Last week, we asked you to vote on the subject of Motorola’s new flip foldables – the Razr 70 series or, as they’re known in the US, the Razr 2026 series. Although there are three models involved, we can only reach one conclusion.
And that conclusion is that the new Flip foldables are very expensive – each of the three (vanilla, Plus and Ultra) has its fans, however, so the price will need to be cut or some other deal before most people will consider buying it. Let’s look at them individually.
The Motorola Razr 70 Ultra (aka Razr Ultra 2026) has the best performance – 15% of the votes went in its favor and this number may increase with favorable reviews. Still, most of those who want a Flip foldable think the Ultra’s price is too high ($1,500 / €1,400 / £1,200).
The phone uses older hardware (Snapdragon 8 Elite) and has a limited support window – Motorola UK and Germany say up to “3” OS updates and “up to 5” security patches, while Motorola US makes no promises. Even with the most generous interpretation of these timelines, the Ultra will become obsolete faster than similarly priced flagships. Moto already doesn’t have a good reputation when it comes to updates and that’s not helping the situation.
Fans outside the US missed out on the Razer+ model last year and, while the 2026 Plus is more widely available, its price is no longer as competitive. The Razer+ 2025 was basically a re-release of the 2024 flagship with some improvements and was priced $300 less than the contemporary Ultra.
Now, the Motorola Razr 70+ (aka Razr+ 2026) builds on that 2024 hardware, though not much has changed. It replaces the 2x/47mm telephoto camera (which was of limited use) with a 50MP ultra-wide and adds 500mAh to the battery, for a total of 4,500mAh. It still uses the Snapdragon 8s Gen 3, which would have been a great choice for a chipset if not for the hefty price tag of $1,100 / €1,150 / £1,000. For that much money you can buy a new Galaxy S26 Ultra and it’s not too far off from the iPhone 17 Pro. We understand why the $100 price increase from last year was necessary, but not why anyone would pay that much for such old hardware.
Finally, the Motorola Razr 70 (aka Razr 2026) may be the cheapest of the three, but it’s not cheap in the grand scheme of things as it costs $800 / €870 / £800. Pricing is an issue and people are leaning towards other Razer 70 models anyway because of the mid-range hardware.
Older models may be an even bigger threat – Motorola US is still selling last year’s Razr Ultra 2025 (with 1TB of storage!) for $800. Yes, exactly the same price as the vanilla 2026 model (which comes with only 256GB of storage along with its other shortcomings). And in Europe, we’ve seen the Razer 60 Ultra priced below €650 (for a 256GB unit).
Why would anyone buy a new vanilla phone when they can have the 2025 Ultra, which is not all that different from the 2026 Ultra? In fact, let alone a vanilla phone, why would anyone buy a 2026 Ultra when they can have a similar 2025 Ultra for a lot less money?
Motorola is cutting back on its offerings here, making them a tougher sell. And even if that’s not the case, people think that Moto phones have limited shelf life due to the company’s below-average software support policy.
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| 512GB 12GB RAM | €1,149.00 |
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| 256GB 8GB RAM | €799.99 |
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