Bright screens, inside and out

After briefly announcing its new foldable at CES, Motorola is now able to debut its first book-style foldable in full at MWC 2026. There are a number of options we already knew, together with help for Motorola’s new Pen Extremely stylus and no fewer than 5 cameras. Nonetheless, many specs have been nonetheless unknown. There are some nice surprises.

Motorola determined to make each screens brighter than any of its rivals by fairly a margin. The principle 8.1-inch foldable show of the Razr Fold has a peak brightness of 6200 nits, whereas the exterior display screen virtually matches it with 6000 nits. For comparability, each screens on the Pixel 10 Fold Professional have a peak brightness of 3000 nits and different foldables’ inner screens sometimes have considerably decrease brightness ranges. Inside Motorola’s demo room, crammed with home windows and Barcelona solar, I had no bother studying both display screen.

The principle show is a 2K (2,484 x 2,232) LTPO show that may attain a peak refresh charge of 120Hz, whereas the exterior show has a 2,520 x 1,080 decision and peaks at 165Hz. Each screens additionally help Dolby Imaginative and prescient.

With these high-brightness ranges, Motorola has opted for a silicon-carbon 6,000mAh battery, one other main specification amongst foldables on the time of writing. It’ll be fascinating to see how battery life fares, powering these massive, brilliant screens. The Razr Fold additionally helps quick charging at as much as 80W with the corporate’s personal (bought individually) TurboPower charger and as much as 50W wi-fi charging.

With a silicon-carbon battery that gives greater power density, Motorola’s largest foldable but stays surprisingly svelte, regardless of its big battery. The Razr Fold is 4.6mm (0.181 inches) skinny when open and 9.9mm (0.39 inches) when closed. Sure, Samsung’s newest Z Fold is thinner (4.2 mm; 8.9 mm), nevertheless it has a considerably smaller 4,400mAh battery.

The Razr Fold’s {hardware} continues with most of the design touches discovered on latest Razr telephones. I spent most of my time with the Blackened Blue iteration of the Razr Fold, with a woven piqué design that felt each straightforward to carry and didn’t appear to carry onto fingerprints. There will even be a Lily White coloration that doesn’t have the piqué design, however a extra satin end.

The Razr Fold has a Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 processor, the de facto flagship Android processor at this level. The foldable additionally has its personal liquid-cooling system to keep up constant efficiency throughout harder duties and gaming classes.

The Razr Fold’s cameras should do greater than what we’re used to seeing on the flip-style Razr smartphones, which have underwhelmed up to now. Fortuitously, it appears to be like prefer it might be a really succesful smartphone digicam. The principle 50-megapixel sensor has a f/1.6 lens and three.5 levels of optical picture stabilization. It’ll additionally work alongside a multi-spectral 3-in-1 gentle sensor to enhance coloration accuracy. The Razr Fold’s ultrawide digicam has a 50MP sensor, a 122-degree discipline of view, and help for macro images. The 50MP periscope telephoto digicam can attain as much as 3x optical zoom and 100x SuperZoom, by picture cropping and AI-boosted picture processing. And eventually, there are two selfie cameras: a 32MP inner digicam that may report as much as 4K video and a 20MP exterior selfie cam, each with a f/2.4 lens.

Motorola is already claiming that is the perfect digicam on a foldable smartphone, with the best DXOMARK rating amongst foldables. If you happen to haven’t heard of DXOMARK earlier than, it’s a benchmarking web site and lab in France that gives skilled picture high quality testing for smartphones, digicam lenses and cameras. It additionally provides a consultancy service to assist producers enhance their gadgets’ digicam efficiency.

It’s too early to inform whether or not that is objectively a greater cameraphone than Samsung’s Z Fold 7, however I used to be notably impressed by the Razr Fold’s telephoto digicam outcomes. Equally, I’m intrigued by Motorola’s determination to help its latest stylus, the Moto Pen Extremely. It warrants additional testing when the foldable lands for evaluation.

Motorola hasn’t introduced pricing and availability for the Razr Fold. It’ll be coming to North America “within the coming months.”