Motorola Razr+ 2024 vs Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 7

Motorola Razr+ 2024

The Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 delivers flip-flagship-level everyday performance, but it's a step down from a true flagship chip — small CPU gains and even a graphics-performance regression versus the prior Razr+.

• Performance is absolutely on the level expected from a flip flagship for day-to-day use.
• Motorola cut back on the SoC — only small performance gains and even a drop in graphics performance versus last year's Razr+.
• It comes with significantly more storage than last year — a meaningful generational upgrade.

Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 7

The Flip 7 ditches Qualcomm for Samsung's in-house Exynos 2500 — a 3 nm 10-core chip with the new Xclipse 950 GPU and 12 GB of RAM. It's faster than the Flip 6's Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 in everyday use, but reviewers agree it doesn't reach Snapdragon 8 Elite levels, and Notebookcheck logged pronounced thermal throttling under sustained load. Trusted Reviews argues that's the right trade-off for a thermally constrained clamshell; Notebookcheck and MKBHD say it's a step backwards versus the Fold 7's Snapdragon 8 Elite for Galaxy.

• The Exynos 2500 has more power than last year's top Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, but doesn't reach the levels of the Snapdragon 8 Elite — so there's a real performance gap between the Flip and Fold range this year.
• Geekbench 6 multi-core lands at 7,584 and single-core at 2,251 — fast enough for everyday use but visibly trailing this year's Snapdragon 8 Elite flagships.
• The new chip never felt particularly sluggish during gaming, Galaxy AI features or other taxing activities, though the phone would get warm during camera testing or sustained Google Maps use.
• Throttling is once again a major issue with the latest Flip generation, including at times a very pronounced reduction in performance under sustained load.
• Exynos 2500 isn't a bad chip, but it isn't as good as the Snapdragon 8 Elite right now on the combination of peak performance and power efficiency — and this could be a preview of Samsung going fully Exynos on the S26.
• 20 minutes of Diablo Immortal at max graphics caused a little jitter and warmed the phone up, but nothing serious — daily performance hiccups were absent.

Motorola Razr+ 2024

Battery life is very good for a flip foldable and improved over the Razr 40 Ultra (more capacity + a more efficient chipset), with a fast 45W charger included — but it's still weaker than conventional slab phones at the price.

• Battery life is very good — helped by ~200mAh more capacity than the Razr 40 Ultra and a more efficient chipset.
• Motorola includes a rapid charging brick in the box that refuels at the phone's max 45W (and can supply 68W to other hardware).
• Battery life improved, but is still significantly weaker than conventional (non-folding) phones in this price range.

Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 7

Samsung shoehorned a 4,300 mAh cell into a slimmer body (up from 4,000 mAh on the Flip 6) and the more efficient Exynos 2500 turns that into a real endurance gain — Engadget's video rundown jumped from 13 to 18.5 hours. Most reviewers easily get a full day, with light users pushing into a second. Charging is where Samsung has not moved at all: 25W wired (same as Flip 6, ~89 minutes to full), 15W wireless. On a $1,099 phone in 2025 with rivals doing 45–80W, every reviewer flags this as the biggest miss.

• The 4,300 mAh battery gives 'battery performance a little worse than your average slab-style phone, but not by much' — moderate use ended most days with 40–50% remaining.
• Engadget's standard video rundown jumped from 13 hours on the Flip 6 to 18.5 hours on the Flip 7 — a result so unexpectedly good they ran the test two more times to confirm.
• Light usage days easily push into a second day — about 3 hours of mixed use (social, messaging, video, gaming) ended the day at 11pm with over 40% left.
• Wired charging tops out at 25W — the same as the Flip 6 and the base S25 — and Samsung still has the gall to call it 'Super Fast Charging' when rivals are at 45W or higher.
• 0–50% takes 28 minutes, 0–100% takes 89 minutes on the included 25W charger — well off the half-hour full charges Xiaomi, Honor and Oppo are doing on similar-sized batteries.
• The Flip's battery is relatively small compared to rivals like the Xiaomi Mix Flip 2, and the slow charging compounds that — a clear gap on Notebookcheck's verdict-page cons list.
• Samsung is leaving capacity on the table by sticking with conventional lithium-ion when silicon-carbon batteries (like the 5,820 mAh cell in the Honor Magic V5 in the same form factor) clearly exist.