The Motorola Razr Ultra (2026) has a lot to offer, with a good-sized 5,000mAh silicon-carbon battery, speedy charging, and cover-screen software that’s arguably the best in the business. However, the phone is rather pricey at $1,500, especially when you consider that it runs a last-gen processor, yet still flat-out overheated and force-closed our usual suite of benchmark stress tests.
While the phone didn’t heat up noticeably during day-to-day tasks and even some more demanding workloads, this is just another example showing that, when pushing maximum performance for any serious length of time, modern smartphones buckle over — particularly foldables. I can’t help but wonder if temperatures, rather than just cost, are at least part of the reason not to jump to this year’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, though it’s still bizarre that last year’s Razr Ultra model powered through the stress tests just fine.
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