see the occasional dips in the frame rates here and there but overall the game remains quite stable especially impressive for a phone at this sort of price point and even more impressively the Neo actually stayed pretty damn cool even when I was gaming for well over an hour and if the likes of w and waves runs fine on this thing well yeah likes of pubg Call of Duty genin impact all that other stuff should run absolutely fine as well and yes you've got motor Roller's dedicated gaming W which you can swipe or poke out at any point this offers up some respectable features including good old performance mode type Shenanigans can block notifications tweak the screen sens sensitivity yada yada now while I Battery life adore the dinkier design here on the M roller ed50 Moor the more mini frame does mean that you get a more compact battery stuffed inside compared with its siblings it's a 4,310 milliamp capacity cell but because you've got that energy efficient mediatech chipset running the shore you've got a nice clean stock version of Android on there as well various factors mean that the battery life actually isn't CAC should make it through a fairly long arduous day with plenty of screen on time as as long as you're not constantly playing weather and waves or video chatting or anything but hey if you find yourself running low on power in the middle of the day well never fear you've got 68 W wide charging support on a just like the fusion so buang a cable in it and give it good old juic in just 10 minutes or so and it should have enough power to last you a good few more hours we've also got a tasty bit of wireless charging support on here as well and let's finish this lovely Cameras Motorola Edge 50 Neo unboxing and tour with a squint of that camera Tech and I'm not too surprised to see mod roller stick with that 50 megap Sony lier 700c camera sensor that it also stuffed inside of the fusion thought this was an excellent choice because it generally pumps out some pretty good picks even in more challenging conditions here's just a few examples shot around the Old Homestead this past 24 hours as you can see even in low light situations you tend to get quite bright quite bold looking pictures not too much grein creeping in there you do once again have that auto en feature for your HDR type situations which helps to brighten up those darker areas produce a more balanced pick if losing some of the sort of realism as you can see this has quite an impact when there is strong contrast the edge 50 NE also supports a 13 megapixel Ultra wide angle shooter the same as the fusion and this is also used for any macro Shenanigans you want to get up to but you've also now got yourself a 10 megapixel telephoto shooter with three times optical zoom to get a bit closer to your subject this does a pretty good job as long as you're not zooming in too far otherwise things do get a little bit quirky shall we say around that 30 times maximum zoom level and of course you got the usual motor all the bonus bits including the portrait mode you got the full-on pro controls as well if you want to mess around with the white balance the iso level shutter speed if you tap your way into more all the usual standard stuff including spot color night vision is tucked away in here but you can't always customize this drag that into the main fold and get rid of any other bits that you don't use and you've also got yourself that 50 meg Ultra res mode if you want to shoot high resolution photos if you want to shoot some home movies you can capture full HD footage at 30 or 60 frames per second otherwise you can bump up the resolution to 4K as long as you don't mind sticking at 30 FPS cuz otherwise I just bumps the resolution back down and while you're shooting even at 4K resolution you can do a bit of zoomy zoom action get a bit closer to your subject the audio pickup seems pretty clean stabiliz ation respectable even at 4K level so yeah fine and then last up around front is your typical 32 megap selfie Snapper which you know if you actually like capturing photos of your own face well yeah does a job and you can once again shoot up to 4K Ultra HD resolution video using that front facing selfie cam you audio pick up again absolutely fine so let's do the job when it comes to a bit of video chat action and there you have it my loveely Verdict that and a tasty we nutshell is the fresh new Molla Edge 50 Neo it might be a bit more expensive than that Fusion but I got to say I really like it quite a few advantages over the fusion you got that telephoto camera shooter you got the wireless charging support you've got extra years of os upgrading to look forward to and of course you can squeeze it into your pants without straining your gral region a few disadvantages as well you got less storage stuff on here you got the smaller battery not that it seems to make much difference at all and of course it cost you extra beer money and of course the ed50 Neo is up against some strong competition from other manufacturers as well a lot of great mid-range mobiles around that sort of 400 price point these days I'm going to fully update my best mid-range phones video from about 3 months ago cuz it's already massively out of De we've had some crackers launch recently anyway that's what I reckon of the model Edge 50 Neo be great to your thoughts on this Nifty mini BR in the comments below please do pug subscribe and D that notifications Bell for more on the latest greatest Tech and have yourselves a ruddy wonderful rest of the week cheers everyone love you [Music] [Music]