razr | 2024 | Unlocked | Made for US 8/256GB | 50MP Camera | Koala Gray

The crease is barely noticable in daily use. I only really notice it when I'm actively thinking about it and occasionally when drawing on my phone but it's tolerable. I love the external screen and it's helped me to not use my phone for extended periods of time. The phone build is sturdy and high quality, it runs fast, and most apps work great on the external display (even games Minecraft). The value of this phone is incredible. The camera is better than just about any android phone I've seen in person, there's more storage and memory than I even know what to do with, the audio quality is pretty solid and it's loud enough to play music in a rickety car on a bumpy freeway with the windows down. I haven't had any issues with calls dropping, occasionally texts will take a while to go through but I live in the mountains, so that's to be expected. Out and about my service connection is always great. The phone has also been generally fun to use. The only two pieces of tech to come out in my lifetime that I've really felt excited over have been virtual reality and foldable smart phones, and this phone has really lived up to my excitement. The external display mirroring the internal display when taking photos is something that comes in very handy and people always get so excited when they first see it. The phone has made for a great conversation starter when out and about. I like to carry it in my hand instead of in my pocket sometimes because I love when people ask me questions about it and I get to show off all the fun features. The external display runs all sorts of things including just about any mobile game you can think of. The smart connect feature works surprisingly well with my computer and makes it easier to respond to texts while working without getting immediately sidetracked. Google Gemini comes in very handy when I need quick answers, although sometimes she has no clue what I'm saying and she ends up giving me some very strange responses as a result. The Google Lens type feature that pops up when holding down the nav bar is helpful too. I've found myself using it for quick translations or when people text a word or phrase that I'm not familiar with. I downloaded the Novel Launcher on this phone as I had with my previous phone. It works great on the internal display but it doesn't work well on the external display because it carries the settings from the internal display over to the external display and so everything is squished and cut off in order to make it fit. If there were an option in Nova Launcher to set up two separate home screens for each screen of this phone then that would make the app more practical, but I'm happy enough with the customizability available on the external screen as Motorola designed it. I did have concerns with not being able to change out the internal screen protector, but after having this phone for a few weeks I've realized that it's much less of an issue than anticipated because of how much time the phone spends while closed. I've never dropped the phone with it open and the screen protector on the external display has done its jobe during those falls. The internal screen is protected by default because it isn't exposed nearly as much as standard phone screens are.

The hardware seems to be mostly decent, but it comes loaded with a ton of Motorola and Google non-readily removable bloatware that I had to strip out via Shizuku and Canta (I'll unlock the bootloader and patch the boot image with Magisk once the warranty is up). No expandable storage is another negative. Every phone should have a micro SD slot these days. My old phone has over 2TB of storage because it has an SD card slot. That allows me to have maps of every place on Earth, my entire book/audiobook library, my entire lossless music library, lots of apps and countless photos and videos all securely stored locally and accessible any place, any time without the possibility of interruption, network congestion or being removed. The paltry 256GB offered in the razr isn't even enough to store my music library using LOSSY compression (which would sound atrocious anyhow with generational degradation from Bluetooth codecs, which are also lossy, since it also lacks a headphone jack). I'm also not too thrilled about the OLED screen with their incredibly short lifespans and issues with burn in and subpixel wear, but I suppose it was the easiest and cheapest way to make a foldable screen. In the end, this will serve as a semi-disposable device used solely for actual telephone calls and as a hotspot/router for my Unihertz Titan.

Got for my 16 year old daughter. She and her friends think it is really cool. She likes the front screen and how the camera shows up there. She also likes the split screen inside. Recommend!

So far I'm loving this phone. I've paired it with a Clicks keyboard and it's like having my old Blackberry back, but I can open it up to a full size screen if I want. But basic functions like text, email, contacts, and calendar can be handled without flipping it open. I've only been using it a couple of months so can't really speak to longevity. My concern, naturally, is about the fold in the flip screen. Only time will tell on that point, but everything else has been great.

The phone came with an open box, with missing items. When I opened the sim port there was a cricket sim already in it. When I turned on the phone it was already set up with someone else's pin. It was dirty, and the hinge was already worn down.