The Motorola Edge 2024 comes to the US for $550

Motorola's newest phone is the Motorola Edge 2024. This is a mid-range phone with the new Qualcomm Snapdragon 7s Gen 2. It costs $550 and will be in stores June 20. Every Motorola phone nowadays looks exactly the same, but Motorola assures us this is new.

The Snapdragon 7s Gen 2 is the bottom of Qualcomm's "7 series" lineup and features four Cortex-A78 cores and four Cortex-A55 cores built on a 4 nm manufacturing process. The phone has a 144 Hz, 6.6-inch 2400×1080 OLED panel with curved sides. It has 8GB of RAM, 256GB of storage, a 5000 mAh battery, 68 W wired charging, and 15 W wireless charging. Cameras include a mid-range 50 MP Sony "LYTIA" 700C, 13 MP wide-angle, and a 32 MP front camera. The phone has NFC, Wi-Fi 6E, an in-screen fingerprint reader, and—a big addition compared to other Motorola devices—an IP68 rating for dust and water resistance.

Just like on the Moto G Stylus, this phone has a "vegan leather" back option that should be softer than the usual plastic, but it's still plastic. Unlike that phone, there's no headphone jack or MicroSD slot. A customizable hardware button on the left side of the phone lets you open the Google Assistant or whatever other app you choose.

As usual, the major downside of Motorola devices is the update plan. The Edge 2024 is getting two major Android OS upgrades and 3 years of security updates that will arrive every other month. That's better than the one major OS update some Motorola phones get, but it's not much. Speaking of updates, the $550 price tag makes this Motorola's alternative to the $500 Google Pixel 8a, which is getting seven years of OS and security updates. The Pixel is a smaller device (6.1 inches) with a smaller battery (4482 mAh) and less storage (128GB), but the Pixel's better software, faster SoC, and dramatically longer update plan make it easy to choose over the Motorola.

The phone will land at Amazon, Best Buy, and motorola.com on June 20, with "subsequent availability" at carrier stores like "T-Mobile, Metro by T-Mobile, Spectrum, Consumer Cellular, and on Straight Talk, Total By Verizon, and Visible."

This article was updated at 6/5 3:22pm with update plan details.