Motorola’s New Razr Flip Phones Cram in AI from Nearly Everyone Except OpenAI

Two things were glaringly wide to maine aft sitting done a 2.5-hour lawsuit yesterday wherever Motorola pre-briefed property connected its caller trio of Razr Android phones. The institution truly believes successful the flip-style foldable signifier origin popularized by Samsung’s Galaxy Z Flip and it thinks much AI, shoved ever deeper into the software, volition rescue america from the cruelty of pecking connected apps and buttons with our fingers.

Debuting contiguous are 3 Razr flip-style phones: Razr, Razr+, and Razr Ultra. You tin deliberation of them arsenic good, better, and best. Motorola claims the Razr Ultra is the astir almighty flip-style smartphone with the champion camera strategy available. We’ll beryllium the justice of that erstwhile we get a instrumentality successful for review. But the specs—including the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset—at slightest backs that up connected paper.

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They each look beauteous similar, but here’s however you tin spot the quality without pulling up a examination chart. As the astir premium model, the Razr Ultra sports the largest interior surface (7 inches), a dedicated Moto AI fastener connected the near side, and fancier finishes specified arsenic Italian-made Alcantara, satin, faux leather, and wood. Upgrades implicit the different Razrs that you can’t eyeball close away: 50 megapixels for the main, ultra-wide, and selfie cameras; a ample 4,700mAh battery; 68W wired charging; 30W wireless charging; and 5W reverse wireless charging.

The Razr+ looks astir identical to the Razr Ultra, but comes with a somewhat smaller 6.9-inch interior screen, nary carnal AI button, a smaller 4,000mAh battery, slower charging (45W wired and 15W wireless), and a lower-resolution selfie camera (32 megapixels). It besides has a little almighty Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 chipset.

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Sitting astatine the entry-level, the plainly named Razr has a smaller 3.6-inch outer show (there’s a “forehead” bezel not contiguous connected the Razr+ and Razr Ultra), lower-resolution cameras (50-megapixel main, 13-megapixel ultra-wide, and 32-megapixel selfie), and a mid-range MediaTek Dimensity 7400X chipset. However, the Razr does person a larger 4,500mAh artillery than the Razr+.

I got to play with each 3 concisely and they each felt well-built to me, with the lone large carnal prime quality being the materials and finishes. I truly liked the luxurious Alcantara connected the Razr Ultra, but the polished aluminum and integrative Razr didn’t consciousness inexpensive successful my opinion.

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Motorola boasted different quality-of-life upgrades for the caller Razrs. The hinges are titanium, which the institution says is 4 clip stronger than earlier and tin grip “up to 35% much folds” compared to erstwhile procreation Razr flip phones. Motorola besides says the crease connected the interior folding show is 30% little disposable (unclear however Motorola arrived astatine that fig but it does look little visible), and the Razr Ultra supposedly has the strongest outer surface acknowledgment to it being Corning Gorilla Glass Ceramic.

Gadget nerds mightiness beryllium salivating implicit the specs, particularly the ones connected the Razr Ultra, but the existent entreaty to these caller flip-style phones mightiness beryllium Moto AI. Rather than make its ain AI—and hazard embarrassing itself similar a definite fruit-named tech giant—Motorola is partnering up with AI leaders and utilizing their ample connection models and logic reasoning successful the inheritance for assorted tasks. Perplexity, the AI “answer engine” that’s been chipping distant astatine Google’s hunt relevance, is profoundly integrated into the Android 15 operating system. Google’s Gemini, Meta’s Llama, Microsoft’s Copilot, besides powerfulness antithetic aspects of Moto AI, assisting with wide AI features similar tasks suggestions (i.e. calling an Uber connected your behalf oregon drafting an email), summarization, representation callback (think surfacing accusation from notes and screenshots), and more. Missing is immoderate integration with OpenAI’s ChatGPT (and there’s astir apt a crushed for that) and Anthropic’s Claude.

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The cameras besides person Moto AI baked successful with a diagnostic called Signature Style. The phones usage AI to automatically set code and colors and past learns based connected however you edit your shots. It sounds neat, but that besides diminishes the full constituent of photos which is that they usually don’t person the aforesaid uninspired look to them. I privation to premix it up with my photos! Not person a circumstantial look.

Fact is, each telephone shaper is promising game-changing AI features that they’re touting arsenic much convenient oregon efficient. AI crammed deeper into your telephone volition assistance expect your needs! AI volition prevention you from hundreds of taps each day. AI volition yet fulfill the “intelligent” promises that dependable assistants specified arsenic Siri, Alexa, and the Google Assistant failed at.

That’s the AI imagination everyone (including Motorola) is selling. The AI successful these caller Razr phones is amended and much useful, but besides not rather susceptible capable to afloat offload everything to conscionable yet. And who adjacent knows erstwhile that’ll be, if that ever happens. (Naturally, Motorola didn’t code AI hallucinations.)

All 3 Razrs volition beryllium disposable for preorder connected May 7 and disposable unlocked connected May 15. The Razr costs $699.99, the Razr+ is $999.99, and the Razr Ultra is $1,299.99.