SpecEagle review · Motorola

Motorola One Action review: GoPro-style landscape-only action cam phone.

Item: Motorola One Action
Rating: 62
Author: SpecEagle Editorial

SpecEagle Editorial·Aug 2019·$350

Overall

62/100

Class rank

#2 of 3

Tier

Mid-range

Buy?

Look elsewhere

The verdict, up front

Vertical-grip landscape video.

One Action's clever trick — the 16 MP action camera rotated its sensor so you could hold the phone vertically and shoot landscape video. A GoPro-style feature in a mid-range body at $350.

01Display

74/100

74/100 — right at the average for mid-range phones of 2019.

TypeIPS LCD, 21:9 CinemaVision

Size6.3 inches

Resolution1080 x 2520 px

02Camera

70/100

70/100 puts it above the 66-point average for mid-range phones of 2019.

Main12 MP, f/1.8

Depth5 MP

Action16 MP — shoots landscape when phone is held vertically

Selfie12 MP

03Performance

60/100

60/100 — right at the average for mid-range phones of 2019.

ChipsetExynos 9609 (10nm)

GPUMali-G72 MP3

04Battery

66/100

66/100 — right at the average for mid-range phones of 2019.

Capacity3500 mAh

Charging10W

05Build

70/100

70/100 — right at the average for mid-range phones of 2019.

What works

Action cam shoots landscape held vertically — clever solution
Android One + 21:9 display
IP52 splash resistance

What doesn't

Exynos 9609 modest
Small 3500 mAh battery
10W charging slow

How this review is built: every section score, spec row and comparison on this page comes from SpecEagle's tracked catalogue — scores weight measured specs against the 3-phone cohort of mid-range devices released around the same time. We don't publish invented lab anecdotes. Spot an error? .