Motorola Razr Fold vs Motorola Razr Ultra 2025

Motorola Razr Fold

A pair of excellent, exceptionally bright panels — an 8.1-inch inner screen and a fast 165Hz outer screen — though lab tests fall short of Motorola's 6,000-nit headline claims.

• Unfolds to a massive 8.1-inch 2K 120Hz inner panel rated ~6,200 nits, with a ~6,000-nit outer screen running at up to 165Hz.
• Motorola rates both displays at 6,000 nits peak brightness, but Future Labs tests found the numbers considerably lower.
• The 6.6-inch outer display runs 2520×1080 at 165Hz versus the Z Fold 7's slower 120Hz / 2,600-nit panel — a clear advantage.
• The inner display gets very bright at up to ~6,200 nits — a very impressive panel few foldables can match.

Motorola Razr Ultra 2025

A 7-inch 165Hz inner panel and a class-leading 4-inch external screen. The external display is the headline strength; the gap between the 4,500-nit claim and measured brightness is the headline controversy.

• It unfolds to a 7-inch foldable LTPO AMOLED at 165Hz with a 4-inch outer display — larger, significantly brighter and smoother than the Galaxy Z Flip 7 on raw specs.
• The boosted brightness and filed-down frame produce a 7-inch folding AMOLED that is the best in the clamshell category.
• GSMArena lists a 7.00" LTPO AMOLED, 165Hz, 4,500 nits peak inner panel plus a 4" 3,000-nit external LTPO AMOLED under Gorilla Glass Ceramic.
• Independent measurement found the inner screen maxing at ~490 nits manual / ~1,490 nits in auto and the cover screen ~500 / ~1,520 — far below Motorola's 4,500-nit headline claim.
• Peak brightness measured ~1,835 nits — short of the Razr Plus 2024's record 2,158 nits but still incredibly bright by today's standards.
• The external display previews shots crisply and runs full Android apps, but several reviewers find limited day-to-day benefit beyond glances at notifications.

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.
• Highest-quality camera in a folding phone in the US — better than the Pixel 10 Pro Fold and Galaxy Z Fold 7, which use older sensors.

Motorola Razr Ultra 2025

A dual 50MP system (wide + ultrawide) that's improved and creator-friendly, but the lack of a telephoto and merely-good processing keep it a step behind slab flagships.

• Two 50MP rear cameras — a primary wide with OIS offering up to 2x lossless zoom, plus a 50MP ultrawide with autofocus for panoramas and macro.
• Motorola restoring the ultrawide shooter was the right move, since the Razr lets you use its main camera array for selfies.
• Because there's no telephoto camera, images are noticeably degraded compared with dedicated-zoom phones from 3x onward and worse the further you push it.
• Content creators get a deep mode set including a new Group Shot that blends the best faces from a burst.
• The cameras are pretty good, especially the primary shooter — Motorola's reputation for weak cameras no longer really holds here.

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.

Motorola Razr Ultra 2025

Snapdragon 8 Elite + 16GB RAM finally gives a Razr true flagship power and a huge jump over the Razr Plus — but Motorola tunes it conservatively and it heats up under sustained graphics or 4K120 capture.

• The Razr Ultra runs the Snapdragon 8 Elite with 16GB RAM and 512GB storage; in Geekbench 6 it outperforms last year's Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 Razr Plus by a long way.
• In a 3DMark Wildlife Extreme stress test the Razr Ultra scored 6,754 (40.45fps avg) versus the base Razr 2025's 1,026 (6.15fps) — the Snapdragon chip is far more graphics-capable.
• Some phones with the same chip score higher in testing, suggesting Moto dialled performance down to keep the phone cool.
• It doesn't cool especially well — but this isn't a gaming phone and most owners won't push it that hard.
• In casual gaming it holds ~90fps with no major temperature increase, dropping the battery to ~60% after 50 minutes of mixed games.

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.
• If you use the camera a lot or run games, the battery does drain quite quickly and you may need an afternoon top-up.

