Motorola Razr 60 Review: Stick, Twist, or Fold?

Worth When Reviewed

$699.99

Greatest Costs As we speak: Motorola Razr 2025

$599.99

If the Motorola Razr 60 Extremely and the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 7 have taught us something, it’s that foldable telephone producers are studying their classes – however solely very slowly.

They’re the 2 finest compact flip telephones but, however additionally they endure from the entire similar key flaws as earlier than to a sure diploma. Most notably, they’re each nonetheless very costly.

Final 12 months, the Motorola Razr 50 (and earlier than that, the Razr 40) supplied a noteworthy various – a premium-ish flip telephone with a worth effectively shy of £1,000/$1,000. The Razr 60 affords extra of the identical, and it’s now not such a novel proposition.

The Galaxy Z Flip 7 FE is now additionally in the marketplace, providing the same flip telephone formulation at an solely barely costlier asking worth. Has Motorola achieved sufficient to retain its Razr’s edge?

Design & Construct

• Vegan leather-based again is available in three colors
• Improved IP48 certification
• Responsive side-mounted fingerprint sensor

With out having the Motorola Razr 50 handy for a direct comparability, I can’t be 100% sure, but when there’s any nice departure within the design of the Razr 60, I can’t instantly spot it.

That is a lot the identical flip telephone design, with an identical dimensions of 171.3 x 74 x 7.3mm (when open). It weighs the identical 188g, too. Samsung’s new Galaxy Z Flip 7 FE weighs about the identical, however at 6.9mm thick, it comes up a little bit slimmer.

It could be chunkier, however Motorola continues to pursue a softer, hotter design than its rival. Its rounded edges make the telephone a little bit simpler to carry and far simpler to pry aside than the Z Flip 7 FE.

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The rear panel continues to be coated in a pretend leather-based materials that lends additional grip. It additionally lends extra confidence when positioning the telephone on an abrasive floor for an impromptu group selfie that you simply additionally need to be in.

Conversely, I discovered that this materials was extra prone to marking up and marking. After an lively weekend of consuming and ingesting in London, I observed a distinguished stain on the rear cowl that was reluctant to budge, even with using cleansing wipes and loads of elbow grease.

This textured plastic, along with the aluminium body, is available in three colors. My mannequin is a Pantone Gibraltar Sea, which is a pleasant, deep navy blue. There’s additionally Pantone Spring Bud (a vibrant inexperienced) and Pantone Lightest Sky (a sort of greyish tinge). There are distinct textures to accompany these contemporary colors, which is a welcome level of differentiation.

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Motorola’s hinge mechanism is looser than that of its Galaxy Z Flip 7 FE. This makes it tougher to prop up on a desk, however simpler to govern.

Whereas the look of the telephone is all however an identical to its predecessor (new colors however), Motorola has made one vital enchancment. Just like the Flip 7 FE, the Razr 60 is now IP48 rated, which implies it’s extra immune to mud particles.

We’re nonetheless ready for true mud resistance in a compact foldable, however for now, the Razr 60 is pretty much as good as something on this division. It additionally retains full, flagship-level water resistance, that means it’ll survive submersion in as much as 1.5m of water for as much as half-hour.

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Motorola’s side-mounted fingerprint sensor, stashed underneath the ability button, is as responsive as I’d hope for. It’s additionally extra distinguished than Samsung’s answer, which makes it simpler to really feel out and entry whether or not folded or unfolded. That’s vital whenever you’re scrambling to faucet in on the tube throughout rush hour, or seeking to make a cellular fee in a crowded bar.

Speaking of which, I proceed to choose Samsung’s positioning of the NFC module. Motorola positions it within the decrease half, and it may be awkward to register when the telephone is open.

Screens & Audio system

• 6.9-inch inside show
• Genuinely usable 3.4-inch cowl show
• 120Hz refresh price

Motorola hasn’t modified its shows for the Razr 60, and it arguably didn’t must. Not when it outguns the costlier Galaxy Z Flip 7 FE in a few key metrics.

Each screens are larger right here than their counterparts. There’s an expansive 6.9-inch inside show with a just-so 1080 x 2640 decision (FHD+) and a 120Hz refresh price. It will get to a stable 3000 nits of peak brightness.

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In every of these facets, it falls in need of the Razr 60 Extremely’s primary display screen, however beats the Galaxy Z Flip 7 FE.

You’ll nonetheless discover a little bit of a ditch midway up the telephone, the place the crease is, however it will fade into the background when the display screen is lively.

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The Razr 60 additionally retains its 3.6-inch cowl show, which made final 12 months’s mannequin rather more usable when within the closed place. With a 1056 x 1066 decision, a design that encompasses the digital camera, and a 90Hz refresh price, the Razr 60’s cowl display screen is much extra spectacular than the Flip 7 FE equal.

That’s very true whenever you think about Motorola’s superior cowl UI, which helps you to run many apps on this shrink-wrapped format. You’ll nonetheless need to open the telephone as much as get extra concerned duties achieved, however it’s fairly viable to verify your messages or work together along with your chosen music app.

It’s good to see that Motorola has included stereo audio system right here, regardless of the restricted house in all foldables. Nonetheless, they proceed to underwhelm with their skinny output.

