Pop-up camera phones aren’t dead yet. After the release of the Motorola One Hyper, Motorola’s next pop-up camera phone is the dramatically-named Motorola One Fusion+.
For specs, you have a 6.5-inch LCD. Thanks to the pop-up camera, the LCD has a glorious blemish-free design, with no camera holes or notches. There’s a 2.2 GHz Snapdragon 730, 6GB of RAM, 128GB of storage, and a 5000mAh battery. The body is actually plastic, instead of the usual glass. There’s a headphone jack, a rear capacitive fingerprint reader, a USB-C port, and a Micro SD slot. The pop-up camera is 16MP, and you get four rear cameras: a 64MP main, 8MP wide-angle, 5MP Macro, and a 2MP depth camera.
As we’ve seen with so many Motorola phones, the company must have something against NFC in 2020. This phone doesn’t have it, and neither do the Moto G Fast, G Power, G Stylus, and Moto E. To get NFC on a Motorola phone, you’ve got to spend at least as much as the One Hyper, which is $400.
In terms of design, the One Fusion+ stays very close to the earlier One Hyper. The two phones are also close in price, with the Hyper running $400 and this new phone costing €300 in Europe, which works out to ~$339. Motorola isn’t afraid to have Moto G and E phones listed in $50 increments, but it seems like the Fusion+ is a more competitive replacement for the six-month-old Hyper. The Fusion+ is cheaper and has a better SoC, more RAM, more cameras, and a bigger battery. The only other downgrade besides NFC is the fast charging: the Hyper can hit 45W for the US version while the Fusion+ only does 15W.
For now, the phone only has a launch set for Europe, which, according to GSMArena, is set for later this month.
Listing image by Motorola
