Some would argue that the last time that Motorola released a handset of any significance, it was back in November 2009 when the Motorola DROID made Android a household name. Others might point to the overly ambitious Motorola Atrix which was released in 2011. Not only was the Atrix the first phone to sport a fingerprint scanner, it was the first to employ a dual-core chip and it also could dock into a special laptop accessory to drive a PC-like experience.
Motorola made a solid return to flagships with 2020’s Moto Edge Plus
Motorola executive posted a picture of the Moto Edge X30 Under-Screen Camera Edition’s retail box
Motorola has clawed its way back to become one of the top phone manufacturers in the states
Again, if the special Under-Screen Camera Edition mirrors the regular version of the device, it will have an in-screen fingerprint scanner with up to 12GB of memory and 256GB of internal storage. The rear camera array could be led by a 50MP camera sensor with two other sensors on the back, and Android 12 is expected to be pre-installed. If everything goes as rumored, the Under-Screen Camera Edition of the Motorola Edge X30 will be the first handset with such a feature to include the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chipset under the hood.
The big difference is that unlike Huawei, ZTE was the fourth-largest smartphone manufacturer in terms of U.S. shipments at the time. The most recent data generated by Statista shows that as of the end of the third-quarter of 2021, Motorola (including Lenovo) was the third-largest smartphone shipper in the states with 9% of the market. Apple (47%) and Samsung (34%) were the top two.