I’d at all times suggest connecting Bluetooth headphones or a speaker for a premium audio expertise, however that’s very true right here.

Specs & Efficiency

• Mediatek Dimensity 7400X isn’t a lot of an improve
• Solely 8GB RAM
• 256GB storage
• Comparatively poor efficiency for the cash

If there’s one stand-out weak level of the Razr 60 in comparison with different compact foldable telephones, it’s efficiency. Motorola has made a nominal improve by switching to the Mediatek Dimensity 7400X, however it will be a stretch to name this a generational enchancment.

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Certainly, it has the identical primary make-up of cores and GPU because the Razr 50’s Dimensity 7300X. All that’s actually totally different, so far as I can see, is a barely sooner CPU clock pace.

Provided that we had been removed from impressed by the Razr 50’s mid-range (at finest) efficiency, it is a little bit of a disgrace. In spite of everything, you’re paying £799/$799 right here, which nonetheless counts as flagship cash in non-foldable phrases.

Paired with simply 8GB of RAM as commonplace, I can’t say that my time with the Razr 60 was lag- or stutter-free. There’s a way of lag all through the OS, and the odd delay when booting up an app or unlocking the telephone, which speaks to this element being much less succesful than I’d like.

Motorola Razr 60 benchmarks

My benchmark assessments verify this impression, barely rising above its predecessor, and falling effectively in need of the Galaxy Z Flip 7 FE.

You’ll be capable of play superior 3D video games like Genshin Impression, however not on the highest graphical settings. At the very least, should you want to preserve a playable body price.

There’s solely the one mannequin of the Razr 60 on sale right here within the UK, so it’s good to see that it comes with a stable 256GB of storage. It’s the one space the place this spec feels nearly beneficiant.

Digicam

• 50Mp primary digital camera
• 13Mp ultrawide
• 32Mp entrance, however primary digital camera is means higher at selfies

Whereas the Razr 60 Extremely has taken issues up a notch on the digital camera entrance, the plain Razr 60 retains issues the identical.

There’s the identical 50Mp 1/1.95″ primary sensor with OIS, accompanied by the identical 13Mp 1/3.0″ ultra-wide. These aren’t the most important or most impressive-looking sensors you’ll discover in a £800/$800 smartphone.

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Maybe extra worrying for Motorola, the primary sensor is kind of a bit smaller than that of its fairly priced foldable rival, the Galaxy Z Flip 7 FE.

Mixed with that sub-par processor, the Razr 60 takes competent pictures however nothing extra. Purchase any equally priced non-foldable telephone, and also you’ll probably get hold of a lot better outcomes.

The Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 7 FE takes higher photographs, particularly in low mild. The Razr 60’s evening mode snaps come throughout as murky and vague by comparability.

I didn’t discover daytime photographs right here to be fairly so artificially vibrant as final 12 months’s mannequin, however the odd picture appeared to battle with highlights, and there’s a processed look to sure photographs.

Conversely, meals photographs taken in half-decent lighting seemed good and appetising, with Motorola’s punched-up color science proving efficient.

The 13Mp ultra-wide is satisfactory, however sees an enormous drop off in high quality in comparison with the primary sensor. It can also’t match the primary digital camera’s tone in addition to the Galaxy Z Flip 7 FE. With no devoted telephoto lens, zoomed photographs will crop in on that primary sensor and swiftly lose sharpness past the 2x mark.

One massive saving grace in a typically mediocre digital camera set-up is the standard of the selfies – at the very least whenever you use the quilt show as a viewfinder and put the primary digital camera to make use of. The 32Mp entrance digital camera can’t get shut on depth, sharpness or dynamic vary, however it doesn’t must.

Battery Life & Charging

• Bigger 4500mAh battery
• 30W wired charging assist
• 15W wi-fi charging

The most important {hardware} improve this 12 months pertains to the Razr 60’s battery, which has been scaled up from 4200mAh within the Razr 50 to 4500mAh. Provided that the Razr 40 gave us a 4000mAh cell, this marks main progress over the previous two years.

It’s additionally notable that the Galaxy Z Flip 7 FE solely packs in a puny 4000mAh cell. Nonetheless, regardless of the advance, I can’t say that the Razr 60 outshone the Z Flip 7 FE within the stamina stakes.

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A day with average to heavy utilization (round 4 hours and half-hour of screen-on time) would depart me with about 30% left. That isn’t considerably higher than the Galaxy Z Flip 7 FE, if in any respect.

With that mentioned, lighter customers – which you need to assume most compact foldable house owners will probably be – are taking a look at the opportunity of two days of use in between costs.

Right here’s one other barely perplexing truth: the Razr 60 scored considerably worse than the Razr 50 in our PC Mark 3.0 Battery take a look at. At simply 8 hours and three minutes, it fell round 2 hours 40 minutes in need of its predecessor, and about 6 hours half-hour in need of the Motorola Razr 60 Extremely. However bear in mind, this doesn’t precisely replicate the actual world.

