Motorola Razr Fold Hands-On: Watch Out Samsung, This Phone Has an Edge
The Motorola Razr Fold is the company's first book-style foldable, showcasing a refined design informed by its experience with clamshell models. It features high brightness displays, a large battery, and fast charging, positioning it as a strong competitor to Samsung and Google foldables. Priced at $1,900, it offers premium specs and build quality ahead of its May 21 release.
- ▪The Motorola Razr Fold is the company's first book-style foldable smartphone.
- ▪It has a 6,000-mAh battery with 80-watt wired and 50-watt wireless charging, outpacing rivals in charging speed.
- ▪The phone features a triple 50-megapixel rear camera system and a 32-megapixel front camera.
- ▪Its inner and outer screens reach peak brightness levels of 6,200 nits and 6,000 nits, respectively, double that of many competing foldables.
- ▪The Razr Fold is available for preorder on May 14 and will be released on May 21.
- ▪It is powered by a Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 chip with 16GB of RAM and 512GB of storage.
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Motorola is practically a veteran when it comes to foldables, which makes the Razr Fold all the more surprising. When I got my hands on it at a Hollywood villa overlooking the Los Angeles skyline, it felt less like an iteration and more like a fresh take.The phone-maker's first book-style foldable incorporates all the know-how it gained from making clamshell foldables dating back to the first modern Razr in 2019 -- a launch I also attended at a similar event in Los Angeles. As advanced as it felt back then to hold a smartphone that folded in half, the foldable niche has come a long way since. The Motorola Razr Fold shows the company has moved beyond the rookie missteps typical of first-generation book-style foldables.
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