Motorola One Action review: GoPro-style landscape-only action cam phone.
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
74/10074/100 — right at the average for mid-range phones of 2019.
02Camera
70/10070/100 puts it above the 64-point average for mid-range phones of 2019.
03Performance
60/10060/100 trails the 63-point cohort average for mid-range phones of 2019.
04Battery
66/10066/100 is one of the weaker battery results among mid-range phones of 2019 — 6 points under the average. Check the rows below before buying for this.
05Build
70/10070/100 — right at the average for mid-range phones of 2019.
- Action cam shoots landscape held vertically — clever solution
- Android One + 21:9 display
- IP52 splash resistance
- 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 101-phone cohort of mid-range devices released around the same time. We don't publish invented lab anecdotes. Spot an error? .