Motorola RAZR 5G Unboxing. The Newest Folding Phone By Unbox Therapy

Might be another transformer effect going on here. Oh man, we lift this off and unveil these. It is hard to believe that it was only it was like eight months ago that I was sitting at this table. The satisfaction yeah you haven't flipped in a while. That's fun. Well, that's already fun.

Looking at what at the time was one of the most unusual smartphones in the world that was the 2020 Motorola racer, the remake of the classic of the wildly popular original racer, the flip phone, and we're back here today, because there's a new version of it there's a 5g model. I think that's all we're going to call this one. The Motorola racer 5g, it's a little different from the previous version, and we have one heck of an unboxing experience. I can tell we're going to do that together as we would and as we should massive Motorola box to kick it off and inside this box. Yes, of course, there's got to be another box.

The box in the box trick pull this out. A little note take out the complete hexagonal box. Put it in a big space, lift the cover and find out the surprise. Is this a big enough space? I don't know, I sure hope. So here we go.

I'm going to lift this cover off. Well, yeah one shot at this whoa! That's why it's got to be a big space, very cool, all right. So what do we have identified here? It's very uh, uh! There's a lot to look at okay, so minimal meets maximal. Oh, this is gonna. Tell us some different things.

Some invites YouTube music. The quick view display supports popular apps like Spotify, YouTube, music and more for advanced, listening, flip open. So they're saying we have more controls on the external display for controlling your multimedia. These are the colors. We have multiple colors blush gold.

That's your sort of rose gold thing, polished, graphite, liquid mercury, so some cool, color choices, pocketable flip design, interactive quick view, display 48, megapixel camera with optical image. Stabilization, of course, unbelievable 5g speed, that's a key for any smartphone coming out today and into the future, and they say all day battery life, but they got the little asterisks three stars beside it. All the battery life claims are approximated, based on median user tested across a mixed use profile. You know the drill. Okay, the quick camera quick view display supports plenty of camera features, so you can use creative shooting modes like spot color and night vision with the most advanced selfie camera on the planet, most advanced selfie camera on the planet.

Well, of course, you get to use the main camera module, the external camera module as your selfie camera, because you have that external display. Normally, you have an inferior camera on the inside of the device with most other smartphones, but because this one is flipping around, you see how it goes all right. What about navigation? What do they say here? Everything at a glance quick view display keeps you connected without even flipping open, so you can stay at the moment. Stay at the moment. You see they're going the angle here that you're too immersed in your smartphone at all times.

You have no way of closing it down, shutting it down, turning it off just a little and then just getting the important stuff. Well, this is going to let you view notifications make calls take selfies and reply to messages without going into the full smartphone experience getting caught up on instagram and next thing you know three hours went past, or maybe it was tick-tock, because I mean you could just kiss those hours goodbye. You start scrolling on those anyways minimal, meets maximal, say it your way want to type out a quick reply for a message just use the full keyboard built into the quick view display. So a lot of quick view related promotional material here, they're very proud of the quick view aspect now, why don't we just go ahead and flip the top on the next one? I don't know actually I'm looking at it now. I think it might be another transformer effect going on here.

Oh man, that is wild all right. They took it to another level this year. This is the perfect type of setup for an unbox therapy video when they really take the unboxing experience into account- and I don't know it usually doesn't go down in this much of a sophisticated manner. I mean that is, that is some wild engineering on the packaging alone, and it doesn't stop there because then you have what I assume is the actual retail packaging, and this is not typical you're getting a sense for the product before you even see the product in the shape of the packaging. So there's a couple little tape spots over here is there anything noteworthy.

So this is an 8 gig ram, 256 storage and the color I got was the polished, graphite inside the package right here, oh and, of course, much like last time around. We lift this off and unveil the actual device very cool stuff sitting inside what can actually be a dock for the device. I pull it out. Yes, this is the darker color. The graphite color polished biggest change here, fingerprint scanner now hidden on the back inside the Motorola logo.

