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Just months ago, astatine MWC, Motorola fto journalists similar maine spell hands-on with the upcoming Razr Fold -- and again astatine the Razr motorboat lawsuit successful Los Angeles this week. Only this time, the institution revealed everything to me, and it's enactment everything into perspective.
I got a fewer much details astir the US terms tag (which is inactive beauteous high), preorder and shipping dates, and a fewer different caller and absorbing features of the Razr Fold. Overall, my impressions went from mostly affirmative to cautiously optimistic, fixed this caller information. But determination are inactive immoderate questions to beryllium answered.
What's caller with the Razr Fold
For starters, the extracurricular surface is simply a 6.6-inch pOLED surface with Gorilla Glass Ceramic 3. The interior surface volition beryllium a monolithic 8.1 inches, making it the largest successful North America. It volition tally connected the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 processor and travel with 16GB of RAM and 512GB of storage.
The cameras volition beryllium the aforesaid ones seen successful the Motorola Signature -- 50-megapixel sensors crossed the ultrawide, main, and 3x optical zoom. With the objection of the processor, those are exceptional specifications crossed the board. Actual show and camera prime volition person to hold until I get a afloat reappraisal of the device, but Motorola showed america its super-res zoom capability.
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This is akin to different phones that person this capability. Basically, you tin drawback a changeable with the telephoto camera up to 100x, and erstwhile you unfastened the representation successful the gallery, post-processing kicks in. The effect is simply a reasonably crisp photograph of thing incredibly acold away, but that comes with a caveat.
First, I don't person a illustration to amusement you (yet) due to the fact that I demoed this diagnostic with preproduction units (and they didn't springiness america a copy). Also, I haven't had a accidental to presumption the photograph connected a surface larger than the Razr Fold's. So, portion the photograph mightiness beryllium bully capable for societal media, however it holds up nether pixel-peeping scrutiny volition person to hold for our afloat review, coming successful a fewer weeks.
Motorola besides introduced a FIFA variation of the Motorola Razr Fold, which complements the FIFA variation flip from CES. It's a immense concern with the astir fashionable athletics successful the satellite successful a twelvemonth wherever the satellite volition play for a title. All of that is highly good played.
The $2,000 elephant successful the room
European pricing was announced backmost successful March of 2026 astatine €1,999 (roughly $2,320, excluding region-based adjustments). In the US, the Fold checks successful astatine $1,900, which inactive feels high, adjacent if the Samsung Galaxy Fold 7 and Google Pixel 10 Pro Fold some unrecorded successful that aforesaid neighborhood.
In Europe, the €1,999 terms includes the €100 Moto Stylus Ultra. The Pen Ultra is simply a nifty small instrumentality that, sadly, does not silo successful the telephone itself, but it comes with its ain carrying case. It's an progressive stylus with immoderate chill features connected its own, specified arsenic unit sensitivity, a quick-action button, and a astute paper of options connected demand. In the US, the $1,900 terms does not see the stylus, which is just enough.
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Overall, portion the processor leaves thing to beryllium desired (and truly not that much), determination are different a batch of firsts successful the phone, including the archetypal triple 50-megapixel camera acceptable connected a North American foldable, the biggest and brightest screen, and the biggest battery. That is simply a 6,000 mAh silicon-carbon artillery successful there, and it's susceptible of up to 80W of accelerated charging, which matches OnePlus's 2023 (and only) foldable, the OnePlus Open.
The Motorola Razr Fold (left) and the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 (right).
The telephone is simply a tad thicker than the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7, and has a artillery that is implicit 40% larger and charges faster. This telephone is nary slouch. It's a beardown contender to beryllium my regular transportation erstwhile I deed commercialized shows from present on, espeically is the cameras clasp up arsenic good arsenic promised.
Third, this telephone volition apt person a precise balanced, all-around large camera experience. Yes, the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 has a 200-megapixel main sensor, but aft that, things autumn disconnected beauteous quickly. Meanwhile, the 3 50-megapixel cameras should springiness a much accordant all-around experience.
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One past enactment we learned astir connected the Razr Fold (and the flip Razrs arsenic well), each 4 phones volition enactment video wallpapers connected the screen screens and the wrong arsenic well. While it's casual to constitute that disconnected arsenic a gimmick, I tested it retired successful April, and it's really a beauteous amusive feature.
The 2 limitations are that 4K videos won't enactment and that videos indispensable beryllium successful representation orientation. That seems odd, due to the fact that for some the unfastened Fold and the closed Razrs, the surface is square, truthful it shouldn't matter. We'll tally with it.
My buying proposal (for now)
While I was initially precise excited to cheque retired a caller rival successful the large-screen foldable market, I'm a small little enthused, present that the Razr Fold's afloat specs and pricing has been revealed.
But there's 1 indisputable information to consider, which gives maine hope. This is simply a Motorola phone, and the company's M.O. has agelong been to motorboat a telephone astatine a precocious terms and enactment it connected a imperishable merchantability a fewer weeks later. For example, the caller Razr Fold has a retail terms of $1,900 but volition apt spot assertive discounts during large income events similar Prime Day and Black Friday. I expect a akin inclination with the different Razr phones Motorola is launching soon.
So, if you don't privation to fork retired astir 2 grand, the champion buying accidental whitethorn travel successful lone a substance of months -- perchance weeks.
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