Motorola Razr hands-on: the foldable phone we’ve wanted

The original razor

The Verge some Verizon flip phone that was basically indestructible...*i used to play soccer with it*

I had the pink razor

A Motorola v60i

Nokia 3310

Thanks for the laugh

Yep, it is a modern equivalent to slamming the phone down. Nothing ever changes.

What's a "call"?

😂😂😂

The Pebl made by Motorola has to be the coolest mechanism on opening a phone I ever used.

John Ward yes please! 😂

They have actually

My new Moto G6 says this every time it boots.

They do lol

@@traviss6564 they're talking about the og one which came with the razr not the new "hallo motto" it's different

Unfortunately its Verizon arguably the worst cell company ever.

lol depends on the price

@@TheLofiDragon its 1500.00

@@Parasite_Eve_1776 which means way overpriced

Yay you can get a normal smartphone that folds into a smaller screen that’s so super practical ueudhfhchxjzkxjxj

Ikr lol

Why is it so expensive

@@michaelmyersplays4992 Probably because its a foldable OLED. The galaxy fold is the other foldable phone and look at the price of that.

It's too expensive

How much?

but pointless or inconvenient

Yep, I’ve always wondered why the phone makers won’t make it foldable vertically, then Motorola came in with this. Looks great!

I agree. I feel this is the right implementation of a "Folding" form factor. Now, all we need is effective folding glass and graphene battery technology, and we are golden.

@@afeeqhasan6621 Because this is literally pointless. Lol

@@vrsce0178 Well, I don't think everyone wants their foldable phone to open up into a tablet. At least I'm certain I don't care about that. I'd rather have this and a laptop.

At this point I'm half waiting for my elementary school teacher to kick down the door asking for my math homework lol

you forgot the new Sonic trailer lol

🤩🤩

Robert di nero al pacino making a movie

WoW Classic...

You had the chance to say "Hello Moto" and you missed it :c

Essiekins I’ll put it for you

2005? Huh? You can still buy them. And why would you say "today is the year"? That makes no sense

No one ever called flip phones "foldable phones".

Valentin Islas Trevor Noah

@@forbiddenlovealive Huh LMAO

Lmfao

So cough up 1500usd and break it by hanging up which is what's going to happen

Hanging up on someone from a payphone x100

I disagree. People have been talking about this since foldable phones were a thing.
So exciting!

We knew
They finally listened.

I agree.

We always knew. They just ignored us and kept making phones so big that we had to buy bigger bags and baggier clothes just to tote them around.

Brendon Renkema *never wanted

Xiaomi will

Seems like we always go back to whence we came. We left flip phones just to go back to it

woah woah satan, keep calm for a moment 😂

My thoughts exactly. And with the phone sizes getting ridiculas this one seems to get it just right.

There surely is a market for these. But not for "most people". People who don't want to take their phone out all the time lean towards smart watches. People who use their phones 24x7 would rather just want a bigger battery and call it a day. People who watch a lot of content would still get an $800 iPad because it's both, cheap and reliable.People who just want something to help with their work would always want something that runs windows or Linux with a full-sized keyboard. the rich ones already got their gold plated iPhones, People who're poor would look for better price to performance. Something like the Poco F1 or Realme X2 Pro. Someone who wants a foldable phone for the fun of it would definitely get one of these though. You see a multi tool aims to be one for every tool but cannot work as good as it's full sized counterparts. It lives to be called a fashion accessory in the end :D

@@dhairya8238 only if people were that logical and rational :)

@Akshay Yearh, I have no practical use for this phone what so ever, and know that it makes a lot more sense to buy a midrange brick with a great battery. BUT I WANT THIS PHONE!

It’s a 1499$ phone

wanna pay $1500 for it?

@@jamesgand828 no...but I appreciate the technology and innovation.

@@jamesgand828 All new tech start expensive and gets cheaper with time

Darksiege , it’s not all new tech read the specs !

@@erforscher the innovation was made by Samsung

huawei is coming too

Samsung global dual sim since forever...CDMA and GSM

Lmao dual sim, i already had that on my cheap Huawei phone in 2016. Apple is always late. Oh and the 3 cameras on the back of the new iphone, my current phone has it too and it's from early 2018 and the pics are top notch.

huawei makes a sunglasses where u can listen to music without airpods

@@TheNobnob i had dual sim in 2005 lol, worked like a charm too.

You don't say? Gosh

@@Heliguy45999 Really, who's we? NOBODY want's a brick in their pocket. Do you just have something against folding? Are you against folding clothes and paper airplanes? How can something so rationally practical, be deemed so useless?

I don’t like it

@@Heliguy45999 I kinda agree with you,maybe if they made a 7inch phone,the fold would more practical,I prefere the vertical folding than the horizontal aka tablet fold

But the price?

It's the start of a revolution!