Recharging speeds aren’t spectacular, with 30W wired and 15W wi-fi assist retained from final 12 months’s mannequin. Even so, it retains the flexibility to tackle a full cost in slightly below an hour, which is means higher than the Galaxy Z Flip 7 FE.

Software program & AI

• Android 15
• Clear and stock-ish
• Three Android variations, 4 years of safety updates

Like its massive brother, the Razr 60 Extremely, the Razr 60 runs Android 15 out of the field.

I like Motorola’s method to Android loads. It’s nearer to Google’s personal Pixel UI than nearly anything on the market, although it’s steadily taken by itself refined look over current years, with bespoke widgets, menus and icons.

There’s nonetheless an excessive amount of bloatware right here, together with the Opera net browser (on high of Chrome), LinkedIn, Amazon Music (on high of YouTube Music), and Fb. You may depend some poor-quality video games in with these, too.

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Motorola’s Moto app continues to be among the finest smartphone hub apps within the enterprise, providing an intuitive introduction to the telephone’s key features. You may leap into house display screen personalisation, normal suggestions, and Motorola’s sensible gesture shortcuts from right here.

The double-twist gesture to deliver up the digital camera works superbly together with utilizing the primary digital camera for selfies.

We’ve already talked about how Motorola’s cowl show implementation is rather more concerned than Samsung’s. Primarily, you’re getting a condensed model of Android that merely works in the best way you’d count on, booting up tiny windowed variations of apps. It’s much less visually interesting than Samsung’s widget-heavy method, but additionally extra versatile and empowering.

Because it occurs, I don’t discover myself utilizing this display screen all that a lot past checking the time, climate, and monitoring incoming messages whereas out and about. However the slick, friction-free operation is far appreciated nonetheless.

When it comes to AI instruments, there’s no devoted AI button like on the Razr 60 Extremely. Motorola does, nevertheless, provide a floating AI management that may be moved at will – although I nonetheless discovered it getting in the best way rather a lot, particularly when looking the online.

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This button grants entry to instruments resembling ‘Replace me’, which is able to summarise your calls and notifications. ‘Picture Studio’ will generate pictures and stickers utilizing pure language, and is as spectacular and pointless as it’s on some other trendy Android telephone since AI took maintain.

‘Keep in mind this’ is an fascinating one. It’ll learn no matter’s on display screen – whether or not textual content or picture – and save them for later, mining the screenshot for data. So, nothing groundbreaking in terms of AI, however some probably helpful options.

The Razr 60 will get the identical three Android updates and 4 years of safety updates as its predecessor, which locations it at an on the spot drawback in comparison with the flat seven years of assist that Samsung guarantees for the Galaxy Z Flip 7 FE.

It’s additionally unclear when the system will get the replace to Android 16.

Worth & Availability

Some small quantity of credit score is because of Motorola for preserving the value of the Razr 60 the identical as earlier than. The only real 256GB mannequin will set you again £799 within the UK, which is kind of low-cost for a foldable.

You should purchase it straight from Motorola, in addition to from Amazon, although the latter is through an unknown third-party vendor.

It’s being offered within the US underneath the identify of the Motorola Razr 2025. We do not know why the identify must be modified. Maybe it’s to cowl up the truth that US clients are getting a way more keenly priced system at simply $699.99 (which works out to about £520). Even whenever you permit for tax, that’s means cheaper.

It’s obtainable within the US straight from Motorola or through Amazon.

Taking the UK worth, this undercuts its closest rival, the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 7 FE, by a not inconsiderable £50. Nonetheless, information of that US worth takes the shine off such apparently aggressive pricing.

Must you purchase the Motorola Razr 60?

It’s a little bit of a disgrace to see so few significant enhancements to Motorola’s extra fairly priced foldable. Expanded battery and improved IP48 score apart, the Razr 60 seems to be and handles an terrible lot just like the Razr 50 earlier than it, and doesn’t carry out a lot better both.

On one hand, it’s good to see the pricing stay equally constant – particularly provided that it undercuts Samsung’s new Galaxy Z Flip 7 FE. Nonetheless, it continues to rankle that clients within the US are getting a a lot better deal than these within the UK.

There have been no additional developments within the digital camera division, which continues to take pretty middling photographs, however actually wonderful selfies should you use that cowl show to its full potential.

And it’s these foldable attributes that actually depend right here. If you happen to don’t need to use your telephone all that a lot and want it to vanish when not in use, this is likely one of the most accessible options round.

Specs

• Android 15
• 6.9in, FHD+, OLED, 120Hz, flat show
• 3.6in, 1056 x 1066, OLED, 120Hz, show
• Facet-mounted fingerprint sensor
• Mediatek Dimensity 7400X
• 8GB RAM
• 256GB storage
• 50Mp, f/1.7 primary digital camera
• 13Mp, f/2.2 ultra-wide digital camera
• As much as 4K @ 30fps rear video
• 32Mp front-facing digital camera
• Stereo audio system
• Twin-SIM
• Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/6
• Bluetooth 5.4
• 4500mAh battery
• 30W wired, 15W wi-fi charging
• 171.3 x 74 x 7.3mm
• 188g
• Launch colors: Pantone Gibraltar Sea, Pantone Spring Bud, Pantone Lightest Sky