In the event you’ve been contemplating a flip cellphone over the previous three years, the Motorola Razr collection may have inevitably been in your purchasing record.
The Razr Plus is extensively thought to be the perfect flip cellphone obtainable right this moment, and the common Razr gives most of the similar options at a lower cost, making flip telephones and folding telephones extra accessible to a wider viewers.
Alongside the launch of the Razr Plus 2025 and the brand-new Razr Extremely 2025, Motorola has additionally unveiled a brand new Razr 2025 that provides an analogous expertise to its dearer siblings at a extra reasonably priced worth.
It does so alongside some distinctive colours and finishes that assist it stand out, however what colours does it are available, and what are the important thing new options? We spent a while with the brand new Razr 2025 at an unique preview occasion in New York Metropolis yesterday. Right here’s our first hands-on preview with Motorola’s newest entry-level flip cellphone.
The identical basic design and show
On the floor, there may be not an enormous distinction between the Moto Razr 2024 and this 12 months’s mannequin, however there are delicate variations that make the Razr 2025 a noteworthy improve.
You doubtless received’t discover it, however the brand new Razr 2025 comes with an upgraded titanium hinge like the remainder of the Razr 2025. This hinge is 4 occasions stronger than the chrome steel hinge utilized in earlier fashions, guaranteeing that the Razr 2025 can face up to as much as 35% extra folds.
The upgraded hinge is paired with an upgraded and redesigned ultra-thin glass, making a smoother expertise. Motorola claims that the crease and show are 30% smoother, and though I couldn’t confirm these claims, the gadget feels softer to the contact. Motorola has already redesigned the angle at which the show folds, which ought to be sure that the general crease is diminished, each whenever you first use it and over time.
Past these modifications, the Razr 2025 seems nearly similar to the Razr 2024. The entrance options the identical 3.6-inch AMOLED cowl show, with a peak brightness of 1,700 nits and an adaptive refresh price of as much as 90Hz. The Cowl Show additionally options Gorilla Glass Victus, offering extra safety in opposition to scratches and put on and tear.
While you unfold the Razr 2025, you get the identical 6.9-inch Foldable LTPO OLED show as final 12 months, full with a dynamic refresh price as much as 120Hz, 220Hz contact sampling price, and a peak brightness of three,000 nits. The primary show helps HDR10+, whereas the Cowl Show will get assist for the upgraded Extremely HDR commonplace.
To the precise, you’ll discover the identical side-mounted fingerprint sensor that labored so nicely final 12 months. Whereas the Razr Extremely 2025 good points a brand new devoted AI key, the Razr 2025 doesn’t, so it’s the identical trendy design that Motorola has been perfecting over the previous few years.
A spread of incredible colours
Other than the delicate modifications to the hinge, essentially the most noticeable distinction is the brand new coloration decisions. The Razr 2024 got here in three coloration decisions — Grey, Seaside, and Orange — however this 12 months, all the colours have been refreshed.
We’ve gone into element concerning the variations between every of the Razr 2025 colours, however there are 4 to select from. At our preview occasion, we couldn’t expertise the Parfait Pink, however the different three colours had been on present.
The Gibraltar Sea mannequin makes use of a wealthy, navy tone that’s fairly pleasant, whereas the Lightest Sky is a gorgeous white that may doubtless be the most well-liked. Nonetheless, my favourite is the Spring Bud coloration, a lightweight, lime-green hue that’s placing and distinct from some other cellphone at present obtainable.
Upgraded internals and a much bigger battery
Alongside the modifications to the colours and hinge, the largest enhancements are below the hood. The Razr 2025 is powered by the brand new Dimensity 7400X processor, which was introduced just a few weeks in the past, whereas final 12 months’s mannequin featured the earlier era’s 7300X processor.
The variations between the 2 fashions are delicate, however the Dimensity 7400X encompasses a processor with a better clock velocity, which ought to allow it to deal with extra complicated duties extra effectively. The brand new processor is paired with 8GB of RAM and 256GB of UFS 2.2 storage.
Alongside the upgraded processor, Motorola has additionally elevated the battery capability from 4,200 mAh to 4,500 mAh. This could imply that the battery life is improved even additional, and the Razr 2025 ought to simply final a full day, simply as final 12 months’s mannequin did, regardless of having a smaller battery. For occasions when the battery runs low, there are additionally 30W charging and 15W wi-fi charging choices.
