Motorola One Fusion+ design
Motorola One Fusion+ It’s a bit different from some of the recent smartphones in the sub-Rs 20,000 range. Its display size is 6.5 inches and it is not easy to use with one hand. What I like is that there is no notch or hole-punch for the front camera. The selfie camera is fitted in a pop-up module, which is now rarely seen in smartphones around this price.
I found the Motorola One Fusion+ to be a bit chunky. Its thickness is 9.6 mm and its weight is also slightly higher i.e. 210 grams. You will definitely feel its weight while holding it in your hand. Thankfully, the edges of the smartphone are curved, making it somewhat comfortable when held for long periods of time. motorola Has fitted all the buttons on the right side and left the left side completely empty. The power and volume buttons are easy to reach and there’s also a fourth button, which is the Google Assistant button.
Quad rear camera setup is provided in the back, next to which a flash is included. It has a fingerprint scanner at the back, which is easy to reach and has Motorola’s famous batwing logo on it. Now most of the brands provide fingerprint scanner in the power button instead of back in their phones, still I like to have fingerprint sensor in the back as it is convenient to use.
Motorola has given it a 5,000mAh battery, which is also the biggest reason for this phone being heavy and thick. One Fusion+ comes with fast charging support and the company also provides 18W turbocharger in its box. The smartphone has a 3.5 mm headphone jack with USB Type-C port and speaker at the bottom. This single speaker is quite good for a small room.
Motorola One Fusion+ specifications and software
The Motorola One Fusion+ comes with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 730G processor in India, while the international model comes equipped with a slightly less powerful Snapdragon 730 chipset. Motorola One Fusion+ has been launched only in 6 GB RAM and 128 GB storage variant. Motorola has kept its price at Rs 16,999. Yes, the display on the Motorola One Fusion+ doesn’t have a high refresh rate like we’re seeing in other smartphones around this price these days, but that doesn’t really prove to be a deal-breaker. I did not feel any difference in the absence of this feature while viewing the phone from the front and while using it.
The display is really crisp. It is an IPS LCD panel, which comes with HDR10 support and three color modes to choose from. There is no protective glass provided in it, but Motorola says that it has given anti-fingerprint and anti-scratch coating in it. Still we would advise you to be careful.
Motorola sells the One Fusion+ in two colors, Twilight Blue and Moonlight White. We had the blue variant, I would personally go for the all-white option as it is a little different from the rest of the phones available in the market. One Fusion+ supports dual 4G VoLTE, Bluetooth 5 and Wi-Fi 802.11ac. Storage is expandable but there’s a hybrid dual-SIM slot.
What I like most about the Motorola One Fusion+ is that it runs on an almost stock feeling Android 10 operating system with some useful additional features. At the time of writing this review, it was running on April security patch. The Motorola One Fusion+ is not part of the Android One program and I can only hope that the company gives it timely software updates for the next few years.
Moto Actions gestures, such as a ‘double-chop’ to turn on the flash and a ‘double-crank’ to open the camera, are present. This phone also has a Moto Display feature that prevents the phone from going into standby while looking at the screen. Peak Display gives you the option to interact with notifications even when the screen is locked. This feature compensates to a great extent for the lack of notification LED in the phone.
This My UX skin based on Android 10 has a largely stock UI, but the good thing is that you get the option to change the icons, system font, icon color and layout, etc. The Motorola One Fusion+ comes pre-installed with some Google apps. While reviewing this phone, I did not find a single spammy notification in this device. Other smartphone companies take note.
Motorola One Fusion+ performance
The rear-mounted fingerprint scanner of the Motorola One Fusion+ makes unlocking the smartphone quick. Because Google removed the Face Unlock feature from stock Android 10, the Motorola One Fusion+ does not have the feature. We didn’t miss it much, as the pop-up camera is a bit slow to come up anyway.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 730G chipset powers this phone Poco X2, Realme 6 Pro And Redmi Note 9 Pro Max pits against. I did not experience any lag while using it and the smartphone multitasked smoothly. It’s good enough to handle day-to-day tasks as well as gaming.
Motorola One Fusion+ can also handle gaming comfortably. PUBG Mobile runs on graphics set to HD and high-preset by default. I played the game at these settings without any problems for 20 minutes, after which the smartphone got noticeably warmer. After playing so much, the phone’s battery dropped by 5 percent, which is acceptable.
The Motorola One Fusion+ easily lasted a day and a half on a single charge. It managed to last 15 hours, 45 minutes in our HD video loop test. Charging via the 18W turbocharger is relatively fast, but we’ve seen faster charging than this from competitors. The phone got charged 32 percent in 30 minutes and 60 percent in an hour. It took more than two hours to get it to 100 percent.
Motorola One Fusion+ cameras
Motorola has given quad rear camera setup in One Fusion +. It includes a 64-megapixel primary sensor with F/1.8 aperture, 8-megapixel ultra-wide-angle lens with F/2.2 aperture, 5-megapixel macro lens with F/2.4 aperture and 2-megapixel depth sensor. There is a 16-megapixel selfie shooter on the front. I found the camera app to be very simple and easy to use. Its Artificial Intelligence feature also works well. If you are shooting in low light then it will suggest you night mode and if you are photographing an object from close then it will suggest you macro camera.
I found the Motorola Fusion+ to be faster at setting focus. In daylight, it captured good photos with adequate detail. It captured even distant subjects well. The phone automatically enables HDR to capture good shots in bright light.
The ultra-wide-angle camera can capture a much larger area, but it has slightly different color tones than the primary camera. The pictures taken with this do not have details like the primary camera and you will see a water color effect when you zoom-in. I found that the ultra-wide-angle camera is only good for capturing landscapes.
This camera close-up turns out quite good. The primary camera adds a natural depth effect to the background, which looks good. A macro camera lets you capture an object very close, but does not provide the same amount of detail as a primary camera.
Portrait mode gives you the option to set the level of blur before taking the shot. Edge detection is good and it blurs the background properly.
Low-light camera performance is average and the Motorola One Fusion+ sacrifices detail in low light. Photos appear slightly grainy when zoomed-in. Switching to Night Mode immediately eliminates most of these problems. Although with Night Mode on I had to keep the phone still for a while, but with Night Mode on the pictures came out much brighter and the details also improved.
Selfies taken with the Motorola One Fusion+ had good detail. You can also enable portrait mode for selfies and its edge detection was good. The quality deteriorates in low light, but the selfie camera also supports night mode, which helps in improving the photos to some extent.
Verdict
Talking about the past few times, I have reviewed many budget smartphones, but I really enjoyed reviewing Motorola One Fusion+ the most. Its main highlight is its clean, bloatware-free near-stock Android software, which provides a great user experience. Moto Actions add flavor to this experience and make it even better. The display lacks a high refresh rate, but the display is bright and has good viewing angles. Its loud speaker enhances the video watching experience.
I hope Motorola continues to update this phone’s software over time to give it a competitive edge. Motorola has set the price right for the specifications of the One Fusion+, making it very easy for me to recommend it.