Motorola Razr Fold: the first book-style Razr arrives with the best foldable camera on the market

• Motorola's first book-style foldable — the Razr family finally grows beyond flip phones
• Best foldable camera per DXOMARK — score of 164 and a Gold Label: #1 foldable camera system globally
• Triple 50 MP rear system — Sony LYTIA 828 main, 3× optical periscope telephoto with up to 100× Super Zoom Pro
• Brightest inner foldable display — 8.1″ 2K LTPO pOLED with a 6,200-nit peak; the 6.6″ cover display runs at 165 Hz
• 6,000 mAh silicon-carbon battery — the largest in any foldable sold in the US, with 80 W wired and 50 W wireless charging
• World's first phone with Corning Gorilla Glass Ceramic 3 — plus immersion and high-pressure water-jet resistance
• moto pen ultra stylus support — bundled in the box across Europe
• Sound by Bose stereo speakers — the only foldable with Bose-tuned audio
• $1,899.99 / €1,999 — undercuts the Galaxy Z Fold7's launch price with double the storage

Since 2019 the Razr name has meant one thing: flip phones. That era ended on March 2, 2026, when Motorola fully unveiled the Razr Fold at MWC in Barcelona — its first book-style foldable, teased two months earlier at Lenovo Tech World during CES. US sales started on May 21 at $1,899.99, and Europe was officially named the first international wave: the phone is in stock across Motorola's European stores today.

Motorola is the last major foldable brand to enter the big-screen category, and it deserves credit for not arriving with a me-too device: instead of chasing the thinness race, it picked the two battles that arguably matter more — camera quality and price. The result is the first foldable to take DXOMARK's Gold Label, sold for less than what Samsung asks for a Galaxy Z Fold7 with half the storage.

Folded, the Razr Fold measures 9.9 mm; open, it thins out to just 4.6 mm. Those are honest, competitive numbers — though not records: the Galaxy Z Fold7 is slimmer at 8.9 mm folded, and at 243 g the Motorola is also noticeably heavier than Samsung's 215 g. You feel the extra grams; what you get for them is a much bigger battery and a periscope camera.

Durability is where Motorola spent its engineering budget. The back is the world's first application of Corning Gorilla Glass Ceramic 3, which Corning rates at over 75% better drop performance than the first-generation ceramic glass. A precision-machined stainless-steel teardrop hinge closes the phone completely flat, and a titanium plate sits under the inner display. Water resistance covers IP48 and IP49: immersion in up to 1.5 m of fresh water for 30 minutes plus protection against powerful high-temperature jets — a rating class most foldables still can't touch. One honest caveat: the leading "4" means it is only protected against solids above 1 mm, not fully dust-tight.

The two colorways are genuinely distinctive: PANTONE Blackened Blue wears a woven diamond-piqué finish, PANTONE Lily White a silk-inspired one with a soft sheen. There is also a FIFA World Cup 26 Collection edition with a raised-dot texture and the tournament logo in stainless steel plated with 24-karat gold.

The inner display is an 8.1-inch LTPO pOLED at 2484 × 2232 (2K) with a 120 Hz refresh rate, 10-bit color and HDR10+ — and a peak brightness of 6,200 nits, which Motorola calls the brightest interior display of any foldable on the market. Going by published spec sheets, no rival currently claims more, and it deserves the praise: foldable inner screens have historically been the dimmer half of the package.

The 6.6-inch cover display is an LTPO pOLED too (2520 × 1080, 21:9), protected by the same Gorilla Glass Ceramic 3 — and it refreshes at 165 Hz, a gaming-monitor figure no other book-style foldable's cover screen matches. Peak brightness there is 6,000 nits. Both screens work with the moto pen ultra stylus, complete with pressure sensitivity, tilt detection and hover support.

The Razr Fold runs Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 (TSMC 3 nm, octa-core up to 3.8 GHz, Adreno A829 GPU) cooled by a liquid-cooling system. To be precise about where that sits: it is Qualcomm's 2026 flagship platform, but not the top Elite tier that the HONOR Magic V6 ships — at this price we'd have liked the Elite, even if in daily use the difference is academic rather than felt.

