Weekly poll: Motorola Edge 30 Ultra tempts you with its 200MP camera, Fusion and Neo also want your attention
Motorola unleashed the first phone with a 200MP camera last week, the Edge 30 Ultra. For Euro900 this flagship offers a lot of bang for your buck, even besides the large 1/1.22" ultra high resolution sensor.
You get a curved 6.67" AMOLED display with 144Hz refresh rate and FHD+ resolution (it's a 10-bit panel with HDR10+ support but relatively old Gorilla Glass 5). The phone is powered by a Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 chipset (with 8/128GB base memory and options up to 12/512GB) and a 4,610mAh battery with 125W wired and 50W wireless charging.
You can check out our hands-on review of the Motorola Edge 30 Ultra for an early look a what the phone is capable of. We have camera samples, yes, even 200MP ones.
Not that you will be taking many 200MP shots, this sensor is really intended to be used with 16-to-1 or 4-to-1 binning to get 12.5MP pictures (with 2.56 m effective pixels) or 50MP ones (1.28 m). The 50MP ultrawide camera also bins down to 12.5MP by default (4-to-1), the 60MP selfie camera offers binning as well.
The telephoto lens is the odd one out - a basic 12MP sensor behind a basic 2x lens. We suspect that we can get better 2x images out of the main camera, this one really should have been 3x at least. The telephoto camera deserves its own paragraph as it will come up when looking at the competition. The only other thing we can dock points for is the relatively short software support period - the phone launches with Android 12 and is unlikely to see Android 15.
The Motorola Edge 30 Ultra wows with its 200MP camera, Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 and 125W charging
The Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra can be found for just north of Euro1,000 (for an 8/128GB unit) and while its AMOLED display refreshes at "only" 120Hz, it is a more efficient LTPO panel. More importantly, it will receive 4 OS updates and has two telephoto cameras - one with a 3x lens and a periscope with 10x magnification. Now this gives you flagship zoom. The main camera isn't bad either, a 108MP 1/1.33" sensor with 9-to-1 binning. The charging speed better not be mentioned, however.
The Xiaomi 12S Ultra will unfortunately not launch outside of China, so it is not a contender. The Xiaomi 12S Pro is expected to go global, however, and it should cost around the same as the non-S model - Euro900. This one has a 6.73" 120Hz LTPO panel and the SD 8+ Gen 1 chipset. For its cameras, Xiaomi went with a triple 50MP setup - 1/1.28" main, 2x telephoto and 115 ultra wide. This one can compete with the Motorola in terms of charging, its 4,600mAh battery can take in 120W over a wire (0-100% in 19 min) or 50W wirelessly (0-100% in 42 min).
An Asus ROG Phone 6 starts at Euro1,000, but this is for a 12/256GB unit. It runs on the 8+ Gen 1 chip, of course, with an upgraded cooling system. Its 6.78" AMOLED display beats even the Motorola with 165Hz refresh rate. The camera is fairly basic, 50+13+5MP, but it has a large 6,000mAh battery, which is decently fast to charge (60W, 0-100% in 42 minutes). You do get two USB-C ports too, which can be handy for accessories and just ergonomics. Like with the Motorola you get a mostly stock Android 12 without any promises of long term support.
Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra 5G ? Xiaomi 12S Pro ? Asus ROG Phone 6
Will you be an early adopter of the 200MP camera or is this phone not right for you? Vote below or cast your vote here.
