Large battery and nice efficiency

The foldable telephone revolution has been a boon for the Razr, which has as soon as once more grow to be top-of-the-line flip telephones you should buy. Motorola has been working exhausting on the Razr’s design and, lately, has thrown all the newest and biggest options on the system for a really flagship expertise. The 2025 Motorola Razr Extremely might not be low cost, nevertheless it has a premium design, glorious efficiency, and extra.

Whereas the Razr Extremely is a high-end telephone, some options, like a telephoto digital camera, are nonetheless lacking. At this worth level, do you have to go for a foldable system just like the Motorola Razr Extremely or follow a standard slab telephone, which could have some higher options? I’ve been utilizing the 2025 Motorola Razr Extremely to search out out.

Motorola Razr Extremely overview: Specs

Motorola Razr Extremely overview: Design

As talked about, Motorola has been working exhausting on the Razr’s design, and at this level, it has issues fairly nicely discovered. This isn’t the primary Razr to have an edge-to-edge cowl display that encircles the cameras on the entrance, nevertheless it nonetheless seems to be as premium as ever.

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Different points of the design are very premium too. I might discover it a little bit unusual if an organization gave a slab telephone an Alcantara backing, nevertheless it seems to be and feels superior on the Pantone Scarab Razr Extremely that I’ve. In basic Motorola style, the system can be obtainable with a wood again while you purchase the Pantone Mountain Path coloration, although the opposite colorways follow a extra conventional construct.

Whereas flip telephones just like the Razr Extremely are designed to save lots of on area reasonably than essentially provide extra display area, the system is fairly tall — and taller than a slab telephone could be. I sort of just like the super-tall display although. It makes it simpler to see extra content material.

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The remainder of the design is kind of to be anticipated. The telephone has an influence button and quantity rocker on the left edge, and the facility button has a fingerprint sensor constructed into it that felt responsive and fast. There’s additionally a brand new AI key on the left edge, which launches Moto AI. We’ll get into Moto AI later. The hinge permits for the 2 sides of the telephone to fold flat, which is sweet, and it felt fairly sturdy too. The telephone has an IP48 water-resistance ranking as nicely, which is spectacular — and means the telephone ought to be capable to face up to full submersion in water for prolonged intervals of time. Principally, don’t submerge the telephone on objective, however when you drop it within the pool, it ought to survive simply advantageous.

Motorola Razr Extremely overview: Show

The shows on the telephone look nice too. As talked about, the primary display is fairly tall and at seven inches, it’s bigger than the show on most slab telephones. The trade-off is that when unfolded, it’s mainly unimaginable to succeed in the highest of the display along with your thumb while you’re utilizing it with one hand, however I like that Motorola is leveraging the foldable type issue for a little bit extra display actual property.

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The standard of the show is excellent too. It’s an LTPO AMOLED display with a 165Hz refresh price and a peak brightness of 4,500 nits. It will get very shiny, and I discovered it straightforward to see content material in shiny environments like open air. The decision sits in at 1224 x 2912, which makes for a pixel density of 464 pixels per inch. That’s excellent and it makes for crisp textual content and detailed pictures.

The duvet display isn’t as shiny, however with a 3000-nit peak brightness, it’s nonetheless shiny sufficient to simply see content material, and it has the identical 165Hz refresh price and a crisp decision.

General, Motorola has performed a terrific job with the shows on the Motorola Razr Extremely. They appear nice, they’re clean and responsive, and so they simply get shiny sufficient for any state of affairs.

Motorola Razr Extremely overview: Efficiency

Powering the Razr Extremely is a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite. Sure, lastly, a Razr system has a flagship processor, and that places it on par with the newest and biggest Galaxy and Pixel telephones. I’m not solely evaluating foldable telephones both. The Snapdragon 8 Elite is what you’ll discover within the Samsung Galaxy S25 Extremely, for instance.

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On the Razr Extremely, that chip is coupled with 16GB of RAM, and I discovered it to be excessive performing, it doesn’t matter what the duty. The telephone can simply deal with cellular gaming, heavy multitasking, and so forth. To be truthful, that’s actually true of any fashionable flagship telephone, and for essentially the most half, you received’t discover a lot of a distinction in efficiency between this system and one with a barely decrease performing chip till the tip of the lifespan of the system, reasonably than out of the field. With the ability to carry out in the direction of the tip of the lifespan nonetheless issues, and it is best to discover that the Razr Extremely stays responsive for not less than a couple of years and usable for a lot of extra.

Motorola Razr Extremely overview: Battery and charging

Powering the Motorola RAZR Extremely is a 4700mAh battery, and I discovered battery life to be nice. In case you use a mixture of the quilt show and inside show in day-to-day life, you’ll discover that you just’re simply capable of get by means of a full day of use. And albeit, even when you by no means use the quilt show and at all times depend on the within display, it is best to nonetheless get by means of the day, although with rather less remaining on the finish. That’s true for heavier customers as nicely, and really mild customers may really be capable to stretch the telephone to a number of days.

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The good battery life is coupled with stable charging tech, too. The telephone can cost by means of a wired connection at as much as 68W, which is fairly quick and signifies that solely half-hour or so of charging ought to get you up previous 70% of battery.

Wi-fi charging will get an improve too. The telephone helps 30-watt wi-fi charging when you use the Motorola TurboPower 30W charging stand. Sadly, the system doesn’t make use of the brand new Qi2 wi-fi charging normal, although.

