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Just months ago, at MWC, Motorola let journalists like me go hands-on with the upcoming Razr Fold -- and again at the Razr launch event in Los Angeles this week. Only this time, the company revealed everything to me, and it's put everything into perspective.
I got a few more details about the US price tag (which is still pretty high), preorder and shipping dates, and a few other new and interesting features of the Razr Fold. Overall, my impressions went from mostly positive to cautiously optimistic, given this new information. But there are still some questions to be answered.
What's new with the Razr Fold
For starters, the outside screen is a 6.6-inch pOLED screen with Gorilla Glass Ceramic 3. The inner screen will be a massive 8.1 inches, making it the largest in North America. It will run on the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 processor and come with 16GB of RAM and 512GB of storage.
The cameras will be the same ones seen in the Motorola Signature -- 50-megapixel sensors across the ultrawide, main, and 3x optical zoom. With the exception of the processor, those are exceptional specifications across the board. Actual performance and camera quality will have to wait until I get a full review of the device, but Motorola showed us its super-res zoom capability.
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This is similar to other phones that have this capability. Basically, you can snap a shot with the telephoto camera up to 100x, and once you open the image in the gallery, post-processing kicks in. The result is a fairly sharp photograph of something incredibly far away, but that comes with a caveat.
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