I Tested the Motorola Razr Ultra. It’s Good, but Flipping Expensive

The crease is hardly noticeable on the tall 7-inch display. Obviously in the photo above, we took it at an angle that makes it look like the Grand Canyon, but in reality, I forget about the crease when there’s content on the screen. It’s impressive how much Motorola was able to reduce the crease compared to previous models. When playing games or scrolling news and social feeds, I can barely feel it.

Motorola Razr displays

One of the odd sensations when using the Razr Ultra is going from that small square 4-inch cover screen to the tall narrow inner 7-inch display. It can be jarring as each screen seems at odds with what you experience. The cover screen is petite and personal and the inner display is long, tall and bright. It’s like having a small phone and a big one at the same time. And if you not familiar with foldable phones, you are able to pick up where you left off so to speak. So if you’re viewing photos in the Google Photos on the cover screen and then open the phone up, you’ll be in the same spot in the app on the inner display.

On the “inside” of the phone is a 7-inch pOLED (the “p” stands for plastic) LTPO that also has an adaptive refresh rate as high as 165Hz. It also has a 2,992×1,224-pixel resolution and a peak brightness of 4,500 nits. In use, the main screen is wonderful indoors, and outdoors both in dim lighting and under direct sunlight.

The inner 7-inch screen has a tall 22:9 aspect ratio. Most videos have space to the left or right when I watch them in landscape orientation. But vertical videos look fantastic. TikTok videos fill the screen from top to bottom. One odd use for such a long screen is viewing movies and trailers shot in a 185:1 aspect ratio, as they nearly fill up the screen perfectly like when I watched the trailer for Nobody 2 on the Ultra.

Motorola Razr Ultra Moto AI

There’s also Pay Attention, which is like Remember This but for audio (it’s essentially an audio recorder and transcriber). And there’s Catch Me Up for notifications. These Moto AI features could be handy, but I feel like I’ll need more than six days with them to really take advantage of them.

I don’t think Moto AI is the reason to buy the Razr Ultra, but this phone and the way it integrates different AI services might be one of the most versatile for AI that you can get at this time. And it points to one way to manage the multiple AI services competing for our attention.

Motorola Razr Ultra cameras

I do want to acknowledge that Motorola has made improvements with the cameras compared to previous Razrs. Phone cameras, especially on foldables, are always at a disadvantage because there’s so little room for bigger sensors and lenses. But I think people who don’t consider themselves photographers will be fine with photos from the Razr Ultra — it’s so much fun for group shots and it’s a surprisingly great phone for video calls. But I wish the company went further. Photos from the Razr Ultra are B+ at best and that’s decent for a flip phone like this. I get the best results in places with lots of light. But the phone relies on a long shutter speed for snaps, which leads to a lot of motion blur. 

And that just gets worse when you’re in a dim environment. I’m not a big fan of photos that use Night Vision, Motorola’s name for night mode. They look over-processed — you can see that the camera is struggling and overcompensating.

On the actual inside of the phone, is a Snapdragon 8 Elite chip, and 16GB of RAM. In my time with the phone so far it has performed well; animations looked smooth, apps opened quickly. I played games ranging from Call of Duty and PUBG Mobile to Mario Kart and Alto’s Odyssey without any issues. Having this processor and all that RAM should help keep the Razr Ultra running fast for years.

In terms of the Geekbench 6 CPU benchmark test, the Razr Ultra performs close to other Snapdragon 8 Elite phones we’ve tested this year, but the scores are lower. When compared to the Razr (2025), the Razr Plus (2024) and the Galaxy Z Flip 6, the Razr Ultra came out on top. When I ran the graphics test, 3D Mark Wildlife Extreme, it was a similar story.