Right now, Motorola has an edge in the mid-range, but it has its razor sharp focus in its ultra flip phone lineup. See what I did there? Well, this is the new Motorola Razr 60 Ultra, and it packs so much specs for a flip phone.
I think it packs the most amount of specs for a flip phone that I’ve seen till date. So much so that it has all the capabilities and features that you come to expect from a Candy Bar flagship phone. So, let’s check what’s new in this Razr 60 Ultra and I’ll tell you all about it.
Premium Design and Build
This Razr is the first phone in the world, not just the first foldable to actually use Alcantara for the back material. Alcantara is basically like fabric, but like a premium version of fabric and it’s used inside the interiors of very very expensive cars. By the way, it has a suedelike texture. It’s got a matte-like finish. So, obviously, when you look at the slimness of the phone, it’s actually 7.29 mm when you open it up and when it’s shut, it’s about 15.69 mm. Plus, the weight of the phone is under 200 g, which makes it very comfortable to hold and use. It’s a perfect phone for one-handed usage, especially when it’s shut, and you can use the external display like to your heart’s content.
There’s another variant that comes with a real wood finish and that instantly reminded me of the awesome Moto X. Ah, nostalgia. Motorola has made huge improvements to the hinge. It is ultra durable now. It can withstand up to eight lakh folds, which is fantastic for a flip phone and it could achieve this because it is a proper titanium hinge. It has reduced the volume of the hinge as well. And it has also optimized the tension of the spring. Basically, it’s a very sturdy hinge and it can open up from 45° up to 120°. The IP rating has also been upgraded from IPX8 to IP48.
Now, you also get an aluminum frame plus the regular ports and buttons that you can expect from a phone, but more importantly, there’s that extra button for Moto AI specifically. The type-C port at the bottom is actually USB 2.0. That’s something you have to keep in mind. And I’m kind of disappointed with this move. It should have had USB 3.1 for faster speeds.
Stunning Displays
Coming to the display, for starters, you have this 4in OLED panel on the outside and then you have this 7in OLED panel for the main course. This 4in display is also kitted out. You get a flexible AMOLED panel, of course. But it has 165 Hz refresh rate on the outside when you’re playing games and 120 Hz in the UI. And this is also an LTPO panel to ensure that you get better battery life. Yes, you heard that right. You can actually play games on this display if you wanted to. Plus, it has a peak brightness of 3,000 nits, 100% DCIP3 color gamut support, and Dolby Vision support on the outside as well. The display on the outside is also protected by Corning’s Gorilla Glass Ceramic solution, which I think is the first for any flip phone.
Just like the Razr 50 Ultra, you can do tons of things with the external display on the Razr 60 Ultra. You get support for Moto panels. Basically, you have multiple panels and you can keep the panels that you like to use. For example, you can have a panel for Spotify, you can have a panel for calendar, all of that. You can also play games like I mentioned and you can almost use every app to work on the external display. Then there’s also a desk display mode where you have a tent mode and a stand mode.
Once you open up the display, what you get is a 7 in 1.5K resolution AMOLED panel and it has an aspect ratio of 22:9. It’s a very tall and very large panel. Of course, it’s also a 10-bit flexible display which can go up to 165 Hz when you’re playing certain games. And in the UI, it’s 120 Hz. Plus, you also do get LTPO support as well, just like the cover display. There’s 4,500 nits of peak brightness support for Dolby Vision and a wider DCIP3 color gamut of 120%. But in our testing, we noticed that HDR support is available on YouTube, but Dolby Vision support is not available on Netflix, which I’m sure should come in a future update.
One thing with flip phones and fold phones that we need to definitely discuss is the crease and it’s almost invisible on the Razr 60 Ultra. So, basically, Motorola managed to achieve this by removing the pressure sensitive adhesive layer that’s between the display and the hinge plate. And to fill that existing gap, it has actually added two additional plates to either side of the hinge and therefore the crease has reduced and there’s also very little stress. So yeah, a nearly creaseless experience with really well tuned display panel. I think this is the flip phone display to beat in 2025.
You also do get support for Dolby Atmos with the stereo speakers and they do sound very punchy, very rich. And of course, one thing that we check regularly because there are a bunch of audio files out here is the support for LHDC and LDAC. And while the Razr 60 Ultra supports that, too. The haptic feedback experience and the way haptics have been integrated in the system UI on a flip phone is possibly the best here on the Razr 60 Ultra. The fingerprint scanner is embedded in the power button, not on the display.
Camera Capabilities
Let’s talk about the cameras. The Motorola Razr 60 Ultra actually has three 50 megapixel cameras. The selfie camera has been upgraded from 32MP to 50MP now. And on the rear, you have a 50MP primary camera and a 50MP ultrawide as well. Yes, the 2x telephoto has been replaced with an ultra wide now. But this ultra wide can also double up as a macro shooter.