It does have reverse wi-fi charging, however to make use of that, you’ll must flip the telephone display down on the desk. By means of reverse wi-fi charging, you may cost gadgets like your earbuds at as much as 5 watts. It’s a helpful characteristic, although not one I ever actually use in day-to-day life.

Motorola Razr Extremely overview: Digital camera

The Motorola Razr Extremely has a twin digital camera system for the primary digital camera array, which is made up of a 50-megapixel fundamental digital camera with an f/1.8 aperture and a 50-megapixel ultrawide digital camera with an f/2.0 aperture. Sadly, there’s no telephoto digital camera right here, and the dearth of telephoto is among the fundamental explanation why the telephone may lag behind a number of the competitors, particularly at this worth level.

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Usually talking, the digital camera on the Razr Extremely is fairly good. Colours have been fairly vibrant and particulars comparatively crisp, and the inclusion of an ultra-wide digital camera means that you may get a wider subject of view than you might with the earlier era mannequin, which had a fundamental digital camera and a telephoto digital camera as an alternative.

That does collapse a little bit as you begin to zoom in, although. The shortage of a telephoto digital camera actually makes an impression right here, and even pictures zoomed at solely 3x or 4x are noticeably degraded in comparison with these taken with no zoom.

In different phrases, don’t count on the perfect digital camera expertise on the earth with this telephone. You received’t get it. However, nonetheless count on one, particularly when you don’t zoom in all that usually.

Motorola Razr Extremely overview: Software program

The Razr Extremely 2025 comes with Android 15, with Motorola’s personal pores and skin excessive of it. For essentially the most half, all the pieces is kind of the place you’ll count on it to be, nevertheless it’s clear that Motorola has performed some work to tweak issues a little bit. Fortunately, it nonetheless feels shut sufficient to inventory Android that almost all will discover it to be fairly scaled again and straightforward to make use of.

There are some further apps and options, although, and so they get a little bit overbearing. Further apps embody Moto Safe, Moto Unplugged, Motorola Information, and a Dolby Atmos app. Many of those apps can’t be eliminated, which is a little bit irritating. The system additionally ships with Perplexity, the AI search app. This one will be eliminated, although, so those that don’t use Perplexity received’t be caught with it.

Talking of AI, there are a selection of AI options packed into the telephone, and so they’re largely offered by means of the brand new Moto AI service. Moto AI could be very persistent while you first arrange the telephone, always asking you to register when you haven’t already, in an effort to use it. There’s even a Moto AI fast entry button that floats round on the display and infrequently will get by accident pressed. When you register, you’ll be capable to use Moto AI’s options, which embody having the ability to summarize content material on the display, save issues for later, and extra. It’s powered by Perplexity, so it is sensible that the Perplexity app is pre-installed on the telephone.

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You’ll get entry to extra options by opening the Moto AI app, which lets you generate pictures, ask or seek for content material, and extra. A few of these options will be useful, particularly when you’re used to utilizing AI chatbots already. Others it’s possible you’ll not use all that usually, and I count on most will need to disable the persistent AI floating bubble that’s at all times on the display, because it serves the identical objective because the AI key anyway.

I do assume it’s fascinating how the built-in Moto AI options play off of Gemini, too. As talked about, Moto AI is partially powered by Perplexity, and you may entry it by holding down the AI key. Maintain down the facility button, nevertheless, and also you’ll entry Gemini, which is arguably extra superior, not less than for sure duties like voice chat. Everybody remains to be determining how AI can actually combine into our digital lives, and Motorola isn’t any exception to that. In case you like gaining access to AI options, you’ll like how entrance and heart they’re on this telephone, although.

Like in earlier generations, the software program on the quilt display works a little bit otherwise than Android often does. You’ll be able to scroll between screens for issues like your calendar and the climate, and you may entry any app, although you may solely have fast entry to eight apps at a time. So, I like that the quilt display works a little bit otherwise, because it makes utilizing the smaller display a little bit extra intuitive.

Motorola says that the Razr Extremely will get three years of software program updates, which is a poor effort in comparison with a lot of the competitors, particularly for a telephone on this worth vary. The likes of Samsung and Google are providing as much as seven years, which is greater than double what Motorola offers. I’d prefer to see Motorola dramatically enhance its software program assist.

Conclusions

The Motorola Razr Extremely might nicely be the perfect flip telephone you will get proper now. It has a premium design that simply feels good within the hand. Plus, I fairly just like the taller show side ratio and the design of the quilt display that flows round the primary cameras. There are some methods wherein it doesn’t compete with a equally priced slab telephone, just like the cameras, however for now, that’s merely a trade-off of getting a telephone this skinny, with a digital camera bump this small.

In case you don’t essentially care about getting the perfect digital camera expertise on the market proper now and prioritize issues like efficiency, display high quality, and general design, then the Motorola Razr Extremely is the telephone for you. In case you do need a greater digital camera expertise, then you will have to stay with a slab telephone just like the Galaxy S25 Extremely.

The competitors

Maybe the most important competitors to the Razr Extremely comes within the type of the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 6, which can be a really stable system. The Z Flip 6’s flat edge design does really feel considerably extra fashionable, however that look of getting the quilt show stream across the cameras can’t be beat. That’s to not point out the truth that the Motorola system has higher battery life. Sadly, you’ll have to pay a little bit extra to get the Razr Extremely although.

Ought to I purchase the Motorola Razr Extremely?

Sure. It’s arguably the perfect flip-style foldable proper now.