Motorola Razr+ 2023 vs Oppo Find X9 Ultra | TechTalkTown
Motorola Razr+ 2023 vs Oppo Find X9 Ultra
Motorola Razr+ 2023
Motorola
8
Best clamshell foldable cover screen of 2023
Oppo Find X9 Ultra
Oppo
8.8
The best camera phone of 2026
Motorola Razr+ 2023
What Reviewers Agree On
Best clamshell cover screen of 2023 — 3.6-inch 144Hz AMOLED runs full apps, beat Samsung's Z Flip 5 3.4-inch screen to market and on functionality.
Teardrop hinge with no visible gap when folded + minimal crease — meaningfully better than Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5's hinge per multiple reviewers.
165Hz inner LTPO AMOLED + 144Hz outer panel — fastest refresh rates on any 2023 foldable, smooth for gaming + scrolling.
Aggressive 50%-off Black Friday + carrier discounts dropped the $999 launch price to $399-549 — making it the best clamshell value of 2023.
Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 + 8GB RAM delivers solid 2022-flagship performance — no real-world slowdown for typical use.
Deal Breakers
Pros & Cons
Motorola Razr+ 2023
Pros
Best clamshell cover screen of 2023 — 3.6-inch 144Hz AMOLED runs full apps, beat Samsung's Z Flip 5 3.4-inch screen to market and on functionality.
Teardrop hinge with no visible gap when folded + minimal crease — meaningfully better than Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5's hinge per multiple reviewers.
165Hz inner LTPO AMOLED + 144Hz outer panel — fastest refresh rates on any 2023 foldable, smooth for gaming + scrolling.
Aggressive 50%-off Black Friday + carrier discounts dropped the $999 launch price to $399-549 — making it the best clamshell value of 2023.
Detailed Comparison
Display
Motorola Razr+ 2023
The 6.9-inch 165Hz LTPO inner panel and 144Hz cover screen are the fastest of any 2023 foldable — both AMOLED, both bright, both class-leading for the form factor.
6.9-inch foldable LTPO AMOLED, 165Hz, HDR10+, 1,400-nit peak — the fastest inner foldable display of 2023.
3.6-inch external AMOLED, 144Hz, 1,100-nit peak, HDR10+ + Gorilla Glass Victus — bright enough outdoors per real-world owners.
Wired: '165Hz refresh rate makes interacting with the cover display feel responsive' — first to ship this refresh rate on a phone in 2023.
Phandroid: 'one of the best smartphone displays for mobile gaming' thanks to 165Hz refresh + AMOLED color.
Oppo Find X9 Ultra
A 6.8-inch LTPO OLED with up to 144Hz and very high real-world brightness — among the brightest screens on any phone outdoors.
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3,800mAh battery is small — Android Central forum users + reviewers consistently flag battery as the Razr+'s weakest point.
Only IP52 splash resistance (no dust or full water protection) — Galaxy Z Flip 5's IPX8 is meaningfully better protected.
Cameras lack a telephoto and Wired notes they 'don't measure up to the competition' — 12MP main + 13MP ultrawide both trail Galaxy Z Flip 5 in low-light + zoom.
Oppo Find X9 Ultra
What Reviewers Agree On
One of the best — frequently the best — camera phones of 2026, with a uniquely versatile quad Hasselblad system and class-leading 10x optical zoom
Class-leading battery life: a 7,050mAh silicon-carbon cell routinely delivers 8–10+ hours of screen-on time and can stretch to two days
100W SuperVOOC wired and 50W AirVOOC wireless charging — roughly 0–100% in 45–52 minutes
Stunning, distinctive Hasselblad-inspired design widely called one of the best-looking phones of the year
Excellent, very bright display — ~3,600 nits HDR peak and ~1,800 nits full-screen outdoors
Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 delivers top-of-chart benchmark performance
Best-in-class video on an Android phone, with strong stabilization and 8K30 / 4K120 Dolby Vision across lenses
Deal Breakers
Heavy and large (≈236–239g, ~9.1mm) with a polarising oversized circular camera island
Expensive (≈€1,699 / ~$1,100+ in China) with limited or no official availability in many markets
ColorOS trails Samsung and Google on AI-feature depth and integration, and feels iOS-derived to some users
Mediocre sustained performance — 3DMark stability around 49% with peak performance dropping within a minute
Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 + 8GB RAM delivers solid 2022-flagship performance — no real-world slowdown for typical use.
