Style and function

Review: Motorola Razr Fold – an elegant challenger

With an ambitious camera setup and included stylus, Motorola is aiming high with the Razr Fold.

Published 24 September 2026 - 14:28

Motorola has a clear vision. We have long known Motorola's foldable Razr phones. They were among the first to make foldable phones, but this time it is about something entirely different. While flip phones are primarily about style and design, we have very different expectations of a book-style phone such as the Razr Fold. It should be capable of considerably more and, above all, focuses on productivity.

Even so, Motorola is taking its own path with its first phone of this type. This is a combination of what Motorola delivers in other areas and something completely new. It has managed to combine what it does best – creating products with unique materials and a distinctive identity – with practical benefits you can really appreciate.

Stylish with an included separate stylus

My review unit has a white rear in a matte material that I associate with a stone picked up at the water's edge. Smooth because it has been shaped by the waves, yet easy to grip thanks to its texture. The material on the Razr Fold is of course not stone, but it creates a similarly elegant impression in combination with the glossy metal details, such as the camera array, Motorola logo and the phone's frame.

Motorola includes a stylus with the phone, which works on both the foldable display and the outer screen. The stylus can be used for drawing, navigating the interface and, with the included apps, converting handwritten notes into editable text. It works surprisingly well even with Swedish characters such as å, ä and ö. I do not even need to write particularly neatly for it to understand me. The function is also generally well integrated into other apps, so I can, for example, easily write web addresses in the browser's address bar using the stylus.

The apps that specifically handle what the stylus adds are something Motorola has brought together from various third-party developers. These are Clip Studio Paint for drawing and painting, and Myclip Notes for taking notes. Both apps are free, but I have to pay extra to get all the features. I can take notes and draw in, for example, Google Keep with the stylus, and there I also have features for interpreting what I write from handwriting into editable text. This also makes it easier to access the notes from other devices and sync them to the cloud.

The stylus itself has no place in the phone, so when you are not using it, it should be stored in a separate holder that also works as a charger. The stylus has Bluetooth, which means it can also be used, for example, to control the phone remotely, so I can press the camera shutter from a distance using the stylus button. The stylus charging case is the size of a cigar or marker pen, and you have to carry it separately. For me, it often ends up at the bottom of my bag, which sometimes even causes the stylus to jump out of its case when it bumps into something else in the bag. Not ideal, and easy to lose if you are careless.

So much for the physical prerequisites for productivity, but how useful this type of phone really is depends largely on the software. Here, Motorola benefits from Google and other manufacturers having gone before with phones in the same format and therefore having had years to adapt Android and its apps.

Multitasking that works

This means that once I have opened an app on the Razr Fold, I can swipe up gently from the bottom of the screen to display the app icon row, then drag up another app from there in split-screen mode. I can drag the centre divider between open apps to temporarily give one app more space, and I can add another app alongside them and a fourth in a floating window on top. That fourth app may be tempting fate and making things more complicated, but working in three apps is smooth, and I can easily optimise the required space for each app. This is comparable to what you get on several other foldables of the same type, so it is more thanks to Google than anything Motorola has achieved itself. Samsung's Fold and the Pixel Fold, however, are limited to two apps side by side, while Samsung can instead split one of the panes horizontally. It is a matter of preference and depends on which app is involved and what works best.

In the Razr Fold settings, you can choose how apps are handled when you open and close the phone. You can choose for an app you are using on the outer screen to continue being displayed on the larger screen when you open the phone, and vice versa, but you can also turn this off or set it so that you have to swipe up from the bottom of the screen to actively continue what you were doing before. A convenient solution.

Raised ambitions

Looking at performance and cameras, Motorola has aimed high here without aspiring to a leading position. The cameras in the Razr Fold are on the same level as the Motorola Signature, meaning one of the better camera setups in a foldable phone, but a step behind the best camera phones overall. I get excellent colour reproduction and good dynamic range. In low light, I notice that the Razr Fold can lose some detail and colour range. Both this phone and the Motorola Signature nevertheless represent a clear increase in Motorola's photographic ambitions, and it shows in the pictures I take.

We can draw much the same conclusions about performance. Motorola has passed on the very most powerful system chip found in, for example, the competing Honor Magic V6, and instead settled for a slightly less capable one. It shows, but still provides enough power for the phone to feel fast regardless. However, it can feel slightly frustrating that the Motorola Razr Fold does not go all-in without compromise in any area. It is, after all, a phone that costs more than SEK 20,000.

Questions and answers

What is the battery capacity like?

6,000 mAh goes quite a long way, but it is nothing extreme.

Durable?

Somewhat. It has IP48 and IP49 ratings, so it is water-resistant but does not offer equally good protection against small particles. Time will tell how it ages. We have seen clear signs with foldable phones that, after just a few months, the crease in the display becomes increasingly visible and noticeable.

What is Motorola doing in AI?

You get a whole range of AI apps such as Gemini, Copilot and Perplexity, as well as Moto AI, which can record and transcribe meetings, summarise notifications (though only from a few apps) and remember things, but there is no Swedish language support, so its usefulness is limited.

An alternative

The most established competitor is, of course, the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7, or its successor, the Fold 8, which is thought to be arriving soon. The Honor Magic V6, which we have just received for testing, is also impressive and challenges what is possible in a foldable phone in terms of performance, cameras, battery capacity and dimensions.