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Ok, I should probably clarify a little because Razer, the gaming brand, and Motorola Razer (or Razr? however tf they spell it now...) are two different things - sorry for the confusion!

The "gaming phone" Razer Phone 2 is my daily driver since about... mid-2020; I still ran my iPhone XR as my main phone, but by the start of 2021, I completely, utterly and entirely ditched Apple (iPhone XR, Apple Watch 6, iPad Air 2, ... all of it, at once) and went to just the Razer Phone 2.

With Motorola's Razer+ foldable, where the cover screen is actually huge and great for doing things like going back and forth in spotify or reading notifications, I really think I found my personal favorite of foldables. However; I have grown used to LineageOS, microG, Magisk, Aurora Store, NeoStore, NeoBackup and all these things - so I am waiting for people to make custom ROMs for those foldables in the future.

For the time being, I am sticking to my Razer Phone 2. Would I recommend it? It gets things done, and isn't slow. Runs good PlayStation 2 emulation and lasts a whole day. The less you run, the more it lasts. MicroSD support is also there and it has pretty modern specs. So, for a more "casual but sometimes a tiny bit more hardcore" phone, it's great! Due to my visual impairment, taking advantage of the LED logo on the backside of the phone to blink in the color of an app to tell me about incoming notifications is an absolute win; I hardly look at the screen.

Would I recommend a Motorola Razer foldable? I have no experience with them but if you look at Mr. Mobile on youtube, he has a very, very in-depth review. And, I really like what I see! So I am patiently waiting :)

Pablo Xannybar 2y ago

Ah I was wondering if Razer (the company) had put out new phones and you had one or had tried one out. I remember MKBHD saying nice stuff back when their first device dropped. Since you're using the 2020 model and are looking at other brands I take it they're not still making new phones? Haven't seen anything about them in ages!

Btw you should be aware Motorola is Chinese. It's owned by Lenovo who have a history of preloading malware on their laptops. Whether that affects your decision is obviously up to you, just making you aware. Custom ROM should sort it but it's very easy to hide things in firmware.

I'm sure you know this already but you can use Neo Store (great choice btw I use the same!) and apps from it without a custom ROM. Magisk and anything relying on it is a different story ofc!

I do think Motorola's Razr foldable looks super cool and it hits my love for nostalgia tech but folding screen tech is still very early days so I'm personally waiting a couple more years before buying another foldable phone.

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Ingwie Phoenix (aka. birb) 2y ago

Oh no, the Razer Phone 2 I use is a 2019 model, I think. Honestly I would've had to look it up... But it is a little dated by now in comparison heh ^^' And, they haven't released a new one since, either. Just controllers (which are pretty good, I like those a lot!)

Exactly why I want to wait untill there is support for unlocking the bootloader and installing a custom ROM. Heck, I even encrypt my S3 cloud storage when I mount it using RClone! I don't trust companies unless I am given a proper choice to run what I want to run myself. This is why I was so absurdly excited to learn that my RP2 had Custom ROMs. Here's a fun fact: My friends with their Oppo phones got Android 13 three months AFTER me - and my Android 13 (LineageOS 20) was not produced by a company or anything, at all. xD Meanwhile, their fresh, new, shiny Oppo phone had to wait. Believe me, I had an absolute field day all over my friends' nerves when I got Android 13 before they even heared a peep about it for their own phones. It was great =)

Oh I know; but while I am at it, having microG and Aurora to minimize my interactions with Google to a bare minimum and a few Magisk modules to make my darn banking app happy is all I am really after. My phone, my decisions, my data. So I've gotten quite used to this - albeit convoluted - setup... (it took foreeeeever to set all of this up, oh my god x.x)

I am just so tired of slap phones. I went from the iPhone 3GS all the way to the XR with a few gens skipped here and there, now living with the RP2 as my daily unit... I just honestly want something new, something novel, something ... different. o.o That is my main reason for wanting a foldable, really. They're cool, have new usecases, different formfactors and neat tricks! Why fumble with an on-screen slider if I can also just open and close my phone to answer or hangup a call? =) Most accessible phoning gesture out there!

Pablo Xannybar 2y ago

Bang on I feel all that.

Aurora Store is great, shame Google have broken search, luckily you can just lookup the app yourself and open the link in Aurora anyway 👌

If you want the folding phone to try out new tech and are happy with the early adopter compromises then have at it and let me know how it goes!

Don't get me wrong, yours was the same reason I bought the folding Samsung. Just expect wear on the screen over time is all! It's not one you'll still be using for years.