It's been rumored in the past, hey, why don't? The brands use the logo for the fingerprint scanner? Well, it's executed here on this razor. That is going to be a cool spot for your fingerprint to rest, and it's a big change, because previously it was over here it was a dedicated kind of button on the front, maybe a little awkward. Now we just slap it on the back unlock no problem. I'm gonna just put this down for a quick just a quick moment also in the package. Here we have this kind of hard shell case.

You might think you have some sunglasses in there, but you've actually got your accessories in a nice clean location with an USB type c to mini jack connector for a wired headset. We have our USB c to a charge. Cable, you have your sim card tool, and you have your charger, which I believe this is a fast charger. So we have a 15 watt turbo power as Motorola calls it turbo power charger fairly slim little power, brick, and you got to like the little case for everything you can keep everything neat and tidy in there all your accessories and so on and or I don't know, use it for whatever you want, but it fits all in here and as mentioned, this is an actual dock. You could use that as a place to keep your phone.

This is not cheap plastic. This is actually a rubber kind of CPU style material. So it's a bit more robust and soft all right. So let's do some peeling. Why don't we here? We go ready, steady, very nice, little Motorola screen protection taken off the front now, and then we also have something on the back right here, which says razor.

I'm going to peel that for you all right and then, as you can see now the rear of the device, the display really blends in around the edges and into the curves. You almost don't notice it when it's off this is your key camera module and remember, even when you're hoping to take a front-facing picture, because you have this display here, you're taking it on the nice module now granted by the looks of it. You still, of course, have a front-facing camera on the inside, where the large screen is possibly for video conferencing for less critical images where you might want to have the higher quality, so those options exist in there as we look around the device, you see your USB type-c connector down on the bottom. Furthermore, you have your speaker, you have your sim card tray over there as well. The power switch is uh.

Is that it over there on the left-hand side this time around. It is so your power switch is, on the left hand, side, the hinge looks reconstructed, it's a different look to the hinge and what's interesting, what's always been interesting about this model, but especially here on the new one, there is very little indication of a seam. It's far less of an indication of a seam where your bend is going to take place when compared to the fold the latest fold, the previous fold from Samsung this one, they found a way to sort of push against it and make it more rigid. So you can kind. I mean you can tell it's a soft display because the shape of it is different from as if you had a hard glass, but you can't really pick up the hinge location nearly as much as you can on those other devices.

Now the nice thing about this form factor is single-handed functionality, because it's so narrow that you can just easily reach over to the far edge of the display without adjusting your grip. So single-handed confidence is substantial. Here, I'm going to go ahead and register the fingerprint I might as well. So as mentioned, we have the scanner in the back now, and this is pretty typical stuff. You have a little edge around the location of the scanner, so you can tell where it is, and you can find it more easily.

Now here's what they're going to tell you about the navigation. You have gesture based navigation, of course, no on-screen buttons necessary. This is typical, android stuff, so, as you can see we're into the device now, this is all the benefits of OLED. I'm going to boost up the brightness and getting that contrast Motorola doesn't do too much to really mess with the skin, it's always or at least for the past. While it's been something very close to a stock experience with a few little tweaks in there now, you can see we're getting some suggestions for motor specific tweaks, including attentive display, which will allow the display to stay on so long as you're looking at it.

It will determine whether it's being looked at, so there's a few little tweaks, but motor does a good job of integrating those tweaks into settings without feeling like their extras. All the branding and stuff looks a lot like android to begin with so anyway, pulling down from the top. Your quick settings are all very stock. Looking except some accent colors, which of course, you can go ahead and modify. If you want, you can change some attributes of the display from saturated to boosted to natural.

This is all going to be to your taste. I mean there's just massive benefits, obviously, with OLED and yeah you're, just getting a far more rich experience, and you sort of you almost pick, your brain picks up on it more when you're looking at one of these foldable sleds, similar to when you handle the z fold too, it's your very close to the display it's a since it's such a thin layer over top, it's just a lot of color punching back at you. Let me go ahead and just do the look at that. Okay, so actually on this one, it's more evident than the previous version. If you watch the bottom here, this is one of the ways in which they were able to really minimize the middle hinge portion, appearance on the display.

