In 2024, the entire cell phone circle is enthusiastically embracing AI, not only because it has become the new focus of competition, but also because the integration of AI technology can really bring users a richer, more convenient and safer experience.
Against this backdrop, we welcome the moto X50 Ultra, a highly anticipated AI phone, which is Motorola's first AI phone, and it is also an imaging flagship that allows ordinary people to take high-class photos with their hands.
1. Snapdragon 8s Gen3 Performance Iron Triangle
The moto X50 Ultra is equipped with the recently very hot Snapdragon 8s Gen3 mobile platform, which comes standard with full-grade LPDDR5X 8533Mbps memory and UFS4.0 flash memory, forming a new generation of performance iron triangle.
2, 100 times latent view light tracing AI image system Pantone color and skin tone dual certification
The moto X50 Ultra series debuts a full-focus periscope triple camera with a 64-megapixel 3x large-bottomed periscope telephoto lens that supports OIS optical stabilization, bringing up to 100x telephoto capability to the phone.
The main camera uses a 1/1.3-inch large-bottom sensor, and the ultra wide-angle uses a 50-megapixel sensor, which, along with the periscope telephoto lens, forms a high-quality triple-camera module.
moto X50 Ultra is the first smartphone with Pantone color and skin tone dual certification, camera and screen display, are through the Pantone toning, imaging display colors more natural and real.
3, Lenovo Xiaotian AI
As an AI phone, the moto X50 Ultra significantly improves the user's AI experience by introducing the Lenovo Xiaotian Personal Intelligence Body and other AI features.
Lenovo Xiaotian Intelligent Voice Assistant provides users with a smooth communication experience with its natural voice feedback close to real people, quick and accurate dialog response, and highly anthropomorphic features.
In addition, there are a variety of AI functions such as AI Painter, AI Wise Eye Screen Recognition, AI Treasure Box, etc., further enriching the intelligent features of the phone.
Second, the appearance: the flagship of the vegetal skin straight screen, the middle frame of aviation aluminum material to bring a lightweight hand feeling
The moto X50 Ultra we received comes in a Far Dai Ink colorway and is made of vegan leather, a color that is more business-oriented. In addition, there is a 2024 Pantone color of the year soft peach limited edition color, and a cedar wood color with ecological wood, the introduction of the previous only in the high-end luxury car interiors use of the rotary cutting process, so that each phone back panel has a unique natural wood texture, more rare after a series of treatments, the moto X50 Ultra still supports IP68 dust and water resistance.
In the lens area, a glass lens cover is used, contrasting with the vegan leather body.
The lens modules are arranged in an inverted triangle, with a 50MP primary camera at the top, a 50MP ultra wide-angle lens on the right, and a 64MP 3x periscope telephoto lens in the square below, with a laser focus module integrated in between the telephoto and the primary camera.
On the lower right of the lens area, two monochromatic LED fill-in lights are integrated as well as a rear light sensor with 360-degree light sensitivity.
The moto X50 Ultra comes with a 6.7-inch OLED dual-curved screen on the front with 1.5K resolution (2712×1220), support for up to 144Hz ultra-high refresh rate, and HDR 10+ display.
The front camera of the phone is located at the top center and outputs 50 megapixels by default.
The moto X50 Ultra's screen utilizes the COP packaging process, and the bottom bezel is almost flush with the top and sides of the bezel, providing users with a more immersive visual experience.
The top and bottom of the phone are equipped with independent speaker holes, forming a symmetrical stereo sound field, and after Harman Kardon tuning, the sound quality effect has been significantly improved, bringing users a distinctive level and a wide range of listening enjoyment.
The volume buttons on the side of the fuselage are set up separately, and this design makes it easy for users to accurately locate the required buttons when operating blindly, which improves the convenience and accuracy of operation.
The moto X50 Ultra supports up to 125W wired fast charging and comes standard with a 125W fast charging kit.
Third, the image: moto's first periscope phone high zoom shooting is still clear
The moto X50 Ultra focuses on upgrading the image system, the first time to carry a periscope telephoto lens group, using the mainstream 64-megapixel OV64B lens group + 3x optical zoom solution, the telephoto lens can achieve up to 100 times digital zoom, and supports OIS optical stabilization, which ensures sufficient stability when shooting at ultra-long distances.
The main camera adopts a 50-megapixel OV50H macro CMOS with a 1/1.31-inch sensor, a large F1.6 aperture, and support for OIS optical stabilization.
The Ultra Wide Angle also uses the 50MP Samsung S5KJN1, a common CMOS that supports a 122-degree field of view.
So, how does the moto X50 Ultra's image actually perform? We took a number of sample shots with it as well.
--Principal Camera
In daytime scenarios, this main camera of the moto X50 Ultra, in outdoor conditions with sufficient light, can accurately restore the colors of the environment, shooting images in a variety of scenarios are very clear and pure, and the image is more saturated, the colors are more pleasing to the eye, very suitable for shooting landscapes.
