Motorola’s 2024 Razr phones are ready to make a splash

Foldable season is back, and Motorola is starring the mode with refreshed versions of its Razr Plus and Razr flip phones. They’re arriving adjacent period successful immoderate poolside-worthy colors, with upgraded screens — a big upgrade successful the lawsuit of the 2024 Razr — and IPX8 ratings for afloat absorption against h2o immersion. And you cognize what other is beauteous hot? The prices haven’t gone up.

The Motorola Razr Plus 2024 inactive starts astatine $999 and comes with a Snapdragon 8S Gen 3 chipset and 12GB of RAM. The screen surface present measures 4 inches, a important upgrade from the 3.6-inch sheet connected the erstwhile generation. It’s an LTPO display with up to 165Hz refresh rate; the interior surface is inactive a 6.9-inch 1080p OLED. The main rear camera features an updated 50-megapixel sensor, and the ultrawide lens connected the erstwhile exemplary has been swapped retired for a 2x telephoto.

Honestly, though, the modular 2024 Razr mightiness beryllium the much compelling instrumentality this clip around. It’s inactive $699 with a 6.9-inch interior screen, but its caller 3.6-inch screen surface present matches the size of past year’s Razr Plus. The previous-gen Razr offered a tiny 1.5-inch surface that seriously constricted its functionality. It was the cheapest flip-style foldable sold successful the US, but that didn’t mean overmuch erstwhile the screen surface was truthful limited. This clip astir with a bigger screen surface — and a beefier h2o absorption standing — it starts looking similar a earnestly bully deal. And that spritz orangish colour option? So sweet.

The Razr makes a fewer concessions — there’s a MediaTek Dimensity 7300X chipset and 8GB of RAM. Wired charging tops retired astatine a (still beauteous speedy) 30W compared to the Razr Plus’ 45W, though some models get a invited upgrade to 15W wireless charging, up from 5W connected past year’s models. The Razr gets the caller 50-megapixel main camera, too, but carries implicit the 13-megapixel ultrawide that wasn’t precise bully successful past year’s model.

Both models usage a caller hinge that claims to connection amended particulate resistance. Motorola has made immoderate tweaks to the screen surface software, too. There’s a caller widget panel, which seems similar a useful addition, and present you tin zoom retired to spot each of your panels astatine once. There’s a clever caller table show mode truthful you tin acceptable your telephone up successful flex mode and play a photograph slideshow connected the screen screen, which sounds StandBy-ish.

There’s present enactment for an always-on display, which rules. And 1 much large portion of quality for me, personally: you tin present download Google’s Gemini Assistant and tally it connected the screen screen, which volition travel successful useful if you privation to turn the Razr into a Humane-style AI wearable (don’t bash this). If you do turn this foldable into a wearable, the blistery pinkish and outpouring greenish colour options volition decidedly marque a statement.

Staying connected inclination for 2024, Motorola is besides announcing a suite of caller AI tools that dependable adjuvant but aren’t shipping yet. It’s a thing. You’ll beryllium capable to accidental “Catch maine up” to get an AI-generated summary of high-priority notifications — sounds familiar. Or you’ll accidental “Remember this” to person the telephone seizure thing connected the surface that you privation to notation later.

There’s besides a bid to “Pay attention” to person it automatically grounds a conversation, transcribe it, and supply a summary. The institution besides has intentions of making this each context-aware, truthful it volition tailor responses based connected wherever you are and what you’re doing. Sounds nice, but I’ll judge it erstwhile I spot it.

The 2024 Motorola Razr and Razr Plus volition beryllium disposable for preorder connected July 10th and spell connected merchantability connected July 24th.