{"id":323555,"date":"2019-04-29T18:07:49","date_gmt":"2019-04-29T22:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/uncategorized\/leak-motorolas-folding-phone-looks-like-an-old-school-flip-phone.php"},"modified":"2019-04-29T18:07:49","modified_gmt":"2019-04-29T22:07:49","slug":"leak-motorolas-folding-phone-looks-like-an-old-school-flip-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/futurism\/leak-motorolas-folding-phone-looks-like-an-old-school-flip-phone.php","title":{"rendered":"Leak: Motorola\u2019s Folding Phone Looks Like an Old-School Flip Phone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-assets.futurism.com\/2019\/04\/leak-motorola-razr-folding-phone1-300x158.png\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"New images appeared in a since-deleted post on Chinese social media network Weibo of Motorola's upcoming folding RAZR smartphone.\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div><h2>Flip Out<\/h2><p><em>The Verge<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2019\/4\/29\/18522332\/motorola-razr-v4-folding-screen-press-renders-images-design-screen-notch\">reports that<\/a>&nbsp;new images&nbsp;have leaked on Chinese social media of Motorola&rsquo;s folding phone, the RAZR V4.<\/p><p>We don&rsquo;t know much about the hotly anticipated device yet. But we do know that the RAZR V4 will likely fold vertically like a traditional flip phone rather than horizontally like Samsung&rsquo;s delayed Galaxy Fold&nbsp;&mdash;&nbsp;a smartphone that uses folding to&nbsp;become even smaller, in other words,&nbsp;rather than a tablet that can fit in your pocket.<\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-158534\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-assets.futurism.com\/2019\/04\/new-motorola-razr-2019-leaks-out-102-1200x675.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p><h2>Nostalgia Sells<\/h2><p>But is this really the revival of the popular RAZR flip phones that were first introduced in 2004? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2019\/1\/21\/18191330\/motorola-razr-lenovo-remake-foldable-smartphone\">Patents filed back in January<\/a> seem to support the idea that the leaked images could in fact be Motorola&rsquo;s upcoming design. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/return-of-the-razrwith-a-foldable-screen-and-1-500-price-11547643601?mod=e2twd\"><em>Wall Street Journal&nbsp;<\/em>previously suggested<\/a> it will go on sale for $1,500.<\/p><p>It&rsquo;s arguably not the best time to release a folding device meant for everyday consumers. Review units of Samsung&rsquo;s folding tablet broke earlier this month after only a single dNotificationsay of testing, thanks to a fragile hinge design and a <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/samsung-response-breaking-galaxy-fold\">mysterious protective layer<\/a> covering the device&rsquo;s screen. Samsung has since delayed the launch of the device, <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/samsung-galaxy-fold-admit-improvements\">admitting<\/a> that it &ldquo;needs further improvements.&rdquo;<\/p><p><strong>READ MORE:&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2019\/4\/29\/18522332\/motorola-razr-v4-folding-screen-press-renders-images-design-screen-notch\">Motorola&rsquo;s vertically folding RAZR shown in leaked renders<\/a> [<em>The Verge<\/em>]<strong><br><\/strong><\/p><p><strong>More on folding phones:<\/strong>&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/samsung-galaxy-fold-admit-improvements\">Samsung Admits Its Folding Smartphone &ldquo;Needs Further Improvements&rdquo;<\/a><\/em><\/p><p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/leak-motorola-razr-folding-phone\/\">Leak: Motorola&rsquo;s Folding Phone Looks Like an Old-School Flip Phone<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\">Futurism<\/a>.<\/p><p>Read the original post:<br><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/leak-motorola-razr-folding-phone\/\" title=\"Leak: Motorola&rsquo;s Folding Phone Looks Like an Old-School Flip Phone\">Leak: Motorola&rsquo;s Folding Phone Looks Like an Old-School Flip Phone<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Flip Out The Verge reports that \u00a0new images\u00a0have leaked on Chinese social media of Motorola\u2019s folding phone, the RAZR V4.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/futurism\/leak-motorolas-folding-phone-looks-like-an-old-school-flip-phone.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-323555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323555"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}