Motorola has been honing its flip-style folding Razr smartphones for more than five years now, but it’s finally time for a new style of fold.
At CES 2026, the company unveiled the Razr Fold, its first book-style folding phone akin to the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold series or Google’s Pixel Fold, bringing more competition to the space in the US.
If you’ve seen Google’s or Samsung’s options, the Razr Fold will look and feel familiar. It has a 6.6-inch display on the front screen, and when you open it up, you’re treated to an 8.1-inch 2K resolution screen, around the same size as its competitors.
Over on the back, the design resembles Motorola’s other smartphones with a sloped camera module housing a triple-camera system comprised entirely of 50-megapixel camera sensors: The primary camera is joined by an ultrawide and a 3X optical camera. There’s a 32-megapixel external selfie camera and an internal 20-megapixel selfie shooter when the phone is unfolded. It comes in Pantone Blackened Blue and Pantone Lily White, and there’s a woven vegan leather finish.
Motorola didn’t share many other details about the phone—including the price—but the company says it’ll release more information in the coming months. The Razr Fold is expected to launch this summer. While Motorola is playing catch-up to the book-style trend here, Samsung showed off its TriFold folding phone at CES, which can expand into a 10-inch tablet.
More Moto Phones
Motorola is the official smartphone partner of the FIFA World Cup this year, and to mark the event, the company is releasing a FIFA World Cup 2026 Edition of the Razr 2025.
This is the same base Razr phone the company announced last year, just dolled up in green and with a badge on the back that marks the 2026 World Cup event. That design continues into the software, which is also themed for the World Cup with special wallpapers and even a new ringtone.
If you’re green with envy, the good news is that this isn’t some limited-edition model—while it’ll be exclusive to Motorola.com and Verizon at first, on February 12, it’ll be available in other retail channels like Amazon later on. Thankfully, you’re not paying more, as it still costs $700.
Motorola does have another actual new phone: the Signature. It’s a new line of “premium” phones, but the catch is that these devices won’t be sold in the US. For its candy-bar phones, Motorola has dipped its toes into flagship territory every so often, only to dip back out as it struggles to compete with the likes of Apple and Samsung; it’s predominantly known for its Moto G budget phones, particularly in the US.
The Signature is just 6.99 millimeters thick—it’s no iPhone Air, but that’s thinner than your usual handset—and it has a fabric-like material on the back. It’s powered by the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 chipset, has four 50-megapixel cameras on the back, and carries a 5,200-mAh silicon-carbon battery in tow. More importantly, Motorola is finally committing to seven years of blanket software updates for this phone. It’s a shame US customers won’t be able to enjoy that.
An AI Pendant
On the artificial intelligence front, Motorola and its parent company, Lenovo, are working together on a unified AI assistant called Qira. It’s the culmination of several AI features both companies have deployed over the years, just in one platform.
It’s powered by various large language models, from Copilot and Perplexity to Google’s Gemini, along with Motorola and Lenovo’s own in-house LLMs. The idea is that instead of reaching for these various services, you can just ask Qira, no matter if you’re on a Lenovo laptop or a Motorola phone. It’ll launch first on Lenovo PCs later this year, then select Razr, Edge, and Signature devices.
Qira also powers Project Maxwell, a concept AI pendant from Motorola’s 312 Labs. If you’re tired of pulling out your smartphone to snap a pic and search for something, well, this wearable solves exactly that. It has a camera and microphone, so just tap the touch-sensitive button on the front and ask a question about whatever you’re looking at—whether you want to know what kind of tree is in front of you, or if you want to add the date of a concert into your calendar if you’re staring at a poster.
Another use case Motorola suggested? If you’re attending a speech or convention, ask Project Maxwell to listen in and then “draft a LinkedIn post” summarizing the event. (This explains LinkedIn a lot.)
Project Maxwell is just a concept, and there are no plans to turn it into a real product, but it’s an alternative to camera-enabled smart glasses that are supposed to do the same thing. Or you could, you know, just pull out your phone.
Moto Things
Finally, Motorola has a trio of new devices under its Moto Things brand. There’s a new 47-mm Moto Watch—no, it doesn’t run Google’s Wear OS but a proprietary system, but that helps it get 13 days of battery life (or seven days with the always-on OLED display enabled). Motorola says it partnered with fitness brand Polar to power the health-tracking features on the smartwatch, and it’ll go on sale starting January 22.
There’s also the Moto Pen Ultra, a new pressure-sensitive stylus with tilt detection that’ll also work with the Razr Fold (though unlike the Moto G Stylus, it’s not housed in the phone itself). It comes with a nifty carrying case that doubles as a battery. Naturally, it also enables some AI capabilities, like handwriting beautification and Sketch to Image, so you can turn doodles into prettier sketches. It’ll launch in the US in the coming months.
And finally, there’s a second-gen Moto Tag 2, which will be available in the US, though Motorola didn’t share a precise timeline or price. It features ultra-wideband tech to precisely locate your devices (if supported) and IP68 water resistance, but the big upgrade is to battery life: It’ll keep ticking for more than 500 days. It works with Google’s Find Hub app, but you can also use Motorola’s Moto Tag app instead. There’s a button on the tracker, and if you press it, it’ll ring your phone if you have misplaced it.
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