Motorola’s Razr 2 hopes to right the wrongs of the original Razr reboot

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  The new Moto Razr. It's got updated specs and a slightly different design. [credit: Motorola ]

Motorola is taking a second swing at a foldable reboot of the Moto Razr with what it's calling the "new Razr." It's slightly faster, slightly cheaper, slightly different looking, and no longer a Verizon exclusive. We're also hoping it's a little more sturdy and viable than the original Razr reboot, which had atrocious build quality and was constantly out of stock, probably due to production issues. The original Moto Razr reboot hit stores February 6, 2020, so this sequel is pretty early.

First up: specs. The Razr 2 (we're calling it that, deal with it) is $1,400 and has a Snapdragon 765G, 8GB of RAM, 256GB of storage, and a tiny 2800mAh battery. That's better than the Razr 1, which was $1,500 and had a Snapdragon 710 SoC, 6GB of RAM, 128GB of storage, and an even smaller 2510mAh battery. As usual, you get two screens that are pretty much the same as the Razr 1: the outside screen is a 2.7-inch, 792*600 OLED, while the inside screen is a foldable 6.2-inch, 2142*876 OLED. There's also NFC on this version, so you can finally use tap-to-pay.

A major disappointment is that the Razr 2 screen is still 100-percent plastic. There's no ultra-thin glass like you'd get on the Galaxy Z Flip. Samsung's foldable displays are a plastic and glass sandwich, with the outside layer being plastic. While that's nowhere near as nice as a normal glass display, the underlying layer of glass does help stiffen up the display surface and stop the squishy feel of other flexible displays. The old Razr display also had a ton of issues, which hopefully Motorola has worked out by now. On our store-purchased unit, the Razr 1 touchscreen stopped working after a single day, and numerous other display units and review units experienced failures.

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