At a glance
Expert’s Rating
Pros
- Appealingly tactile design
- Strong camera set-up
- Big, bright screens
- Good battery life & fast charging
Cons
- Relatively bulky
- Stylus could be better implemented
- Performance isn’t cutting-edge
Our Verdict
Motorola brings its customary sense of style to the full-sized foldable game, supplying a beautifully poised device that stands toe-to-toe with its rivals. Its design, camera and battery are all among the best on the market.
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Best Prices Today: Motorola Razr Fold
Motorola has chosen a peculiar time to launch its first book-style foldable phone in the Razr Fold.
Crippling component prices are tempering the ambitions of even the biggest manufacturers – and raising prices for their customers – while Apple is just about to upend public expectations (deserved or not) for what a full-sized foldable should be with the iPhone Ultra.
You’d also think the brand would have been leading the way after introducing the modern flip phone with the Razr series, starting in 2020.
I’m doubtful that Motorola’s vision for a £1,800/$1,900 ‘traditional’ foldable is going to win many converts at this point in the game. However, on the limited terms laid out by Samsung seven years ago with the first Galaxy Fold, it’s a stunning success.
Design & Build
- 9.89mm thick (closed) and 243g
- Luxurious curves and materials make it feel approachable
- Well-sprung hinge
- IP48/IP49 rated
I’m not entirely sure how Motorola has done it, but the Razr Fold feels less like an overengineered prototype and more like a cohesive phone that I could envisage using on a daily basis.
As someone who has never seriously considered making a foldable their main phone outside of testing for reviews, that’s borderline miraculous.
It’s not even like Motorola has found a solution to my biggest issue with the format: portability. At 160.05 × 73.6 × 9.89mm when closed (4.55mm thick when unfurled), and with a weight of 243g, it’s a whole millimetre thicker and 28g heavier than the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 and a similar amount to the Oppo Find N6.
Motorola has got the feel of the Fold just right
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The thing is, though, Motorola has got the feel of the Fold just right. It’s effectively taken the luxurious slimline feel of its current flagship phone, the Motorola Signature, and spread it thinner over double the surface area.
Applied to a large foldable, Motorola’s rounded edges and tactile material finishes feel both more indulgent and more practical. This might just be the grippiest and most pleasant-to-hold book-style foldable yet.
The way in which the phone fits the contours of your hand seems to help distribute the weight more evenly, while Motorola’s flowing camera module offers a nice gradient to prop your support finger on.
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Its hinge, too, is perfectly sprung – just taut enough without making the opening process laborious. Again, the phone’s curves help with that, lending a natural level of purchase on the edges that the flattened-out Galaxy Z Fold 7 lacks. Motorola has clearly learned a lot from all the flip-style Razr phones.
Motorola hasn’t been able to solve the more fundamental flaw of the form factor, though. An IP48/IP49 rating means that it’s extremely water-resistant, but as susceptible to dust ingress as any foldable apart from the Google Pixel 10 Pro Fold – though some would argue that point.
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I’m not a big fan of Motorola’s implementation of the AI Key, which only really makes sense when the phone is open. When closed, it clumsily overlaps the volume buttons, and is far too easy to press by mistake. It can’t be freely mapped to other non-AI functions, either.
It’s also a shame that Motorola didn’t make use of its Pantone contacts and go for some bolder colour options. Blackened Blue and Lily White both look nice and classy, but it would have been nice to have had a third (and even fourth) option with a little more vibrancy.
Screen & Speakers
- Outer: 6.56in, FHD+, pOLED, 165Hz
- Inner: 8.09in, 2K, pOLED, 120Hz
- Bundled Moto Pen Ultra stylus
- Dolby Atmos stereo speakers
The Motorola Razr Fold offers a pair of bright, fluid and expansive displays.
On the outside, there’s a large screen with an unusually fluid 165Hz peak refresh rate during games. It’ll also hit a whopping 6000 nits in peak HDR playback situations.
The internal screen lacks that elevated refresh rate (it’ll ‘only’ get to 120Hz), but more than makes up for this with its vast expanse, minimal (if far from invisible) display crease, and almost comically high 6200 nits peak brightness.
As with the Razr Fold’s design, it all comes together in the hand. The two screens combine to offer a seamless, bold, crisp, yet colour-accurate picture, whatever you’re doing.
something that sets the Razr Fold apart from its peers… is the inclusion of the Moto Pen Ultra
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You might wish to move away from the overly punchy Vivid default screen colour setting, but both the Radiant and Natural alternatives hold their own appeal. Without getting the colorimeter involved, I found Radiant to offer a pleasing balance of punch and precision.
Motorola has taken the Google approach to internal selfie camera positioning rather than the Samsung one, situating it in the top right corner of the screen. I find this to be the neater of the two, serving to distract far less when viewing full-screen web content.
