Honor Magic 7 Pro vs Motorola Razr Fold

Honor Magic 7 Pro

A versatile, AI-heavy quad system with a 200MP periscope — excellent main-camera and daylight results, but the AI doesn't quite leapfrog the best and long zoom disappoints.

• It launched with Deepfake Detection and a 200MP 'Super Zoom' periscope camera alongside solid main and ultrawide hardware.
• Daylight shots look absolutely awesome and the camera is still one of the best features of the phone.
• It banks on AI to leapfrog the best camera phones, but that's not quite enough to get there.
• The main lens handles moving objects at night better than the iPhone, and output is well suited to posting straight to social with vibrant colours.
• Long zoom disappoints — at 25x the result was surprisingly bad versus an iPhone's max zoom, and only a 2.6x crop mode sits between 1x and the periscope.
• Long-term owners report photos that are consistently amazing and sharp straight out of camera without editing.
• Video tops out at 4K60 and is solid, but you wouldn't expect the best video quality on the market.

Motorola Razr Fold

Historically the foldable Achilles heel — but Motorola invested in hardware and software here, and DxOMark ranks it the best camera in any foldable.

• DxOMark rates the Razr Fold the #1 camera among foldables — roughly 8th overall across all phones — with a Gold Label.
• A 50MP main (f/1.6, OIS), a 50MP ultrawide (12mm, 122° FOV, f/2.0) and a third 50MP camera — all selfies can use the best 50MP main.
• This is without question the best Motorola camera I've ever used.
• Comes up just short of modern flagships like the iPhone 17 Pro, Find X9 Pro and Xiaomi 17 Ultra, with a DxOMark score of 164 points.
• Took it for a street-photography spin and came away genuinely impressed — the camera hardware was what caught attention.

Honor Magic 7 Pro

Snapdragon 8 Elite delivers flawless, buttery performance and strong sustained gaming with well-managed heat.

• Overall performance is absolutely flawless and gaming is buttery smooth, including demanding titles like Genshin Impact and Wuthering Waves.
• It posts impressive benchmark scores — a Vulkan score near 24,000 and an AnTuTu placing it in the top 4% of smartphones.
• In 30-minute max-settings runs it held 60fps in Genshin (~39°C) and a stable 120fps in fast titles (~37°C) with only minor warming.
• Performance is silky smooth in everyday use with welcome software polish this year.
• It dissipates heat well around the back, further from the camera elements, rather than concentrating it in one hot spot.

Motorola Razr Fold

Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 with 16GB RAM — fast for everyday use and surprisingly good in long sessions, but the choice of the non-Elite chip in a $1,899 phone is the headline criticism.

• Motorola stuck Qualcomm's excellent Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 (16GB RAM, 512GB) inside its first full-fold flagship.
• With a phone this expensive it is a bit disappointing Motorola couldn't go all the way with the Elite chip.
• In a 20-minute stress test the Z Fold 7's 8 Elite was ~10% better on the first loop, but the Razr Fold ran better through the 20 minutes and ended ~20% ahead on sustained performance with similar thermals.
• Recording 4K120 for a long time makes the Snapdragon CPU run quite hot, though it cools down fairly fast.
• The non-Elite chip, 243g weight and IP49 dust rating could be causes for concern, even if the experience is smooth.

Honor Magic 7 Pro

Very fast charging and solid all-day life for most — but the global/EU 5,270mAh cell is a downgrade versus the Magic 6 Pro and trails 6,000mAh rivals in endurance.

• The 5,270mAh battery (EU) is plenty for a full day of moderate use — described as absolutely wicked all-day life.
• It's a downgrade compared to the Magic 6 Pro's 5,600mAh pack; the Asian variant gets a larger ~5,850mAh silicon-carbon cell.
• Real-world: 100% at 6am to ~30% by 8pm with 5–6 hours of screen-on time, and ~8–9 hours of gaming SOT.
• In an extreme multi-task drain test against the vivo X200 Pro, OnePlus 13 and Find X8 Pro it fell behind, with the smaller battery the limiting factor.
• Charging is very fast — ~100W wired fills it in about 30 minutes (in-box charger), plus 80W wireless in ~45 minutes.
• Honor's 100W spec lands closer to ~60W with most third-party adapters, though the supplied charger delivers the headline speed.

