Motorola To Launch Foldable Phone This Summer, Called RAZR

Dhir Acharya - Mar 01, 2019

Motorola’s design for its foldable smartphone will be different from the Galaxy Fold and the Huawei Mate X, shown off late February.

Motorola is speeding up in the foldable phone race with the help of its most iconic phone name, RAZR.

Motorola belongs to Lenovo, which is a giant Chinese consumer electronics company. The information leaked by a source familiar with its plans suggests that the company’s foldable phone may go on sale this summer. According to the source, Motorola’s design for its foldable smartphone will be different from the Galaxy Fold and the Huawei Mate X, shown off on February 20 and at MWC 2019 respectively.

Motorola's patent shows foldable phone design

The upcoming Motorola foldable phone is highly likely to revive the RAZR brand that would come back to the phone market at $1,500. On Wednesday, Engadget confirmed the news.

Though the Chinese phone maker hasn’t announced the expected date for its foldable phone launch, the summer launch means it will fall between Galaxy Fold’s launch on April 26 and Mate X’s launch some time mid-year. It looks like we are having a foldable phone party in the coming months. The news of Motorola foldable phone with a legendary name has shaken the interests in phones that has matured lately.

While the Mate X and the Galaxy Fold go with a book-like design and fold vertically, Motorola’s device will go horizontal, based on what we can see in its patent filing spotted by 91Mobiles. The phone is likely to fold down like the traditional RAZR folding phone.

There are certain advantages coming in this design, like better protection of the phone screen when it folds down. If the foldable RAZR follows this way, it will probably be way more compact, its users are fine with folding away their screen. Samsung and Huawei’s idea focuses on offering customers a larger screen.

The original RAZR was one of Motorola’s most popular brands and help the company gain remarkable success in the flip phone era with over 50 million devices sold in two years since its launch. However, the company went downhill and Google bought Motorola in 2012 then resold it the Lenovo in 2014.