Moto Razr reboot images leak, and they seem kind of suspicious [Update: More pics!]

Update 6:30pm ET: Evan Blass has dropped even more images of the new Razr on his private Twitter account (which you can see above), and these are much more revealing than the initially-published images. We actually get clear views of the inner and outer screen now, which shows clearly that, yes, the inside of the phone houses one long, skinny, flexible display.

A notch at the top houses the earpiece and front facing camera, and there's a complicated-looking hinge mechanism in the middle. The display looks unlike anything else on the market, with an absolutely wild curve happening on the top and bottom edges of the display. The aspect ratio is tall and skinny—it seems like it's way taller than 21:9, but the angled images make it hard to tell exactly. If we take a rough measurement of the Motorola's patent drawings, which provide a front view, we get 23:9.

So far, this looks like a very faithful recreation of the original Razr phone, and this new incarnation does really come to market, is that a good design? Is a tall, skinny screen really appropriate for Android, which was primarily designed for 16:9 devices? Will that bottom chin get in the way of navigation gestures or buttons, which in a modern smartphone now live at the very bottom of the screen?

Again, I'm getting very strong "too good to be true" vibes here. Did Motorola really out-design its much larger, much better-funded competition this badly? The difference between this design and pie-in-the-sky fan renders (which Motorola allegedly passed off as its own work, by the way) is basically zero. It's hard to imagine a mid-range phone maker like Motorola pulling off something like this before any of the bigger companies.

Original Story 12:46pm ET:

Motorola is resurrecting the Razr phone on November 13, with official invites already out there for the press. No launch happens without the Internet getting an early peek into the proceedings, and today we're getting news from venerable leaker Evan Blass and the Dutch site Mobielkopen, which both independently dropped Razr images on the Web today.

First off, well, the phone looks like a Razr. The device has the form factor of a clamshell flip phone. When closed, there's a small screen on the front and a camera bump for the primary lens. The Razr's trademark chin is back, and this time it houses what looks like a fingerprint reader on the front and a USB-C port on the bottom edge. Disappointingly, there is no fully exposed picture of the inside of the device, but the pictures do confirm this as a flexible display phone, since you can just barely make out a continuous, top-to-bottom display in one photo.

A lot about these images is suspicious, though, and I don't mean their authenticity. I'm talking about Motorola's exact plans for the foldable Razr phone. A foldable Razr phone is supposed to be unveiled next month, right? So then why are these images so… mysterious? Usually, leaked images are official media produced by the phone manufacturer meant for promotional use on places like its website or on retail sites. These leaked Galaxy Note 10 images from July are a good example: you get strRead More – Source