I'm Kim, PhD here and welcome to a first retail on boxing and second left at the 2020 Motorola razor.

So they're folding.

Phone is finally out and starting to ship to buyers.

And this is the Unboxing experience that anyone who pays that $1500 will eventually get.

So this is it.

This is the Motorola razor now as a refresher.

We first got a look at this guy a couple months ago when it was first revealed, and I did that hands on video in the world's worst hands on area.

Good times.

It got delayed a little bit now 2020 and we've gotten to the official launch date, and they're trickling out into stories and starting to ship them.

So now that it's in hand, now that the shiny new factor has worn off a little bit, I can't help but wonder.

And maybe it's because I'm not as nostalgic.

But is this phone or is this form factor even a good idea to begin with?

So here's a refresher.

We have, ah, 6.2 inch plastic ola display a little taller than 10 80 p, so it's 2142 by 8 76 with that 21 by nine Aspect ratio Snapdragon 7 10 processor, six year bytes of RAM, 128 gigs of storage and one very satisfying hinge.

So, yeah, it's a folding phone.

In case I haven't mentioned that yet, and holding this thing in the hand again, I'm reminded how thin the sun really is and how complex the hinge mechanism is.

Um, I mean, we knew it was complex, but it's really very unique and generally ends up giving you less of a crease than, say, the galaxy fold because of the way the display bends down into the frame and then unfolds and stretches, which is really smart.

Ben's taught over the middle keeps it flat, But also there's a moment during the folding process where you can see the like straight through behind the back of the display, which is potentially interesting for durability, will have to keep an eye on that and, of course, tune into the inevitable Jared everything test.

Also, one handedness is something I always talk about smartphones as they get bigger and bigger, and with this one, it's ah, multi part answer So when it's open, I think it's perfectly one Hannibal, so you can reach the corners.

You can get down to the bottom of the display.

It's not super uncomfortable now.

It is a bit different than normal because you have a hinge in the middle and you can feel it.

And there's all sorts of ridges and bumps along the sides and the back while you're holding it.

So it does feel different from a normal phone.

But you can still reach what you need to.

Thanks to the now aspect ratio, it's not too bad.

But then I absolutely cannot open the phone with one hand.

Or at least I wouldn't want to like this in everyday life.

Maybe it's the shape of my finger.

I don't know what it is, but that means every time I want to open the phone or at least get past that outside screen, you need to have two hands free.

Uh, I don't know if that's gonna get a knowing yet, but that's just the truth for me right now.

Which brings me to just my general overlying question, which is, of all the ways to do a folding phone is this way the 6.2 inch screen, but folds in half to be more pocketable.

Is this the best way to do it?

Like I know not everyone can say this, but I can already fit of phone around 6.2 inches in my pocket just fine.

But even if you can't at the moment, the choice is between getting a phone that folds in half versus just getting a slightly smaller phone.

I think I would rather have a fold to enable putting something in my pocket that I couldn't before, like a seven inch or an eight inch screen like an iPad Mini, like a small tablet sized system is just a normal size phone getting even smaller, which is more pocketable, sure, but But this is the razor, and so it's gotta look like the iconic razor.

In fact, that's basically what Motorola told me is they first picked the iconic razor design and then went to engineering to try to figure out what they could fit in this crazy, thin form factor in order to achieve this razor, not the other way around.

So that's why we have this crazy cool Finn design.

But also why we have some of the crazy specs and the weird compromises.

That's why the battery cells are split into two parts to keep the weight of this foot phone fairly, even not too top heavy, not to bottom heavy.

And then this thinness means you're combining those two cells for a A total a total of just over 1,002,500 powers.

That's very small.

It's also why the buttons are so Finn.

You know, the power and volume buttons on one side.

They can't be much thicker than they are or they wouldn't fit on the phone.

And this design is why you ended up with the chin.

The original raiser had the iconic chin and the curve gently to that shin so that you could flip it out and it was natural looking.

So this new razor also has that curve, and it puts us many of the electron ICS as it can in that shin.

Like the display drivers, the fingerprint reader and the downward facing speaker and this phone also maxes out at 15 watts, charging, which normally isn't considered really fast.

But then again, the batteries so small that that's actually debatable no wireless charging too thin for that No SIM card on Lee Ae Sim and no expanded storage, no dust or water resistance.

I mean, don't get me wrong.

It's definitely still an impressive phone.

The folding display mechanism is this wild engineering that you've ended up with tow have less of a crease.

But you know, there's two sides of every coin.

But you know what the real question is?

Does it and the call when you slam it shut?

And I guess there's only one way to find out is to connect them and just and the car, Uh and it does.

So I mean, I guess that's worth it.

I don't know.

It's 1500 bucks.

There really is only one way to find out if it's worth or not, and that is to use it.

So that's what I'm gonna do.

I'm gonna daily drive the razor.

I'm gonna use this as my phone for a while.

If you wanna follow along with how this goes, that'll be over on Twitter.

So that'll be updates on things like battery life, how well durability ends up being camera quality and probably just some rants sprinkled in there But more importantly, let me know in the comments what you want to see in the full review.

I know, see, not just did a robot folding and unfolding it thousands of times.

I won't be doing that also because we didn't really see that actually demonstrate the durability of the galaxy folds.

So I don't see why would work on other folding phones.

But what else do you want to see actually talked about?

Maybe it's battery life.

Maybe it's camera quality.

Maybe it's the ratio between using that outside display for notification, management versus the inside screen.

All of that.

I'm curious your comments, and we'll get to that pretty soon.

Catch you guys in the next video.

Thanks for watching.

See Stan.