{"id":453244,"date":"2026-03-02T07:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T07:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/453244\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T07:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T07:42:09","slug":"bright-screens-inside-and-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/453244\/","title":{"rendered":"Bright screens, inside and out"},"content":{"rendered":"

After briefly announcing<\/a> its new foldable at CES, Motorola is now ready to debut its first book-style foldable in full at MWC 2026. There are several features we already knew, including support for Motorola\u2019s new Pen Ultra stylus and no fewer than five cameras. However, many specs were still unknown. There are some pleasant surprises.<\/p>\n

Motorola decided to make both screens brighter than any of its rivals by quite a margin. The main 8.1-inch foldable display of the Razr Fold has a peak brightness of 6200 nits, while the external screen almost matches it with 6000 nits. For comparison, both screens on the Pixel 10 Fold Pro have a peak brightness of 3000 nits and other foldables\u2019 internal screens typically have substantially lower brightness levels. Inside Motorola’s demo room, filled with windows and Barcelona sun, I had no trouble reading either screen.<\/p>\n

The main display is a 2K (2,484 x 2,232) LTPO display that can reach a peak refresh rate of 120Hz, while the external display has a 2,520 x 1,080 resolution and peaks at 165Hz. Both screens also support Dolby Vision.<\/p>\n

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Image by Mat Smith for Engadget<\/p>\n

With those high-brightness levels, Motorola has opted for a silicon-carbon 6,000mAh battery, another leading specification among foldables at the time of writing. It\u2019ll be interesting to see how battery life fares, powering those big, bright screens. The Razr Fold also supports fast charging at up to 80W with the company\u2019s own (sold separately) TurboPower charger and up to 50W wireless charging.<\/p>\n

With a silicon-carbon battery that offers higher energy density, Motorola\u2019s biggest foldable yet remains surprisingly svelte, despite its huge battery. The Razr Fold is 4.6mm (0.181 inches) thin when open and 9.9mm (0.39 inches) when closed. Yes, Samsung\u2019s latest Z Fold is thinner (4.2 mm; 8.9 mm), but it has a substantially smaller 4,400mAh battery.<\/p>\n

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Image by Mat Smith for Engadget<\/p>\n

The Razr Fold\u2019s hardware continues with 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 piqu\u00e9 design that felt both easy to hold and didn\u2019t seem to hold onto fingerprints. There will also be a Lily White color that doesn\u2019t have the piqu\u00e9 design, but a more satin finish.<\/p>\n

The Razr Fold has a Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 processor, the de facto flagship Android processor at this point. The foldable also has its own liquid-cooling system to maintain consistent performance during tougher tasks and gaming sessions.<\/p>\n

The Razr Fold\u2019s cameras will have to do more than what we\u2019re used to seeing on the flip-style Razr smartphones, which have underwhelmed in the past. Fortunately, it looks like it could be a very capable smartphone camera. The main 50-megapixel sensor has a f\/1.6 lens and 3.5 degrees of optical image stabilization. It\u2019ll also work alongside a multi-spectral 3-in-1 light sensor to improve color accuracy. The Razr Fold\u2019s ultrawide camera has a 50MP sensor, a 122-degree field of view, and support for macro photography. The 50MP periscope telephoto camera can reach up to 3x optical zoom and 100x SuperZoom, through image cropping and AI-boosted image processing. And finally, there are two selfie cameras: a 32MP internal camera that can record up to 4K video and a 20MP external selfie cam, both with a f\/2.4 lens.<\/p>\n

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Image by Mat Smith for Engadget<\/p>\n

Motorola is already claiming this is the best camera on a foldable smartphone, with the highest DXOMARK score among foldables. If you haven\u2019t heard of DXOMARK before, it\u2019s a benchmarking website and lab in France that offers professional image quality testing for smartphones, camera lenses and cameras. It also offers a consultancy service to help manufacturers improve their devices\u2019 camera performance.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s too early to tell whether this is objectively a better cameraphone than Samsung\u2019s Z Fold 7, but I was particularly impressed by the Razr Fold\u2019s telephoto camera results. Similarly, I\u2019m intrigued by Motorola\u2019s decision to support its newest stylus, the Moto Pen Ultra. It warrants further testing when the foldable lands for review.<\/p>\n

Motorola hasn\u2019t announced pricing and availability for the Razr Fold. It\u2019ll be coming to North America \u201cin the coming months.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After briefly announcing its new foldable at CES, Motorola is now ready to debut its first book-style foldable…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453245,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[2306,10249,163826,86,56,54,55,136758],"class_list":{"0":"post-453244","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-mobile","9":"tag-motorola","10":"tag-peak-brightness","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom","15":"tag-z-fold"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}