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May 26, 2020 1 min, 32 secs

It looks like Motorola is going to take another crack at reviving the Moto Razr.

Two sources now say a second-gen Moto Razr reboot is on the way, after the embarrassing public flop of the first-gen Razr reboot.

Source #2 is XDA Developers, which, after nailing the specs for the first-gen Razr months ahead of launch, has a set of specs for the second-gen Razr that promise a much higher-end device.

XDA lists the second-gen Moto Razr specs as a "Qualcomm Snapdragon 765, 8GB of RAM, 256GB of internal storage, and a 2,845mAh battery." The Snapdragon 765 will make the phone much more of a high-end device than the first-gen Razr reboot, which sported innards on par with a $400 smartphone, despite being one of the most expensive phones on the market, at $1,500.

4G smartphones with similar-sized batteries, the Pixel 4 (2800mAh) and first-gen Razr (2510mAh), already suffer from poor battery life, and piling the extra power demands of 5G on top of this doesn't sound like a great idea.

The Razr wouldn't be a Razr unless it was very thin, though, and battery life is the primary thing you sacrifice for thinness.

Since the first Razr reboot came with around a ~$1,000 premium over a non-folding smartphone with similar specs, we've got to wonder what the price will be like with that spec sheet.

So far, only the Z Flip has used flexible glass, so it's not clear how readily available it is to other manufacturers.

Samsung reportedly had a big hand in developing the flexible glass on the Z Flip, combining materials and technology from German supplier Schott and Korean supplier Dowoo Insys, which Samsung bought a majority stake in last year.

The whole idea is a throwback to the flip phone days, and in that case it's definitely on-brand for there to be a thousand different versions of the Moto Razr.

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