Moto Razr 60 review: A worthy foldable if the price drops

Motorola has been one of the early brands that made foldable smartphones mainstream. The Moto Razr 60 is the company's latest foldable offering that is priced at ₹49,999, targetting those who might be looking to spend a bit more but not a huge amount for their first foldable smartphone. Does it deliver? 

 

Among the first things you might notice about the device, other than having a foldable display inwards, is the vegan leather-like grainy textured back (lower half) with the Moto and Razr brandings. This leather-like back is present in the PANTONE Spring Bud colour option; the other two colour options are PANTONE Gibraltar Sea and PANTONE Lightest Sky. 

 

The external display, this time, is a bigger 3.6-inch display with a Gorilla Glass Victus on top for added protection with no diagonal lines on any of the four sides. The dual camera and LED flash sit on cut-outs over it. 

 

The right side features the power/lock and volume buttons, while the left side houses the SIM card tray (only one physical SIM card can add more via eSIMs). The bottom carries one outlet for loudspeakers, a USB type C port and a primary mic, and the top has additional mics. The hinge is made of titanium and, as per Motorola, can handle half a million folds in total, which isn't too bad. The phone weighs under 190 grams and isn't too huge to handle, though it's a tall phone.

 

The 6.9-inch full HD+ (1080x2640) pOLED display with up to 165Hz refresh rates. It is a bright and vivid display that handles HDR content quite well, too. The sharpness isn't too bad either for watching movies and TV shows or viewing images on it. The external 3.6-inch (1056x1066) display with 90Hs refresh rates is also pretty decent for a secondary display to view images, check messages or quickly view selfies.

 

The dual camera setup—a 50MP (f/1.7) main camera and a 13MP (f/2.2) ultra-wide camera can take nice still shots. It can, however, struggle quite a bit in terms of capturing colours and keeping noise in check. Also, the camera app can be a bit choppy even when taking shots in default settings. The 32MP (f/2.4) front camera can take detailed and well-stitched shots, but again, the camera app doesn't always work smoothly enough.

 

The device is powered by MediaTek's 7400X chipset (up to 2.6Ghz octa-core processor, Mali G-615 GPU) with 8GB LPDDR4X RAM and 256GB UFS2.2 internal storage. It's running on Hello UI based on Android 15 with the May security patch installed. The general performance of the Razr 60 did come across as short of the target for a phone price of about ₹50,000. 

 

You can do your day-to-day tasks fairly smoothly, but, a lot like the camera app, apps can be a bit stuttery, gaming isn't what you would want, and every now and then, scrolling inside messaging apps can be unresponsive. Watching high-resolution videos on YouTube works fine, but scrolling inside Telegram or Instagram can be a bit sluggish every now and then. 

 

The external display is quite handy and can be used to not only take selfies from the rear camera but also check notifications and view photos. You can add more supported apps to it from Settings.

 

Powered by a 4,500mAh battery unit, it lasted me a day around half the time and required a quick charge the other half. It can charge from 1 per cent to full in about 1.5 hours with the 30W charger.

 

The phone's 5G network reception is decent, but nothing great. I found it can latch on to stable connections outdoors wherever the network is available but at times would struggle with it and switch to 4G at the same spot. WiFi and GPS performance are trouble-free. The stereo speakers are quite loud and have okay depth to them for watching videos or playing games indoors.

 

All in all, the Moto Razr 60 is a nice-looking foldable display smartphone from Motorola. While it does have the looks, performance and camera quality, do let it down a bit considering the price tag. If there's a big price cut on it, and you want to get your hands on a foldable phone that doesn't have a finicky hinge, perhaps then you can consider the Razr 60.

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