This past week, Motorola announced its newest family of Razr foldables – Razr and Razr+ (or Razr 50 and Razr 50 Ultra outside of the US). And they are quite stunning, checking just about every box. Being that it is really the only other foldable flip phone available in the US, besides the Galaxy Z Flip 5, it’s going to get compared to Samsung a lot.
Motorola has done just about everything right to beat Samsung, but there’s one thing Motorola lacks. That is software support. It’s an issue Motorola has had basically since it started making Android phones – except for that brief point in time when Google owned the company.
So, what do I mean by software support? Because, yes, Motorola has been updating the 2023 Razr with bimonthly security updates. It’s not every single month, but every other month is still quite good. In fact, I pulled out my 2023 Razr last week, and it had at least seven updates that needed to be installed.
But what I’m talking about is specifically OS support. The 2023 Razr and Razr+ are still on Android 13. That is because we are one beta away from the stable version of Android 15 being released.
That’s unacceptable. Yes, Razr is cheaper than its competitors like the Galaxy Z Flip 5, and that is likely one of the downsides of its being cheaper. That is, you won’t get new versions of Android as quickly.
During my briefing with Motorola this week, they did say that the 2023 Razr models would get Android 14 “this summer”. However, where su.
