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Motorola Razr Ultra 2025 vs Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 7
Motorola Razr Ultra 2025
Motorola
8.2
Best clamshell, weak update policy
Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 7
Samsung
8.2
Best clamshell Samsung has made
Motorola Razr Ultra 2025
What Reviewers Agree On
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.
Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 7
What Reviewers Agree On
The new 4.1-inch edge-to-edge Flex Window with 120 Hz refresh and 2,600-nit peak brightness is the single biggest year-over-year upgrade and finally matches Motorola's all-screen approach.
The slimmer 6.5 mm unfolded body plus the wider 21:9 6.9-inch inner display make the Flip 7 noticeably more comfortable to type on and use as a daily phone than any previous Flip.
Battery life is a real, measurable step up — the 4,300 mAh cell pushes most reviewers comfortably through a full day, and Engadget's video rundown jumped from 13 hours on the Flip 6 to 18.5 hours on the Flip 7.
Seven years of OS and security updates on Android 16 / One UI 8 match the best long-term support in the industry and help offset the foldable price premium.
The hinge is meaningfully sturdier this year — JerryRigEverything's bend test couldn't break it, dust ingress through the new IP48 seal was minimal, and Samsung now rates the hinge for over 200,000 folds.
Samsung's first-year free inner-display replacement and improved Samsung Care+ coverage take some of the durability anxiety out of owning a foldable.
Deal Breakers
Charging is stuck at 25W wired and 15W wireless — a full charge takes ~89 minutes, and reviewers from Engadget, Trusted Reviews and Notebookcheck all single it out as the most embarrassing miss on a $1,099 phone in 2025.
The rear cameras (50 MP main + 12 MP ultrawide) are unchanged from the Flip 6 and there is no dedicated telephoto — Engadget, Wired and Trusted Reviews all flag image quality and zoom as the Flip's biggest functional gap versus traditional flagships.
The Exynos 2500 trails this year's Snapdragon 8 Elite and Notebookcheck measured pronounced thermal throttling under sustained load, so the Flip 7 is not the foldable to buy for serious gaming.
The Flex Window is bigger but the cover-screen software is still hostile to full apps — you have to install Samsung's own Good Lock + Multistar modules to run anything beyond a six-app allowlist, which The Verge, Engadget and Trusted Reviews all call out as overdue for fixing.
The IP48 rating means the phone is water-resistant but explicitly not dust-tight — a single grain of sand in the hinge can still kill the folding screen, a foldable-category caveat both The Verge and Notebookcheck flag.
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.
Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 7
Pros
The new 4.1-inch edge-to-edge Flex Window with 120 Hz refresh and 2,600-nit peak brightness is the single biggest year-over-year upgrade and finally matches Motorola's all-screen approach.
The slimmer 6.5 mm unfolded body plus the wider 21:9 6.9-inch inner display make the Flip 7 noticeably more comfortable to type on and use as a daily phone than any previous Flip.
Battery life is a real, measurable step up — the 4,300 mAh cell pushes most reviewers comfortably through a full day, and Engadget's video rundown jumped from 13 hours on the Flip 6 to 18.5 hours on the Flip 7.
Seven years of OS and security updates on Android 16 / One UI 8 match the best long-term support in the industry and help offset the foldable price premium.
The hinge is meaningfully sturdier this year — JerryRigEverything's bend test couldn't break it, dust ingress through the new IP48 seal was minimal, and Samsung now rates the hinge for over 200,000 folds.
Samsung's first-year free inner-display replacement and improved Samsung Care+ coverage take some of the durability anxiety out of owning a foldable.
Cons
Charging is stuck at 25W wired and 15W wireless — a full charge takes ~89 minutes, and reviewers from Engadget, Trusted Reviews and Notebookcheck all single it out as the most embarrassing miss on a $1,099 phone in 2025.
The rear cameras (50 MP main + 12 MP ultrawide) are unchanged from the Flip 6 and there is no dedicated telephoto — Engadget, Wired and Trusted Reviews all flag image quality and zoom as the Flip's biggest functional gap versus traditional flagships.
The Exynos 2500 trails this year's Snapdragon 8 Elite and Notebookcheck measured pronounced thermal throttling under sustained load, so the Flip 7 is not the foldable to buy for serious gaming.
The Flex Window is bigger but the cover-screen software is still hostile to full apps — you have to install Samsung's own Good Lock + Multistar modules to run anything beyond a six-app allowlist, which The Verge, Engadget and Trusted Reviews all call out as overdue for fixing.
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.
Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 7
Samsung redesigned the Flip 7 to feel like a real phone rather than a fashion accessory: 6.5 mm unfolded (down from 6.9 mm on the Flip 6), 188 g, an aluminum frame and Gorilla Glass Victus 2 front and back. The hinge is sturdier and rated for over 200,000 folds, and a new side-mounted continuous-read fingerprint sensor is faster to register. The phone still carries an IP48 rating — water-resistant but not dust-tight — and that single grain-of-sand caveat remains the form-factor's biggest weak point.
The Flip 7 measures 6.4 mm thick unfolded — down from 6.9 mm on the Flip 6 — equal to the thinness-focused Galaxy S25 Edge while still adding a bigger screen and battery.
The new hinge closes with a beefier 'thunk' than its predecessors and takes a bit more strength to open, making the whole device feel more solid in the hand.
The clamshell shape slips into a shirt pocket or shoulder bag without bulging out, and the folded square feels more secure in-hand than a traditional slab phone after a month of daily use.
The new side-mounted fingerprint sensor uses a continuous-read scan that doesn't make you lift and replace your thumb during setup — faster to register and more reliable to unlock than the old method.
Like every foldable, the Flip 7's IP48 rating means dust particles larger than 1 mm can't enter, but a single grain of sand in the hinge could still kill the folding screen.
The well-crafted chassis is slimmer than the Flip 6's but the IP48 rating means it is resistant, not completely protected against dust — particles smaller than 1 mm can theoretically still enter and block the hinge.
The Flip 7 is rated for over 200,000 folds — up from earlier Flips — and Samsung's improved Care+ now covers cracked inner or outer screens at no extra cost on the top-tier plan.
Bezels-as-thin-as-1.25 mm, glass and aluminum construction, and a sturdy Armor Aluminum hinge add up to a premium, water-resistant design.
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).
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.
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.
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.
On Reddit, the dominant view of foldables is still 'fragile, expensive, and not popular enough to justify the premium' — multiple r/gadgets and r/Android commenters argue the $1,099–$2,000 foldable category as a whole is overpriced and undersupported.
The IP48 rating means the phone is water-resistant but explicitly not dust-tight — a single grain of sand in the hinge can still kill the folding screen, a foldable-category caveat both The Verge and Notebookcheck flag.
On Reddit, the dominant view of foldables is still 'fragile, expensive, and not popular enough to justify the premium' — multiple r/gadgets and r/Android commenters argue the $1,099–$2,000 foldable category as a whole is overpriced and undersupported.
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.
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.
