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Motorola has commence that the regular Edge -- the cheaper sibling to its recurrently released flagship Whet Runnerup -- will disbursement $699.99, which puts it at $300 shortened than the $999.99 Whet Plus. There's still no self-flagellation date, though, alfresco of the previously commence "summer" window.

Motorola has additionally commence that it'll crash-land up the specs a bit for the unformulated Edge. Instead of the originally planned 4GB of RAM as able-bodied as 128GB of storage, the Whet will now offer 6GB of RAM as able-bodied as 256GB of storage.

The Motorola Whet gloss a similar fabricating to the Whet Runnerup -- including the eponymous 6.7-inch "edge" disport -- morally it achieves that cheaper span point by mumpish dropping on some of the specs. The Snapdragon 865 on the Whet Runnerup is replaced with a slightly slower Snapdragon 765; the fondling drops from 5,000mAh to 4,500; there's no wireless charging; as able-bodied as the Whet Runnerup still wins out with 12GB of RAM.

Additionally, the triple-camera fondling has downgraded specs: 64-megapixel main lens (instead of the 108-megapixel sensor on the Whet Plus) as able-bodied as nonbelligerent 2x optical zoom as able-bodied as no OIS for the 8-telephoto sensor megapixel -- although the 16-megapixel ultrawide as able-bodied as time-of-flight sensor are the same.

5G suture is both other penned on the Whet -- it lacks the mmWave suture that the Whet Runnerup has, nonbelligerent sub-6GHz suture -- as able-bodied as other open. That's because, warring the Whet Plus, the Whet will be sold unlocked, instead of stuff penned to Verizon (and its mmWave-only network).