*for

2020 is going to get even Better.! 😃

no, just no

Yeah SD710 is really a revolution.. Quite disappointed I really wanted one.

Why not both?

SD710 is the deal breaker for me. I wantd this phone so bad..

What's the point though? I've never thought that my regular sized phone was too big

@@jozefbrodala5318 And I on the other hand often worry about my phone's integrity when it is placed into a pocket.
A foldable phone is much more sturdy.

@@tempname8263 Do you really worry about that? I've literally never had that issue, also the hinge on a foldable is a looot more delicate and a regular phone

@@jozefbrodala5318 ​ That's probably because your phone is tiny or your pockets are huge.
And the hinge won't break under bending forces, unlike your screen glass. It can only get broken if you smash it precisely at high velocity against something rigid or if it gets polluted with super-fine dust particles, which are rare on Earth.

Actually yeah. Just activate that hidden retro setting and teach him not to press/push buttons but to tap them and he will use it pretty well

Boomer got!!!

exactly

It’s just a normal phone which folds into something slightly small. There is no real benefit from this design, other than that it’s cool.
This is clearly the first gen usage of foldable display, more the flexing phase of the tech.

I agree 💯%...

Rather, the most pointless.

@@aswinottapilavil495 how the f is no real benefit from this? It saves space, how is that not a benefit with phones now being really big and large to fit comfortable in your pocket

Your name is fitting

But they were free...

@@ittotaq yeah, everything parents buy for their kids is free.

@@wolfisbad8965 no? If the parents buy it it's not free.

Facts lol u ru a God....

We don't deserve dog's tho...

Shaurya Kaushik aight u can head out !

Not really we need a foldable phone so that we can get a bigger form factor(tablet life form factor) smartphone in our pockets.

Christopher Parker not really, cuz at $1500, this shows with improved modern flagship specs it would cost even more money not go cheaper
Remember today’s iPhones are $1000+ but started with the original iPhone being $600
So this $1500 flipphone is Motorola’s gen 1 and will go up in price just like iPhones

@Ethan James And to add on top of that, its just like when flip phones first came out being super expensive, and now they are less than $20 at Walmart.

@@bryanmiller476 theres inflation too, so you didn't account for that. 600$ might well be 1000$ today or maybe even more lol. Because back then you could get a lot more for 1000$ relatively.

@@bryanmiller476 and as the technology gets more mature, the price will go down.

@@bryanmiller476 you aslo forget as time passes we find technological improvements that make it more efficient to make which means less money spent on product which goes directly being cheaper for consumers.

*I love 6" screens...*

You mean you didn't like the re-birth of the banana phone? (Nokia 8110)

@@ArtemisKitty she

I doubt HMD Global has the budget to make foldables

@@sahriniginting3598 ?

Nokia is dead!

I do believe you. The uppermost I'd have been willing to go would be $900. Then again I _almost_ went all-in on a Red Hydrogen phone not too long ago.

I bet it sells half decent.

@@BigSplenda1885 who's display picture it is , I see these alot

U Gotta give both homie...

lmao

Human organ trafficking, china no.1.

China has entered the chat...

Edit:take my kidney's'

motorola never got themselves back in the game since lenovo acquired them

@@btcannon2274 : DAMN DAT HAPPENED!!! 😳😐😐😒 WELL UNTIL NOW 😎😎😎😁😁😁

Lenovo has let motorola down big time.

Motorola has been coming out with a lot of practical phones that were good for the price for a while now, just not many major flagship phones that anyone noticed.

they figured it out

I know I'm getting old when people think the Razor was one of the first cell phones people had... Mine looked like a brick in 1997 and it wasn't the first cellphone people had.

Star tac: am I a joke???

Nokia 1100: you kidding me ?

@@maggie.online *StarTacs were 🔥🔥*

Nokia 5510

Wtf!!!!!??

It'll reduce by half in 2020

I agree 💯% ✌🏽

They'll eventually sell them for dirt cheap when a better competitor arrives lol

And Verizon was the final blow for me.

Lmao

Anyone will with that snapdragon 710 processor

The phone is overpriced, I won't pay more than $400 for the plastic screen and the lack of features and specs.

@@rwyo83 plastic screens are actually "Shatter proof" and more durable than glass. They do get scratched but that can be prevented with a $2 screen protector. You cannot fold glass, So everything with a foldable / Bendable screen will have a plastic screen regardless of prices.

@@dhairya8238 You can't put screen protector, that was a warning from Samsung. THese foldables are not water resistant, they have moving parts, I will like to see you bring your foldable to the beach, and touching the phone with your sandy hands, the screen will get damage, and the hinge will sound like grinding pepper

Gyenes Zsolt I would be surprised it gets past the fingernail.

