Motorola One Fusion Plus – Ultimate yet Affordable

Motorola One Fusion Plus, the next smartphone in the Moto One series from Motorola is priced in India at Rs.16,999/-. The phone has set foot in India at competitive pricing with a bundle of features and hardware that gives the phone a fighting chance against those sporting Snapdragon 730G processors. It is one of the best-designed smartphones and does have all the specs you need in the budget segment. It does include a pop-up module that you won’t find in this price range which a stock Android bundled with Android One does adds to its medals of galore.

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Here we have broken up the Motorola One Fusion Plus into several aspects to discuss how the phone fares well in terms of design, display, performance, software, and others.

Motorola One Fusion+ is available in just one configuration in India, i.e. 6GB+128GB in two vivid colour options, i.e. Twilight Blue and Moonlight White. It is available on Flipkart at Rs 16,999/- subject to the sale on the e-commerce website. It is about to undergo its next flash sale on July 6 at 12 Noon after it was recently sold out pan-India.

You can avail easy payment options like No cost EMU starting from Rs 1,417/mp or you can go for EMIs and payment with credit or debit or net banking and so on. Flipkart runs a series of deals and discounts on Motorola One Fusion+ that you can check live on the listing.

Motorola One Fusion Plus comes in a dark bluish packaging compact box which shows the Made in India mark. The contents in the box include:

• Motorola One Fusion+
• Protective cover
• 18W TurboCharge Power Adaptor
• USB Type-C cable
• User guides
• SIM tool

Here is the list of what the Oneplus 8 has to offer:

• Display: 6.5-inches IPS LCD FHD+ (2340×1080). 395 ppi
• CPU & GPU: Qualcomm Snapdragon 730G, Adreno 618 GPU
• RAM & ROM: 6GB + 128GB
• Software: Stock Android 10
• Rear cameras: 64MP + 8MP + 5MP + 2MP
• Selfie camera: 8MP
• Battery: 5000 mAh, 18W TurboCharge
• Weight: 210g
• Dimensions: 162.9 x 76.9 x 9.6mm

In terms of design, we personally feel that Motorola phones look pretty dope and Motorola One Fusion+ isn’t any different. The phone has a sturdy 6.5-inch display which means it is quite large and that is what it’s 210 grams weight signifies. It’s quite chunky at 9.6mm although the curved edges significantly reduce its thickness. The display is notch-less that gives it an edge-to-edge viewing experience. The bezels around the display are as per the price point as well and the chin is significant as well.

Turn the phone and you’ll see a rather familiar quad-camera setup with three sensors stacked vertically followed by a fourth sensor on top as an independent entity followed by a LED flash. The camera bump lightly pops up above the back panel. On the top edge, you’ll see a memory card slot, a microphone, and a pop-up motorized camera setup which is a great add-on for a sub-20,000 rs phone. There’s nothing on the left side as Motorola has cluttered the right side with everything you need from a power button, volume rockers, and a dedicated Google Assistant button that you can press to summon Google’s AI.

At the bottom, there’s a microphone, bottom-firing speaker grille, a reversible connector, and a 3.5mm headphone jack which is a great feature. Although the phone has a plastic frame and plastic back with a glass front, it is glossy as if there’s a glass back panel. Finally, there’s a water-repellent coating that should allow the phone to withstand a few splashes although it is commended not to dip your phone in water as it will render it unusable for so many reasons.

Talking about the display mounted on Motorola One Fusion+, it is a giant 6.5-inch IPS LCD panel with FHD+ resolution at 1080×2340 pixels. Further, it has a 396 PPI density, and it is HDR10-certified. As One Fusion+ doesn’t entertain a notch, it adds to its USP as you can enjoy an obstruction-free edge-to-edge viewing experience and its 19.5:9 aspect ratio that makes it tall for media consumption. It has an 83.3% screen-to-body ratio. The display is crisp and vibrant and allows a fully immersive experience. The display has three colour modes to choose from that are Natural, Boosted, and Saturated each with their own sets of efficacy. Motorola could have tried to incorporate an AMOLED display here in the new device but in vain.

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Motorola hasn’t fitted any protective glass on top of the display so yes, it is susceptible to crack in case if it falls on the ground with a higher force than it is capable of withstanding. You would find an anti-scratch and anti-fingerprint coating on the display which is much needed since smudges and prints can render a display rough, something which we had observed in a few budget phones some time ago.

When it comes to the hardware part, Motorola One Fusion+ packs in a Snapdragon 730 octa-core chipset in Europe while the Indian version is a Snapdragon 730G 8nm octa-core processor clocked at a max 2.2GHz. There’s an Adreno 618 GPU that takes care of the graphic processing while the blazing-fast UFS 2.1 storage at 128GB and 8GB of RAM takes care of the read/write on the device.

