- Motorola has revealed the Moto X70 Air
- It’s a super slim phone that will compete with the iPhone Air and the Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge
- The phone measures less than 6mm and is expected to launch in Europe as the Edge 70.
Motorola has revealed the Moto X70 Air, a super-slim phone clearly designed to compete with the iPhone Air and Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge.
According to The Verge, the phone measures less than 6mm thick, although we don’t have exact measurements at the time of writing. This would not be the thinnest smartphone ever made by Motorola. The Moto Z, a modular phone released in 2017, was 5.19mm thick and did not have any accessories attached.
The phone is expected to arrive in Europe as the Motorola Edge 70, but we’re not sure which countries that includes yet.
Motorola’s website says “something new is coming” on November 5, but we’re not sure if that’s a release date or just the announcement date of the new phone. The website also contains a questionnaire to access a pre-launch offer.
In addition to a super slim design and a 6.7-inch display, the X70 Air comes with an impressively large battery. Motorola has equipped the phone with a 4,800 mAh battery, which is not far from the battery capacity of a typical large flagship like the iPhone 17 Pro Max.
For comparison, the Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge has a 3800 mAh cell, while GSMArena lists the iPhone Air’s battery capacity at 3149 mAh. The X70 Air has surpassed both by quite a margin.
Based on Motorola’s renders, it appears that the phone has three lenses, but one of them is grayed out. In my opinion, this suggests that the phone will ship with two full cameras and an additional depth or color sensor. The square camera housing is completed with a flash module.
The phone is also IP68 and IP69 rated against water and dust, meaning it is submersion proof and sealed against dust.
We don’t have a price for the Motorola X70 Air / Edge 70 at the time of writing, but regardless of the cost, I think this is a very significant development for the phone industry as a whole; let me explain to you.
air pressure
Earlier this year, I wrote that the Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge could usher in a new era of thin and light phones, allowing powerful high-end Pro phones to become higher-performing devices without paying as much attention to ergonomics.
It seems Apple engineers were on a similar wavelength, because this is exactly what we saw with the new iPhone 17 lineup: the new slim iPhone Air and the new iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max with huge camera ‘plateaus’.
But experiments from the tech industry’s top dogs aren’t enough to change the way we use technology every day: these new product ideas have to trickle down to niche, accessible brands to gain a proper foothold.
That’s why the Motorola X70 Air is such an exciting prospect: to me, it suggests that the rest of the phone industry is waking up to the possibilities and portability that super-thin phones allow. If so, I would expect to see slim phones from other manufacturers over the next year, as a result of pressure from both the high and mid-tier of the industry.
Until then, our iPhone Air review and Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge review give an idea of what it’s really like to use a slim phone. Be sure to let us know what you think of the Motorola X70 Air in the comments below.
