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January 27, 2020 08:40 pm

Motorola on the Razr's Folding Screen: 'Bumps and Lumps Are Normal'

Last week, Motorola's Razr handset went on sale for $1499. Alongside the pre-order launch, Motorola has posted a series of videos on its YouTube channel that are somewhere between brief ads and how-tos for the folding phone. And as you might have guessed from the headline, "Caring for razr" caught The Verge's eye. From the report: In it, Motorola runs through the basics of what you need to know if you have a phone with a plastic folding screen. We thought we knew most of them already based on our experience with the Galaxy Fold, but Motorola's video has one more thing to think about: "Screen is made to bend; bumps and lumps are normal." With the Galaxy Fold, "bumps and lumps" ended up being the first harbingers of a catastrophic screen failure on our review unit. Apparently that's not going to be the case with the Razr. There are lots of ways to build a hinge for a folding plastic screen, and Motorola apparently opted for a design that allows for a little more flex than the original Fold design did. It's also able to close completely flat. Because of that plastic material, the screen is likely to have some kind of crease -- though we weren't really able to see much of one in our original hands-on. We'll obviously need to review the phone in full before we can say ourselves whether the screen has a notable crease, bumps, or lumps.

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