Motorola Razr Fold

The standout: the largest battery in the book-foldable space delivering class-leading endurance, plus 80W wired charging — three times faster than the Galaxy Z Fold 7.

• Lasting an impressive 14 hours 31 minutes, the Razr Fold is officially the best notebook-style foldable for battery life (16h10m with refresh-rate optimized).
• The Galaxy Z Fold 7 managed only 10h44m in the same test, with a 4,400mAh battery versus the Razr Fold's 6,000mAh cell.
• I found the battery basically impossible to kill in a single day, even with the Fold's hotspot supplying an entire office internet connection over 12 days.
• It charges at 80W wired — over three times as fast as the Galaxy Z Fold 7's 25W — plus 50W wireless and 5W reverse, with a 90W charger and a case included in the box.
• The 6,000mAh cell is colossal — about 20% larger than the Pixel 10 Pro Fold's — though there's also more display to power.

Honor Magic 7 Pro

An AI-heavy MagicOS with class-leading 7-year support and useful gesture features — though some feel Honor didn't add 'something special', a gap updates have narrowed.

• Honor's Magic phones get 7 years of OS and software support under the new Alpha Plan strategy — class-leading for the price.
• This year Honor paid more attention to the software with welcome polish.
• A knuckle-circle gesture lets you highlight and drag content into apps or search instead of taking screenshots or copy-pasting.
• It feels like Honor didn't invest enough time in the software of this beautiful phone — it lacks the 'something special' rivals have.
• Software updates have since added useful capability, including connecting the Magic 7 Pro to an iPhone to transfer files, photos and videos.

Motorola Razr Fold

The surprise strength — Motorola's foldable software is widely called the best balance of Pixel simplicity and Samsung multitasking, undercut only by Motorola's update-timeliness history.

• Motorola nailed the software — it feels like the perfect middle ground between the Pixel and Samsung approaches to book foldables, with a laptop mode that turns the bottom half into a trackpad.
• The Razr Fold is winning me over with something not on the spec sheet — superb multitasking software.
• Given Motorola's awful track record for timely updates, you've got to be ready to live with the little launch bugs for a while.
• Motorola promises 7 years of Android version and security updates — best-in-class and a huge jump from last year's 3-year commitment.
• Counterpoint: Motorola is only committing to 3 years of Android upgrades and 5 years of security patches, so versus Samsung's 7 years it's really no contest.

Honor Magic 7 Pro

One of the best phones of 2025 — and an outright steal at its frequent ~35%-off pricing against Samsung, Apple and the Chinese flagships.

• Steep discounts make it easy to recommend — around £730 directly from Honor, roughly a 35% saving on the £1,100 list price.
• It's one of the best phones tested in 2025 so far, and the long 7-year software commitment strengthens the case.
• Honor has every incentive to be aggressive on price and features — to stand out as a flagship option it really has to, and it does.
• A powerful camera smartphone with lots of features — a versatile all-rounder rather than a one-trick flagship.
• You get an incredibly versatile camera, impressive stamina, speedy charging, silky performance and an excellent display in one package.

Motorola Razr Fold

At $1,899 it undercuts the Z Fold 7 and is the only premium book foldable many US buyers can actually purchase — value hinges on whether the non-Elite chip and update questions matter to you.

• At $1,899.99 / £1,799.99 it undercuts the Galaxy Z Fold 7 by about $100/£100, and the pre-order Moto Pen Ultra bundle adds real value — the sum of its parts is the best foldable on the market.
• If you're tired of Samsung-only or have no interest in the Pixel Fold, this may be the best folding phone you can get in the US right now — the Oppo Find N6 and Honor Magic V6 aren't available there.
• It could be called a disappointment, especially compared to the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold and Honor Magic V5 — it should have offered something more compelling to stand out.
• If Motorola drops the price by even two or three hundred dollars within the first few weeks, this phone suddenly becomes a much stronger contender.
• It competes fairly well with the Oppo Find N6, which is amazing to see.