Motorola One Action

Motorola One Action is the fresh addition to Lenovo’s Moto lineup. The ‘One’ here alludes to the phone being part of Android One program (read: stock android, assured updates) and the ‘Action’ alludes to the interesting wide-angle Action camera on board. Add to that the elongated 21:9 aspect ratio ‘Cinema Vision’ display, and you have a got yourself a very distinct affordable phone. The 21:9 aspect ratio screen on the Moto One doesn’t look as weird in person (as it does in photographs). Many movies and 70% of Netflix originals are shot in the same aspect ratio and should be a pleasure to watch on the One Action screen. Perhaps. You’d still have to deal with thick black sidebars for most YouTube content and while playing games. The One Action has the same Exynos 9609 chipset as the One Vision launched earlier. The upside of using the Exynos chip is that the internet won’t get judgemental for the get-go. But jokes apart, the 10nm process based Exynos 9609 is a trimmed down version of Exynos 9610 that we had on Galaxy A50 and is comparable to, say, Snapdragon 660 (going by the benchmarks). The chipset is assisted by 4GB RAM and ample 128GB storage, and altogether the hardware sounds reasonable for the price. That said, it can’t be denied that Xiaomi, Realme, and Vivo are offering phones with more competent chips in the same budget. The battery stats don’t sound very assuring. One Action relies on a 3500mAh battery and has a standard 10W charger bundled in the box. The action camera is what sets the One Action apart. It has a wide-angle camera that’s mounted at 90-degree orientation, and that enables you to shoot wide footage while holding your phone in Portrait orientation, which Motorola assures is a more natural way of holding your phone. This kind of makes sense, but we will need to test the phone further to be sure. This wide-angle action camera has 16MP resolution and this one cannot be used for still photography. This wide-angle camera also has a large pixel size for better lowlight performance and benefits from, what Lenovo calls, “extreme image stabilization”.