Cons
3,800mAh battery is small — Android Central forum users + reviewers consistently flag battery as the Razr+'s weakest point.
Only IP52 splash resistance (no dust or full water protection) — Galaxy Z Flip 5's IPX8 is meaningfully better protected.
Cameras lack a telephoto and Wired notes they 'don't measure up to the competition' — 12MP main + 13MP ultrawide both trail Galaxy Z Flip 5 in low-light + zoom.
Oppo Find X9 Ultra
Pros
One of the best — frequently the best — camera phones of 2026, with a uniquely versatile quad Hasselblad system and class-leading 10x optical zoom
Class-leading battery life: a 7,050mAh silicon-carbon cell routinely delivers 8–10+ hours of screen-on time and can stretch to two days
100W SuperVOOC wired and 50W AirVOOC wireless charging — roughly 0–100% in 45–52 minutes
Stunning, distinctive Hasselblad-inspired design widely called one of the best-looking phones of the year
Excellent, very bright display — ~3,600 nits HDR peak and ~1,800 nits full-screen outdoors
Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 delivers top-of-chart benchmark performance
Best-in-class video on an Android phone, with strong stabilization and 8K30 / 4K120 Dolby Vision across lenses
Cons
Heavy and large (≈236–239g, ~9.1mm) with a polarising oversized circular camera island
Expensive (≈€1,699 / ~$1,100+ in China) with limited or no official availability in many markets
ColorOS trails Samsung and Google on AI-feature depth and integration, and feels iOS-derived to some users
Mediocre sustained performance — 3DMark stability around 49% with peak performance dropping within a minute
6.8-inch LTPO OLED panel up to 144Hz, with a maximum brightness around 1,800 nits and dimming as low as 1 nit.
Hits a staggering ~3,600 nits of peak HDR brightness, making it incredibly easy to see and edit shots in direct sunlight.
In manual mode the display peaks at 840 nits, rising to ~1,156 nits in auto on a 75% white patch and up to ~1,932 nits in the native gallery app.
The smoother 144Hz panel and 3,600-nit brightness outperform Samsung's display.
Cameras
Motorola Razr+ 2023
12MP main + 13MP ultrawide + 32MP selfie — the Razr+ 2023's biggest hardware weakness vs the Galaxy Z Flip 5. Wired notes the cameras 'don't measure up to the competition,' but the cover-screen viewfinder for selfies is a unique strength.
12MP main (with OIS) + 13MP ultrawide (108-degree FOV) + 32MP inner selfie — no telephoto camera.
Wired: 'this comparison is a good example of how Motorola's cameras don't measure up to the competition' — Z Flip 5 wins side-by-side.
Cover-screen selfie viewfinder lets subjects see themselves while you photograph them — unique feature mainstream phones can't match.
12MP main 'works decently well even in low-light' per Phandroid — adequate but not flagship-class daylight quality.
Ultrawide 108-degree FOV is narrower than Galaxy Z Flip 5's 124-degree ultrawide — meaningful difference for landscape + group shots.
Oppo Find X9 Ultra
The reason to buy it. A Hasselblad-tuned quad system with the most versatile zoom on any phone, a true 10x optical periscope and an optional 300mm Hasselblad teleconverter. Near-universally praised, with only minor sharpness and ultrawide caveats.
A 200MP main, 200MP 3x telephoto, 50MP 10x optical telephoto and 50MP ultrawide, all Hasselblad-branded — camera-first overkill in the best way.
Consistently great photos, sharpness and dynamic range with really good color calibration — this phone did basically everything right in the camera department; an incredibly well-rounded smartphone camera.
