Motorola just revealed the Razr Fold’s price and hoo boy

Motorola's new Razr Fold foldable smartphone will launch at $1,900, positioning it in the premium device segment alongside competitors like the Google Pixel 10 Pro Fold ($1,800) and Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 ($2,000), amid a broader market trend of rising phone prices driven by memory cost inflation. While the Razr Fold offers advantages in thinness, weight, and battery capacity (6,000mAh), it lacks full dust resistance compared to the Pixel and faces execution risk given the premium pricing in an economically challenging market. This pricing strategy signals that foldable devices remain a luxury segment with high barriers to enterprise and mainstream adoption, requiring IT leaders to carefully evaluate total cost of ownership for any mobile device strategies involving next-generation form factors.

Allison JohnsonThe VergeApril 29, 20262 min read

Gotta hand it to Motorola: it’s a good-looking phone. 2026 is shaping up to be a tough year to launch a high-end phone. The memory crisis has phone prices rising across the board, so an already expensive phone risks becoming a much too expensive phone. That might be what happened to the Razr Fold, which will cost $1,900 when it goes on sale in the US on May 14th. That doesn't include the Moto Pen Ultra stylus, which costs an additional $100. Motorola has dripped out some of the Fold's specs since it was first previewed at CES, and those early signs indicated that this device wouldn't be the more affordable folding phone the market so desperately needs. Today's announcement confirms that: it'll … Read the full story at The Verge.