iPhone 16 Pro Max vs Motorola Razr Fold | TechTalkTown
iPhone 16 Pro Max vs Motorola Razr Fold
iPhone 16 Pro Max
Apple
8.7
Battery king, best iPhone, incremental
Motorola Razr Fold
Motorola
8.3
Best US book foldable, big battery
iPhone 16 Pro Max
What Reviewers Agree On
Battery life is the best of any flagship — reviewers and a robotic battery test repeatedly rank it first, easily a full heavy day with hours to spare.
It's the best iPhone Apple had produced — a maxed-out feature set in a barely-wider body than the 15 Pro Max.
The A18 Pro is the standout for sustained gaming: ~20% faster than the 15 Pro and Galaxy S24 Ultra after a 20-minute stress test, holding 120fps stably for 90+ minutes.
The 48MP main is the best iPhone camera for stills Apple had made, with superb 4K/120fps video and best-in-class four-mic audio.
Long-term durability and battery health are excellent — many owners report 96–100% battery health and minimal wear after a year.
Deal Breakers
Pros & Cons
iPhone 16 Pro Max
Pros
Battery life is the best of any flagship — reviewers and a robotic battery test repeatedly rank it first, easily a full heavy day with hours to spare.
It's the best iPhone Apple had produced — a maxed-out feature set in a barely-wider body than the 15 Pro Max.
The A18 Pro is the standout for sustained gaming: ~20% faster than the 15 Pro and Galaxy S24 Ultra after a 20-minute stress test, holding 120fps stably for 90+ minutes.
The 48MP main is the best iPhone camera for stills Apple had made, with superb 4K/120fps video and best-in-class four-mic audio.
Detailed Comparison
Design & Build
iPhone 16 Pro Max
A titanium frame with a microblasted finish and Ceramic Shield, now with a bigger 6.9-inch screen achieved mostly by trimming bezels — it's only ~1mm wider than the 15 Pro Max but very large.
The screen increase came mainly from trimming the bezels — the 16 Pro Max is a mere 1mm wider than the 15 Pro Max.
The titanium frame has a smooth microblasted finish, sandwiched by two slabs of Ceramic Shield Apple says is twice as tough as rivals.
The 16 Pro Max goes from 6.7 to 6.9 inches — an absolutely gigantic phone, in S24 Ultra territory.
It looks and feels basically like a titanium iPhone 15 Pro — durability is fairly similar to the 15 Pro Max and it still picks up scratches.
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It's an incremental update over the 15 Pro Max — few useful new features, hard to justify upgrading from it.
Charging is slow (30W wired, no 30W brick sold; 25W MagSafe) — far behind fast-charging Android rivals.
Apple Intelligence shipped late and underwhelmed (no smarter Siri at launch), and base storage is still a stingy 128GB at $1,199.
Motorola Razr Fold
What Reviewers Agree On
Best battery life of any notebook-style foldable — roughly 14h31m (16h10m optimized), far ahead of the Galaxy Z Fold 7's ~10h44m
DxOMark's #1 foldable camera (≈164 points, ~8th overall), with a triple 50MP system Motorola made a genuine strength
Standout software — multitasking, laptop mode and a Pixel-meets-Samsung balance reviewers repeatedly praise
Excellent, very bright displays — an 8.1-inch ~6,200-nit inner panel and a 165Hz ~6,000-nit outer screen
Active stylus support (Moto Pen Ultra) that works even on the cover screen, a Z Fold limitation
Undercuts the Galaxy Z Fold 7 by about $100 ($1,899 / £1,799) and includes a case plus a 90W charger in the box
Best book foldable you can actually buy in the US, since the Oppo Find N6 and Honor Magic V6 aren't sold there
Deal Breakers
Uses the non-Elite Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 in a $1,899 flagship — a clear cost-down some reviewers find disappointing
Heavy at 243g (≈28g more than the Galaxy Z Fold 7) and only IP48/IP49 rated, not full IP68
Motorola's poor track record for timely updates, plus a genuine source conflict over whether it gets 7 years or only 3 years of OS updates
Foldable repair costs and Motorola's screen-peeling warranty history are recurring trust concerns
Long-term durability and battery health are excellent — many owners report 96–100% battery health and minimal wear after a year.
Cons
It's an incremental update over the 15 Pro Max — few useful new features, hard to justify upgrading from it.
Charging is slow (30W wired, no 30W brick sold; 25W MagSafe) — far behind fast-charging Android rivals.
Apple Intelligence shipped late and underwhelmed (no smarter Siri at launch), and base storage is still a stingy 128GB at $1,199.
Motorola Razr Fold
Pros
Best battery life of any notebook-style foldable — roughly 14h31m (16h10m optimized), far ahead of the Galaxy Z Fold 7's ~10h44m
DxOMark's #1 foldable camera (≈164 points, ~8th overall), with a triple 50MP system Motorola made a genuine strength
Standout software — multitasking, laptop mode and a Pixel-meets-Samsung balance reviewers repeatedly praise
Excellent, very bright displays — an 8.1-inch ~6,200-nit inner panel and a 165Hz ~6,000-nit outer screen
Active stylus support (Moto Pen Ultra) that works even on the cover screen, a Z Fold limitation
Undercuts the Galaxy Z Fold 7 by about $100 ($1,899 / £1,799) and includes a case plus a 90W charger in the box
Best book foldable you can actually buy in the US, since the Oppo Find N6 and Honor Magic V6 aren't sold there
Cons
Uses the non-Elite Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 in a $1,899 flagship — a clear cost-down some reviewers find disappointing
Heavy at 243g (≈28g more than the Galaxy Z Fold 7) and only IP48/IP49 rated, not full IP68
Motorola's poor track record for timely updates, plus a genuine source conflict over whether it gets 7 years or only 3 years of OS updates
Foldable repair costs and Motorola's screen-peeling warranty history are recurring trust concerns
It survived a JerryRigEverything-style durability/drop test (Ceramic Shield improvements).
Motorola Razr Fold
Motorola's first book-style foldable trades the iconic flip for a Samsung-like book form, with a Material Expressive look, a flat-folding hinge and a notably heavy body.
Motorola's first book-style folding phone is a premium option, not the budget-friendlier alternative the category could use, with a 6,000mAh battery, top-tier chipset and serious camera hardware.
At 243g it's about 28g heavier than the Galaxy Z Fold 7, largely because of the camera array, though it feels balanced and not heavy in the hand.
The design is Google Material Expressive instead of a misguided attempt to match Apple.
Motorola leveraged decades of hinge engineering to pull the screen taut, resulting in a surface that is startlingly flat and masks the crease.
The build feels relatively sturdy with a zero-gap hinge and flush closure, though the soft inner screen still makes dust and dirt a concern.
Battery & Charging
iPhone 16 Pro Max
The headline strength: a ~4,685mAh battery delivering the best flagship endurance reviewers had measured — undercut by slow charging.
Battery life is the best of any flagship phone in the last few years — extremely efficient.
In a robotic intensive battery test, the iPhone 16 Pro Max beat all the competition.
Even after a year of daily use it still measured 100% battery health and reached 10h07m screen-on-time in a 7-phone drain test (best result observed: 12h44m on iOS 18.3.2).
It charges slowly: ~39% in 30 min and a full charge in ~2h03m, versus a Galaxy S25 Ultra's 1h17m.
Max wired charge is only ~30W and Apple doesn't even sell a 30W adapter (you must buy the 40W one); MagSafe is 25W.
Heavy users report finishing the day with 40–50% remaining — a huge jump coming from a 15 Pro.
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.