In daylight, the pictures from the primary camera do come out sharp and pretty detailed. Colors are also fairly accurate thanks to that Pantone tuning. But if you want, you can also pick your signature style for colors, which basically gives you the access to customize your colors. And you do also get impressive HDR tuning where there’s very good control over the details and the highlights. The portrait mode definitely needs some work. Low light shots using the primary camera are fine, not too bad. Now, you can achieve a nice 2x shot with very little loss of detail as well thanks to the insensor crop. So, basically, Moto replacing that 2x telephoto with a 2x in sensor crop kind of makes sense.
The ultra wide camera is also pretty good both in daylight and low light, but when you can use it to take macros, it springs to life with even better performance. Selfies from the selfie camera are pretty good now that you actually don’t need to flip the phone and use the phone in camcorder mode to take the selfie with the primary camera. Now, you can shoot 4K 60 fps using all the three cameras, but you can also record Dolby Vision videos in 4K 60 fps from the rear cameras. The camcorder mode actually switches automatically to the camcorder mode when you set the phone in 90° and just hold it. Plus, there’s the action shot feature which actually does work really well.
Overall, it’s a good set of cameras and it’s doing a good job with the photos as well.
Performance and Battery Life
When you look at the on paper specs, it’s a huge upgrade from the Razr 50 Ultra. Motorola is pulling no punches. Basically, what you get is Snapdragon 8 Elite up from Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 on the Razr 50 Ultra. Plus, there’s only one variant, which is a 16GB/512GB variant with LPDDR5X RAM type and UFS 4.0 storage. But the performance tuning is still very very conservative primarily because Motorola has tuned it for excellent battery life and which is exactly the way I would want it on a flip phone.
With Snapdragon 8 Elite what we got when we tested it out was an AnTuTu score of 2.2 million. Ideally it can go up to 2.7 million but it’s 2.2 million with this phone. The Geekbench scores are almost on par with most other Snapdragon 8 Elite phones that we’ve tested. Now, we also did play Genshin Impact and of course, it drops frames and we got an average FPS of 48.9, but thankfully it didn’t get too hot.
The battery inside is a 4,700 mAh unit up from 4,000 mAh on the Razr 50 Ultra, and you get excellent battery life with the phone. Even in our initial run we lost about 58% charge and we had a screen on time of 4 hours and 47 minutes. Now if this phone gives me a screen on time of over 8 hours that is mission accomplished and I think that it can do it very easily. That’s not it. You get 68 watt fast charging support with the 68-watt charger inside the box. It’s a USB PD charger and you also do get support for 30 watt wireless charging as well. And the charge from 1 to 100% takes about 40 minutes which is actually pretty fast.
With respect to network capabilities you get support for 17 5G bands which is basically almost all the 5G bands that you would ever need. You also do get support for Bluetooth 5.4, NFC, and Wi-Fi 7.
Software and Moto AI
The software experience on the Razr 60 Ultra is mostly defined by Moto AI but essentially what you get is Hello UI based on Android 15 and Motorola is promising 3 plus 4 years of OS updates. As for the third party apps and bloat situation that it’s actually very very clean. All you get are first party apps, of course, Google apps as well, most of which are useful. And of course, your Moto staples like chop to flashlight like Moto Gestures and a few other Moto features exist.
Moto AI experiences include catch to image, AI playlist studio, catch me up, image studio, style sync, take notes, and remember this. Tying all of this together is something called next move. Essentially if you’re on a page and if you don’t know what AI function you need to use over there, you can just hit the Moto AI button and it’ll give you some suggestions. There’s also something called this on that, which allows seamless interaction between multiple Motorola devices using Smart Connect.
Motorola also gives you two specific modes to use this flip form factor which is basically the stand mode and the tent mode. There’s something called look to talk where you can actually look at the external display and trigger whatever Moto AI function that you want. All of these AI features are enhanced by multiple LLMs running within the phone itself, including Perplexity, Microsoft Copilot, and Google Gemini.
Pricing and Availability
The more I use the Motorola Razr 60 Ultra, it felt like Moto wants to ensure that you do not miss out on the features and performance that you can get from a flagship phone. So, the displays are fantastic. The external display is actually properly usable with almost all apps working on the external display. Plus, you’ve got a bunch of AI features that I find definitely useful in real life. More importantly, the battery life on this has been improved, which is something that I expected Motorola to do, and they’ve actually gone ahead and achieved that.
This is a premium phone that comes at a premium price. So the price right now for the 16GB/512GB variant of the phone, which is the only variant that’s going to be available, is 1 lakh. And you also get discounts, which brings the price down to 90,000. It’ll be available on Amazon starting May 21st.
What do you think of the price? Do you think it’s all right? Do you think it’s not all right? Let me know your thoughts! That’s it from me for this one. Until then, keep tracking and stay safe.