NVIDIA CEO and co-founder Jensen Huang commends President Donald Trump's A.I. agenda and outlines what the country's job future will look like on'Special Report.' I would love a foldable phone. It's fun to imagine strutting into a coffee shop, flipping open your phone like you're Batman calling Alfred. But now Samsung's dropped the seventh-gen Galaxy Z Fold and Flip, Google threw in the Pixel Fold, Motorola whipped out retro with the modern Razr, and it all sounds exciting until you start looking closer. Foldable phones use ultrathin flexible glass over OLED displays, combined with a mechanical hinge system.

But at the company's closed-door launch event on Wednesday in New York City, much of the spotlight was on Moto AI, artificial intelligence features powered by in-house and third-party large language models, like Meta's Llama. Google's Gemini is naturally available on the Razr phones, but for the first time, the AI search engine Perplexity AI will be preinstalled on the devices. The CEO of Perplexity, Aravind Srinivas, took the stage to talk about the optimizations made to take advantage of the Razr's unique design. Motorola even says Microsoft's Copilot will also be available in the coming months. The 2025 Razr lineup starts at 700 for the base Razr, 1,000 for the Razr, and 1,300 for the Razr Ultra; the midrange Razr is almost the same device as the Razr from 2024, with a few enhancements to durability.

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The original Razr was always sort of a style icon. It was super thin (almost to a fault) and looked more like a prop from a sci-fi movie than all its brick-shaped rivals at the time. And with the launch of a new generation of its signature flip phone later this summer, it feels like Moto is trying to recapture some of that magic with the 2024 Razr family. Just like last year, the Razr line is split between two devices: the flagship Razr, which starts at 1,000, and a more affordable non-plus model that starts at 700. That said, Motorola has made some significant changes to help close the gap between the two phones.

In the months before its launch, Motorola's Razr generated ungodly levels of hype -- our quick hands-on, for instance, has the most views of any non-sex robot video we've ever made. Even a functionally perfect foldable would've had a hard time living up to expectations, and in case you missed it, we most certainly did not get a perfect foldable. That left Motorola will little choice but to buckle down, make some changes, and try again. That's where the brand's new Razr comes in -- it sports a modified design, 5G, and fixes for at least some of the issues the first model was notorious for. Mind you, it's still not a flagship phone, and at $1400 we're not sure it's a great deal either. But for people who want an extremely pocket-friendly foldable that's also usable while closed, Motorola just might be on the right track.

Motorola has hit back at claims that its resurrected Razr can only withstand 27,000 folds before showing signs of damage. CNET conducted a durability test with the new foldable phone last week with a FoldBot and after thousands of rapid folds and just three hours, the Razr's hinge was failing and not fully closing the foldable device. However, the US smartphone-maker says the robot'put undue stress on the hinge' and did not allow the foldable phone to'open and close as intended', the firm told Engadget in a statement. Motorola conducted its own tests with a robot it claims folds the phone properly and revealed users should get'years of use.' In a statement to Engadget, Motorola said: 'razr is a unique smartphone, featuring a dynamic clamshell folding system unlike any device on the market.