Is this the best camera phone ever built? — my new favorite camera phone and one of the best Android phones I've ever used.
Even after a direct shootout, still the best camera phone I've ever used.
Detail is very good, but sharpness remains a bit underwhelming on the main camera.
Performance
Motorola Razr+ 2023
Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 + 8GB RAM is last-year flagship silicon — the cost-vs-spec trade-off Motorola chose to ship at $999 vs $1,200+ for an SD 8 Gen 2 device. Real-world performance is excellent for typical use.
Phandroid: 'you're not getting the latest and greatest chipset here since Motorola wanted to price the phone right at $999' — explicit cost trade-off.
Ars Technica: 'not the best you can get from Qualcomm' — the 8 Gen 2 would have been the right chip for a $999 launch.
Oppo Find X9 Ultra
Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 puts it near the top of the benchmark charts, but sustained-load stability is mediocre and Oppo deliberately throttles early to control heat.
As expected, the Find X9 Ultra earns excellent benchmark scores near the top of the charts.
A 3D ultrasonic fingerprint scanner Oppo claims is 35% faster and 33% more reliable, plus vapor cooling to dissipate heat through the aluminium frame for better sustained performance.
3DMark returned ~7,530 best-loop and ~3,682 low-loop with only ~49% stability, and peak performance didn't last a minute — weak sustained behaviour.
Genshin Impact stayed consistently above 50fps and remained smooth even when throttling to ~30fps after ~16 minutes at 41.5°C, at under 4W power draw.
Honor of Kings averaged 144fps over 30 minutes at max settings; Genshin held max 60fps before stabilizing near 50fps.
Battery & Charging
Motorola Razr+ 2023
3,800mAh battery + 30W wired + 5W wireless — Phandroid measured full charge in ~1h 20min. Real-world endurance is the Razr+ 2023's weakest area; Android Central owners consistently flag battery as the biggest pain point.
3,800mAh dual-cell battery — small for the screen size, Android Central owners: 'the worst thing about this is battery.'
30W wired charging full in ~1h 20min per Phandroid — slow vs Galaxy Z Flip 5's 25W (1h 24min) is similar speed but smaller cell helps Motorola.
5W wireless charging only — Stuff notes the Razr+ wired beats Z Flip 5's 25W but loses on wireless (Samsung does 15W).
YouTuber long-term test (Razr 40 Ultra): 'all-day battery achievable for moderate use' with 165Hz refresh + LTPO panel efficiency.
No charger in the box — Razr+ owners must source their own 30W+ USB-C PD brick.
Oppo Find X9 Ultra
A genuine highlight: a 7,050mAh silicon-carbon cell that posts some of the best endurance numbers of any 2026 flagship, with fast 100W wired and 50W wireless charging.
Draws power from a 7,050mAh battery — a sizeable increase over the previous generation — with 100W SuperVOOC wired and 50W AirVOOC wireless charging.
Earned an active-use battery score of over 20 hours; with the SuperVOOC charger it went 0–75% in 30 minutes and to full in 45 minutes.
After ~10 hours of continuous use starting at 7am it still had 53% battery, regularly getting 8–9 hours of screen-on time and ~40% left after a 13-hour day.
A PCMark synthetic loop returned 15 hours 2 minutes, and 100W SuperVOOC charging took ~49–52 minutes (the charger isn't included).
With moderate usage you can easily expect more than 2 days of battery life — Oppo finally feels like a truly complete product.
The ultrawide is probably the weakest part of the setup — with the first three cameras taking so much space, Oppo reused the Samsung GN5 sensor here.
Night-mode processing — color, contrast and exposure handling — is so much better than the Galaxy S26 Ultra's, and the ultrawide is now one of the best for detail preservation.
The optional 300mm Hasselblad teleconverter delivers ~13x (300mm) optical-feel zoom that retains real telephoto sharpness, extending to ~60x (1380mm).
Charges 0–100% in about 52 minutes on the official 80W charger in a head-to-head charge test.
