Motorola's New Razr Folding Phones Command a Higher Price and Few Upgrades

Like clockwork, Motorola is backmost with a caller acceptable of Razr folding flip phones. The look is the aforesaid arsenic past year, with 3 phones differing successful specs and price: the Razr Ultra, Razr+, and Razr. But alongside these models, Motorola is yet launching its first-ever book-style folding phone, the Razr Fold, which it archetypal teased astatine CES 2026.

The institution announced the caller handsets astatine an lawsuit successful Los Angeles, wherever it besides revealed a caller brace of Moto Buds 2 Plus wireless earbuds that look eerily similar Apple's AirPods Pro, but successful blue; these volition retail for $150 and volition beryllium disposable connected April 30. Sadly, each of Motorola's folding flips are getting terms increases, successful enactment with what we're seeing from competitors similar Samsung. The Razr Ultra is $1,500, the Razr+ costs $1,100, and the Razr starts astatine $800—that's a $200, $100, and $100 terms bump implicit their predecessors, respectively. The caller Razr Fold costs $1,900, landing betwixt the Google Pixel 10 Pro Fold and Samsung Galaxy Z Fold7.

Preorders for each of the phones commencement connected May 14, and they spell connected merchantability connected May 21. Here's everything you request to know.

Flippy Razrs

These caller 2026 Razr flip phones spot precise insignificant spec bumps and nary melodramatic changes to hardware oregon design. The Razr Ultra's interior show is present a spot brighter, hitting a highest brightness of 5,000 nits. Motorola is besides touting a caller “Extreme AMOLED” show sheet for these Razrs, though it seems mostly a selling term. Barring improved surface brightness connected the Ultra, these phones inactive diagnostic 10-bit screens with HDR10+ and Dolby Vision enactment and deed 100 percent of the DCI-P3 colour gamut similar their predecessors.

There is 1 durability betterment with the Razr Ultra: it's the archetypal telephone to usage Corning's Gorilla Glass Ceramic 3 connected the outer display, which Motorola claims delivers implicit “75 percent amended driblet performance” implicit anterior devices. The Razr+ and Razr person Gorilla Glass Victus connected those outer screens, aforesaid arsenic past year. The phones inactive person lone an IP48 water-resistance rating, truthful they're not arsenic dust-proof arsenic modular smartphones. Motorola says the basal Razr is the lone folding telephone with a MIL-STD 810H rating, meaning it was tested to conscionable a circumstantial acceptable of durability standards, specified arsenic precocious altitudes and utmost temperatures.

Motorola isn't shy to play astir with textures and colors, though this year's harvest of Razrs doesn't look to person the aforesaid breadth of options arsenic the 2025 models. The Razr Ultra has an embossed Alcantara texture successful Orient Blue, oregon you tin drawback it successful Cocoa with a earthy wood veneer. The Razr+ has a elemental woven-inspired jacquard finish, and the basal Razr adds to that with leather-inspired and acetate finishes.