GoKawiilis a senior reviewer with over a decade of experience writing about consumer tech. She has a special interest in mobile photography and telecom. Previously, she worked at DPReview.
Look, you’re not going to find much new on the 2026 version of the Motorola Razr Ultra. There’s a new main camera sensor, a slightly bigger battery, and a higher price: $1,499, up from $1,299. But one thing hasn’t changed: this is a darn good looking phone.
The wood-finish back panel returns, and is joined by a new suede-like Alcantara option in orient blue. To everyone who has complained to me over the past year that “phones are boring now,” which is many-a Verge reader, please look at these phones. They are definitely not boring. They feel nice, they look nice, and they are eminently photographable.
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1 / 5 Photo: Allison Johnson / The Verge
That’s the good news. The bad news is, well, 2026. $1,499 gets you the same 512GB and 16GB RAM storage configuration that was $200 cheaper last year. It comes with the same Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset as last year, too. There’s a 5,000mAh silicon-carbon battery compared to last year’s 4,700mAh, and a larger 50-megapixel main camera sensor compared to the one on the 2025 Ultra. The updated camera also claims better high dynamic range performance thanks to a new sensor technology called LOFIC. These are nice upgrades, but the price increase probably has more to do with the memory shortage.
There are some minor updates, too. The inner screen is capable of up to 5,000 nits of brightness compared to 4,500 on last year’s model. The outer screen is protected by Gorilla Glass Ceramic 3, which claims better drop performance than the previous version.
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