Derrick Russian You got the point. :D BTW fingernail is 2.5 on the scale. :(

Motorola always had some cool designs

It costs too much

It's over 1000 bucks and it's worse than Samsung phones that are cheaper

@@Heliguy45999 Samsung's niche is very different than the Motorola's. They are trying to prove that Samsung is the future but Motorola is segmented and catered to only specific people.

Tru dat

Syber-VHS legit

Yeah what a weird thing to say... the original razr came out in 2004.

Mine was the 5110. The 3310 was a thing by then but I had to have an older model because my older sister didn't want me to have as good a phone as hers.

Nokia 3390

*raises intenna*

RIP Phone Cases 2007-2019

@@michaelbaldwin5953 cases are still there just split into two, but screen protectors 😬

For its price, yeah it does. 1,500 dollars for a phone that has slower processing power than a $750 competitor? No thank you

@@vqsxd true

Yeah, I was kinda confused why he was so harsh about the specs, but after hearing the price I completely agree.

If you're judging it by the specs sheet, the RAZR is not meant for you.

But what's the point really? The screen is only marginally bigger than on a regular flagship and this costs much more with less features.
Maybe I am missing something but with the Galaxy fold you basically get a 2in1 phone and tablet, with this the only advantage compared to a regular phone is that it's a bit smaller in my pocket

@@jozefbrodala5318 >a bit smaller
Bruh.

Nobody else was doing it this way because it reduces phone's hardware specs, which makes zoomers turn up their noses.
You see, in this design most of the phone's volume is cavity within which this screen can slide while folding. That means less space for CPU, battery and all the other good stuff.

@@jozefbrodala5318 It fits in your pocket.

"Featureless glass brick with things attached" WHAT? Even a $360 Redmi K20 Pro has more (like literally MORE) features and works better, faster and stronger in every single possible way. It also isn't a weird contraption that requires both of your hands to open it up to be usable.

@@ElAndresRodriguez but this isn't "a flip phone". It's a smartphone with folding glass. By the looks of it compared to the reviewers hands, it looks a little too big to open with one hand, at least not without some awkward maneuvering.

Literally the only time he opens it with one hand is when he violently whips it open. Lol

@@ElAndresRodriguez The flip phones i've used had 3 inches of screen max, Used to fall apart after about a year of abuse from a teenager, Didn't shatter when they fell out of my hand. and most importantly, didn't cost $1500. Even the host of this video didn't do that. You wouldn't just try to flip open something this expensive with your thumb nail... I wouldn't.

@@alpha.gamma.dingdong Yap! :D

Memes are dead

True that. But I think he meant the display.

Can't wait for him to test it

DONT FORGET THE GROVES at 6.😂😂

@Wilfredo Gonzalez or they will go full Moto z on it and it will bend like the world's most expensive banana but be fine otherwise

Hold my Razr

Hold the phone

AppleToaster nah imma still hold my beer I don’t like this trend

@@Brianuwu622 ok boomer

@@HandledToaster2 OK zoomer

It's already outdated. This isn't a smartphone so much as it's a fashion device. It's not for people who want specs

Not really its 1500 bucks my guy

Ally Alex I did say almost 😂

I agree. I think that once foldable glass and graphene batteries become more mainstream and widely available, the prices would come down. Hopefully by the 3rd or 4th iteration. 🤞🏽

That's because most of phone's volume is designated for screen bending.

this is a new technology. You pay for that. Wait 2-3 gens and it will come down in price and specs will be better.

You realise that it's not the specs that are making it this expensive, it's the amount of r&d that has to go into designing these new technologies. It's the same with anything completely new technology. Once they've figured out folding screens, the prices will come way down.

Helo-w Moto

HELLO MOTO!

😭🤣😂🤣

So you have the time to save up for a ridiculously expensive phone lol

If everyone goes by the same logic, there won't be a gen 2... :'(

And lower price :p

exactly how i feel. I would love a foldable phone like that BUT not this one yet. Too expensive, too low specs and bad camera. This is the phone future for sure, and again its motorola doing it.

mungosmungo8694 and then with better specs will be $2000 instead of the current $1500 lol

You sure?

I don’t think you need to throw $1,500 for something that does the same things that a $500 phone does except for the folding.

He is a Joo leave him alone lol

Foldable phones are the future. Mark my words

Your mind is already fried and addicted to the current gen tech, in five years that damned thing will be superglued into your eyelids, and you'd be much more the tech zombie that you already are... ahem.. im sorry, just musing out loud.

JOSEPH wow boomer calm down

I've been saying it for awhile now: Foldable screens aren't the future for phones. It's the future of tablets.
We'll probably be using the current rectangle smartphone design for many many many years. But having a large tablet that can fold down into a small square is going to be where this tech shines.

@@julianfrei.8617 TVs are TVs, there is no reason for the to be curved tbh, but for the phone, it gives it a mobility and practicality.