When I go ahead and start to bend it look at how the display tucks under the chin of the device. You see that it's subtle, but it's there, and you have this spring-loaded aspect and boom you're closed down, and we're on the external display now, and I can go ahead and just click the power switch and interact with the device. I can actually unlock it and interact with the device exclusively here. My notification. I could do this kind of mini interaction which is increasingly becoming interesting to people, because we're sort of bombarded look at this.

I can go to my quick shortcut apps, whether it's a mini calculator that I need- or maybe I have to- go all the way into YouTube, in which case yeah you can boot it up on here, but really the point of this display is to quickly get into the core functions of the device or look at a notification without the commitment level of like a full smartphone experience. So that it is fascinating. It's obviously much different. It's sort of in the realm of that digital detox mindset, where you kind of you want to be more committed to your environment every so often and less embedded inside your smartphone. Now you can go ahead, obviously, and flip that baby open, and now you have the full out experience.

It's completely up to you, it's just having that two-stage two-phase kind of approach to how to interact with your phone. Now, because this is such an unusual aspect ratio, it does some funny things with video. Of course not all video is in this ultra-wide format when you flip it around into the landscape mode. A lot of video is 16 by nine. So I'll show you what happens when you load up? Oh, I don't know, maybe some loot later real, quick.

Now you can see within the commercial right there. You can see how, when it comes to portrait mode content, this thing makes a lot of sense. You can scroll down. I mean like look at that right. So if you are using this for ticktock- or I don't know stories within Instagram or something it's actually giving you quite a bit of real estate now, when you hop into something like a 16x9 landscape video, well now you have black bars on each side.

Of course, you can go ahead and zoom in and depending on what you're watching, if some things are going to fit better than others. Can you know, depending on how they're framed up, for example, so this gives you an example here, I'm going to go ahead and turn up the volume? I'm curious how the speakers sound was that I just heard users more than 116 million are on iOS. Hmm, that's a lot of Fortnite players yeah in the early, so for this show it's completely fine to zoom all the way. In I mean if you, if you are forced to watch the original scale or the original aspect ratio, you will lose some of your display, but I think most things should be relatively easy to crop and if you are watching ultra-wide content, uh whether it's on Netflix there's some of it available or even on YouTube, where you will find some wider stuff, then you can. You can actually scale it up, while chopping off less of the top and the bottom.

As far as the notch is concerned, on this side I mean you, don't really pay all that much attention to it, since the shape of the display is already so unusual. You have this curvature on the bottom, so I don't think it's all that distracting compared to some of the other ones that are out there. The hinge is very robust feeling it's uh, it's kind of wild, how strong it feels and yet spring-loaded it's kind of it's going to be addictive. For some people to get this action going, opening it is it a one-hand or two-hand endeavor I mean you can do it with one hand, probably gotta kind of get used to it. I'm going to be more of a two-hand guy, but you you remember the razor.

You remember flip phones. There is something appealing and nostalgic about being able to just flip. It opens, take a phone call, maybe more importantly than flipping it open, closing it down when you're done, wow, look, I'm done with it, putting your phone down, which is increasingly hard to do in 2020 we're addicted we're slamming our faces into the phones. This one, you close it up, you kind of put it down for a moment, you're out having the meal. You put it down for a moment, but if you do take a lot of phone calls, I will say right now: there is something really comfy about holding this thing, and I'll just show Kirk.

On the other side, there is something really comfy about holding this up to your face: it's thinner, it sort of it sort of reaches betters because of the aspect ratio, the shape of it from your ear to where your mouth is. So, if you do still take a lot of phone calls which not that many people do, but if you do you're doing a lot of business over the phone, I could see this being appealing from that standpoint also. So this rear-facing camera over here is responsible for your important or most advanced photos. We just by default, appear to have a 1x setting in the camera application, but we mean we can zoom in right. I mean we can just zoom in, as you typically would pinch, etc.

, but I'm just going to take the standard focal range here. Bang, actually, that's a that's a fairly pleasing photo. It's not crazy, saturated, and I know this because I'm looking at it on an OLED display, but it has a lot of contrast to it, and you know I can deal with that. I can live with that and the beauty of this is because you have this external display that you can get that same quality on the selfie image. Also.

