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The sole differentiator is the software experience provided by Motorola, how much of a difference does it make? Is it enough to thrive or even survive? Read on for our full thoughts. Price and availability

The Samsung HM2 sensor was basically designed to make the most of these 108MP expectations. It’s a lower-spec sensor than the Samsung HMX, HM1 and HM3 sensors we’ve seen in phones since 2019. Its sensor area is smaller, resulting in lesser light sensitivity, and we don’t think Motorola has absolutely nailed its handling of the hardware either. Requires game controller compatible with Android 11 or later. Game must support Bluetooth® controller input. Mediatek processors have never achieved quite the fame or success of their Qualcomm peers. Although they have been used in many handsets, their presence has typically been taken as the hallmark of a ‘budget’ phone, delivering neither performance or efficiency. Few budget phones let you get this close to your subject, and the results are better than the dreadful 2MP macro cameras put into a lot of affordable triple and quad-lens rear cameraarrays. However, we don’t find macro shooting particularly fun here. The ultra-wide’s autofocus is slow, so actually getting flowers, berries and bees to look sharp is a bit of a pain.It simply refuses to load, showing a ‘device not supported’ error message. This is one of the key reasons to buy a Qualcomm Snapdragon phone instead of a MediaTek one. You’re more likely to run into issues like this with MediaTek, although we expect the Motorola Edge 20 Lite should be able to handle the game okay at medium graphics. There’s no obvious lag in Android, and while ARK: Survival Evolved is less than perfectly smooth if you crank up the graphics to their maximum settings, that’s pretty normal at this level. The Motorola Edge 20 Lite is a textbook example of how we’d like manufacturers to approach Android. It’s so clean you could mistake it for an unadulterated version of the software, but it does have a few tweaks that give it a character of its own. Want to shoot videos? The Motorola Edge 20 Lite can handle 4K resolution at 30 frames per second, and up to 60fps at 1080p. This is a typical ceiling for a budget 5G phone, but its stabilization could be better. While it does crop into the view to use electronic/software stabilization, footage still ends up looking a bit juddery when you use the phone handheld. Our results here have been a lot worse. Take the Sunday before we published this review as an example. By 14:30 the Motorola Edge 20 Lite had just 39% battery left. We’d used it to stream a podcast during a run, to watch a YouTube video or two in bed in the morning, and for a WhatsApp video call. Other than that, we’d just streamed some audio via Google Podcasts. And yet it was on the road to a flat battery by early afternoon.

The Motorola Edge 20 Lite is a bit closer to the Pixel 4a in performance, but it also has 5G. It’s a good step below the Pixel 4a 5G, as that version of the phone has a better processor. Motorola pulls some focus away from the processor by giving us 8GB of RAM and 128GB of storage, both good, but it also needs a slightly better chipset to stand out. In 2021, things are beginning to change however. With the Redmi Note 10 Pro, the Poco X3 Pro and the Poco F3, Xiaomi has placed former flagship components in low-cost phones to disruptive effect. What we might consider ‘budget’ is now markedly different than before, and new mid-range phones are concurrently facing an existential threat – does the ‘mid-range’ exist any more or is it too broad a definition? These don’t do a service to it in general use. From movies to reading and gaming, this panel is a delight. Though the general white point may skew a little warm for most, I found it to be mostly colour accurate and bright enough to view on a day with strong sunlight. In all, the Moto Edge 20 Lite might note have the most technically advanced display available in the mid-range at the moment, but for all but the most dedicated of screen purists it will be more than enough. Camera – More megapixels than senseAll this stuff is pretty typical of the wide cameras of entry-level 5G phones, but plenty of those are at least a bit cheaper than the Motorola Edge 20 Lite. Xiaomi probably does best in this area, with phones like the Xiaomi Redmi Note 10 Pro. It has a dedicated 5MP macro camera with a more ‘zoomed in’ view. It’s fun to use and is able to capture far more ultra-close detail than the Motorola Edge 20 Lite’s technique of cropping into an 8MP ultra-wide lens. There’s no factory applied screen protector here, though, and we’d recommend one. While the more expensive Motorola Edge 20 and Motorola Edge 20 Pro phones have Corning Gorilla Glass screen protection, this one uses another unspecified kind of glass. And it’s likely not as hard or strong. The good news is that if this is a software issue, it may improve with an update. However, we have to review phones based on what they are, not what they might be in future. This is an area where value-led brands like Xiaomi and Realme pull ahead. The Xiaomi Poco X3 Pro is far better for gaming, and if you can afford to spend a little more the Realme GT is even better, as it has a flagship Snapdragon 888 chipset.

This is just about enough to make the display seem reasonably clear outdoors, but higher brightness would make shooting photos outside on a sunny day a bit more comfortable. Considering the screen is a key draw here, a little extra screen power would have been nice. Camera Dynamic range is the recurring issue, and the same problem affects the Motorola Edge 20 Pro, perhaps to a lesser extent. Its HDR processing is a bit too lax, resulting in blown highlights in scenes of high light contrast. And, more often, a dull-looking foreground.Ready For wireless connection is supported with TVs that support Android smartphone screen mirroring (Miracast) only. So what’s going on? The obvious difference is the Motorola Edge 20 Lite has a MediaTek processor, while most other Motorolas have Qualcomm chipsets. However, the Samsung Galaxy A32 5G has the same chipset and entirely decent battery life, pointing the finger at Motorola’s power management rather than the chipset itself. Like most of the Moto G-series phones, the Motorola Edge 20 Lite has a 5,000mAh battery, which usually guarantees a solid day of reasonably heavy use. Or even up to two days for those who don’t use their phone too much. The first option on the list for Motorola Edge 20 Lite is the Chengmi Case. It is made up of high-grade, anti-scratch TPU material which is light in weight. It gives a nice, elegant outlook on your case. It is easy to apply. The clear design enhances the beauty of the device. The cutouts don’t overlap with the ports of the device making it convenient to use. The durable material does not wear off easily making it one of the finest options on the list of 10 Best Cases for Chengmi Case. Enter the Moto Edge 20 Lite, one of a new slate of releases from Motorola under Lenovo. It is intended as a mid-range phone, but it fits firmly at the lower-end of that segment. With a 90Hz OLED panel, a 108MP camera and a 5,000mAh battery, it has features that are each matched or bested by all of Xiaomi’s latest offerings, and at lower price points.