Smartphones

Motorola, Lenovo’s phone brand, has been profitably moving upmarket over the past few years, but nothing says premium like a fold-larger phone. The moto razr was a folding smartphone pioneer, and the compact foldable has been refined year after year. I have been testing an EU razr 70 ultra review unit from Motorola with a real wood rear panel, and it continues to excel in its ability to run full Android apps on the front display. That enables you to put your shopping list there and not open your phone and get distracted by video in the middle of the …

Samsung announced U.S. pricing and availability for the Galaxy Z TriFold — the first dual-hinge smartphone available in this market that has the thickness of a robust bar phone but opens up into a full-sized, 3.9mm thick 10″ tablet. Other key specs include a Snapdragon 8 Elite for Galaxy, 200 MP main rear camera, titanium hinge, reinforced display, and a design tested for 200,000 folds. The interface allows tablet-sized apps, a native DeX windowing environment, or just running up to three phones apps side by side. (But is there AI? Of course there is!)This is early adopter tech, not a mainstream phone, …

The OnePlus 15 offers specs you simply don’t find on other smartphones outside of China. U.S. carriers aren’t offering this one, either, but consumers can buy them directly. Finally. After a month of teasing and then a formal announcement, OnePlus had to wait for the U.S. government to reopen so the FCC could rubber stamp its approvals for sale in the U.S. In the meantime, OnePlus has started talking about the OnePlus 15R – a lower spec’d model – and the OnePlus Pad Go 2 tablet, but the OnePlus 15 is now available for general sale and it’s worth considering. …

Samsung just announced the foldiest of its foldable phones yet: a 6.5″ phone that folds out in two directions into a 10″ tablet. The 2160 x 1584 inner screen can be configured with three 6.5” phone-sized app windows or any number of other configurations, including a fully windowed on-device DeX environment. When open, it is just 3.9 mm thick; closed it is 12.9mm, roughly equivalent to a Galaxy S25 Ultra in a case. It weighs 309g, about a third heavier than a Galaxy S25 Ultra with that case. Like the Galaxy S25 Ultra, the Galaxy Z TriFold is powered by …