So, if I was to like to shut this down, be on the exterior display and click onto the camera, there we go by swiping over. Let me just I can do that again. We can use the volume key. I mean I don't know if you can see that that's there you go there. You go see what I'm talking about.

So you frame this up, and I showed this off in the previous version that there's something nice about. You can really reach out confidently with this in this format, as opposed to those huge phones which, once you have it out at arm's length, it's an it can be a little uh lopsided. It can be a little top heavy this one. On the other hand, you can just simply frame it up and just hit the volume button like this, and you get your selfie with your high-end camera, which most people obviously aren't taking it, and I'll give Kirk the demo you've got your selfie now I can go ahead and zoom in there, and I can tell you about beard hairs, or I can just flip it open into the full display, and you can appreciate uh well, there's a lot, there's a lot to appreciate there. As far as I'm concerned, definitely beard hair test is passed, you're, typically not going to have nearly this much resolution on a front-facing camera, which is far smaller.

You have that camera there. So if I go ahead and go back here and flip this around, it's still there, but why would you use it? You use it for video conferencing. It actually doesn't. Look that bad, it doesn't look that bad actually looks alright, but you're going to want to use your better camera because you can on this phone. It's super easy to do and frame it up with that external display.

Now, there's also a video mode in here I is a video sample from the Moto Razr 5g I am going to move in you see the autofocus change I move back out. Does the autofocus change again? There is willy do in the distance we might get away from him. We might not. Can I zoom in I can that man is a busy man, so that of course, is just oh? We got him there. He is shaking his head, so obviously strictly digital zoom single camera unit.

On the back, I don't mind it thought there is some pretty smooth, autofocus going on, which is something that I look for and, of course, you're. Hearing the audio from the microphone on the video mode as well. Kirk might as well go ahead and say hi to there we go all right. What can I say about this device? I'm happy that this device exists. I love to see options like this, and I love to see these technological advancements like the ability to fold or bend an OLED display show up through the eyes of various imaginations and in ways that aren't exactly the same.

It's you know the smartphone market you've been following it here on the channel for a long time, and it's a slab, it's one slab after another slab and that's fine that works for most people, but this really makes the job exciting. When you see these things come across the table that are obviously a much different take that are obviously enabled by the most futuristic current technologies that are out there like folding sleds, and you know it just gets you it just spruces things up a little. I also, by the way, almost forgot. They included a leather case for this device and I think it's kind of suitable for a device like this. You can imagine people being interested in a leather case and a lot of people also just thinking about how would you even put a case on this thing? I'm kind of curious about this.

I guess it sort of clips on the leather portion looks like the rear portion. So that's just going to go like that, and it clips, and it actually makes the fingerprint location a little more obvious for your finger and then the top portion actually does it have an adhesive. No, it's just a little soft piece. This will install like that, and now you have it protected. So would I use the protection on a device like this? I don't know it's so sleek and slender to begin with, probably not myself.

I just want to use it the way it was intended in the smallest package possible, but if you do absolutely need to protect it at least you have a first party option there. Furthermore, I also realized. Furthermore, I need to do a pocket test. So let's check this out, I will remove the new fold. Actually, this is a good comparison right now.

So that's what that thing is that's how fat it is. Yes, it's got a big display on the outside. In fact, the outside display is almost as big as the main display on the Motorola here, but one thing's for certain. When this guy is folded down, it is way smaller, it's like half the size comparatively and so for a pocket, a pocket test. Well I mean that is that's a smooth move right there, maybe you're uh an athletic type.

You like to move around a lot. You got a tight pocket. Uh, you, don't you don't want to be carrying a brick around. This thing is a bit of a brick. I mean I'm going to be honest with you, you this goes into the pocket, but you know it's there.

You're, never going to forget this one. On the other hand, with the razor thing it's like it's almost like you've got, I mean it's barely there I'll tell you what it's barely there. So there is a portability advantage. You flip it open. You don't have a z fold size display, but you have a very slick.

Little package there. It is that is the Motorola racer 5g for 2020 and 2021. This is like a this. Is a freebie game that they give you it's, or it's like the right orientation for the system? Actually, the speakers sound better in game as well yeah. It's part of the ringtone yeah ready, um.

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