More scarily, though, other applications consumed
more energy than the video player. 30 minutes of
playing Asphalt 8 hit the battery by 10 percent, working
out to just 5 hours of gaming on a charge. Using the
camera also seems to hit the battery pretty hard. By the
end of the workday, the Razr was tapped out.
The phone doesn’t support wireless charging; instead, it
uses a 15-watt TurboPower USB-C charger. That got me
to 14 percent in 10 minutes, 44 percent in half an hour,
and a full charge in 90 minutes. Other leading phones
now support up to 30W charging, but that may run too
hot for the Razr’s thin form factor.
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Wireless performance is a big deal for me. I’ve always
held the opinion that if your connected device doesn’t
connect, it’s not worth buying. Unfortunately, the Razr
doesn’t connect very well.
Its show-stopping problem is the inability to hang on to
a 5GHz Wi-Fi network. Wi-Fi speeds were slower on the
Razr than on the Pixel 4 at every point we tested, with
the phone dropping signal a mere 50 feet from the
access point. That’s unacceptable performance for a
modern 802.11ac device.
The 4G Razr has a limited set of LTE bands that are
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The phone
doesn’t
support
wireless
charging;
instead, it uses
a 15-watt
TurboPower
USB-C charger.