Motorola RAZR (2022) review – finally, a RAZR worth recommending

The RAZR (2022) delivers a much-needed price drop and a quality bump to Motorola's folding flagship line

A photo of the Motorola RAZR (2022)
(Image: © Basil Kronfli)

Digital Camera World Verdict

The Motorola RAZR (2022) is a powerful folding phone. While it doesn't best Samsung in the design and durability department, and its camera misses out on the foldable top spot, its larger cover screen and the upgrades Motorola makes to Android are meaningful highlights that help it hold its own.

Pros

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    Novel design and styling

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    Meaningful UI highlights

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    Extensive range of camera modes

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    Smaller crease than Z Fold 4

Cons

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    No wireless charging

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    Aggressive photo processing

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    Misses out on telephoto camera

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    The battery life could be better

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The Motorola RAZR (2022) hopes to mark the end of Samsung’s monopoly over the world of folding phones, along with recent contenders like the OPPO Find N2 , Find N2 Flip, and Honor’s Magic Vs. Specifically, it’s a flip phone, so sports a nostalgic clamshell style, going toe to toe with the Galaxy Z Flip 4, which we loved in our time with it. 

But this isn’t the first time Motorola’s launched a RAZR phone. A naughties icon, the original RAZR felt like a slice of the future when it first hit the scene in 2005, and when folding screen phones debuted in 2017, the RAZR was resurrected once more. 

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Basil Kronfli

Basil Kronfli is a freelance technology journalist and content creator with a number of specialisms. He started his career at Canon Europe, before joining Phone Arena and Recombu as a tech writer and editor. From there, he headed up and runs Tech[edit], a technology YouTube channel, and has worked alongside this role at Future as a Senior Producer, sharpening his considerable video production skills. 


His technical expertise has been called on numerous times by mainstream media, with appearances and interviews on outlets like Sky News, and he provides Digital Camera World with insight and reviews on camera phones, video editing software and laptops, on-camera monitors, camera sliders, microphones and much more.