Motorola Razr Ultra (2025) review: looking sharp

Motorola razor ultra is something special, but it is not ultra at all.

It’s beautiful. It is a pleasure to use it, and even after these new generations, after several generations of Razr Philip format, the bus arrival hours on the outer screen still feel like being off something. These phones are a lot of things – but the ultra feels a bit strong.

This is a new addition to the RazR lineup, which is sitting on all three of the phone’s features and costs, starting with $ 1,299. You get high resolution inner screen, Qualcomm’s most powerful mobile processor, double the storage space, and upgraded selfie cam. Oh, and a dedicated button to seek the AI ​​features of Motorola, but then more on it.

Is this above the rest of the razor family? Sure what this a Beautiful Phone? Certainly this is just that ultra is a loaded term, especially if you are talking about Android phones. Samsung has compiled the phone to make the phone ultra, which means many cameras and basically you can think of you at every high end. This Razr has a strong list of focus and sugars, but it still highlights the difference between the best slab-style phones and phones-even the difference between the ultra.

Did I mention how nice this phone looks? When I saw it in my broken bag, I doubled at least one occasion. The side rails of my review unit are a goldsmith, bronzee colors that emphasize the warm tones of the wooden back panel. It is also real wood, though giving a bit when I get pressed to the center shows that it is a thin layer above something else.

The 4 -inch 1080p covers almost full front of the external screen phone. It is responsible and smooth, and the Motorola core screen software is my favorite way to communicate with Philip Phone. You swipe between the pans, including a new screen for widgets, and for a familiar apps that you can be able to run on a small screen. From here things get interesting.

Opening Instagram on a small four -inch screen seems terrible, and that is. This is a kind of thing. Screen checking notifications are large enough to take immediate steps in apps such as handling, type responds, and start activity in Strava. Everything else is You’ll, you would like to use the inner screen. When I need to open the phone to check the Instagram notification, it helps me to scroll some of my foolishness.

The internal display has a 7-inch measure with 1224p resolution-a hair larger and faster than 6.9 inches 1080p screens on the other two Razr models. This is a good display. Once I turned the color sequence into its default “vivid” from “natural”, I liked it very much, in my opinion, more than red colors. Outside, the screen was far more dim in clear conditions. Even when the peak shine mood kicks, it is not enough to be comfortable to use in direct sunlight.

Motorola says the new occupation is more durable and reduces the crease when the screen is open. I usually do not get a crease on the foldable disintessential, but when you open the phone, it virtually disappears. Once you opened the phone at 90 degrees, the previous possession felt a bit floppy. It has good resistance.

Razr ultra has an IP48 rating, which continues to offer full resistance to water like last year’s models. When I saw my child directly in the phone possession, he was assuring it. The “4” rating for particle resistance certainly looks more friendly than the previous models, but that does not mean that it is dust resistant. The internal is protected from debris as much as one millimeter, larger than dust or sand grain that can devastate the phone’s internal screen. Ultra is still standing for many abuses, including displaying the dust interior of my total bag and handling by my young child. Although long -term stability is less sure than a slab -style phone.

A set of the properties of Motorola AI is also debuting that it has been a beta testing. “Catch up” offers a summary of messaging apps, “Remember it” removes the files, remove the screenshots, text and photos so you can ask about them later, and start recording sound with “pay attention” automatic transcript. In the quick version of my experience during the week I am using them? Section

I like “remember” as a storage of things screenshots, otherwise I would leave the chrome tab open all the time, but I didn’t find it so useful in this personal assistant. I added screenshots of details for some upcoming flights, and when I asked questions about them, this was fine, as if my flight was going. But answering a question is a bit slow as some part of it runs in the cloud. The time to find the information takes, I could just open the Delta app and check myself.

I am saving some decisions because these features are more useful as long as you live with them, and the motorla’s view is smart. Everything depends on you manually adding information to the service-this requires a motorla / linovo account-which avoids some of the always listening or viewing AI system. This also means that you need to save screenshots and information at a new place, and you will inevitably forget to do so.

Motorola has made every effort to engage you with your AI. With a long press or double press, two of these functions are a dedicated AI key to launch. You can either disable it, but you cannot assign this key non -AI functions, how useless is. There is a prominent home screen icon for the Moto AI app, an floating bubble, when you see it, there is an option to get up, and more. Somehow, it feels great and forgotten at the same time. But I have not yet withdrawn it at all, I plan to continue to test these features.

All the above mentioned is a good Philipphone, which I have come to expect from a motorow. But is that one? Ultra? Some other hardware sunglasses help make this matter: a Snapdragon 8 Elite chip set, 16GB RAM, 512GB storage, and the Gorilla Glass Ceramic Layer on the outer screen. There is 68W wired charging and 30W wireless charging. There is nothing to sneeze.

Razr Ultra Top Shelf behaves like an Android phone. It offers Pocket City 2Without hiccups, 3D format, and although it is heated with sharp charging or expansion gaming, I have never seen a decline in performance. Battery life is also a bright place, especially for a flip phone that has to abandon some of its internal real estate. Even in a day where I spent some time using RazR to stream Vatican on the Pope Watch, detected a 45 -minute motorcycle ride while running the audio, and dialing in a meeting, I was just down to 50 % of the bedtime. This is a slab phone battery performance from a flip phone, a real success.

It has three OS upgrades and a four -year security update. It will be enough for most people, but Samsung’s Galaxy Z Philip offers 6 to seven years OS and security updates. It’s easy to understand the longevity of the software on a low -cost phone, but 3 1,300 ultra on it? It is difficult to justify it.

The story of using a motorla phone camera is like this: You can take some really good pictures with it, but you may not be fully convinced Which Your pictures will come out well and get some objectionable processing. It works well with flattery light, such as a large window with your article with your article. It can produce a decent portrait mode portrait. Other times, the photos can be seen a bit of a slightly suppressed, mostly, or a combination of both. It seems that these things are more often in the “mea” lighting – cloudy and brown conditions, or in a dim light room.

This Razr has a 50 -megapixel camera and 50 megapixel ultra wide, which has a 2x crop zoom option by Main. I wonder if a 50 -megapixel selfie camera overkel, as you can use them on the outdoor panel for selfies with front screen. It may be there so you will look extra crisp on your zoom meetings, or maybe an ultra -blowing borrowing. Yes. It’s difficult to say.

There is something incomprehensible about Razr, which is difficult to explain without using it for a while. I myself do not fully understand it. Why does the front feeing screen feel an Uber’s happiness instead of opening the phone? Why is it so satisfying to pull my digital boarding pass on the core screen using one hand when I am running coffee and rolling suits with the other? Why does it feel so winner to turn off the phone after firing the chain in the group chat? I don’t know, but it’s just.

All the benefits of Philip Phone, it comes with some familiar Philip Phone defects. Internal screen FoldOf course, but it is not as bright or sharp as the best slab -style phone. It is reasonably durable, but dust is still a concern. You get an ultra -wide and decent crop zoom for completion of the main camera, but at this price, another slab -style phone comes with a dedicated telephoto lens. There are less commercial offices than the previous flip phones, but they are still there.

“Ultra” is really in the eyes of the viewer. If the phone decorated with a special sheet and a beautiful outdoor finish phone seems to a great extent, this Razr will please you. It is difficult to discuss the matter that is more interested in a Philip phone, especially considering the capacity of a slab -style phone that you can find at 3 1,300. But this phone is very special as an item, a device and beauty.

Photography of Allison Johnson / The Verge