Motorola’s new Razr flip phone stuffs almost everyone in AI, except Openai

Sitting at the 2.5-hour event yesterday, I made a prediction about Motorola’s new trio Android phone, which was obvious to me. The company does believe in the flip-style foldable form popularized by Samsung’s Galaxy Z Flip, which believes AI pushes the software further further and will save us from the cruelty of pecking apps and buttons with our fingers.

The debut of today are three RAZR flip phones: Razr, Razr+ and Razr Ultra. You can think of them as better, better, best. Motorola claims that the RAZR Ultra is the most powerful flip smartphone with the best camera system. When we get equipment for review, we become judges. However, these specs (including the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset) can be backed up on paper at least.

They all look very similar, but this is how you can spot the differences without coming up with a comparison chart. As the best model, the RAZR Ultra has the largest internal screen (7 inches), with dedicated Moto AI buttons on the left, as well as more exotic finishes such as the Italian-made Alcantara, satin, faux leather and wood. Upgrade other RAZRs that you can’t immediately eyeball: main, super large and self-portrait camera 50 megapixels; large 4,700mAh battery; 68W wired charging; 30W wireless charging; and 5W reverse wireless charging.

The RAZR+ looks nearly identical to the RAZR Ultra, but comes with a slightly smaller 6.9-inch internal screen, no physical AI buttons, a smaller 4,000mAh battery, slower charging (45W wired and 15W Wireless), and a low-resolution selfie camera (32 Megapixels). It also has a smaller featured Snapdragon 8S Gen 3 chipset.

Sitting at the entry-level, the plainly named Razr has a smaller 3.6-inch external display (there’s a “forehead” bezel not present on the Razr+ and Razr Ultra), lower-resolution cameras (50-megapixel main, 13-megapixel ultra-wide, and 32-megapixel selfie), and a mid-range MediaTek Dimensity 7400X chipset.

I had to play all three for a short time and they all felt good about me, the only major difference in physical quality was the material and finish. I really like the luxury Alcantara on the Razr Ultra, but in my opinion, polished aluminum and plastic Razr is not cheap.

Motorola has other quality of life upgrades to the new RAZR. The hinge is titanium, the company says it is four times stronger than before compared to the previous generation of RAZR flip phones and can handle “up to 35% folding.” Motorola also says there are 30% less creases on the internal folding display (it’s not clear how Motorola gets that number, but it does not look too obvious), while the RAZR Ultra is said to have the strongest external screen, thanks to the Corning Gorilla Glass Ceramic.

Gadget nerds may salivate on specs, especially those on the Razr Ultra, but the real appeal to these new flip-floped phones may be Moto AI. Rather than developing its own AI and taking the risk of embarrassing as a result of a tech giant, Motorola works with AI leaders and uses their big language models and logical reasoning in the context of various tasks. Google’s search relevance has been in a dilemma of the confusion of the AI ​​”answer engine” that has been deeply integrated into the Android 15 operating system. Google’s Gemini, Meta’s Llama, Microsoft’s Copilot, also powers different aspects of Moto AI, assisting with the use of general AI such as task suggestions (i.e. drafting emails or drafting emails on your behalf), abstracts), memory memories, memory recalls (thinking information from notes and screenshots), and more. What is missing is any integration with Openai’s Chatgpt (which may be a reason) and Anthropic’s Claude.

These cameras also come with Moto AI and feature called signature styles. The phone uses AI to automatically adjust the tone and color and then learn according to the way you edit the lens. This sounds neat, but it also reduces the entire point of the photos, i.e. they usually don’t have the same uninspired look. I want to mix it with my photos! No specific appearance.

The truth is that every phone manufacturer has a hopeful game-changing AI feature, they touted them more convenient or more effective. AI penetrates your phone into depth will help predict your needs! AI will save you from hundreds of faucets every day. AI will eventually fulfill its “smart” commitment that voice assistants like Siri, Alexa and Google Assistant fail.

That’s the AI ​​dream that everyone (including Motorola) is selling. AI in these new RAZR phones is better and more useful, but not enough to completely uninstall everything. Who even knows when this will happen. (Naturally, Motorola doesn’t solve the AI ​​hallucination.)

All three RAZRs will be ordered on May 7 and will be unlocked on May 15. The RAZR price is $699.99, the RAZR+ is $999.99, and the RAZR Ultra is $1,299.99.