An similar digicam expertise
When you’ve got final 12 months’s Razr 2024 and had been hoping for an upgraded digicam, the Razr 2025 will depart you disenchanted. That’s as a result of it makes use of the identical digicam setup as final 12 months’s mannequin, though there’ll doubtless be some enhancements based mostly on Motorola’s upgraded digicam algorithm.
Like the remainder of the Razr household, the 2 foremost cameras are additionally those you’ll use nearly on a regular basis, due to the distinctive skill to make use of the principle display as a viewfinder.
The primary digicam encompasses a 50MP sensor with an f/1.7 aperture and a pixel dimension of 0.8 µm. This captures 12.6MP pictures with considerably improved mild due to Motorola’s quad-pixel expertise, which makes use of pixel binning to mix 4 pixels into one bigger pixel for enhanced mild seize.
That is paired with a 13MP ultra-wide sensor that includes a 120° subject of view and a 1.12µm pixel dimension, in addition to a 32MP front-facing digicam, each of that are similar to these present in final 12 months’s mannequin. The digicam on the Razr 2024 was able to taking good pictures in good lighting situations, and we’d anticipate the Razr 2025 to seize almost similar photos.
Constructed for Moto AI
Like each smartphone maker, Motorola can also be closely centered on AI in its smartphones. Nonetheless, not like the competitors, Moto AI efficiently integrates generative, inventive, and productiveness AI options right into a balanced suite of AI capabilities which can be distinctive and unmatched.
The Razr 2025 comes outfitted with Gemini out of the field, and it’s now able to operating the complete suite of Gemini options immediately from the big entrance display. The Razr 2025 collection can also be the primary to run Perplexity out of the field, and also you’ll get 3 months freed from Perplexity Professional as a part of the acquisition. Lastly, in the event you’re invested within the Microsoft ecosystem, the Razr 2025 collection can also be the primary cellphone to be outfitted with Microsoft CoPilot.
Alongside these companion choices, the Razr 2025 additionally comes with Moto AI 2.0. This suite options enhanced variations of the unique Moto AI options, together with Catch Me Up (which summarizes private notifications), Pay Consideration to begin a voice recording full with a transcript and abstract, and Keep in mind This, which captures a screenshot and saves it to your Journal.
Alongside this, the Razr 2025 can also be the primary to introduce a number of different AI options. Subsequent Transfer acknowledges what’s on the display. It then suggests subsequent steps, comparable to saving essential particulars to make them straightforward to recall later, producing a musical playlist with Playlist Studio, or creating a picture, avatar, wallpaper, or a sticker with Picture Studio.
These AI options received’t attraction to everybody, however they’re definitely distinctive. Particularly, the Playlist Studio permits you to have plenty of enjoyable creating playlists based mostly on prompts, comparable to “Sean Paul meets emo.” It turns on the market’s plenty of music that matches this theme, and I used to be stunned at how efficient this immediate was. The playlist then hundreds into Amazon Music, however Motorola will hopefully allow assist for different suppliers sooner or later.
Alongside Moto AI, the Razr 2025 options the identical nice entrance display expertise, permitting you to make use of it as a compact cellphone. Nonetheless, this 12 months, Motorola has additionally launched just a few enhancements, together with the power so as to add as much as three panels of widgets and three app screens. I like the entrance display expertise on the Razr collection, and these enhancements make it even higher to be used as a small cellphone.
When can you purchase the Razr 2025?
The Razr 2025 will probably be obtainable for pre-order on Could 7 from Greatest Purchase, Amazon, and immediately from Motorola for $699.99, forward of its launch on Could 15.
This is identical day that it’ll even be obtainable from a variety of carriers together with T-Cellular (and Metro by T-Cellular), Cricket Wi-fi, Verizon, Seen, Complete Wi-fi, Straight Discuss, Xfinity Cellular, Shopper Mobile, Google Fi Wi-fi, US Mobile, Cox Cellular, Optimum Cellular and Spectrum. Within the coming months, it would even be obtainable from Increase Cellular.
In Canada, the Razr 2025 will probably be obtainable to pre-order on the identical day from Motorola, and it’ll launch on Could 15 as nicely. The Canadian pricing is unclear, however the cellphone can even be obtainable from carriers and retail companions on Could 15.