Unveiling The Motorola Razr 50: A Comprehensive Review

It’s been a couple of months since the Motorola Razr 50 Ultra landed in India, and now, we finally have our hands on the toned-down Moto Razr 50. The Razr 50 is a direct successor to last year’s Razr 40 and brings a bunch of upgrades, of which the significantly bigger cover screen steals the show.

We at Beebom have the Spritz Orange color variant of the Motorola Razr 50, and I was the first one to steal it away from my co-workers. After spending a couple of days with this beauty, here are my initial impressions of Motorola’s latest flip phone.

Moto Razr 50 Specifications

What’s in the Box

The Motorola Razr 50 brings all the regular Moto goodies along with it, which I quite liked. Here’s a quick rundown of everything in the box:

• 2x color-matched cases
• Compatible 33W charger
• USB Type-C to Type-C cable
• SIM ejector tool
• Paperwork

Design and Build

As mentioned above, I have the Spritz Orange variant of the phone and it looks pretty sweet and peppy! The Motorola Razr 50 doesn’t feel any different than its successor in hand. You can flick it open with one hand and that’s something I loved about the Razr 50 Ultra (first impressions). You get to see a bit more vegan leather at the Razr 50’s rear panel, with the area above the cover screen adorning the extra bit.

The Razr 50 is nicely wrapped in an aluminum frame as well, which adds to the premium in-hand feel. However, I could feel the hinges moving and creaking upon squeezing the device ever so slightly when folded.

Besides, Motorola has always focused on the durability of its devices, and the Razr 50 uses Gorilla Glass Victus protection on the cover screen is a case in point. The flip phone also offers an IPX8 rating. In addition, the Razr 50 has undergone 400,000 folding tests as compared to the Razr 50 Ultra’s 600,000.

The power button and volume rockers are placed on the right side of the frame. They are pretty tactile too and don’t rattle at all. The camera module placement is also smart and neat and didn’t interfere with my cover screen experience. Overall, the Razr 50 feels quite premium and doesn’t easily slip out of your hands.

Display and Speakers

The Motorola Razr 50 doesn’t compromise much on the cover screen and offers a 3.63-inch Full-HD+ Flexible AMOLED panel. Moreover, you get to see a 90Hz panel here. There’s also HDR10 certification and a 100% DCI-P3 color gamut coverage.

The external display is also not LTPO this time, and Motorola uses LTPS tech instead. As for peak brightness, it goes up to 1700 nits on paper. Using the LuxMeter at our office, I managed to squeeze around 1,450 nits. Nonetheless, the display is bright enough both indoors and outdoors.

As I flipped my way through the internal display, the quality difference was apparent. However, I’m glad that the display crease isn’t as visible. While it uses its successor’s 6.9-inch Full-HD+ pOLED LTPO panel, it sports a slower 120Hz refresh rate.

Performance

This is probably the only area where the Moto Razr 50 gives me room to complain. The phone is powered by the 4nm MediaTek Dimensity 7300X. While the processor isn’t half bad, it doesn’t make sense to use it on a device that costs this much.

While I do understand that this is a flip phone, something like the Dimensity 8300 should have been used. To give you an idea, here’s how the Razr 50 performs in benchmarks:

While the scores above aren’t that impressive, the processor is decent enough to get you through most tasks that you throw at it. However, while the device comes with 8GB LPDDR4X RAM, there’s that disappointing 256GB of UFS 2.2 storage. UFS 3.1 would have been ideal, for sure.

Cameras

Talking about the cameras, the Motorola Razr 50 features a 50MP primary rear camera sensor with OIS. As for the secondary sensor, it ditches the 50MP telephoto sensor of its predecessor and uses a 13MP ultra-wide + macro sensor. At the front, there’s a 32MP selfie camera.

The primary sensor captures pretty good day photos. While there’s that classic Motorola color saturation at play, there are some solid details throughout. The phone also has a very good dynamic range, with deep shadows and nicely contained highlights.

At night as well, the Motorola Razr 50’s camera setup captures details nicely. While there’s some obvious noise, it doesn’t ruin the shots. Selfies come out nicely, and you can get some good details out of it.

Software Experience

Motorola’s Hello UI is easily one of my favorite Android skins at the moment and, well, it compliments the Razr 50 all too well. The animations and haptic feedback are pretty good. There’s some bloatware like Facebook, LinkedIn, and more.

However, we can look past them as you also get super-useful apps such as Ready For, Smart Connect, Family Spaces, and Moto UnPlugged. Overall, Hello UI is nicely