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This twelvemonth has been peculiarly eventful for Motorola, the institution released much than 30 smartphones covering beauteous overmuch each terms segments. It adjacent updated the iconic Motorola Razr, truthful it's got its manus successful the foldable marketplace arsenic well.

But arsenic it's ever the lawsuit with large tech companies, we spot immoderate bully and immoderate atrocious decisions. We've gathered the champion and the worst from Motorola successful 2022.

Winner: Motorola Razr 2022

Motorola's archetypal 2 attempts successful the foldable marketplace had immoderate large ideas but came up somewhat abbreviated of expectations astatine the end. The archetypal Razr successful 2019 and the refreshed mentation successful 2020 were some a spot underwhelming.

The 2022 Razr, successful contrast, is simply a communicative of lessons learned. A existent flagship SoC, with bigger and amended displays, much susceptible camera setup, bigger artillery with faster charging, and a acceptable of stereo speakers. We particularly liked however subtle the foldable display's crease is compared to different solutions connected the market.

Sure, it whitethorn not beryllium the cheapest telephone around, nor did it merchantability by the bucketload. The foldable aboriginal is inactive a future, but everyone that got a accidental to play with the 2022 Razr was undoubtedly convinced that sooner oregon aboriginal we'll get there.

Losers: Moto G series

Although Motorola came backmost to prominence connected the backmost of its palmy mid-range phones, the institution went a spot excessively blimpish with this year's variation of its astir fashionable lineup. It wasn't agelong agone that we could urge the Moto Gs arsenic arguably the champion worth successful the mid-range and present each recommendations comes with a agelong database of prerequisites.

It appears respective incorrect decisions were made astatine the product-planning stage, making the bulk of Moto G phones resistance down the competition. IPS LCDs are the default choice, portion galore rivals moved to OLEDs. The camera acquisition often comes with large compromises too.

Oftentimes the prime of SoCs means nary 4K recording. And past but not least, immoderate features recovered connected Motorola Edge smartphones with akin hardware are missing. Market segmentation is chill and all, but lone marque consciousness if you inactive extremity with a competitory product.

Don't get america incorrect - the Moto G phones inactive person coagulated artillery life, and alright performance, truthful it doesn't request a implicit restart to get backmost to the top, but a people correction is inactive successful order.

Winner: Motorola Edge series

Motorola decidedly isn't making the aforesaid mistakes with its flagship enactment arsenic it does with the Moto G lineup. The institution spares nary disbursal and tries to present the champion imaginable acquisition with its Edge smartphones.

That's wherefore the Edge household makes consciousness arsenic an alternate to different higher-tier smartphones. They've got large screens, bully designs, fantabulous camera experience, adjacent from the fund Edge 30 Neo, accelerated charging and a bully acceptable of bundle features. And that includes the "Ready For" functionality, which is an fantabulous alternate to Samsung's highly underrated DeX feature.

Loser: Motorola's bundle updates

For a institution that installs astir bare-bones Android connected its phones, it has go progressively dilatory with updating to the latest Android version. Even the top-end Motorola phones similar the Edge and Razr bid are inactive moving Android 12 and the archetypal batch of phones receiving Android 13 volition beryllium successful "early 2023".

And the list of phones getting Android 13 isn't that agelong successful the archetypal place. Most devices are from 2022 and the Moto G bid from 2021 is wholly overlooked.

Winner: US market

Even though Motorola isn't 1 of the astir fashionable brands worldwide, it definite is sidesplitting it connected location soil. The US marketplace is precise constricted erstwhile it comes to brands present, and outright starved successful presumption of fund smartphones.

And that's wherefore Motorola thrives there. The institution delivers fantabulous worth for wealth successful the discourse of the US market, with galore of its Chinese-based rivals missing. Not that Motorola isn't Chinese-owned, but you get the point.

In fact, Motorola often offers US-exclusive models that we privation to person successful Europe oregon Asia.

Looking up to 2023, we anticipation Motorola tries to connection much competitory mid-range phones and benignant retired its bundle updates issue.