The best new phone of 2022 is in my hands – and the Motorola Edge 30 Ultra is one to watch.
I’ve started testing a new Motorola phone, and after just a few hours of using it I’m convinced that it’s the best phone that’s been released so far in 2022. Yes, I’m including the new iPhone 14 range in that list.
The Motorola Edge 30 Ultra was launched alongside the mid-range Edge 30 Fusion and budget Edge 30 Neo on September 8, just a day after the new iPhones, and given that it showed up just after the biggest tech event of the year, you’d be forgiven for having missed it – I didn’t realize the phone had launched until it showed up on my desk.
iPhones are among the most popular mobiles each year, so this media singular focus makes sense, but in a more sensible world people would actually be fixating on the Motorola Edge 30 Ultra. It has top-end specs, and at lower price than Apple’s phone; and having tested it, I genuinely think it’s the device to watch right now.
If the Motorola Edge 30 Ultra was a character produced with a video game character-creator, the engineers would have dragged every slider up to the max – this phone has surprisingly top-end specs in every department.
One of the easily marketable examples of that is the cameras: there’s a 200MP main camera, which is the highest-res phone camera we’ve yet seen (jointly with a few other Moto devices).
