The Moto Razr and Razr Plus are victims of shrinkflation
Motorola's 2026 Razr lineup exhibits classic shrinkflation—prices increased by $100 while storage capacity decreased and hardware upgrades remained minimal, signaling cost pressures in the consumer device market that may foreshadow broader supply chain and manufacturing challenges for enterprise technology investments. This trend reflects industry-wide memory cost constraints that could impact IT organizations' device procurement strategies and total cost of ownership calculations for mobile device management programs. Technology leaders should monitor whether premium device vendors will follow similar pricing and spec reduction patterns, potentially affecting their refresh cycles and end-user satisfaction.
The Razr Plus only comes in one color, but it’s a good one. The memory crisis claims another couple of victims. Motorola's midtier and entry-level flip phones cost $100 more than their predecessors, and have few upgrades to show for it. The 2026 Razr Plus costs $1,099, up from $999. It still comes with a Snapdragon 8S Gen 3 chipset - two years old at this point - with 12GB of RAM and 256GB of storage. Its silicon-carbon battery offers a 4,500mAh capacity compared to the 4,000mAh capacity on last year's model, which is a significant boost. But that's its biggest improvement. The main camera hardware is unchanged, but Motorola swapped the previous generation's 50-megapixel 2x telephoto for a 50-megap … Read the full story at The Verge.