The Razr Ultra proves flip phones are almost ready
On this episode of The Vergecast, The Verge 's Allison Johnson joins the show to talk about her review of Motorola's new Razr Ultra, one of the most compelling (and best-looking) flip phones we've yet tested. Allison explains what Motorola got right, what's not quite ready, and why she's not quite ready to sell everyone on a flip phone. She also talks about Motorola's approach to AI, which is sometimes very clever and sometimes just flat out bad.
After that, The Verge 's Alex Heath talks us through the recent history of Snap, and why the company still seems unable to find its footing as a business. Snapchat is more popular than ever, especially among young users, but hasn't managed to turn that into the perpetual money machine it needs in order to fund its ambitious augmented reality projects. That, plus some of the information we're hearing about WhatsApp in the ongoing Meta trial, makes us wonder: is there a business in chat? What does it mean that nobody can figure out how to make money from helping people talk to each other? And what happens when companies start sticking ads in our chats?
Finally, we answer a question from the Vergecast Hotline (call 866-VERGE11 or email vergecast@theverge.com!) about another possibility for Google Chrome. The US government wants to make Google sell its massively popular browser; what if Google just shut it down instead?
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