Motorola’s first full-size foldable is making the competition nervous

[Redaktion]

Motorola's first smartphone that can be unfolded into an 8-inch phablet is here, and it's called the Motorola Razr Fold. In our in-depth review, we examined all the details of the device and summarize its strengths and weaknesses here.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Motorola-s-first-full-size-foldable-is-making-the-competition-nervous.1358551.0.html

[FlipWillSon]

The author seems unfamiliar with how long flip phones have been around.
Moto introduced it's MicroTac at the end of the 80s (while the brick phone and bag phones were still common/current.
They followed that with the iconic StarTac which had a 1MB PDA click-on add-on, that I got as my very first 'company phone'. Loved that thing and made me a convert for life (owning a few iconic early Razrs, LG Shine, Kyocera 7135, Blackberry Oxford aka Style, and the early reboot Razr and Flips. On a Flip 7 now and about to trade-in for a Flip 8 in a few days.

Hope the rumours of the end of Flips is just that an unfounded rumour / fear mongering, because I'll miss 'em if Sammy and Moto leave the market again (don't trust others the same way do them).

Moto also made flip cordless landline phones in the early 90s that had the RSA Clipper chip for security, one of clearest cordless phones I ever owned too (only Nortel did it better almost a decade later).

However, after saying all that.... THE current MoTo has little/nothing to do with the original after passing through Google to be stripped and sold to Chinese Lenovo as a nameplate.

[FlipWillSon]

As for the software, it's the biggest drawback of current Moto, I like the Razr, but I switched to the 40Ultra instead of natural progression of F4 to 5 and while I liked a lot of new 'upgrades' after just a coupla months I regretted it due to the delayed software/update rollouts that saw Razrs get Android versions almost a year after Flips and trailing serious security patches by sometimes months. Sold it and went back to Flip 5 which meant I was annoyed at both because I knew Samsung could do better (especially on cover screen), but just couldn't deal with Moto support.

MoTo has improved, but they still kinda suck at Software support, increasing to 7 years support is longer than needed (even though 3 years was too little, 5 woulda been a good balance, but the market standard is 7 so if they are doing it to be like everyone else..), in all honesty longevity is usually for people buying last year's model at a discount that need the extra 12-18 months on the software clock, flips are less likely to ever see that far (though I'm sure many people will crow about how long theirs lasts, it's not the norm) and hardware will likely wear-out or the upgrade bug will bite, long before the clock runs out.

The problem isn't as much whether it's 3 or 7 years of mediocre software support, the more important thing is the quality of that support, not how long you suffer through it.