Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Razr Plus and Razr 2023 Hands On: Motorola’s New Foldable Gets a Giant Cover Screen”.
Motorola just announced two new Razer flip phones, the Razer and the Razer, plus the Razer plus is a premium phone that starts at a thousand dollars and launches in June, while the Razer is a cheaper version that will be coming later this year. The first thing you’ll notice about the Razer plus, is it’s a giant front screen. It has a 3.6 inch cover screen which is actually believe it or not a little bit bigger than the iPhone 4. You probably had more than 10 years ago and there’s a lot that you can do with that cover screen. You can run full apps on it. You can play games on it, you can even take photos with it and you can also type on it if you’re, using an app that requires the keyboard, maybe you’re, sending a text message, maybe you’re typing in Gmail or even just searching for something in Google maps. You can actually use a full keyboard on the front cover screen and you might be asking why. Why do I care about having a giant cover screen most of the time I’m going to use the phone when it’s open? That may be true, but having the giant cover screen really just makes it more useful when it’s closed, it kind of reminds me of a smart watch in a way you could take it out glance down on it. Maybe reply to a quick message or check the next step in your directions, or or what’s next on your calendar without having to really open your phone and dive in.
So I think that’s something that’s going to be really useful and it really helps the Razer plus stand out and on the inside you have a 6.9 inch screen that has a 165 Hertz refresh rate. You might not know exactly what that means, but it’s pretty high for a phone, so a lot of Flagship phones have 120 hertz, refresh rates which makes animations and scrolling feel smoother than normal. So since this one has a 165 Hertz refresh rate, we should see even more and in terms of the cameras you’re getting a 12 megapixel main camera and a 13 megapixel Ultra wide camera and there’s also a 32 megapixel selfie camera on the inside. And the reason why I’m mentioning the cameras is just like other flip phones, we’ve seen recently, the cameras are kind of a big deal on this phone.
One of the biggest use cases that Motorola is really pitching here is being able to take photos and videos from unique angles. So, for example, you can actually open the phone halfway and kind of hold it like a video camera which might be useful. If you take a lot of videos on your phone and just want a more comfortable way of holding it, there’s also a fun photo booth feature that lets.
You prop up the phone open it halfway and when you put it in this mode, it’ll take a couple of photos at a time after a countdown just like a photo booth that you might encounter at a wedding or another type of event. The Razer plus is the more premium version at one thousand dollars. It’S definitely not a cheap phone, but it’s also not uncommon for or other phones that we’ve seen with this same kind of flip form factor, it’ll run on a Snapdragon 8 plus gen 1 processor and you get 256 gigs of storage and eight gigs of memory.
Now, moving on to the regular razor, this one might sound less exciting because it doesn’t have that giant screen on the front. It has more of a normal size screen that still lets. You see, notifications, the time alerts, the weather things like that, but it’s missing that big screen. But the big thing here is that it’s going to be a lot cheaper than most of the foldable phones. We’Ve seen before. Motorola has not announced pricing yet, but it did say that it will be well below the Razer Plus’s price, which is a thousand dollars so again we’re seeing a new foldable that will be less than a thousand dollars, which is quite a big deal.
Considering most of the other devices we’ve seen have been pretty expensive. What really stood out to me with the Razer and also other foldables we’ve seen this year, like the pixel fold, is that it really feels like the companies Behind these products are finding a purpose for foldable phones. In the early days it felt like the technology. Was there, but there weren’t many use cases for it now with its larger screen, it feels like that’s changing with the Razer plus.
I really think that camcorder mode that photo booth mode and other use cases that come up for that bigger screen on the front are going to make these devices feel so much more useful, so be sure to check out cnet’s coverage for even more details about Motorola’s New razors and also foldable phones in general. So what did you think of the new razors? Let me know in the comments thanks for watching and I’ll see you next time. .