TOP 5 smartphones of a strong mid-range with ultra-fast charging

Smartphones of the Edge series from the Motorola brand are made with an emphasis on style and good cameras. The junior member of the line is the Edge 30 Neo, released in collaboration with the Pantone Color Institute.

The specialists of the aforementioned organization had a hand in the development of color schemes for the design of the smartphone case. The model is presented on the shelves of electronics stores in Very Peri (purple), Black Onyx (black), Ice Palace (metal) and Aqua Foam (green) colors. Note that the first of the options on the list is recognized as the color of 2022. The back of the smartphone is plastic, and the front panel of the gadget body is occupied by a 6.28-inch diagonal POLED screen with a refresh rate of 120 Hz.

The device runs on “clean” Android 12 running a 6-nanometer “octa-core” Snapdragon 695 5G. But for some reason, a memory expansion slot is not expected in the design of the smartphone – the user will have to be content with the capacity of the UFS 3.1 internal storage of 128 GB. The electronic components of the device are powered by a 4020 mAh rechargeable battery. Its relatively small capacity is offset by support for fast wired (68W) and wireless charging technology. By wire, the smartphone is fully charged in less than 1 hour.

The main camera of the Motorola Edge 30 Neo is two-component. It is composed according to the scheme "64 MP leading image sensor with optical stabilization and 13 MP ultra-wide." The smartphone takes selfie shots with a 32 MP front-facing camera in an island hole in the screen. Also in the sub-screen layer is a fingerprint scanner. The model is the brightest representative of the middle segment with balanced equipment for comfortable everyday use.

Initially, OnePlus produced only flagship smartphones at a competitive price. But a couple of years ago, the Nordic line of phones appeared in the brand's portfolio, representing a strong middle segment of mobile devices. A bright delegate from her is the Nord 2T model.

The device is made according to the canons of its predecessor - OnePlus Nord2. Of the visible innovations in the modification with the “T” index, the design of the triple main camera unit was slightly changed. Behind the top large lens of the rear photomodule is a 50MP Sony IMX766 stabilized image sensor. The accomplices of the leading sensor are 8 MP ultra-wide and 2 MP auxiliary sensor for blurring the background. The device's camera outperforms many competitors in the mid-range smartphone segment, with a high score of 114 on the DxOMark authoritative resource.

The front panel of the smartphone case is occupied by an AMOLED screen with a diagonal size of 6.43 inches. The display highlights the picture at a resolution of 2400x1080 pixels and has an adaptive refresh rate up to 90 Hz. In the upper left corner of the screen, a “hole” has been made for the lens of a 32 MP selfie camera. Well, a fingerprint scanner is installed in the sub-screen layer of the front panel.

OnePlus Nord 2T confidently pulls games and resource-intensive applications. The key to good smartphone performance is the 6nm MediaTek Dimensity 1300 chipset with a built-in 5G modem. The processor is supported by solid volumes of non-expandable on-board memory 8/128 GB. Also, the model was armed with stereo speakers, chipped with an NFC module and equipped with a 4500 mAh battery. The battery is charged from an 80 W block - it takes less than half an hour to complete the procedure of its wired charging from zero to 100%. As a result, the smartphone has a high-quality screen, a balanced hardware “stuffing”, a good camera and a fast-charging battery, which is what you want to see in a device of a strong medium link.

The powerful gaming smartphone Poco F4 GT is aimed at mobile gamers. However, the model will be appreciated by a wider user audience.

From the face, the device is equipped with a large AMOLED screen with a diagonal size of 6.67 inches. The smoothness of drawing graphics on it is ensured due to the increased scanning frequency (120 Hz), and the high sensor polling rate (480 Hz) is responsible for the speed of the display's response to touch. The screen of the mobile device is "under cover" of the tempered glass Gorilla Glass Victus.

The inside story of the smartphone is led by the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 flagship processor. This is a very "hot" chipset, so overheating and throttling are possible during prolonged intense loads. The advanced cooling system LiquidCool Technology 3.0 cools the heat of the processor. In terms of on-board memory, the model has 8 GB of LPDDR5 RAM and 128 GB of non-expandable UFS 3.1 storage. For more convenient control in mobile games, trigger buttons are placed on the right long end of the smartphone case.

The power core of the Poco F4 GT is a 4700mAh battery with support for insanely fast 120W wired charging. It's no joke, from zero to hundreds of percent, the battery is charged in just 17 minutes. The smartphone is armed with JBL stereo speakers, and advanced Wi-Fi 6E communications, coupled with Bluetooth v 5.2, and even a proprietary infrared port. It takes pictures of the device with a triple main camera of 64 + 8 + 2 MP format and a 20 MP front camera in the island hole of the display. By the way, on the plate of the rear camera of the device there are shimmering RGB-backlight modules - the characteristic attributes of a gaming smartphone.

The Xiaomi 12T sub-flagship smartphone hides several strong trump cards up its sleeve. Which ones? Let's sort it out in order.

The model was armed with a high-quality 6.67-inch diagonal screen based on a CrystalRes AMOLED matrix. The strengths of the display are the high resolution of the broadcast image of 2712x1220 pixels, adaptive scanning frequency up to 120 Hz and a 12-bit color palette (the screen is capable of displaying over 68 billion shades of color). Immediately in the display, a fingerprint scanner found shelter, used to identify the owner of the device by fingerprint.

The work of the smartphone was organized under the control of a powerful eight-core chipset MediaTek Dimensity 8100 Ultra. The memory on board the model is expected to be 8/128 GB, moreover, there is no expansion slot in the design of the device. In the mobile photography discipline, the Xiaomi 12T relies on a triple rear camera setup with a 108MP Samsung ISOCELL HM6 lead sensor. The main sensor got an optical image stabilization system, and side-by-side with it, an 8 MP ultra-wide and a 2 MP macro sensor are installed.

What else captivates the model is obscenely fast charging of the battery over the wire. It's no joke, the 5000 mAh battery is fully charged from zero to hundreds of percent in just 19 minutes. Charging power in this case is 120 W. The positive qualities of the smartphone are supported by stereo speakers with Dolby Atmos support, the presence of an IR blaster, and the basic dust and water protection of the IP53 case. In the general hierarchy of mobile devices, Xiaomi 12T steps on the heels of the flagships.

Realme broke into the top segment of mobile devices with the GT 2 model. And its chances of success are very high.

Acquaintance with the smartphone begins with an AMOLED screen, which is stretched diagonally by 6.62 inches. The display of the gadget displays images in Full HD + (2400x1080 pixels), has an adaptive refresh rate of up to 120 Hz, and a fingerprint scanner is also built into it directly to unlock the device by fingerprint. In the upper left corner of the screen, you can see the lens of a 16 MP selfie camera.

The model is powered by the flagship Snapdragon 888 octa-core processor, supported by solid on-board memory (8/128 GB without the possibility of expanding the internal storage capacity). The "hot dust" of the chipset is cooled by an advanced eight-layer heat dissipation system. The smartphone confidently runs resource-intensive mobile games, quickly responds to user actions in multitasking mode and does not slow down under load.

Triple camera Realme GT 2 is made according to the scheme 50 + 8 + 2 MP. Moreover, the leading image sensor of the camera boasts optical stabilization. The impressively fast battery charging of the device deserves a special tribute - a little more than half an hour (65 W) is spent on the full procedure of “refueling” a 5000 mAh battery. On sale, the smartphone is presented both in classic colors (blue and black), and in two exclusive design options Paper White and Paper Green, which give a tactile sensation of paper. On the backs of the "paper" versions flaunts the autograph of the Japanese minimalist designer Naoko Fukasawa.