Motorola Razr 60 Ultra is beautiful and elegant regardless of artificial intelligence

The Motorola Razr 60 Ultra is a beautiful and elegant mobile phone, undeniably different from others. It is a flip phone that 'looks at you', that understands when we are looking at it and reacts by activating a rainbow frame. It integrates Gemini - like many Android phones - but it also has a collaboration with Perplexity and with Moto AI shows its intention to want to personalise and simplify access to artificial intelligence functions.

'Just as the Internet changed the world 30 years ago,' notes Carlo Barlocco, a veteran of this industry and currently Executive Director & General Manager of Motorola, 'I am convinced that artificial intelligence will also change smartphones. We don't know if they will shrink and if the current form factor will change. But it will not be a sudden revolution. Our artificial intelligence (Moto AI, ed) helps us improve things we already know how to do, such as offering us options on texts and suggesting decisions. We are all waiting for predictive AI, which is the real point of arrival: the one that knows my habits, knows what time it is and what is happening in the world, and will advise me on what to do and how to move. If there is a further evolution, if privacy allows, it will act instead of the individual'.

In the meantime, the 'fundamentals' of the smartphone remain important, which after all are those of the pre-generative AI era. From this point of view, the Razr appears to be a carefully thought-out and designed mobile phone, which does not promise to be the ultimate AI-phone but interprets the foldable concept by focusing on manufacturing quality and excellent hardware. In this sense it is a vintage product.

'If we think about Gen Z,' Barlocco adds, 'today's young people live with their smartphones in their hands, the screen is important to them, so much so that some don't even have a ringtone: they realise the call when it lights up. Flip and foldable smartphones are born closed, they fit in your pocket, they consume less energy from this point of view. And today,' he comments, 'they are devices for people who have finished university and therefore have different space and mobility needs from the very young'.

The higher price is another factor to take into account, although according to Motorola's manager, foldables are becoming cheaper and cheaper. The Razr 60 Ultra, which we tested for a few days, appears to be a powerful device designed to last.