Another major inclusion here – and something that sets the Razr Fold apart from its peers, now that Samsung has ditched S Pen support – is the inclusion of the Moto Pen Ultra. It comes with every Razr Fold, and offers a finely calibrated note-taking and sketching tool on both displays.
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It’s not quite the home run it could have been, however, as it isn’t properly integrated into the phone like the Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra. Rather, it comes with a bulky (if well-made) cigar-sized charging case, which I can’t imagine lugging around with me.
Audio is supplied by a pair of Dolby Atmos-supporting stereo speakers. The quality of the output is good, if a little trebly and harsh on the ears at higher volumes. They’re good, but certainly not iPhone 17 Pro-good.
Specs & Performance
- Older Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 chip
- Ample 16GB LPDDR5X RAM
- Single 512GB storage option
The suspicion that Motorola has taken its flagship Signature phone and stuck on an extra flappy section continues, as the Razr Fold packs exactly the same internal components.
That’s the same seasoned Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 chip, the same generous offering of RAM, and the same solitary 512GB storage provision.
To repeat what we said in our Signature review, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 is a slightly older chip these days, having been superseded around the turn of the year. What was merely an interesting observation in a £900/$900 phone, however, becomes a mild complaint in one that’s selling for literally twice the price.
Drag your eyes away from that spec sheet, however, and Motorola’s calculation largely pays off
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Especially when the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7, with its faster Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, is selling for similar money.
Drag your eyes away from that spec sheet, however, and Motorola’s calculation largely pays off. The Razr Fold doesn’t feel any less capable than its foldable rivals – and indeed, continues to outperform the Google Pixel 10 Pro Fold in benchmark tests.
You might not be testing out that 165Hz facility in too many gaming titles, but the phone will still play the likes of Destiny Rising with admirable fluidity and graphical fidelity.
Day-to-day fluidity is unimpeachable, with smooth animations, seamless transitions, and pause-free multitasking. The only performance hitch I encountered was a slightly protracted shutter time when snapping pictures at night, and that seems likely to be an issue with the Camera app itself rather than anything else.
Motorola Razr Fold benchmarks
Cameras
- 50Mp, f/1.6 main rear lens
- 50Mp, f/2.0 ultrawide with 120-degree field of view
- 50Mp, f/2.4 3x telephoto
- 20Mp and 32MP selfie cameras
Motorola’s Signature blueprint is out on the table once again, with exactly the same triple-50Mp camera system used here in the Razr Fold.
Where such component recycling was a bit of a gamble in the performance department, it pays off handsomely here. Foldable phones tend to have inferior camera set-ups to their non-foldable cousins, which isn’t a good look given that they can retail for double the money.
Motorola doesn’t have to face such awkward questions here as the Razr Fold takes really nice photos in pretty much all situations.
Motorola’s image processing appears to have come on a fair amount, too
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The relatively large 1/1.28-inch main sensor, paired with a wide f/1.6 aperture, means that daylight shots are crisp and bright. Motorola’s image processing appears to have come on a fair amount, too, producing shots with an appreciable amount of pop and contrast.
I was genuinely impressed with the level of shade that the phone preserved across a couple of sunny days. Shots of people, too, had a really ‘live’ look to them, with an appreciable amount of natural bokeh lending depth.
Night shots came out reasonably clear, if not on the same level as the very best camera phones in the business, like the Google Pixel 10 Pro and the Xiaomi 17 Ultra.
The 50Mp ultra-wide camera does a good shot with landscape shots, producing detailed images without too much edge distortion and with a broadly consistent tone. This camera also finds itself on macro duty, if that’s your bag.
Then there’s the 50Mp telephoto camera, which produces native 3x zoomed shots of a good standard. You won’t want to zoom too far beyond 6x (or 10x at a stretch), given the drop off in detail as you crop in on the main sensor, with 50x and 100x in particular doing favours to absolutely no one and nothing, be that person, tree or building.
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One concern I had in general shooting was during an hour or so of photography and 4K videography on an unseasonably warm Spring day, which caused the phone to heat up to a somewhat uncomfortable degree. This was a day of unusually toasty 25c heat, admittedly, but it’s worth noting.
There are a pair of middling front-facing cameras, one 20Mp unit on the front and one 32Mp unit on the inside, which will turn out passable selfies. Better, though, to make use of the external display’s well-implemented viewfinder feature and use the main camera for your self-snaps. They look way better.
Battery Life & Charging
- 6000mAh silicon-carbon battery
- 80W wired charging
- 50W wireless charging
Motorola has tackled another common foldable flaw head-on with the Razr Fold’s 6000mAh battery. That’s actually larger than that of the non-foldable Motorola Signature, let alone the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 (4400mAh) and the Google Pixel 10 Pro Fold (5050mAh).
