Galaxy Z Flip vs. Motorola Razr: no contest
Hey, we are here atSamsung's Unpacked Event looking at the Galaxy ZFlip, but I decided to be sneaky and bring in the Motorola Razr and I want to compare thesetwo phones real quick. So the first thing is both of these phones are basically the same idea. They are folding phones that fold into a portrait mode so it fitsin fits in your pocket a little bit better thenfolds out to a very tall narrow screen. However, the Galaxy ZFlip does a bunch of stuff that the Motorola Razrkinda didn't get right. So the first thing is thatit has a glass screen, instead of a plasticscreen, like on the Razr, and like on other phones. And that glass screenmeans that you are much less likely to scratch it. That's what Samsung claimsand I kinda believe them, because I've run myfingernail over this thing and I haven't managed to scratch it, in a way where if I weredoing it on the Razr, I totally would have scratched it. However, there are acouple of other differences to pay attention to, so because it's glass and because it's theway Samsung does hinges, there is a tiny littlegap here that you can see when you fold it closed, whereas on the Motorola Razr, it folds completely flat. And that's because,with the plastic screen, Motorola was able to make the sort of teardrop inside thehinge when you close it so that the thing canfold completely flat.
What that means thoughfor Motorola is that you can really feel a lot of more bumps and grooves and weirdthings on it's screen, whereas on the Z Flip,you can feel the crease but it's a lot less prominentthan it is on the Razr. The other thing I'll sayis they have different ideas on how the hinge should work, beyond being gapless when they're closed. So the Razr has a pretty loose hinge. You can kinda flip it open with one hand, it's a little bit nerve wracking to do it, but you can pull it off. The Z Flip however, hasa much stiffer hinge. It is a lot harder to open with one hand, and it doesn't like, flip out. The reason that Samsung does that is they want you to be ableto look at it at an angle, set it on a table andsee, if you want to like, watch a video or something. But, you know, I thinkthere's benefits and drawbacks to both. On the whole though, I thinkI prefer Samsung's hinge. Samsung has a fingerprint sensor, so does the Motorola Razr. Samsung's is on the sidewhere the power button is, and that maybe is alittle bit more convenient because it's sort of one action to open it and hit the thing, whereas on the Razr, you've got to flip it open and hit the fingerprint sensor on the bottom, but the main difference here to me beyond the glass screen is the Z Flip has just way more impressive specs.
Motorola, in order to get thebattery life that it wanted on this thing, went with a relatively slow Snapdragon processor, I think it's the 710 and this doesn't feel all that pokey, but it's not as impressiveas what's in this thing, which is a Snapdragon 855 plus. It is also paired to256 gigs of storage and 8 gigs of RAM. The other spec that's better on this phone and frankly the one that'sway more important to me than the processor, are the cameras. This has two cameras andthey're Samsung's 12 megapixel cameras, one of them is an ultrawide. And, Motorola just has one,it's a 16 megapixel sensor. And, we've got the reviewfor the Razr coming, but I'm just going to tell you right now, that, Motorola is not asgood at cameras as Samsung is so I have way more faiththat the Z Flip is going to have a better camera than Motorola does. Last and maybe not least is they both have different philosophiesfor what the screen on the outside should be, so Motorola has this really big thingthey call peek display. You can look at notifications on it, you can take selfies with it of course, so it can get the littleselfie camera up there going. And so it's like a bigrelatively usable display, but it's mostly sort of like a smartwatch.
Samsung took the same idea,but theirs is just itty bitty. It's this little tiny display here. You can swipe over to see notifications, you can answer calls anddo a bunch of other stuff. You can even take selfieswith it with that insanely tiny little viewfinder there. It's just a differentidea and it's not quite as useful as Motorola's, but for me, I think that trade mightbe worth it because instead of having a whole bunch of screen real estate here, theyhave battery real estate, and the Z Flip has I think, on the whole, a bigger battery than the Moto Razr, which is again, anotherthing that you might want. So on the whole, what do I think? Well, we gotta get full reviews of these things out, so don't takethis as final judgment, but the thing that Motorolamanaged to do is be first. It got out the door first. If you could find one, theygot out the door first, and good on them, butthis is much more refined, and I think makes way moresense if you're interested in a folding phone. The other reason this thingis a little bit nicer, it costs less.
