Check out the first two TV ads for Motorola’s new 5G Edge+ flagship phone

Motorola had stopped making flagship phones for a few years. Why should it bother competing against Samsung and Apple when its budget phones were doing so well?. For example, based on reader response to our stories about the , the 2019 budget-priced phone with the huge 5000mAh battery (providing up to 72 hours of use between charges) was extremely popular.

Last year, Motorola started encroaching on the mid-range market and did so successfully with phones like the with its rear action camera that records in portrait mode and plays it back in landscape. So the …