Hypothetical Moto RAZR 2019 rendered on video, looks cool

09 February 2019
Perhaps too cool to actually happen, at least in 2019, but who knows?

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AnonD-762416, 09 Feb 2019Would work in a movie product placement, be utterly useless... moreSorry to say, but what are you babbling about? I know quite a few that would find this perfectly fitting their purse.
Though of course this initial version comes at a price point prohibiting a broad spread. (as ALL new things), a later more moderate priced version could certainly sell to a substantial audience...

    No way thx, its not handy at all.
    Nice try, but try again if u want my money.

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      • Seal
      • 0Wh
      • 09 Feb 2019

      This looks like more a mini-phone. If i want a foldable phone today is to let me do things a regular one can't, like provide a big screen for watch movies, work, etc, comfortably. And then fold it to a portable size.

      That design looks like easily foldable without a lock system. Which is a potential problem while using the display, must be enough rigid to let you press and push it without fold it.

      I see it more like a classical phone with a modern display. A matter of design for some tastes that want to pay that high price for a tiny phone. And perhaps with a secondary problem in terms of battery capacity, heat dissipation depending of what SoC you are able to put there, etc.

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        • dr.
        • M{Y
        • 09 Feb 2019

        I would definitely buy one as I was awaiting some exciting device since the gorgeous Nokia 8600 and thats some 10years+

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          • yee
          • M{Y
          • 09 Feb 2019

          "it's not happening in 2019"
          It's just like listening to a sports commentary where there is a fan involved.
          Man United is well prepared and play with a last seed...4-0 Man Utd!
          Technology is there as you don't have to have a live pixels on the bent as the image could be sent from pixels below and above mo meet in the middle producing one seeming image.
          Again GSM Arena Team is not up to the task!
          peace

            This is what I miss about the early smartphone days: a proper design different from the others.

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              • AnonD-762416
              • JbS
              • 09 Feb 2019

              Would work in a movie product placement, be utterly useless in real life.
              If this is anywhere near what Moto's folding phone will look like it will fail.

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                • Ronit
                • KSe
                • 09 Feb 2019

                Note to spies: Do not use this phone in espionage. It costs per inch than an F35 Lightning, so breaking it and tossing it is not the best bang for your buck. Also, there's the notch. Of all the real estate they have in the front, side, chamber, back, they felt the need to add a notch in the little space above the screen. Imagine your colleagues seeing you use the phone! That's the sort of embarrassment will make a double agent out of you. So you ask: What do I get to do my secret business? And I only have this to say: Get the old Nokia 3310. You will infinitely better clarity with all the traffic diverted to 3G, 4G, 5G what have you. And it can be used as a brick in select circumstances, leaving the enemy bewildered as to how you managed to overpower their over-gadgeted, overpaid, over-engineered, over-intelligent macho spy without a weapon.

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                  • Ayva
                  • Jcx
                  • 09 Feb 2019

                  This is the thing that everybody says it's great but nobody is going to buy it.

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                    • Anonymous
                    • PE3
                    • 09 Feb 2019

                    Anonymous, 09 Feb 2019hmm..!! can’t believe FiLIP phone for 1500 dollars It would take a decade before Motorola's DynaTAC finally reached consumer hands. On September 21, 1983, Motorola made history when the FCC approved the 8000X, the world's first commercial portable cell phone. It cost consumers a whopping $3,995 at the time.

                      jojen, 09 Feb 2019While you do have a point, the later drawings that the rend... moreIf you look VERY carefully (zoom in at hinge) at the poor drawing at the tmdn.org site
                      https://www.tmdn.org/tmdsview-web/design/image/EM700000005908605-0002-005
                      The slants/space for the screen in 'onion' shape when closed is indicated. But indeed the images are far from as clear on what is going on as the previous ones.

                      I did not read the details on the patents, but could it be that the first one patented the Onion-mechanism, and the second is 'merely' the exterior layout&design?

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                        • Anonymous
                        • 8nb
                        • 09 Feb 2019

                        hmm..!! can’t believe FiLIP phone for 1500 dollars

                          It looks intriguing, but it isn't possible. Is that chap not aware what is physically possible? Foldable screen is fine, but not the way it is shown. It would snap. Still waiting for some realistic renders.

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                            • Anonymous
                            • LQv
                            • 09 Feb 2019

                            Except the ugly notch, this is better than other.
                            Those that look like books are ridiculous

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                              • ciquta
                              • anF
                              • 09 Feb 2019

                              Razr was a great phone back in 2003, now it's 2019 the world goes on...

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                                • Pat
                                • 0Wh
                                • 09 Feb 2019

                                Good for small pockets. Bad ergonomics.......... Not good for gaming either.

                                  EskeRahn, 09 Feb 2019The writer seem to miss the whole point in Motorola's paten... moreWhile you do have a point, the later drawings that the render appears to be based on (link is in the article), show no such solution.

                                  I'd be more than happy if they can pull it off, onion or no, I'm just remaining skeptical for now.

                                  Cheers!

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                                    • Anonymous
                                    • 8nY
                                    • 09 Feb 2019

                                    Best part of the vid? The GoT inspired music :)

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                                      • talha5007
                                      • a4W
                                      • 09 Feb 2019

                                      even tho its fan made video, but i like these type of design more than what we're getting those so called bezel less gimmick devices. there is no unique design on todays mobiles. they all look same.

                                        Too fat to own the name!