In low-light indoor scenes, with the advantage of the large bottom, the shooting image can still guarantee sufficient resolution, and the image noise is relatively low, zoom in to see more details.
--Telephoto
With a 3x periscope telephoto lens, the image remains clear and pure even after cropping, and with 64 megapixels of superb resolution, the details are on point.
When you zoom in to take a closer look at the image, you can barely detect any noticeable noise either. Even in low-light or backlit scenes, the quality of the images taken will not be affected too much, and will still be able to maintain good clarity and color reproduction.
--Super Wide Angle
The 50-megapixel ultra-wide-angle lens gives distortion correction by default, and both sides of the image completely eliminates the barrel distortion pattern and looks consistent with samples taken with the main camera.
And in the daytime with plenty of light, the color presentation of the samples is comparable to the real environment, almost what you see is what you get, and the zoomed-in image does not appear to be a mushy film.
--Night Scene
For night scenes, the images are layered and perform very well in terms of exposure, color and resolution. Able to accurately present the colors of the night, the blacks are pure and unadulterated, the noise is well controlled, and the sample photos look very vivid and realistic.
Fourth, performance and games: Snapdragon 8s Gen3 performance Iron Triangle high load original God smooth play without pressure
The moto X50 Ultra has a built-in Snapdragon 8s Gen3 mobile platform, which inherits the architecture of the top third-generation Snapdragon 8 chip, equipped with an octa-core combination of Cortex-X4 mega-core, Cortex-A720, and Cortex-A520, and a 1.1GHz Adreno 735 GPU, which provides excellent performance in the mid-range cell phone market.
Additionally, the phone comes with flagship storage configurations of LPDDR5X and UFS 4.0 across the range, ensuring that there are no compromises in performance.
To evaluate the performance of the moto X50 Ultra, we conducted a series of theoretical and gaming performance tests.
During the tests, we turned on the phone's performance mode and turned off memory expansion.
-Performance tests
The AnTuTu composite score is 1,522,000, with a CPU score of 385,000, GPU score of 518,000, memory score of 348,000 and UX score of 269,000.
This score is enough to kill most of the sub-flagship phones in today's world. It is believed that this score may be further improved after the official opening.
In the CPU single test, the single-core score of 2029 points, multi-core score of 5385 points.
GPU single test, we chose GFXBench's six 1080P test, moto X40 equipped with Snapdragon 8s Gen3 mobile platform, respectively, ran out of 135 FPS, 146 FPS, 108 FPS, 193 FPS, 265 FPS, and 473 FPS results.
In the flash memory test, Androbench sequential read speeds of 3.7GB/s, sequential write speeds of 3.6GB/s, random reads of 359.1MB/s, and random writes of 498.45MB/s are in line with the performance level of UFS 4.0.
--Gaming Tests
Next we tested the moto X50 Ultra for gaming performance.
For the gaming test, we chose three representative mainstream handheld games, namely Call of Duty, Proto-Gods, and Wipeout: Star Dome Railroad, and tested them with frame rate priority in an office environment of 26 degrees Celsius indoors, and recorded the frame rate, power consumption, energy efficiency, and the temperature performance of the machine body during the game.
1. Call of Duty
Call of Duty handheld game in standard image quality + 120 fps mode, a game of intense battle, the average power stabilized at 118.89 FPS, the frame rate during the game is very stable, occasionally there will be tiny fluctuations, but does not affect the smoothness of the game screen.
The average power consumption is around 3.5W, and the energy efficiency ratio of the game reaches 33.97FPS/W.
After the game, the maximum temperature on the back of the body is only 37.2 degrees Celsius, and you can hardly feel any heat when holding the phone with both hands during the game.
2. Peace Elite
Then we tested the Peaceful Elite handheld game, in HDR HD quality + extreme frame rate, a game of nearly 17 minutes of testing, the average frame rate stabilized at 59.64FPS, close to full-frame operation, the game during the screen will occasionally be adjusted to 45FPS, but will soon return to 60FPS, so the game's overall smoothness is very impressive.
In terms of power consumption, it averages about 3.3W, with an energy efficiency ratio of 18FPS/W, which is still very good among sub-flagship phones.
Temperature, compared to the Call of Duty slightly higher, the highest temperature on the back came to 38.4 degrees Celsius, this temperature control level is still within the acceptable range.
Fifth, AI function experience: semantic comprehension strong multiple AI functions practical and interesting
--Lenovo Xiaotian Personal Intelligence Body
This time, moto also began to focus on the ability of AI, adding the Lenovo Xiaotian personal intelligent body, that is, the Lenovo Xiaotian intelligent voice assistant, and in the AI multimodal aspect, adding the AI painter and the AI treasure box, and so on many AI features.
Lenovo Xiaotian personal intelligent body, in terms of voice feedback, almost removed the stiffness of the machine sound, before and after the tone of the natural articulation, sounds like a real person face-to-face communication.
