Bright screens, inside and out

After briefly announcing its new foldable at CES, Motorola is now ready to launch its first foldable stylus in full at MWC 2026. There are several features we already knew about, including support for Motorola’s new Pen Ultra and no fewer than five cameras. However, many specifications still remained unknown. There are some nice surprises.

Motorola decided to make both screens brighter than any of its competitors, by far. The Razr Fold’s main 8.1-inch foldable display has a peak brightness of 6,200 nits, while the external display nearly matches it with 6,000 nits. For comparison, both displays on the Pixel 10 Fold Pro have a peak brightness of 3,000 nits, and other foldables’ internal displays typically have significantly lower brightness levels. In Motorola’s window-filled demo room and sunny Barcelona, ​​I had no trouble reading both screens.

The main display is a 2K (2484 x 2232) LTPO display that can reach a maximum refresh rate of 120Hz, while the external display has a resolution of 2520 x 1080 and peaks at 165Hz. Both displays also support Dolby Vision.

With these high brightness levels, Motorola has opted for a 6,000mAh silicon-carbon battery, another leading spec among foldables at the time of writing. It will be interesting to see how the battery life evolves, powering these large, bright displays. The Razr Fold also supports up to 80W fast charging with the company’s TurboPower charger (sold separately) and up to 50W wireless charging.

With a silicon-carbon battery offering higher energy density, Motorola’s largest foldable remains surprisingly svelte, despite its huge battery. The Razr Fold is 4.6 mm (0.181 inches) thick when open and 9.9 mm (0.39 inches) when closed. Yes, Samsung’s latest Z Fold is thinner (4.2mm; 8.9mm), but it has a significantly smaller 4,400mAh battery.

The Razr Fold’s hardware carries over many of the design touches found on recent Razr phones. I spent most of my time with the Blackened Blue iteration of the Razr Fold, with a woven pique design that both felt easy to hold and didn’t seem to retain fingerprints. There will also be a Lily White color which will not have the quilted design, but a more satin finish.

The Razr Fold has a Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 processor, the de facto flagship Android processor at this point. The foldable also features its own liquid cooling system to maintain consistent performance during the toughest tasks and gaming sessions.

The Razr Fold’s cameras will have to do more than what we’re used to seeing on Razr clamshell smartphones, which have been disappointing in the past. Fortunately, it looks like it could be a very capable smartphone camera. The 50-megapixel primary sensor has an af/1.6 lens and 3.5-degree optical image stabilization. It will also work with a 3-in-1 multispectral light sensor to improve color accuracy. The Razr Fold’s ultra-wide camera features a 50 MP sensor, 122-degree field of view, and macro photography support. The 50MP periscope telephoto camera can achieve up to 3x optical zoom and 100x SuperZoom, thanks to image cropping and AI-enhanced image processing. And finally, there are two selfie cameras: a 32 MP internal camera that can record up to 4K video and a 20 MP external selfie camera, both with an af/2.4 lens.

Motorola already claims that it is the best camera on a foldable smartphone, with the highest DXOMARK score among foldables. If you’ve never heard of DXOMARK before, it’s a website and benchmarking lab in France that offers professional image quality testing for smartphones, camera lenses, and cameras. It also offers a consulting service to help manufacturers improve the performance of their devices’ cameras.

It’s too early to say whether it’s objectively a better camera phone than Samsung’s Z Fold 7, but I was particularly impressed with the Razr Fold’s telephoto results. Likewise, I’m intrigued by Motorola’s decision to support its new stylus, the Moto Pen Ultra. This warrants further testing when the foldable lands for review.

Motorola has not announced pricing and availability for the Razr Fold. It will arrive in North America “in the coming months”.