Motorola’s revived RAZR is a fashion-forward foldable. It’s unlike any other foldable we’ve tested, for better or worse.

Few phones were as iconic and as ubiquitous as the original Motorola RAZR. Celebs used them constantly, fashion houses cooked up designer mashups, and it wasn’t long before friends, family members and co-workers all started carrying them, too. The RAZR was, in other words, an absolute phenomenon, and now it’s back.

As countless reports and leaks have confirmed, though, it isn’t the RAZR you grew up with. This new version, which will sell for $1,500 when it launches on Verizon next month, is Motorola’s first foldable smartphone, and unlike any other foldable we’ve played with this year. It doesn’t unfold into a small tablet. It doesn’t pack loads of cameras or flagship components. It is, by Motorola’s admission, a “design-first” kind of phone. That might sound concerning to some, and after a bit of hands-on time in sunny Los Angeles, people who demand peak smartphone performance or superior battery life might be a little disappointed.

That’s OK, though. Motorola’s priority here was to build the kind of foldable device that regular people would want to use, and despite some compromises, I think the company might be onto something.

A classic design, revived

When Motorola set out to build its first foldable, it went through 26 prototypes of different shapes, sizes and screen configurations before deciding to re-embrace the RAZR’s iconic design. To me at least, that’s the best decision Motorola could have made. While I was testing the Galaxy Fold earlier this year, I was surprised by the number of people who didn’t find it nearly as fascinating as I did. Turns out, that was because the people who weren’t thrilled by it didn’t particularly want to use a small tablet, regardless of whether it could fold in half. Those people, according to Motorola’s research, really just wanted a full-size smartphone that could shrink down into a sleek package when they were done using it. So that’s what they built.

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Source: https://www.engadget.com/2019/11/13/motorola-razr-foldable-hands-on-preview-2019/