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Obviously, Motorola has made a lot of phones over the last decade, but the

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last time one really caught my eye was the Droid Turbo. So, imagine my surprise

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when I saw the one pager for the Razer 2025 and Razer Ultra 2025 and thought,

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"Dang, those look really interesting."

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Both of them are foldable flip phones, but come with dramatically different

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specs and prices, meaning Motorola is targeting a wide range of customers with

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these two models. Why don't we start with the flagship Ultra and see what

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they've managed to pack in here? Oo,

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that is

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kind of gorgeous, isn't it? Wow. Very

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subtle crease. You can definitely see it, huh? But the display is not on, so I

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don't really count that. Ooh, we should have a look at the accessories.

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Wow. Plum squad. All it really is a 2025

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edition phone. A USB-C to C cable,

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three-footer by the look of things, USB 2 by the look of things, and a SIM

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removal tool. See, this wouldn't bother me so much if it wasn't for the fact

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that to achieve Motorola's advertised 68 watt charging, you need both their

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proprietary power brick and their proprietary cable. We capped out at 50

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watts, regardless of which high-ower charger we were using. That's not to say

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that it's a slow charging phone. It's decent and you can see exactly how

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decent it is on this nifty little inrogress graph from the lab. We're

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still working on the exact way to present this. We'll have an accompanying blog article that you guys can check out

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in the video description. But in summary, it's fine. It's just not what

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it says on the tin unless I buy additional accessories. All right, let's

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have a look at this thing. So, we've got our lock button on the right, volume

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rocker, as well as, oh, good, an AI

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button. When will they learn? Remember Samsung and the Bixby button? Remember

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how much people loved that? Motorola, you should emulate that. In all

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seriousness, some of its AI features do sound kind of useful. Being able to

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speak more naturally to Google Gemini, obviously a plus, and being able to

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recall things that you've blathered at your phone through the AI button

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earlier, I guess that's kind of cool. It's just that

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you should really be giving me the option to rebind it, and apparently you

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can't. Uh, noise cancelling mics on the top, USBC in the bottom, speaker, and

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SIM tray. I love this. Is this real

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wood? It's real wood. Wow,

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that's super cool. I guess it shouldn't surprise me that much. One of the things

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that really stood out to me about the Droid Turbo back in the day was the

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ballistic nylon backing. I don't know what ballistic nylon means, but it sure

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felt cool. In the meantime, let's have a look at what separates the Ultra from

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the not quite as ultra. The Ultra gets a

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4 in Gorilla Glass ceramic display, while the regular one gets just 3.6 in.

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And for the main display, we go from 7 in to a nice 6.9 in. And also at a lower

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resolution, although both of them have pretty darn high pixel density to the

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point where I really don't think that you're going to notice it. Oh

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wow. Is that ever in your screen ever hard to clean? Look at this. Can you see

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that? Yeah. It's still grubtastic even

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though I just tried to wipe it. Okay,

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first thing we're going to need to do is turn down the brightness because both of

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these are flipping bright displays. Get

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it?

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Ooh. Wow. That feels really good. Is it the

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same fold mechanism in both?

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Oh, that's nice. Anyway, that's not the point. The point is Motorola rates the

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exterior display on the non-Utra for 1,700 nits and the interior one for

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3,000 nits, making for a great HDR

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viewing experience. And the Ultra, they rate even higher. We weren't able to

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validate their claims on the Ultra. In fact, we weren't able to even get close,

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but it is at least brighter than the non-Ultra. So, I guess that's something.

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Motorola is going to get back to us on this, and we'll pin a comment down below

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if they have anything to add for how they managed to claim 4500 nits peak

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brightness on the internal display. Whoa. Okay, normally I don't do the

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software stuff till a little bit later, but I'm so happy right now.

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Thank you. Not everyone has to copy Apple. I don't want to target a specific

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corner of my stupid display to bring down my quick settings. I like I don't

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like that Motorola only promises three years of software updates for these.

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That is a No. All right, let's watch some HDR.

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You see that? It goes bright for like a split second as I'm rotating it. See

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that? And then it like goes dim and

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Again, obviously better on the non-Utra. I'd be

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floored if Motorola doesn't solve this. Like, this is the more capable display,

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which we have validated even if we didn't manage to hit their numbers. So,

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I'm not going to hold it against it too much. But hey, this is the situation

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right now as of us recording this video. Oo, do more on the external display.

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The cameras are just like right in the middle of your screen there. Yeah, I

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guess that makes sense. If only anyone could have foreseen the problem with

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having holes in your display. I can't I

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can't click the learn more. There's a learn more in there. There's a not now.

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Oh, I can click the not now. Okay, cool.

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I can look at my photos. Look at that. Beautiful, isn't it? Okay, maybe it'd be

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more useful for messaging. Start a chat. Hey, look at that. Well, it's smart

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enough to put the keyboard not somewhere that there's a camera in the middle of

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it. So, that's something. Full screen editor. Exit full screen.

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Oh. Oh, okay. That's cool. That's useful.

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Makes a little bit easier to input text without, you know, having the whole

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interim face taken up out really. We have Tim Apple contact in our Labs

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benchmark account. Oh, you can allow apps to continue on the outside display.

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So, I'm going to start watching a YouTube video like say Havi.

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Boom. Nice.

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Oh, well, okay. I have to continue playing it, but still nice. Then I can

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put it in like tent mode. Okay. Boom.

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Watch YouTube in the bath. Sleep display. Oo, always on display.

