Modern, fast, with one critical disadvantage. Here is the new Motorola One Fusion +

Motorola shoots premieres like a machine gun. The dust after the budget premiere of G8 Power Lite and top Edge and Edge + has not fallen, and a new model is entering the market. This is Motorola One Fusion Plus.

For almost two years, Motorola has been consistently applying a strategy of mass appropriation, not so much as segments, but rather micro segments of the market. The company knows well that on the medium and lower shelf, even PLN 100 makes a big difference, so it tries to develop the entire shelf with devices that differ slightly in price and possibilities.

The Motorola One series is a prime example of this. Motorola One Vision, One Action and One Macro were already on the market side by side, differing only in details and slightly in price.

The one above was Motorola One Zoom - until recently the most expensive Motorola in the portfolio - and Motorola One Hyper not available in Poland.

Now a new model joins the Motorola One family.

Motorola One Fusion Plus

Motorola One Fusion + is an interesting hybrid not available in Poland, without an indentation for the Motorola One Hyper front camera with the Motorola One Macro design and a few goodies taken from Motorola Edge.

Visually, Motorola One Fusion Plus looks really impressive for a lower-end phone. The phone is a whole screen - we will not find an indentation on the front camera, because this one - with a resolution of 16 Mpix - is located in the slide-out module.

Motorola says its strength has been tested on 100,000 startups, so there should be no problems with the life of this item.

The display has a 6.5 "diameter. This is an IPS LCD panel with a resolution of 2340 x 1080 px. We won't find a fingerprint reader under it, which I personally think is a great advantage. The reader is placed on the back, on the Motorola logo and will unlock the phone much faster and more accurately than the unexplored sensors under the displays.

While on the front Motorola One Fusion + looks refreshing, so on the back we are dealing with a known design, already seen in the Motorola One Macro and the G8 series. However, this is not a disadvantage, because the design is simple and elegant.

The construction is made of polycarbonate and is also splashproof. It's also ... quite powerful.

The whole measures 162.9 x 76.9 x 9.6 mm and weighs as much as 210 g. And to think that not so long ago Nokia Lumia 920 was called "perforating pockets" because it weighed 185 g ...

Unlike Motorola G8 Power, in Motorola One Fusion + we won't find stereo speakers. However, we find the mono speaker alive removed from Motorola Edge . And judging by the performance of the Motorola Edge with two speakers, the One Fusion + even with one will sound better than most competitors.

For the rest of the specifications, the Motorola One Fusion Plus is nothing to be ashamed of.

The heart of the smartphone is the Qualcomm Snapdragon 730 processor, supported by 6 GB of RAM and 128 GB of data space.

The battery has a capacity of up to 5000 mAh, which in combination with energy-saving components should translate into two days of normal use. We charge the cells with a USB-C connector using a 15W Turbo Power charger.

The new Motorola software - My UX - goes hand in hand with the components, which I had the pleasure of using during the Motorola Edge test.

Visually, it's almost pure Android, expanded only by Moto add-ons, including very useful shortcuts: double twist of the wrist to quickly start the camera, or double flick of the phone to quickly start the flashlight.

Motorola's new software can also be adapted to your own vision, changing the appearance of system components, which so far could not be done on Moto smartphones without resorting to installing additional applications.

This combination of components and excellent software should translate into unprecedented smoothness of operation in this class, although unlike some competitors of Motorola One Fusion + there is no 90 Hz screen, and the standard 60 Hz.

Optics do not disappoint.

Motorola One Fusion + has a pretty good optical system, even if I personally do not understand its legitimacy.

The main sensor will certainly not disappoint anyone. It has 64 megapixels, though it takes pictures at a resolution of 16 megapixels, combining four adjacent pixels into one using Quad Pixel technology.

It is accompanied by an 8 Mpix sensor with an ultrawide lens with a 118-degree field of view, as well as a macro camera, which fortunately has an above-standard size - 5 Mpix. A quadruple lens system completes the 2 Mpix depth sensor. [^]

Personally, I do not understand why manufacturers push cameras with wide focal length macro lenses into smartphones, which produce shots with a distorted perspective and are usually paired with sensors with poor resolution. Here, the resolution is sufficient, but I would still prefer to see telephoto lenses instead of macro lenses.

At first glance, Motorola One Fusion + has everything to conquer the medium shelf. The phone is currently coming for sale in Poland and is expected to cost PLN 1399. Additionally, knowing Motorola, it will soon become cheaper by a hundred or two, making the offer even more attractive.

However, the phone has two disadvantages that can get in its way. Including one critical.

The first drawback is the anticipated support for the phone, or maybe the lack of it. At a conference for journalists, Motorola's representative said that Motorola One Fusion + will receive only one system update - up to Android 11. Of course, it will receive regular security updates, but that's it. There should be only one development update.

The second and critical disadvantage is ... the lack of NFC. On the phone for PLN 1399.

Motorola says NFC is "not a priority for consumers." I say that Motorola conducts focus research on the wrong group of clients, or rather in the wrong location. NFC for contactless payments is certainly not a priority for residents of those countries where digital payments are not properly developed.

In Poland, however, smartphone payments are fantastic. Poles have been using this form of settlement for years and have the full right to expect the possibility of using it on any smartphone, regardless of the price shelf. The more so, according to the Cashless.pl data , the number of contactless mobile transactions is growing rapidly from quarter to quarter. In the last quarter of last year, over 50 million were made.

Cashless also stresses that this data is not complete, because not all banks provide it. The number of quarterly contactless payments with smartphones is fast approaching 100 million. Coronavirus will certainly only multiply this number and further accelerate the development of non-cash mobile payments.

The lack of NFC in a smartphone is therefore unreliable today. Regardless of the price shelf.

It's a shame, because with this price and such capabilities of Motorola One Fusion +, there was really not much to be a perfect smartphone - relatively perfect for its price range.

Unfortunately, I'm afraid that the lack of NFC will effectively deter many consumers.

At this price, even a small minus can be critical.

When there are several models with similar options to choose from, and every zloty counts, the customer will always choose the phone that offers him as much as possible.

Motorola One Fusion + has a serious problem right at the start. And although it promises to be a fantastic phone, due to the lack of one very important function, consumers may not even look at it.

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Modern, fast, with one critical disadvantage. Here is the new Motorola One Fusion +