Motorola Edge 40 launched – thinner, simpler and cheaper

We praised the Motorola Edge 40 Pro when we tested it a month ago and now, exactly one month later, Motorola follows up with the simpler Edge 40. This is about a slightly smaller phone with simpler specifications and a price tag of SEK 6,700.

Compared to the Pro model, you mainly get simpler and fewer cameras, a smaller battery, a simpler system chip with lower performance, slower charging and a slightly smaller screen with a fast, but not as fast, refresh rate.

The Motorola Edge 40 has an acrylic back, or vegan leather if you prefer, both are available to choose from. The phone is powered by the Mediatek Dimensity 8020, a chip made in 5-nanometer technology compared to the Pro model’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 which uses more advanced 4-nanometer technology.

The screen here is 6.55 inches and of the P-OLED type with a 144 hertz refresh rate. The screen has, as the Edge name suggests, rounded edges on the long sides. There are two camera windows on the back and there is a main camera of 50 megapixels and a wide angle of 13 megapixels. Thanks to autofocus, the latter can also act as a macro camera. The selfie camera sits in a hole centered at the top of the screen and is 32 megapixels.

Included in the box for the Edge 40 is a 68 W charger and the phone will be released in Sweden on May 22, at a price of SEK 6,700 for 8 GB of working memory and 256 GB of storage.