Motorola’s upcoming flagship phone, widely expected to debut as the Edge 70 Ultra, has surfaced again following a new leak from Evan Blass. According to the report, the device carries the codename Urus and will run on Qualcomm’s newly announced Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 chipset. This aligns with earlier benchmark findings that linked the same processor to a Motorola model listed under the XT2603-1 identifier.

The Edge 70 Ultra will be Motorola’s first non-folding Ultra series phone in several years, since the company skipped the Edge 60 Ultra. It is expected to sit above the standard Edge 70 line-up but below the upcoming Razr Ultra 2026, which is rumoured to use Qualcomm’s more powerful Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chip.

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 uses a 3 nm manufacturing process and features an Oryon CPU with two cores at 3.8 GHz and six cores at 3.32 GHz. Qualcomm claims the chipset outperforms the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 in everyday use, multitasking, and heavy workloads. The updated Adreno GPU is designed for stable gaming performance with reduced power draw.

The Hexagon NPU brings improvements for on-device AI tasks such as generative model processing, voice recognition, and multimodal features. Connectivity support includes 5G across mmWave and sub-6 GHz bands along with Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6.0, UWB, and NavIC. Camera features include triple 20-bit pipelines, large photo capture, high frame rate 4K recording, 8K playback, and support for modern HDR formats.

Rumours suggest the Edge 70 Ultra will ship with 16 GB of RAM and Android 16. The display may be a 1.5K OLED panel and the rear camera setup is expected to include a periscope telephoto lens. Early benchmark leaks indicate scores of 2,636 in single core performance and 7,475 in multi core performance, which matches what is expected from the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5.

The Edge 70 Ultra is expected to launch first in China under the name Moto X70 Ultra, followed by a global rollout in early 2026.