Is the Moto Razr 5G Finally Better than the Galaxy Z Flip?

Foldables  seem to be the epitome of bleeding-edge technology today and with foldables there are two types one is your regular phone kind of form factor that unfolds into a tablet so you get more screen you get to do things you can only do on a tablet on your phone for example we've got the fold the fold to uh the royal flex pie the huawei mate xs these phones kinda did this on the other hand we have a different kind of foldable where the phone form factor kind of becomes smaller so you can fold your phone and make it half the size and it's just easier to uh it's more portable it's easier to carry around it's kind of going back to the flip phone form factor and with this we've got samsung's z-flip which launched at 1.1 lakhs and priced higher than that motorola launched the original razr now the razr it banked heavily on the nostalgia factor and it actually had a chip that could create its own nostalgia because it was an old chip the snapdragon 710 now burnt with that launch motorola has gone back to the drawing board they've made some very very important changes with their second generation razer and now the razr 5g seems to be a much better device in almost every way possible it's kind of better than its predecessor but the big question is it better than the z-flip does motorola finally have a competitor to samsung c flip is the razr 5g the phone you need to choose if you like small form factor foldables. 

So first let's start with what the moto razr 5g does differently from its predecessor so what are the changes what is the lenovo on motorola which I'm just going to be referring to as motorola going forwards to keep things simple what motorola has done here what are the changes they've implemented let's first take a look at that and then let's go ahead and see how this stacks up to the samsung z-flip see this display outside it's still the same size as on its predecessor it's 2.7 inches it's a geolet panel the resolution hasn't changed either it's 600 by 800 pixels so what's new it's the way we interact with it so this time around this display it sports a full-fledged launcher so you can launch pretty much any app that you want to some of them work well some of them they just don't scale to that resolution that size but hey if you want to watch a video you want to reply to a text message or you want to just check out your twitter feed you can do all that right from the small display up front now the reason why motorola has done this is because if you can do more things with the jio led display on top then you want to be opening your phone lesser and the fewer the times you open it the lesser the battery consumed because of bigger display a 6.2 inch panel is definitely going to consume more battery than a 2.7-inch panel so that's the logic they're going for and talking about battery that's also been increased from 2005 10 milliamp hour on the original razr 5g it's not 2800 mah still not quite as large as the one on the z-flip but it is an update nonetheless there is no wireless charging support and the charging speeds still 15 watts they do call it turbocharged though now another reason why the battery life is supposed to be better on this one is the chip inside gone is that 10-nanometer snapdragon 710 that old ancient chip instead they've got one of the latest seven-nanometer chips the snapdragon 765 g yes not the 865 it's not a flagship chip but it is a recent enough chip so it is now it's fast it's snappy the interface is a lot more responsive now you should be able to get most things done uh well with this phone now the ram it's up to eight gigs so on par with the z flap and the storage has also been uh up here from 128 to 256 gigs so again on par with z-flip on paper at least but the z-flip has ufs 3.0 well this is just ufs 2.1 so quite not quite as fast now another weak link with the original razer was its optics that is again something Motorola has addressed here they've gone for a 48-megapixel sensor and ironically it's a Samsung sensor the iso cell bright gm1 this is paired with the f 1.7 lenses that are optically stabilized so the camera performance seems to be much improved compared to last-gen uh at least under good lighting conditions it was really good uh the images came out much better than I expected them to this there are ample amounts of detail as you can see the dynamic range is also pretty good the spotter option has also returned and this time around it works with videos too talking about videos the video caps out at 4k 30fps which is a chip limitation.

Now the display to the inside that hasn't changed either so just like the display outside which has remained the same from the og razr 5g this two is still 6.2 inches it's a plastic oled display and the resolution is just a little over hd plus that said there has been major improvements here so what are the improvements you ask look at this hinge this has been entirely reworked meaning there's not as much gap between the hinge and the panel as was last time around this leads to the touch the feel when you use the phone being much better much more natural it also means that there is less chance of anything getting under the panel and finally the phone when you fold it there's no gap so again it's not a major change it's just fine tuning stuff but i am happy to see motorola pay attention to what's important here talking about which when you pick up the phone one of the first things you're going to notice in terms of differences from its predecessor is that the chin does not have a fingerprint scanner anymore because the fingerprint scanner they've moved it to the back it is stealthy it's right in that moto logo so where that motor logo is present that is the fingerprint scanner and it felt responsive enough other minor changes include the thickness going up a little bit but that is also accompanied by the weight dropping so where the original razor was 205 grams this one is 192. it is still about 10 grams uh heavier than the z-flip but that's not something you're really gonna notice unless you're holding both phones side by side even then I highly doubt you're going to notice a 910-gram difference now if you ask me is the razer 5g better than the z-flip, my answer is still gonna be no but the gap has narrowed down considerably so for example if you look at the ram the storage they've kind of matched it and yes the storage is still slower but they've matched it on paper it's not as good as the z-flip the gap is narrower last time it was six gigs versus eight gigs 128 gigs of storage versus 256 that's not the case anymore coming back to the chip inside again it's a major improvement from what we've got with the original razer snapdragon 765 g it is still not an 855 plus so the z-flip is still a little better but the gap has narrowed now the optics compared to the original razr 5g it is an improvement almost to the point where uh it performs quite similar to the cameras we have on the z-flip but only under good lighting conditions under low light the z-flip still has a dominance it also has that ultra-wide sensor that the razer lacks.

Similarly with battery when you compare it to the original razor the battery capacity has gone up 25 10 to 2800 mah but the z-flip is still sitting pretty with 300 milliamp hour but there is a but here multiple butts actually uh there are things that the razr 5g does better now for example the internal display it slides under that chin so does not have a very noticeable crease it's got three creases but they are not as deep as the crease you see on the z-flip so this is a minor positive for the razer the major positive is with the display to the front now when you look at the of razor it had a larger panel than the z-flip but you couldn't do a lot with it it was still checking your notifications seeing what's coming and that's kind of what you were doing with the z-flip too though the z-flip was a tiny tiny panel but now given that there's an entire launcher here and you can launch pretty much any app you want do pretty much whatever you want with the front panel the functionality that the razer is offering it's just gone up by a lot so this is an area where the razer does far better than the z-flip now is the razer better value for money hell no because the z-flip still is cheaper by 16 000 rupees and it's got a lot going for it but once you start paying over a lakh for a phone you are definitely not looking at value are you because once you've crossed that one lakh landmark i mean even if you cross 70 80 000 none of those phones are great value for money because you've got your 50k phones like the one pluses and your real me uh xv super zoom and your xiaomi's which are your best value for money phones and even with a samsung you take a look at the galaxy s20 fe that's great value for money but once you go past that one lakh point value for money isn't people's priority anymore so if you like the functionality of the razr 5g now this time around motorola has given more uh more reasons for people to buy it it's still not as good as the z-flip in a lot of areas but if nostalgia is a thing if you like that front panel display if you like that sliding plastic oled then there are reasons why you should probably get the moto razr 5g and this isn't something I could say about the original razr 5g so hats off to moto here they've done a decent job and maybe with the next generation razer we'd finally get something that's better than the samsung flip z flip.