Curiously, it still dropped well behind Google’s foldable in our PCMark 3.0 Work battery test (tested on the bigger internal screen), which simulates a sustained mixed productivity workload. However, in getting close to the 11-hour mark, it handily beats Samsung’s foldable champ.
As this figure suggests, the Razr Fold should get you through to the end of a regular day of mixed use, employing both screens and indulging in some photography, without needing a charger.
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When you do, the Razr Fold will support up to an impressive 80W wired charging. I didn’t have a Motorola-branded charger to hand (there isn’t one in the box), but using the supplied wire with a 120W Vivo charger, I was able to get the telltale TurboPower indicator nonetheless.
Using this method, a 15-minute charge from empty took the phone to 31%, while after 30 minutes it had hit 54%. A full charge took just a tad over an hour.
There’s also support for impressive 50W wireless charging, which is always gratifying to see.
Software & Apps
- Android 16
- 7 years of software updates
- Too many third-party apps
- Confusing AI provision
Motorola has been straying away from its hard-earned reputation for UI clarity in recent years, adding more bespoke elements and third-party bloat to the mix.
However, Android 16 on the Razr Fold remains a relatively clean and appealing UI, sitting somewhere between the busy customisation of the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 and the clean lines of the Google Pixel 10 Pro Fold.
I like Motorola’s Moto app, which serves as a handy introduction to the phone’s various features. Among those are Motorola’s famous (among certain circles) Gestures, which reliably grant handy shortcuts when you do things like double-twist or double-chop the phone.
Motorola is one of those manufacturers adopting the ‘throw everything against the wall and see what sticks’ approach
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I could certainly do without all of the extraneous third-party apps that come preinstalled, including Amazon Music, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram. Quite why Motorola feels the need to give us the Opera web browser when Chrome is already here, I’m not sure.
Everyone wants a slice of the AI pie these days, but Motorola is one of those manufacturers adopting the ‘throw everything against the wall and see what sticks’ approach.
Google’s Gemini takes pride of place on the first Home Screen, not far from Motorola’s own Moto AI app. The latter is a nicely presented assembly of basic tools for generating AI artwork, transcribing notes, saving screenshot memories and the like.
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I’d argue that Motorola should have stopped right there, but it also preinstalls the third-party Perplexity and Copilot assistants. It’s a bit of a mess.
Motorola seems to be promising seven years of major Android OS updates, which positions the Razr Fold right up there with the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 and the Google Pixel 10 Pro Fold as class-leading support.
Price & Availability
The Motorola Razr Fold is available to buy now directly from the official store as well as retailers such as Amazon and Best Buy.
There’s just the one model available, and it costs £1,799/$1,899. That’s the same as the starting price of the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 in the UK (and $100 less for the US) and £50 more than the entry-level Google Pixel 10 Pro Fold ($100 more in the US).
However, it should be noted that the Razr Fold comes with 512GB of internal storage as standard. The equivalent model of Samsung’s rival costs £1,899/$2,119, while Google’s equivalent capacity costs £1,869/$1,919.
As such, an argument could be made that Motorola’s premium foldable is relatively decent value. It’s not an argument I’d ever make for a phone costing the best part of £2,000/$2,000, but someone might.
Check out our list of the best foldable phones for more options.
Should you buy the Motorola Razr Fold?
The Motorola Razr Fold is a beautifully designed, surprisingly cohesive full-sized foldable phone with a pair of excellent displays, strong cameras, and dependable battery life.
It might not be as slim and light as the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7, but its warm and inviting design makes it deceptively easy to live with.
Meanwhile, its consummate photographic skills, sizeable battery and extensive software support leave us searching for the points of friction.
They’re still very much there, of course, in the shape of less-than-cutting-edge performance and a predictably high asking price. But neither of those things is sufficient to keep the Razr Fold from ‘serious contender’ status.
Specs
- Android 16
- Outer: 6.56in, FHD+, pOLED, 165Hz, 2.5D display
- Inner: 8.09in, 2K, pOLED, 120Hz, flat display
- Side-mounted fingerprint sensor
- Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 5
- 16GB LPDDR5X RAM
- 512GB storage
- 50Mp, f/1.6 main camera
- 50Mp f/2.0 ultra-wide macro camera
- 50Mp f/2.4 telephoto macro camera
- Up to 8K @ 30fps rear video
- 20Mp and 32Mp front-facing cameras
- Dolby Atmos stereo speakers
- eSIM and physical SIM
- Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/6e/7
- Bluetooth 6
- 6000mAh battery
- 80W wired charging
- 50W wireless charging
- 160.05 × 73.6 × 9.89 mm (folded)
- 243g
- Launch colours: Lily White, Blackened Blue
