Home / Reviews / Motorola Razr Ultra 2025
Motorola Razr Ultra 2025 review
The best flip phone Motorola has built, and the first that feels like a flagship first.
The verdict
The Ultra is what happens when the folding compromise finally disappears: Snapdragon 8 Elite, 165 Hz, 68W charging and a battery that ends the day above 60 percent. Buy it if you want a flagship that folds, not a folding phone you tolerate.
Buy it if
- You want flagship performance with no asterisk attached to the hinge
- You end days with the phone still above half charge and want to keep it that way
- You want the outer screen to run almost everything without opening the phone
- You want 512 GB and 16 GB of RAM without stepping up to a slab
Skip it if
- You want a telephoto camera — there isn't one
- You plan to keep a phone for seven years; three years of Android updates is the commitment here
- You want to feel the suede back, because the slippery edges push most owners into a case
- You are upgrading from a 2024 Razr+ and are happy with it
Prices change daily, so we don't list them here. The button opens the current listing.
Specifications
| Model year | 2025 |
|---|---|
| Operating system | Android 15 per the listing; owners report Android 16 arriving on first boot |
| Main display | 7 in LTPO, Super HD 2992 x 1224, 165 Hz, Pantone-validated colour |
| External display | 1272 x 1080 |
| Chipset | Snapdragon 8 Elite, up to 3.53 GHz |
| RAM | 16 GB |
| Storage | 512 GB on this listing; a 1 TB configuration also exists |
| Rear cameras | 50 MP wide and 50 MP ultrawide with macro |
| Front camera | 50 MP wide |
| Battery | 4700 mAh |
| Charging | 68W TurboPower — full charge in about 40 minutes in boost mode; charger sold separately. See the note on the listing below |
| Rated battery life | Over 36 hours |
| Hinge | Titanium |
| Carriers | Universally unlocked — Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile and prepaid |
| Colours | Pantone Cabaret, Rio Red and others |
What it is
Motorola's flagship clamshell, and the model where the specification sheet stops apologising. Snapdragon 8 Elite, 16 GB of memory, 512 GB of storage and a 165 Hz main panel are flagship numbers by any measure, and they happen to fold.
Owners upgrading from the 2024 Razr+ describe the gap as large rather than incremental, which is not usually how year-over-year phone upgrades go.
What the listing gets wrong
Three things in the product page contradict each other. Worth reading before you compare it against anything.
The charging claim appears twice in two different figures. The bullet points promise 68W TurboPower and a full charge in about forty minutes. The small print below them states, twice, that chargers above a certain rating will not increase the maximum 45W charge capability — wording that belongs to a different, slower phone and appears to have been copied across. The 68W figure matches this model's specification; treat the 45W footnote as a leftover, and make sure any charger you buy is actually rated for this phone.
The storage field reads 16 GB. That is the memory figure repeated in the wrong row. The title says 512 GB, and a 1 TB version of this model is listed elsewhere in the same range — check which one you are actually buying.
The screen size field reads 7 inches with no mention of a second display. That is the main panel only. The cover screen is the one you will use most.
Battery life is the headline
4700 mAh, rated above 36 hours, and owner reports match the claim in a way that rated figures usually do not: all-day use ending in the 60 to 70 percent range at bedtime. For a folding phone, where battery has always been the format's weak point, that is the single most significant thing about this model.
68W charging fills it in roughly forty minutes under boost mode. Note that the charger is sold separately and that going above 68W buys you nothing.
The external display
Large enough and sharp enough to run real applications. Owners report tap-to-pay, Google Maps, calendar and EV charging apps all working with the phone shut, and describe the hinge motion as smooth and steady.
The recurring exception is authenticator apps, which do not reliably work on the cover screen. Plan to open the phone for two-factor codes.
Three things owners complain about
None of these are dealbreakers, but they are consistent enough to state plainly.
The suede-textured back feels good and the edges are slippery enough that most owners fit a case, which covers the texture they paid for. Unfolding the phone one-handed takes deliberate effort for the same reason.
When folded, the buttons sit where your fingers land, and mis-presses picking the phone off a table are common.
Charging makes the phone noticeably warm, wired or wireless. Owners also report struggling to find any wireless charger that delivers the advertised 30W, including Motorola's own.
Camera
A 50 MP system with Motorola's AI processing. Owners rate it as good and note the absence of a telephoto lens without much regret, since the fold-and-stand trick covers a lot of the situations where you would otherwise want reach.
Software support, honestly
Three years of Android updates, against seven from some competitors. Whether that matters depends on how long you plan to keep it — and on a folding phone specifically, the mechanical hinge is likely to age before the software does. Dust works its way into moving parts regardless of the case, and no protective case is airtight.
That is an argument for buying a folding phone on a three-to-four year horizon rather than a decade one, not an argument against buying this particular phone.
Buying renewed
Renewed and used-like-new units of this model are common, and owners report them arriving in genuinely perfect condition for meaningfully less. One thing to expect: a unit originally sold through a carrier may show that carrier's logo at boot and carry some preinstalled carrier apps. Mildly irritating, and mostly invisible unless you restart the phone.
Who it competes with
Against the Razr+ 2025 you are paying for the Snapdragon 8 Elite, 165 Hz, 68W charging and double the storage. Against a Samsung Galaxy Z Flip the arguments are battery life and the cover screen. Against a conventional flagship slab, you give up telephoto reach and gain a phone that closes.
Gallery
More like this
