I love the flip style of the Motorola Razr 60 and… well… yeah… that’s about all, really, because really, this is just the Razr 50 in a shiny new hat.
| Pros | Cons |
|---|---|
| Beautiful design | Ordinary camera with no upgrade |
| Improved resistance | Performance is no better than the Razr 50 |
| Slightly larger battery and decent battery life | Fewer upgrades than competing flip foldables |
Score: 2.5/5
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In this review
Motorola Razr 60 Specifications
Motorola Razr 60 Design
Motorola Razr 60 Camera
Motorola Razr 60 Performance
Motorola Razr 60 Battery
Motorola Razr 60 Conclusion
Ethical disclaimer: The Motorola Razr 60 used in this review was loaned to me by Motorola Australia for the purposes of review, and it’s going back to them. That gets it reviewed, nothing more, nothing less, and Motorola has had precisely zero additional input into or oversight over this review. I strongly believe that ethical journalism is worth fighting for, even if others do not. For more on ART’s ethics position, see here.
Design
Motorola typically delivers two different styles of its foldable Razr line in a given year; the baseline model plus the fancier Ultra variant. Elsewhere on the planet that’s just what it’s done with the Motorola Razr 60 and Motorola Razr 60 Ultra internationally – but not here in Australia to date. Where last year it launched the Motorola Razr 50 Ultra ahead of the Motorola Razr 50, this year all we’ve seen so far is the lower cost model, the Motorola Razr 60.
Lower cost here is relative – this is still a $1,199 phone, not cheap in real terms – but I must admit that I do rather like the style of the Motorola Razr 60, especially in the “Gibraltar Sea” variant – blue, in real people’s terms – model I was loaned.
Locally you get the choice of that or Parfait Pink, though internationally it appears there are also at least three other colour variants to pick from. I’m a bit of a sucker for blue phones, though, so it kept me happy, but that’s entirely subjective.
I do enjoy a blue phone. The Razr 60 is a blue phone, so that’s a plus.
Like its predecessors, the Motorola Razr 60 is a flip foldable that presents either as a small mostly-square 3.6 inch 1056×1066 pixel 90Hz device that unfolds into a more regular 6.9 inch 2640×1080 pixel 120Hz phone.
Like its predecessors is an apt comment there, because there’s an awful lot of the DNA of the Motorola Razr 50 still in the Motorola Razr 60. These aren’t just cousins, they’re basically clones.
The screen sizes and resolution and refresh rates are the same.
Is this the Razr 60, or the Razr 50? (Spoiler: It is the Razr 60, but you wouldn’t be able to tell from screen size alone)
The colours are different, though we got three choices down under last year compared to two this year.
There’s still a weird-feeling vegan leather pattern on the “back” of the phone, and while I do like the visual pattern on it, I hate the feel.
Thankfully Motorola does provide a slender case in the box with the Motorola Razr 60 that’s mostly colour matched to the phone inside. Oddly, rather like the similarly priced Motorola Edge 60 Pro that I reviewed at the same time as the Motorola Razr 60, the case has a speckled finish to it.
One area where Motorola has improved matters over the Motorola Razr 50 is in water/dust resistance; where the older phone was rated at IPX8 – so you could get it wet but not dusty – the Motorola Razr 60 is IP48, so it’s got some level of grit resistance baked into it.
As always, these protections are not permanent and you may have the wrong picture in regards to “waterproof” phones anyway… if only there was a guide to this kind of thing, oh, look, here’s one!
Why your “waterproof” phone isn’t actually waterproof the way you think it is
Finally, a note on the packaging for the Motorola Razr 60, a feature I usually don’t comment on at all.
The Motorola Razr 60’s box is perfumed, and no, I’m not kidding. It’s not the first Motorola phone to come with its own scent embedded in the cardboard, but for whatever reason, the review model sent my way had the strongest scent I’ve yet hit in a Motorola phone. I don’t much go for perfumes for allergy/reaction reasons, and this thing, frankly, reeked.
Yes, that’s totally subjective, maybe you’ll absolutely adore your flower-scented Motorola box in a way that I just can’t. It affected me every time I had to interact with the box, however, so I feel like it’s worth pointing out.
Camera
Flip phones have long presented me with a challenge in camera terms, because you absolutely do pay a a premium for that enjoyable flipping action, and besides price, it’s most strongly felt in camera terms.
For last year’s Motorola Razr 50, Motorola made some minor improvements to the camera tech over the Motorola Razr 40, with a 50MP wide and 13MP ultrawide primary pairing, alongside a 32MP “selfie” camera, though the descriptors get a little muddled when you’re talking foldable flip phones, because folded down that 32MP sensor is on the inside of the phone, and you’re taking selfies with that primary lens instead.
So for the Motorola Razr 60 you might expect some level of bump up in camera specifications. You might expect that, but you absolutely do not get that, because it’s packing the exact same set of camera specifications on board, which is ultimately disappointing. The Motorola Razr 50 had average cameras in its time, and time has not been kind to that recipe.
It’s not that the Motorola Razr 60 is an awful camera phone. You can get pleasing results out of it most of the time, but they’re limited by the technology and there’s just no escaping the reality that if you don’t want the flip side of the phone, you can get much better camera phones for this kind of money, quite easily.
While the flip nature of the Motorola Razr 60 does allow for selfies to be taken with the best lens on the phone, it doesn’t always equate to pleasing results, because the AI side of the equation can introduce a lot of artificial looking bokeh, or worse. Take for example this shot, taken in portrait mode.
