DISAPPOINTING PERFORMANCE
The Razr’s Qualcomm Snapdragon 710 processor is in a category that the US
doesn’t often see: a high-midrange chipset, popular in $300 to $400 phones in
Asia. That price range isn’t common here, where phones tend to cost over $500
or below $300.
With a PCMark Work score of 7,278, the Razr lands in between Moto’s $250 G7
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scores generally around 10,000.) The Razr got 16fps with the GFXBench Car
Chase on-screen test, once again between the G7 Play (7.9 fps) and 1080p
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The phone runs Android 9 with Motorola’s usual convenient extensions: You
can twist it to launch the camera and make a chopping motion to launch the
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Crush and some other low-quality games, which, thankfully, can be uninstalled.
The Razr has 128GB of built-in storage; 107GB is user accessible. It has no
memory card slot.
So should you think of this as a Motorola G-series phone in a fancy case? No.
Motorola’s G-series phones may be slowish, but they have wicked battery life.
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6.2-inch screen and a small 2,510mAh battery? The math doesn’t work, and
neither does the battery life. I got 6 hours and 54 minutes of video playback
time on a charge, which is much shorter than other leading Android phones.