For its price of around $230, the Motorola One Fusion+ sacrifices some build quality in favor of a good, large screen, great-sounding speaker and long battery life. It also features all the modern camera options one may want, such as wide-angle and macro shooters. The One Fusion+ is among the more impressive budget devices we’ve seen this year, and is definitely worth considering when on a budget, so long as it’s available and supported in your region.

Design & Display

The phone features a glass display, but everything else is plastic, and it generally doesn’t feel particularly nice in the hand. It’s a bit thicker than most people would be comfortable with, and heavier, at 210 grams. But on the plus side, this is because the One Fusion+ packs a huge 5000mAh battery cell providing solid battery life, which many users may prefer over a thin and light phone design.

The front of the phone is almost entirely taken by the 6.5-inch IPS LCD display, which has a Full HD+ resolution of 2340×1080. For this phone’s price range, the display is impressively sharp, at 395 pixels-per-inch. Watching high-resolution videos on it is a joy, as the picture is sharp and colors are just vibrant enough. Above the display is a barely-noticeable earpiece, while on the bottom is a small chin. From the front, the phone looks highly modern and clean.

The One Fusion+ doesn’t have Always-On Display support, but it does feature tap to wake and Peek Display, which turns the screen on when the phone detects movement, showing notifications, time, date, and allowing for some interaction with certain notifications while locked. In the Display settings, users can also choose how colors look on the phone, Natural, Boosted or Saturated, with the Natural preset being the warmest and arguably most pleasing to the eye.

All of the phone’s buttons are on the right side, starting with a non-customizable, dedicated Google Assistant button, below which are the volume buttons and the power key. The keys feel clicky and solid, and easily reachable.

On the top side of the phone is the microSD and SIM card slot, next to which is a motorized pop-up selfie camera. On the bottom, we have a single speaker, a USB Type-C port and a headphone jack.

On the plastic back of the phone we find the fingerprint sensor, which sports the Motorola logo, and a quad camera setup, complete with a flash. The plastic back doesn’t feel particularly high-quality, and easily collects fingerprints, but at least it’s not slippery. The phone comes in either a Midnight Blue color option, or in Moonlight White.

Even if it doesn’t have the best-feeling build quality, the Motorola One Fusion+ excels in many other areas, and we’ll get to them.

Camera & Audio

The phone sports a motorized pop-up selfie camera that takes about two seconds to show up or retract, so it isn’t the fastest, but we never felt slowed down by it either. It’s 16 megapixels and can capture video at Full HD or HD, 30 frames-per-second. It also supports portrait mode, beauty effects, group selfie and Night Vision, for better low-light shots. The motorized selfie camera also has drop detection, and automatically retracts if the phone detects that it’s falling.

On the back, the Motorola One Fusion+ has four sensors – a main 64-megapixel camera, an 8-megapixel 118° ultra-wide angle camera, a 5-megapixel macro one and a 2-megapixel depth sensor. Next to the main camera is also a single LED flash.

Photos from the main camera of the Motorola One Fusion+ generally look great considering the phone’s price, with fair contrast and realistic colors. Even in darkness, photos come out distinguishable, with no noise, although quite soft. There is a Night Vision feature that helps brighten photos when needed, and activates automatically on the main camera, which is handy. There’s also an HDR feature which appears to make photos slightly more vibrant, so we mostly kept it on during our usage of the phone.

The wide angle camera on the Motorola One Fusion+ produces good photos also, if a bit softer, especially around the edges. It will definitely capture any scene one may want to photograph, as it does cover 118 degrees.

The macro camera meant for taking close-ups also performs well. In good lighting, macro shots can come out truly impressive, sharp and detailed.

When it comes to video, we captured most of our test clips with the phone’s video stabilization feature on, and it did a fantastic job stabilizing the footage, at the cost of slightly lesser quality. Without the stabilization feature, clips come out noticeably more shaky, but also more consistent in quality. There’s the option to zoom up to 8X, although it’s entirely digital, so results are highly pixelated.