Motorola is finally bringing a real flagship contender to the US
by Allison Johnson from The Verge - All Posts on (#6BC5A)
This year's Edge Plus boasts all the right specs to take it to Samsung and Google. | Image: Motorola We asked, and we received: Motorola is bringing its newest slab-style flagship to the US as the Motorola Edge Plus (2023). It's priced at $799 for a base model with 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage, undercutting the $899 Google Pixel 7 Pro and $999 Samsung Galaxy S23 Plus by a significant margin, and it's equipped with plenty of things you might expect from a flagship Android phone in 2023: a Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chipset, a big, smooth 165Hz screen, a stabilized main camera, a robust IP68 weather resistance rating, and wireless charging.
Weirdly, though, none of the three major US wireless carriers will sell the device - Motorola's carrier partners for the Edge Plus include Boost Infinite (yep, that one) and Consumer Cellular. It'll be...