REVIEWS
With the Motorola Edge 40 Neo, the manufacturer has seemingly had a bit of a rethink about its ‘affordable premium’ Neo line. It's bigger and nicer-looking than the Edge 30 Neo, with a much larger and curvier 6.55in pOLED display. Despite this scaling up, however, the Motorola Edge 40 Neo ends up costing £50 less out of the gate.
We described last year's model as “a likeable handset that gets a lot right”, but it was let down by cheap design and poor low-light camera performance, among other things. Has Motorola managed to hit the ‘premium budget’ jackpot with this year's revision?
DESIGN
At last, we have an Edge Neo phone worthy of the name. Previous Neo phones haven't really deserved their ‘Edge’ moniker, dropping the curved edges of the more premium models.
Opinions may vary on the value of such a design, and we'll go on to discuss the drawbacks in the next section. But there's no denying that it's a mightily effective way to make a cheap phone look and feel more expensive.
And make no mistake, the Motorola Edge 40 Neo looks and feels great. Besides that curved display, there's a pleasingly solid, silky-feeling