Although it is still AI synthesized voice, but it sounds more natural and realistic, its voice output speech speed is moderate, can be adjusted according to the content of the conversation at the right time, anthropomorphism degree is very high.
In the conversation, Lenovo Xiaotian's response is still relatively rapid, and the understanding of semantics is very accurate, and the answer to the question is also very accurate.
In the face of some more complex issues, the semantic understanding of the AI can be quite accurate, and can well avoid the common “set”.
--AI Painter
The new AI Painter feature on the moto X50 Ultra adds a wealth of playfulness and fun, through which we can transform our creativity and imagination into concrete images.
In the process of generating images, users can not only customize the size of the image, but also choose different image styles, such as Chinese style, secondary, cyberpunk, bright illustration and other novel image styles to further refine their needs and help users get the image they want more precisely.
This feature design greatly improves the user experience and allows users to better utilize their creativity to create unique artistic paintings.
-AI Eye Recognition
AI Wise Eye Screen Recognition function, by recognizing the text content in the screen, you can copy it with one key, or ask like Xiaotian, of course, if the recognition is a commodity, we can directly search within Jingdong, if you want to search for the content, you can also call Baidu directly, to achieve accurate search.
--AI treasure box
In addition to the above AI features, moto X50 Ultra also supports AI travel, smart scenes and other AI features.
Six, charging and battery life: 20 minutes full charge in exchange for 9.5 hours of strong battery life
The moto X50 Ultra carries a 4500mAh battery, and also supports up to 125W wired flash charging, 50W wireless flash charging and 10W wireless reverse charging.
For its charging and battery life, we also did a series of tests.
-Charging test
The first thing we did was to turn on “fast charging” in the settings of the moto X50 Ultra, which can increase the charging speed while keeping the phone safe.
Then we started the charging test with the phone's battery at 1%, charging it to 61% in 10 minutes, and it was fully charged in 20 minutes.
-Battery life test
For the battery life test, we use a professional battery life test tool - Battery Dog by Fast Tech to conduct the test.
In the test program, the default will be carried out to 20% of the power test, at the same time, including CPU high pressure, CPU multi-threading, AI recognition, image browsing, video playback and web browsing of all the test items will be checked, through the simulation of the user's use of scenarios, to restore the real load to the greatest extent possible, and infinitely close to the real power consumption situation.
During the test, Battery Dog automatically adjusts the brightness of the screen to 50%, turns off auto-brightness and adjusts the volume to 30% in order to keep the environmental variables of the test uniform across all models and to ensure the accuracy of the test results.
After a non-stop battery dog test, the moto X50 Ultra's power consumption went from 100% to 20% in 8 hours, 11 minutes and 12 seconds, which translates to a full battery life of around 9 hours.
What's more, it has such a strong charging ability, even if it is out of power, 10 minutes will be able to replenish a large part of the power, for moto X50 Ultra, go out and use completely do not have to worry about the problem of power.
Seven, summarize: moto began to AI step forward
Motorola's first AI phone, the moto X50 Ultra, marks an important turning point for the moto brand in the smartphone market.
The introduction of Lenovo Xiaotian AI assistant shows the voice assistant's deeper understanding and broader knowledge, which can be said to make the AI voice assistant no longer a pose, but a real intelligent voice butler around us.
Secondly, the introduction of AI functions such as AI Painter and AI Wise Eye Screen Recognition brings users a wealth of playability and fun, allowing them to better utilize their creativity and create unique artistic paintings.
The AI Eye Screen Recognition function, on the other hand, recognizes the text content in the screen, which can be copied with a single click or asked like Xiaotian, and also makes the moto X50 Ultra smarter and more efficient in terms of multimodal interaction.
Performance level, moto X50 Ultra is equipped with Snapdragon 8s Gen3 performance iron triangle, the actual test of high load of the “original God” hand game can also be stabilized at 57.6FPS, and in this hot summer, the entire machine heat is not high, heat control is quite good.
In terms of photography, moto X50 Ultra with a periscope telephoto lens and a large bottom main camera, the samples taken are clear and pure images and good detail display, even in low light or backlight scenes can maintain image quality, high quality triple camera module, can meet the user's shooting needs in different scenes. For ordinary people, the strong hardware and excellent AI function with each other, can make ordinary people can also easily shoot advanced sense of high-quality blockbusters, which is undoubtedly the most exciting.
All in all, the moto X50 Ultra is a phone that excels in performance, photography, AI features and battery life, and is perfect for users pursuing a high-performance and intelligent experience. Its launch not only consolidates moto's competitive position in the smartphone market, but also demonstrates its ambition to promote AI technological innovation and application.
With the continuous maturation of AI technology, we have reason to believe that moto will continue to move forward on the road of providing intelligent, efficient and personalized user experience, bringing more innovation and value to users, and foreshadowing the future of smartphones will continue to develop rapidly in the direction of AI.