That’s… not a good look. Not for the lady in the shot (I was honestly trying just to take a photo of the boat behind her) but for all the digital nonsense that the Razr 60 puts around both her and the lamp post.
You’re also in a land of limited zoom, with just a digital crop of that primary 50MP lens at your disposal. Motorola’s default app places that at 2x, but you can push it up to 10x.
Regular readers may be able to tell what’s coming next.
Don’t push it to 10x, folks. Let me show you why.
A Sydney iconic landmark, taken with the ultra wide lens. As always, that does make it feel like it’s a solid distance away. Let’s get a little closer.
Wide lens shot, no problems here (beyond the weather, not the Razr 60’s fault)
5x zoom is… OK, but it’s already starting to look murky.
10x zoom is not good at all.
While the flip form factor does let you use the external display as a viewfinder, and you can of course fold it down to use as its own ad-hoc tripod, those aren’t quite enough I feel to make it a better prospect than its predecessor – and of course, technically it’s no improvement at all!
Motorola Razr 60 Sample Photos
Performance
The Motorola Razr 60 is built around a MediaTek Dimensity 7400X processor, a slight technical step up from the MediaTek Dimensity 7300X found in the Razr 50, though both phones share the same configuration of 8GB of RAM and 256GB of fixed storage.
Year on year, and with newer processors in mind, you’d expect to see improved performance from a newer phone, especially at the $1,199 asking price of the Motorola Razr 60.
That puts it at the lower end of the premium price bracket, where there’s plenty of competition from both non-folding and folding phones alike.
At the time of writing I’ve not been able to test out Samsung’s new Galaxy Z Flip7 FE, the most obvious competitor in this space, nor the pricier Galaxy Z Flip7 itself, but the Z Flip6 is still out there in market, as well as some stock of the older Razr 50. So how does the Motorola Razr 60 compare?
Let’s start with Geekbench 6’s CPU assessment:
Well then.
That’s not good any way you look at it; maybe it’ll fare better on the GPU front, by way of 3DMark Wild Life Extreme?
While it does punch above the Razr 50’s score there, it’s still languishing behind the rest of the pack, and not by a small margin, which is quite problematic.
I’m well aware that benchmarks aren’t the be-all and end-all of performance, and honestly day to day most users will be fine with the Razr 60, but once again, I can’t help but feel as though this isn’t much of a step up from the Razr 50, and that’s a phone that’s pretty easy to score for under $1,000 right now.
On the software side, we’re talking Android 15 with the promise of 3 OS upgrades and 4 years of security updates, which means it’s still lagging behind what Samsung offers for its flip foldables by a considerable degree.
While I’m on the record as being a fan of Motorola’s actions that let you perform physical motions such as chopping the phone to flip on the flashlight, that’s not enough to get me truly excited.
Also, for the second year running when testing that, I forgot that the folding nature of the phone means that the flashlight is on the cover display, which means if you’re looking at it when you chop, you’re going to blind yourself. Learn from my mistakes, folks – I clearly don’t.
I do appreciate that Motorola makes it quite easy to use the external display for any Android app you’d care to add to it. Not every app likes a square appearance, and text sizes can be an issue, but if you’re after a quick glance at an app, you absolutely don’t have to open up the Motorola Razr 60 to do so. Again, however, that’s absolutely not new.
Battery
One area where Motorola has made some technical improvements to the Motorola Razr 60’s build is in battery capacity, bumping up from the Razr 50’s 4200mAh battery to a slightly chunkier 4500mAh battery pack.
My hope here was that the Motorola Razr 60 could redeem itself with better battery life as a result, though years of testing has taught me that higher battery capacity doesn’t always equal improved battery life.
As always, battery life is quite variable depending on your app usage, so I turn to my standard YouTube battery test for some comparative testing. For more on that test and how I evaluate mobile phone power, click here.
Here’s how the Motorola Razr 60 compares:
That’s not a bad result; as a quick reminder if a phone drops below 90% in the first hour that’s a very bad sign, but every percentage point above 90% can equate to extra hours of usage, and the longer draw on power shows a reasonably gentle usage curve.
However, I can’t ignore the fact that the Motorola Razr 50 once again did it slightly better, even though it’s working from a smaller battery pack.
Once again, I’m left wondering where the eventual end user benefit in the “newer” phone is when the older one’s managing a better result.
Like pretty much every other premium phone right now, you don’t get a charger in the box with the Motorola Razr 60, just a USB-C charging cable. It’ll charge at up to 30W wired or 15W wireless, which is on the slower side for a premium phone.
Motorola Razr 60: Alex’s Verdict
I do love the style of the Motorola Razr 60, and there’s definitely something to having a more compact phone to carry around with you.
Equally, there’s something compelling about that folding action; it’s quite fun to flip open your phone in public or close it down at the end of a call or when you’re done doomscrolling…
Oh, who am I kidding, nobody ever stops doomscrolling these days, but I digress.
Once you get past flipping, which isn’t new… there’s just not enough new or properly refined in the Motorola Razr 60 to point to it being worth its $1,199 asking price.
You can score the Razr 50 for quite a lot less right now to get essentially the same – and in some cases better – performance, and if you don’t need that flip form factor, it otherwise acts much like the phones available for half its price or less.
All of which means that without some kind of rather severe price cut, the Razr 60 isn’t the flip phone you should buy. I’m hopeful that Motorola will bring the Razr 60 Ultra down under at a reasonable price, though as the year progresses that feels more and more unlikely.
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