Adding a Qualcomm Snapdragon 730G to the mix has definitely given Moto One Fusion+ a fighting chance against the likes of Poco X2, Realme 6 Pro, and others. Using the phone is a vivid experience just like using a Google Pixel device thanks to its brilliant stock Android 10 operating system. When tested on benchmarking platforms like AnTuTu, the phone scored a whopping 274,684 points which looks pretty remarkable for a sub-20K phone. On the other hand, it’s Geekbench scores have reported 549 points on single-core and 1747 points on multi-core tests.

There are of course pros and cons of using a Moto One Fusion+ such as you won’t find any settings to tune up PUBG Mobile graphics to Extreme or even HDR. You can set it to HD and play at a ‘High’ frame rate and surprisingly enough, the phone does its job without any lag or crash. You won’t feel much at least in the first 20 minutes of playing PUBG Mobile or any other graphics-intensive game; you would feel a little warmth at the backside of the phone, which is quite common. The phone does handle more than 1.5 hours of gaming without a hitch.

Coming to the major USP, Moto One Fusion+ arrives with a near-stock Android 10 which is super clean and works like magic. It doesn’t have any bloatware and does turn fluidly. There are of course a few things missing such as a facial recognition feature or navigation gestures. It’s Moto Actions are competent enough to get things done as you can set it up to execute actions like shake to turn on/off flash and so on.

First up, talking about the specifications of the cameras on-board Motorola One Fusion+, the device is packed with a quad-camera setup in the back. It has a 64MP primary sensor with f/1.8 aperture, 0.8micron pixel size, and PDAF; an 8MP secondary ultrawide sensor with an aperture of f/2.2 with 118° FoV; a 2MP macro shooter and finally, a 2MP depth sensor on-board. At the front, there’s a 16MP motorized pop-up camera setup with an aperture of f/2.0, wide-angle with 1.0micron pixel size.

One of the best things about Moto One Fusion+ camera is that it is AI-assisted and suggests suitable modes as per the scene. It will suggest a macro shoot when the object is too close or night mode when there’s a low-light situation for better results. The camera app is clean and works faster by adjusting the scene and exposure. It locks focus quickly although you will have to get a perfect shot with the subject in focus manually.

The primary snapper on the phone is Samsung ISOCELL Bright GW1 and no doubt it is excellent. It uses 4-in-1 binning tech to snap 16MP photos although you can manually alter it. The quality of the shots in an unbinned mode leaps beyond w3hen compared to a pixel-binned photo. There’s a 64MP UHD resolution that you can set up to get superior detail.

The ultra-wide-angle lens mounted on the phone allows for a wider field of view at 118°. It does have a different colour tone to it. The lens is suitable for taking snaps of the landscape or if you have a lot of friends to find in a primary sensor. The macro sensor on Motorola One Fusion+ does add to the quad-camera setup as it takes images of tiny subjects and objects with superior details. Finally, the depth sensor works by collecting and executing background data that it uses to create portrait shots and photos with softly blurred backgrounds.

The front camera setup does work well too both in daylight and night-time and has a portrait mode attached to it too.

Talking about the battery, Motorola One Fusion+ is equipped with a humongous 5,000 mAh Li-Po battery under the hood with a 15W fast charging tech. When tested, the phone’s battery lasts for more than a day on mixed usage. When tried under an HD video loop test, the phone’s battery lasts for over 15 hours and 45 minutes. Finally, the phone is paired with an 18W TurboCharge, and to be honest, it is pretty quick compared to its competitors.

The bottom-firing speaker is located on the right side of the bottom and works really well. There’s a front-firing earpiece that is camouflaged in the top bezel as you can see just a mash above the speaker all clad in black just like other bezels. The bottom speaker does show an optimum and enthralling loudness which is great for watching videos or you can pair your 3.5mm headphones or earphones the traditional way to enjoy any movies.

About the connectivity part, the phone is 4G VoLTE supported. It has a Type-C 1.0 reversible connector, USB 2.0, and has Bluetooth 5.0 with LE, A2Dp, and Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac dual-band with Wi-Fi Direct. There’s no NFC given the price point, and the FM radio is region dependent.

Motorola One Fusion Plus has a traditional Pattern and PIN lock interface or you switch to a more intuitive rear-mounted fingerprint scanner which is located right at the centre of the back panel camouflaged as a Moto batwing logo. The rear-mounted fingerprint scanner is quick to unlock. Since Moto One Fusion+ has a stock Android feel, there’s no facial recognition system as Google removed it from Android 10. Moreover, the motorized pop-up module is slow to rise so we guess you will be happy with the fingerprint sensor only.

Pros:

• Total Vision Screen
• 64MP quad-camera with pop-up selfie camera
• 5000 mAh battery
• Snapdragon 730G

Cons: 

• Plastic body old design
• Heavy by weight