It's the best clamshell foldable on the market — the most refined flip phone Motorola has made, and many reviewers' favorite folding phone outright.
Premium, distinctive materials (genuine wood, titanium, Alcantara, Pantone colorways) and a titanium hinge that hides the crease far better than rivals.
The 4,700mAh battery is a major upgrade — comfortably all-day, and far ahead of the Galaxy Z Flip 7 in rundown tests.
The 4-inch external display is the largest and most usable cover screen on any flip phone.
Snapdragon 8 Elite with 16GB RAM delivers true flagship performance, a big leap over the previous Razr Plus.
Deal Breakers
Pros & Cons
Motorola Razr Ultra 2025
Pros
It's the best clamshell foldable on the market — the most refined flip phone Motorola has made, and many reviewers' favorite folding phone outright.
Premium, distinctive materials (genuine wood, titanium, Alcantara, Pantone colorways) and a titanium hinge that hides the crease far better than rivals.
The 4,700mAh battery is a major upgrade — comfortably all-day, and far ahead of the Galaxy Z Flip 7 in rundown tests.
The 4-inch external display is the largest and most usable cover screen on any flip phone.
Snapdragon 8 Elite with 16GB RAM delivers true flagship performance, a big leap over the previous Razr Plus.
Detailed Comparison
Design & Build
Motorola Razr Ultra 2025
The clearest area of consensus: premium, characterful materials, a titanium hinge that hides the crease unusually well, and a finished, want-to-carry feel — though the plastic inner screen and Alcantara longevity draw caution.
Moto has upped its design game with Pantone shades, genuine wood and titanium materials and interesting textures, making the phones genuinely distinctive.
The titanium hinge is roughly four times stronger than the previous one, and the crease reduction is impressive — hardly noticeable when there's content on screen.
The nearly edge-to-edge external display, clean curves and the way it folds make it feel like a well-thought-out, finished product.
For a phone that folds it still feels incredibly sturdy, backed up by its IP48-rated construction — though there's low confidence the Alcantara finish will hold up as well as the others.
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Only 3 years of OS updates and 4 of security on a $1,299 phone, versus Samsung's 7 years — widely called unacceptable.
IP48 rating only (dust >1mm, 1.5m water) — well behind the IP68 of slab flagships and a real durability gap.
No telephoto camera — image quality degrades noticeably past 3x 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
Cons
Only 3 years of OS updates and 4 of security on a $1,299 phone, versus Samsung's 7 years — widely called unacceptable.
IP48 rating only (dust >1mm, 1.5m water) — well behind the IP68 of slab flagships and a real durability gap.
No telephoto camera — image quality degrades noticeably past 3x 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
Be very careful with the inner display — it's plastic so it scratches easily, and damaged front-screen lines can be expensive to repair.
It's the best Razr phone Motorola has ever made and significantly lighter in hand than something like an S25 Ultra.
Oppo Find X9 Ultra
A Hasselblad-camera tribute in phone form — vegan leather, a symmetrical 'master eye' module and a Hexagon-inspired ring. Gorgeous to most, oversized to some, and undeniably heavy.
One of the best-looking phones of the year.
Inspired by the Hasselblad X2D camera — the most beautiful phone of 2026 so far.
The perfectly symmetrical 'master eye' camera module and Hasselblad-style shutter button clearly pay tribute to the brand's classic camera aesthetics.
The hardware is insanely ambitious, but the first thing you notice holding it isn't elegance — it's size and weight.
It weighs about 239g and measures ~9.1mm thick — a genuinely big phone.
Some find the huge circular camera apparatus ugly, when we usually ask for less intrusive camera bumps.
Cameras
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.
Photos could use more vibrance and clarity, but there's clear growth in Motorola's camera processing year over year.
The camcorder mode now works for both landscape and portrait video, a Razr-only flex for content shooters.
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 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.
Against the Galaxy Z Flip 7, the Razr Ultra trailed on raw Geekbench points but pushed a higher frame-rate ceiling (44–180fps vs the Flip 7's 69–160fps).
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 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.
To hit the advertised 68W you need Motorola's proprietary power brick and cable — and the charger isn't reliably in the box.
A smart battery-protection feature learns your routine and tops up to 100% just before you wake so it doesn't sit idle full — owners report longer battery longevity using it.
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.
Software & AI
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.
Owners note Motorola pre-installs only a few genuinely useful apps rather than the heavy bloat of some rivals.
Oppo Find X9 Ultra
ColorOS 16 has matured a lot and is fast and smooth, but it still trails Samsung and Google on AI depth and feels iOS-derived to some — the phone's clearest weak point relative to its hardware.
ColorOS 16 feels like one of the best versions yet.
It's a good Android experience but not on par with the Galaxy experience for AI features and tool integration, and portrait autofocus struggles in some low-light conditions.
For me it's the best version of Android I've ever used — light, fast and smooth with no major issues.
The hardware is superior to the latest Samsung, but the software feels like an imitation of iOS.
With a bit of tweaking and updates, Oppo's software and camera engineers can make this even better — there's clear headroom.
Value vs Competition
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.
The $1,299 price (more for 1TB) will price out a lot of buyers who'd have been happy with a $1,000 upgraded Plus.
Oppo Find X9 Ultra
Premium-priced and hard to buy in many markets, but reviewers broadly conclude it out-cameras the S26 Ultra and Pixel and edges the Vivo X300 Ultra on usability.
Its main compromises are the ~€1,699 price, large 236g body, occasional software concerns and limited availability in some markets.
It feels like Oppo wanted to make the camera first and just happened to also create the best Android phone you can get right now — though it won't win every year-end award.
The base Find X9 Ultra starts at 7,499 yuan in China — roughly £814 / ~$1,100 — but the heaviness and visual pressure are the first impression.
The closest rival is the Vivo X300 Ultra, but the X9 Ultra wins by having a more user-friendly OS.
The Hasselblad alliance delivers a phone that genuinely challenges the Galaxy S26 Ultra on cameras.
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.
