Motorola’s Edge 70 is the blueprint for future thin phones
The Edge 70 is just 5.99mm thick, but its battery almost matches the S25 Ultra’s.
I've been as much of a thin phone skeptic as anyone. Why would I give up on camera specs and battery life just to shave a couple of millimeters off a phone's waistline? I asked pretty much exactly that when I first saw Samsung's Galaxy S25 Edge earlier this year.
But the Motorola Edge 70 may have made me a convert. It's a cheaper take on the S25 Edge or iPhone Air, out now in the UK and Europe for £699 / €799 (around $920), but it "will not be a US device," according to Nicole Hagen, Motorola's head of global product marketing.
It's just a third of a millimeter thicker than the Air - an all but imperceptible difference - but meets some of …