{"id":616406,"date":"2026-04-20T11:40:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T11:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/616406\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T11:40:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T11:40:12","slug":"motorola-is-doing-what-samsung-wont-and-its-starting-to-pay-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/616406\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorola is doing what Samsung won’t, and it’s starting to pay off"},"content":{"rendered":"

Moto is slowly becoming the anti-Samsung, and it\u2019s made me love the company. It\u2019s not by accident, and over the last few years, Motorola has made many smart choices.<\/p>\n

The company has struck a fantastic balance between its midrange value phones and its premium foldable flagships.<\/p>\n

I expect more of the same in 2026, and we\u2019re already seeing hints of what Moto\u2019s strategy is with the new Moto Razr Fold<\/a> and Moto G Stylus. <\/p>\n

Samsung has made some interesting choices of its own over the last few years. I don\u2019t agree with everything the company\u2019s done, but it\u2019s hard to argue with success.<\/p>\n

Still, there are plenty of changes Samsung made that have annoyed longtime fans, and Moto seems keen to pick up a few of those buyers.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tMotorola is winning the foldable war and it’s leaving Samsung in the dust
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Motorola has the right idea<\/p>\n

The Motorola Razr Fold picks up where Samsung left off<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t underestimate the stylus<\/p>\n

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I was concerned about the Razr Fold after hearing the rumored pricing. I thought Moto would need to heavily undercut the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7<\/a> to gain any traction at this point. <\/p>\n

The company is late to the book-style foldable game, and it needed to do something different to compete with Samsung and Google. Even though it doesn\u2019t appear to be doing it with price, Moto has some other advantages.<\/p>\n

It might not seem like a big deal to most, but don\u2019t underestimate the stylus pen support on the Razr Fold. Samsung made an error removing S Pen support on the Z Fold 7, and it hasn\u2019t sat right with a vocal minority of users.<\/p>\n

Motorola is in the ideal position to scrap AI.<\/p>\n

I get it \u2014 Samsung wanted to make the Z Fold 7 thinner, and the digitizing layer was a roadblock.<\/p>\n

Still, I absolutely understand the other side of the argument. Such an expansive internal display just screams out for stylus support, and I\u2019m glad Motorola made it available on the Razr Fold.<\/p>\n

Motorola is also innovating more. The Razr Fold features a larger, silicon-carbon battery, and Moto worked on the camera system. The results are still to be seen, but I like what\u2019s on paper so far.<\/p>\n

Motorola isn\u2019t done with the stylus just yet<\/p>\n

The Moto G Stylus pokes a bit of fun at Samsung<\/p>\n

\"Samsung<\/p>\n

It\u2019s hilarious that Motorola is adding a battery to its stylus, a year after Samsung removed one from the S Pen.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t expect the improved Moto G Stylus to rival S Pen functionality at its peak, but it doesn\u2019t have to, especially for a fraction of the price.<\/p>\n

I love that the stylus is now pressure and tilt-sensitive, which will make note-taking feel more natural.<\/p>\n

I get it\u2019s a small thing, and Samsung claims most buyers don\u2019t use the S Pen daily, but how many people does Moto have to siphon off to make a difference?<\/p>\n

I love that stylus users have an alternative, and while the Moto G Stylus was always attractive for its price, it\u2019s even more functional now.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re sick and tired of paying over $1,300 for a flagship phone, but can\u2019t give up your Ultra, Motorola made it just a little easier to give it a shot.<\/p>\n

Motorola could go all the way and please more people<\/p>\n

Moto AI isn\u2019t it, so why not reverse course?<\/p>\n

\"Moto<\/p>\n

My colleague Andy Boxall is absolutely right in saying that anti-AI smartphones<\/a> are around the corner. <\/p>\n

We\u2019ve had the pendulum swing too far in one direction, and the utility isn\u2019t there to keep us excited about relatively worthless AI features on our smartphones.<\/p>\n

If the user experience were somehow radically improved by AI, we wouldn\u2019t be having this conversation. But despite repeated attempts and claims, that hasn\u2019t happened yet.<\/p>\n

Motorola is in the ideal position to scrap AI. No one is saying it needs to dump computational photography or suddenly remove Gemini from its phones.<\/p>\n

But don\u2019t lean into it. Give us a solid value experience that isn\u2019t heavily reliant on AI as a selling point. Moto AI is fine, but it blends into the crowd.<\/p>\n

The company has a chance to stand out in a way that will get people to notice. Enough is enough with smartphone AI, and Motorola is in a prime position to lead that charge.<\/p>\n

Either way, Motorola is on the right track<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know what it says about Samsung that you can score by simply doing the opposite, but I\u2019m excited about the Razr Fold and Moto G Stylus 2026.<\/p>\n

Global pricing issues<\/a> will test every manufacturer this year. Still, as long as Motorola keeps making smart decisions, it\u2019ll be able to hang around by providing good devices at reasonable prices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Moto is slowly becoming the anti-Samsung, and it\u2019s made me love the company. It\u2019s not by accident, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[49,48,61],"class_list":["post-616406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}