Memory is generous and simple: every global unit pairs 16 GB of LPDDR5X with 512 GB of UFS 4.1 storage — there is no cut-down base configuration. Motorola mentions up to 1 TB for select markets; in practice that configuration is currently a China exclusive.

The Razr Fold carries a 6,000 mAh battery with a silicon-carbon anode — the largest in any foldable sold in the US, as Motorola's own footnote carefully scopes it. Globally, the crown still belongs to the HONOR Magic V6 and its 6,660 mAh; but squeezing 6,000 mAh into a body that opens to 4.6 mm is a serious feat, and it embarrasses the Galaxy Z Fold7's 4,400 mAh. Motorola quotes over 43 hours on a single charge.

Charging is properly fast for the category: 80 W wired TurboPower delivers more than 12 hours of use in 12 minutes, and 50 W wireless beats the wired speeds of plenty of rival flagships — a figure worth celebrating on a foldable. There is 5 W reverse wired charging for accessories. As is now standard, there is no charger in the box — not in the EU, and not in the US either.

China gets the same hardware in different clothes: the Lenovo-sold China version swaps the colorways for Pearl White and Ink Black and adds the 16 GB + 1 TB configuration that global markets don't get.

This is the section Motorola built the phone around. The rear system is a triple 50 MP array: the main camera uses the new Sony LYTIA 828 — Motorola's largest 50 MP sensor yet at 1/1.28″ — with an f/1.6 aperture, 2.44 µm binned pixels, OIS and Pantone Validated color. The 50 MP periscope telephoto (Sony LYTIA 600, f/2.4, OIS) zooms 3× optically and reaches up to 100× with Super Zoom Pro, Motorola's AI-assisted long-range mode — remember that everything past 3× is computational, not optical. The 50 MP ultra-wide covers a 122.1° field of view and doubles as a macro camera focusing from 3.5 cm.

Selfies come from a 32 MP inner camera and a 20 MP cover camera, and video tops out at 8K/30 with Dolby Vision (4K up to 60 fps).

The receipts: DXOMARK scored the Razr Fold 164, awarding it the Gold Label and the title of the best camera ever tested on a foldable — #1 among foldables globally, #2 among all smartphones in North America, and top-10 worldwide. For context, the Galaxy Z Fold7 sits at 145 in the same ranking. For a brand whose flagships have rarely threatened the camera leaderboards, this is the biggest statement in the Razr Fold's spec sheet.

The Razr Fold ships with Android 16 and a pledge of seven OS upgrades and up to seven years of security updates from the global launch date — matching Samsung and Google and closing the gap that used to be Motorola's weakest point. Praise where due: this is the update policy a $1,900 phone should have.

The AI story is unusually broad. moto ai brings Catch Me Up (notification summaries), Remember This, Recall, Image Studio and Next Move, triggered by a dedicated AI Key — and Motorola is hedging its bets by shipping Google Gemini, Microsoft Copilot and Perplexity side by side. Big-screen multitasking runs up to three apps at once with Swipe to Split, plus tent and laptop modes that use the hinge as a kickstand; USB-C drives an external monitor over DisplayPort 1.2.

The moto pen ultra stylus (with its own charging carry case) adds pressure-sensitive sketching, Sketch to Image generation and note-taking — bundled in the box in Europe, sold separately in the US.

In the US, the Razr Fold has been on sale since May 21 at $1,899.99 for the single 16 GB + 512 GB configuration (roughly €1,680 before taxes) — $100 under the Galaxy Z Fold7's launch price, with double the storage.

Europe was the first international wave, and the phone is in stock now on Motorola's own stores: €1,999 MSRP (Germany €1,999.99, Spain €1,999, Italy €1,998.99) and £1,799.99 in the UK — every European unit with the moto pen ultra bundled plus launch gifts such as moto buds loop and a moto watch. One regional difference stands out: France pays €2,199, €200 above the German price on Motorola's own store, and Motorola hasn't explained why.

Street prices are already moving below MSRP at major retailers in launch promos, so paying full sticker takes some effort. The FIFA World Cup 26 Collection edition sells for the same price as the standard colors on Motorola's official stores.