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Likey, let's see what it looks like once it uh

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chills out a little bit. I'm going to put that Oh, nice. I love to have clocks

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around me. I don't know what it is. It's not like I'm ever on time for anything

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because of them. I just I like knowing how late I am. I was going to see if

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Motorola lets me change where my back button is.

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Boom. See, it's that easy. Google and

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Sony, that's how you do it. Thank you.

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Now I can reach the back button more easily. The question is, how quickly

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will I be able to go back? These two devices use marketkedly different

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processors at their cores, which leads to marketkedly different prices. In the

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Ultra, you've got the latest 3nm chipset from Qualcomm, the Snapdragon 8 Elite.

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It's not quite as performant as the overclocked variant for Galaxy that

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Qualcomm is shipping to Samsung, but it's within striking distance, about 10%

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off. Meanwhile, over here, we've got a MediaTek chipset that uh

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uh is what, anywhere from like a third

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to a fifth of the performance. Although, we discovered there's a bit more to that

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story than you might think. The Geekbench numbers might look extremely

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tilted in favor of the Ultra, but when running games, okay, the numbers are

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tilted pretty heavily toward the Ultra. That is until both phones reach the

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point of equilibrium where they are limited by their cooling rather than by

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the performance of the processor inside them. Once that happens, they're

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actually not that far off. So, uh,

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last couple speeds and feeds things. The non-Utra has 8 gigs of RAM. The Ultra

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has double that. The non-Utra gets up to 120 Hz on the internal display, while

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the Ultra hits 165 in supported

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applications. And they both have Wi-Fi 6E, unfortunately, instead of Wi-Fi 7,

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which I would expect on a flagship chipset, even if I wouldn't expect it on

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a more, okay, I don't want to say budget because this is still a $700 phone, but

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a more attainable $700 device. Let's

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play with the camera. They both come with this gimmicky camcorder mode. So,

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why don't we try that out first? Tap the touchpad to start and stop recording.

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Oh, the hinge doesn't really like So, you can see it doesn't really like stay.

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Well, it stays. It's hard to show this to you guys cuz it's like a touchpad for

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a second. See, tap the touchpad to start and stop recording. But if I go too far

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Oh, but there's a regular button. That is It's totally necessary that we have

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the touchpad because if we just had that touch button then that wouldn't Oh,

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swipe in any direction to zoom in and out. As someone who actually used a

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camcorder back in the day, this is really not that much like using a

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camcorder. I mean, it's like it in the sense that

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I'm recording a video. What is this fist? What was that fist? Did it stop?

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It stopped recording. Why did it stop recording? Because of the fist. To their

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credit, they designed it with no buttons here or here. So, there's nothing to

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accidentally mash while you're holding it like that. I am just not convinced

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that that is more ergonomic than just doing this and then just also having a

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bigger screen for your viewfinder. Actually, pretty smooth video capture on

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this. And apparently in camcorder mode.

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Oh, look at that. You can like selfie it. Okay, that's pretty cool.

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So, it shows on both screens. I could see, dude, I could see that. I could see

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this being kind of useful. But then, okay. Yeah, this is totally just still

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showing me what I'm recording. So, oh, we haven't even talked about the

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cameras. 50 megapixel wide and 12.6.

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Wow, you're really reaching when you have to include that 6. Okay, so 12.6

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ultra wide on the ultra. And then on the regular, we're 32 megapixels and 8

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megapixels. All right, let's take my uh let's take my shots. Okay,

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the camera on the Ultra is better. Not

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by much. The processing is just a little more natural. Like this blanket is not

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yellow. I promise you that it is this

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color, not this color. Also, like, oh my

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god, look at that oversharpening. This one's honestly a little soft, though,

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too. Both record slow-mo up to 240 frames per second, but you're going to

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need the Ultra if you want to record 8K at 30 FPS. I wouldn't bother personally.

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Uh, but it can do 4K 60 instead of 4K30.

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And then the last big difference between the two is battery life. We weren't

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expecting this part. It's a 4700 mAh

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battery versus a 4500 mAh battery. And

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this is a lesser, not as performant

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chipset. So, you would think, huh, the non-Ultra is going to have a big

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advantage here. But what we found is that whether it's down to the 3nmter

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manufacturing process or just better power saving modes, the Ultra

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dramatically outperformed the non Ultra in our battery longevity test. So make

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of that what you will. That just leaves checking out the speakers. While I'm

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loading this up, by the way, guys, we captured a CT scan of the hinge on this

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phone, and it is super cool. We're going to have that linked down below on Lumaf

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Field's website. Uh so you can really see how they made this just

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outstanding feeling like car door feel

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hinge of a hinge. Freaking love that. Oh

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yeah, and I guess we never talked about how like difficult to make out. Look at

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that. The crease is unless you catch the light, which guys, this is a studio

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environment. I'm literally pointing it at my studio lights to catch it. It's

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really not that noticeable. amplified earpiece speaker on the Ultra

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and on the non-Utra. Love to see that. Oo,

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rookie mistake. The speakers here. If you're right-handed and you hold your

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phone like this.

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Whoopsy doodles. Um, yeah, prefer the

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speaker here. I guess you could just hold it this way, but then your pinky is

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going to match the volume buttons and the lock button potentially.

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Significant distortion at the very loudest levels, but honestly

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up until then, okay clarity and it gets really loud for such a slim phone,

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right? Like remember as a foldable they have to make the two halves like pretty

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freaking slim to make this usable at all. Actually pretty impressed with the

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Ultra. Oh, look at that. They got the speaker

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in the right spot on the non-Utra.

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Again, not bad, especially when you

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