At the beginning of the year, Motorola relaunched the Razr, modernizing the iconic flip phone brand with a flashy foldable display, Android, with a hefly price tag. The phone however disappointed in several ways, with a creaky hinge, poor cameras, and lackluster battery life. Motorola is now attempting to redeem its first foldable with a second-generation Razr, which adds 5G support, better cameras, and more useful software.
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The overall design of the new Razr looks fairly similar to the original foldable. There’s a 6.2-inch, 21.9:9 foldable display on the inside of the phone, while a 2.7-inch OLED “Quick View” display on the outside allows for access to notifications and other basic functionality. Also the same: the high price tag, which, at UGX 5.1 m ($1,399) before taxes, is just UGX 370k less than its predecessor.
Inside, there’s a number of changes. The processor is a faster Snapdragon 765G (which helps add 5G support), the RAM has been increased to 8GB (from 6GB on the original), the internal storage has been doubled to 256GB, and the battery is a larger 2,800mAh (which should hopefully help solve the battery life issues).
The more noticeable hardware changes are the shifting of the fingerprint sensor to the back of the phone (off of the “chin,” where it was located on the original) and completely overhauled cameras.
The original Razr’s cameras were, to put it simply, bad, with a 5-megapixel selfie camera and a 16-megapixel main camera that was effectively only good for shooting in direct sunlight. The updated model looks to change that on both fronts. The internal camera is a 20-megapixel sensor that shoots quad-pixel 5-megapixel stills (presumably at a better quality than the original), and the rear camera jumps up to a 48-megapixel sensor with a newly added laser autofocus time-of-flight sensor and optical image stabilization.
Thanks to the Razr’s external display and foldable nature, you’ll be able to use that more powerful main camera for selfies, too — although we’ll have to see whether Motorola has actually succeeded in improving the performance, especially in low-light situations.
There is no word on availability of this foldable Razr worldwide.