This is $1499, this is $1380. Hey everybody, thanks forwatching, like I said, we've got a review of the Razr coming, and we've already shot it. We're working on it right now and we are definitely looking forward to reviewing this thing, itcomes out on February 14th and we're going to get our handson one as soon as possible.
What that means thoughfor Motorola is that you can really feel a lot of more bumps and grooves and weirdthings on it's screen, whereas on the Z Flip,you can feel the crease but it's a lot less prominentthan it is on the Razr. The other thing I'll sayis they have different ideas on how the hinge should work, beyond being gapless when they're closed. So the Razr has a pretty loose hinge. You can kinda flip it open with one hand, it's a little bit nerve wracking to do it, but you can pull it off. The Z Flip however, hasa much stiffer hinge. It is a lot harder to open with one hand, and it doesn't like, flip out. The reason that Samsung does that is they want you to be ableto look at it at an angle, set it on a table andsee, if you want to like, watch a video or something. But, you know, I thinkthere's benefits and drawbacks to both. On the whole though, I thinkI prefer Samsung's hinge. Samsung has a fingerprint sensor, so does the Motorola Razr. Samsung's is on the sidewhere the power button is, and that maybe is alittle bit more convenient because it's sort of one action to open it and hit the thing, whereas on the Razr, you've got to flip it open and hit the fingerprint sensor on the bottom, but the main difference here to me beyond the glass screen is the Z Flip has just way more impressive specs.
Motorola, in order to get thebattery life that it wanted on this thing, went with a relatively slow Snapdragon processor, I think it's the 710 and this doesn't feel all that pokey, but it's not as impressiveas what's in this thing, which is a Snapdragon 855 plus. It is also paired to256 gigs of storage and 8 gigs of RAM. The other spec that's better on this phone and frankly the one that'sway more important to me than the processor, are the cameras. This has two cameras andthey're Samsung's 12 megapixel cameras, one of them is an ultrawide. And, Motorola just has one,it's a 16 megapixel sensor. And, we've got the reviewfor the Razr coming, but I'm just going to tell you right now, that, Motorola is not asgood at cameras as Samsung is so I have way more faiththat the Z Flip is going to have a better camera than Motorola does. Last and maybe not least is they both have different philosophiesfor what the screen on the outside should be, so Motorola has this really big thingthey call peek display. You can look at notifications on it, you can take selfies with it of course, so it can get the littleselfie camera up there going. And so it's like a bigrelatively usable display, but it's mostly sort of like a smartwatch.
Samsung took the same idea,but theirs is just itty bitty. It's this little tiny display here. You can swipe over to see notifications, you can answer calls anddo a bunch of other stuff. You can even take selfieswith it with that insanely tiny little viewfinder there. It's just a differentidea and it's not quite as useful as Motorola's, but for me, I think that trade mightbe worth it because instead of having a whole bunch of screen real estate here, theyhave battery real estate, and the Z Flip has I think, on the whole, a bigger battery than the Moto Razr, which is again, anotherthing that you might want. So on the whole, what do I think? Well, we gotta get full reviews of these things out, so don't takethis as final judgment, but the thing that Motorolamanaged to do is be first. It got out the door first. If you could find one, theygot out the door first, and good on them, butthis is much more refined, and I think makes way moresense if you're interested in a folding phone. The other reason this thingis a little bit nicer, it costs less.
This is $1499, this is $1380. Hey everybody, thanks forwatching, like I said, we've got a review of the Razr coming, and we've already shot it. We're working on it right now and we are definitely looking forward to reviewing this thing, itcomes out on February 14th and we're going to get our handson one as soon as possible.
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