TL;DR
- Motorola’s latest flagship-killer phone will only receive two Android OS upgrades and three years of security updates.
- The phone has launched with Android 16 and is only guaranteed to receive updates through Android 18.
- The short software commitment is a major weakness for a premium phone that costs £700 (~$947) in the UK and otherwise offers flagship-level hardware.
Motorola’s latest flagship-killer phone, the Edge 70 Max, checks almost every box you’d expect from a premium Android device. It packs Qualcomm’s latest flagship chip, a massive silicon-carbon battery, ultra-fast charging, Qi2.2 magnetic wireless charging, and high-end durability features. On paper, it looks like one of Motorola’s strongest value propositions in years.
Unfortunately, there’s one specification that significantly undermines the entire package — software support.
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