Motorola Razr Ultra 2025

The biggest year-over-year win: a 4,700mAh cell that comfortably lasts all day and dominates the Z Flip 7 in rundowns. Charging is fast (68W wired / 30W wireless) but the in-box charger situation is muddled.

• Over five days of testing, the 4,700mAh battery got through a full day on a single charge with no problem.
• An 18-hour day out in London with heavy camera use, lots of screen-on time and streaming still ended with 15% remaining (~7–8 hours SOT).
• In a controlled battery test the Razr Ultra hit nearly 19 hours in efficiency mode — whatever the 4,700mAh cell and Snapdragon 8 Elite are doing together works strongly in Motorola's favour.
• Versus the Galaxy Z Flip 7 the Razr Ultra lasted 19h32m of video playback to the Flip 7's 8h16m — a clear battery-life win.
• A measured 68W charge took it 0–78% in 30 minutes and a full charge in 45 minutes; another full 0–100% test landed at 49m45s.

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.

Motorola Razr Ultra 2025

Motorola's light-touch Android is well-liked, but the short 3-year update commitment on a flagship-priced phone is the review's single biggest recurring criticism, and the AI layer feels bolted on.

• Motorola's light-touch approach to Android is a plus — handy gestures and a customisation app, with the more dramatic changes switched off out of the box.
• Motorola only promises 3 years of OS updates and 4 of security — so a launch Android 15 unit tops out at Android 18.
• Three OS upgrades on a $1,300 phone is called unacceptable in 2025 — Samsung offers 7 years and faster updates on the rival Z Flip 7.
• Motorola's take on mobile AI could use work — it largely piggybacks on Google Gemini through a skinned Hello UI layer.
• At launch some carrier units shipped on a buggy Android 14 with a sluggish, glitchy camera app and external-screen control limitations.

Motorola Razr Fold

A flat-folding stainless-steel hinge and Gorilla Glass Ceramic improve confidence, but IP48/IP49 (not full IP68) and Motorola's foldable repair history temper it.

• IP48/IP49 rated — it can handle 1.5m of fresh water for up to 30 minutes, with a Gorilla Glass Ceramic 3 cover and a durable stainless-steel hinge.
• Like most foldables it's IP48-rated — a big deal for any phone with so many moving parts — but Motorola's screen-peeling warranty history undermines trust.
• The front display's material, crease and risk of black lines from accidental damage make it expensive to repair.
• After almost a year an owner reported no issues whatsoever with the crease and brilliant inner-display durability on Motorola's zero-gap-hinge foldables.

Motorola Razr Ultra 2025

The titanium hinge and reduced crease age impressively well, but the IP48 rating and plastic inner screen are real durability compromises versus slab flagships.

• After a full year the hinge and crease are still excellent quality with no issues — a one-year owner who bought it himself says he'd buy it again.
• After a year the inner display has held up brilliantly with no crease problems whatsoever.
• The IP48 rating means protection only against dust larger than 1mm and submersion to 1.5m for 30 minutes — a significant durability gap behind the IP68 of slab rivals.
• It comfortably makes a full 24-hour cycle with 50% usage and still feels like the best of both worlds folded or open.
• Notebookcheck logged over 15 hours of battery in its Wi-Fi test but warned the frame and casing can heat to ~60°C under high load.

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.

Motorola Razr Ultra 2025

At its $1,299 MSRP the short update policy and IP48 hurt the value case, but frequent steep discounts to $799–1,099 turn it into the clamshell to buy — and it out-specs the Z Flip 7 on hardware.

• At full price it's $1,299.99 (1TB $1,499) — Motorola earns the 'Ultra' moniker, including the price tag.
• On sale it has dropped to $799.99 — a $500 saving that makes it the only premium unlocked foldable worth recommending right now.
• One reviewer who tests 40 phones a year calls the Razr Ultra the one to buy at $900.
• Against the Galaxy Z Flip 7 it wins display quality, performance and battery life, while the Flip 7 takes build quality, design and far longer software support.
• Software hiccups and AI quibbles aside, it's the best clamshell foldable out there with upgrades that justify even its increased price.