Motorola Razr Fold Review: Why It Breaks All the Rules

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The Motorola Razr Fold is a very good foldable phone that isn't obsessed with thinness. Instead, it goes big on the battery life, which has been a weakness in the past of this form factor, and a great camera system.

The Good

1. Brilliant cameras
2. Big battery life
3. Stylus compatability is nifty

The Not So Good

1. Thicker than other foldables
2. Only IP48/49 rated

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Need-to-knows

• 6,000mAh silicon carbide battery
• 6.6-inch outer display and 8.8-inch inner display with stylus support
• 0.5x to 6x useable zoom, 100x technically available
• IP48/IP49 rated

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Foldable phones are hard to recommend. They’re expensive, and to justify spending north of £1,500/$1,500 on one, you need a proper reason to use that big inner screen.

If you don’t have that reason, you’ve bought a very expensive regular phone with a party trick you’ll never use.

Doesn’t sound sensible, does it?

So when a manufacturer decides to make its foldable thicker and heavier than the competition, your first instinct is to ask: why are we going backwards? That’s the Motorola Razr Fold. And after a week using it as my main phone, I think Motorola has got the answer right — almost.

At a glance

Category	Specification
Outer display	6.6-inch AMOLED
Inner display	8.8-inch AMOLED
Chipset	Snapdragon (latest gen)
Battery	6,000mAh silicon kryptonite
Camera	0.5x, 1x, 2x, 3x, 6x (100x max)
Stylus support	Yes
Water resistance	IP48 / IP49
Price	From £1,799 / ~$1,900

Going against the grain

Right now, everyone is chasing thin. Samsung, Oppo, Honor and, to a degree, Google are all in an arms race to shave millimetres off their folding phones.

Motorola didn’t appear to receive the same memo.

The current foldable benchmark: Samsung Galaxy Z Fold7 review

The Razr Fold is a chunky ol’ device. And a heavy one — particularly when put up against the likes of the Z Fold7.

It sounds like a misstep, but it isn’t. That extra thickness is exactly what lets the Razr Fold do the things the slimmer phones can’t.

Battery and displays

Let’s start with the battery, because this is where the thickness pays off, immediately.

The Razr Fold packs a 6,000mAh silicon kryptonite battery — the kind the Z Fold 7, notably, still doesn’t have, although the Oppo Find N6 and the Honor Magic V5 and V6 do.

Foldables are power-hungry beasts with two screens to feed, so a big, forward-thinking battery is the difference between a phone you trust to get you through a full day and one you nurse to the charger by mid-afternoon.

The outer screen is 6.6 inches, and it’s bang on. This matters more than it sounds; too narrow — like the early folds — and it’s a pain to use, so you’re forever prising the phone open. Too wide, and it does everything so well that you never bother opening it at all, which defeats the point of buying a foldable.

The Razr Fold sits in the sweet spot: wide enough to get real work done, narrow enough that the inner display still earns its place.

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Open it up, and you get an 8.8-inch inner screen — a beautiful, great big canvas, sensible bezels, and a small camera cutout that isn’t an issue.

I won’t bore you with resolution and nits. Both displays are bright, fast, and a joy to use. The same goes for performance: it’s running the latest Snapdragon, it’s flawless, and there’s nothing more to say about it.

One feature worth flagging: there’s stylus support. Samsung famously dropped the stylus from the Z Fold line, and that didn’t go down well. On an 8.8-inch display, I understand why plenty of people will want it, and Motorola has kept the option.

The camera

This is the part I didn’t expect to love as much as I do.

Straight up: this is one of my favourite foldable camera systems ever.

Jump into the camera app, and you’ve got 0.5x, 1x, 2x, 3x and 6x. It technically reaches 100x, but I wouldn’t bother — I’m yet to see a phone that does anything usable at that AI-infused focal length.

Up to 6x, though, it’s fast, reliable and genuinely usable in a way that the zoom on rival folds often isn’t.

I used it as my main phone over a weekend, snapping shots of my son and my dog — neither of whom stays still for a second, so they’re the perfect test subjects. It nailed every shot. The look is contrasty and a little Pixely, and I mean that as a compliment: it has the same one-touch drama I’ve always loved with Pixel phone photography. No fiddling, no editing, and for my taste, the snaps straight out of the Razr Fold look wonderful.

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Again, this comes back partly to the thickness. A chunky phone can carry a big camera module, and the Razr Fold uses that room well. The Z Fold7’s main camera is also superb, but its zoom range has been frustrating.

That isn’t a problem with the Razr Fold.

The compromises

No phone is perfect, and the Razr Fold’s compromises are the flip (excuse the pun) side of everything I’ve just praised.

The first is the obvious one: the size and weight.

It’s a lovely-looking device — I love the textured rear finish, and the camera bump hints at how good the optics are behind it. But put it next to a Z Fold7, and it’s a chunky thing.

You feel the weight the moment you take it out of the box. Some of this might be reviewer bias, admittedly: I’ve been jumping between very thin foldables, so the heft feels more pronounced to me than it might to non-tech YouToobers. Either way, it’s technically heavier and thicker than most foldables on the market, and Motorola doesn’t seem to care.

You might care, though.

The second is water and dust resistance. The Razr Fold carries IP48/IP49 ratings, so it’ll survive a splash and shrug off dust, but it doesn’t match many of the other foldables out there. It can get wet. It just can’t get as wet.

The third trade-off comes with every foldable: the price.

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In the UK, the Razr Fold is £1,799, and in the US, it’s around $1,900. That’s £100 less than the Z Fold7, but more than the Pixel 10 Pro Fold and, depending on where you live, the Oppo Find N6 — both wonderful phones. Add storage, the stylus and a case, and you’re nudging £2,000.

That, more than the weight or the IP rating, is the compromise most people will wrestle with.

The timing problem

There’s one more thing hanging over the Razr Fold, and it’s not the phone’s fault: it’s the timing of the launch.

I’m writing this in June 2026, and next month we should, in theory, see the next Samsung Z Fold series. Then there’s Apple, which doesn’t currently have a foldable but is rumoured to launch the iPhone Ultra later this year — a passport-shaped foldable iPhone.

So, buying the Razr Fold now means potentially choosing it over a Samsung device that might land next month and an Apple device that might land before Christmas.

A brave release window.

Motorola seems genuinely confident about this phone and its audience. And that audience is real — every Motorola device I’ve covered, from the wood-backed flippable to the Edge, brings a serious fan base with it.

If those fans have been waiting for a foldable to call their own, this is it.