Droid RAZR

Droid Razr

Motorola Droid Razr Review

• Design: Thinnest 4g Lte Smartphone
• Construction: Droid Strong, Razr Sharp
• Motocast™: Infinite Access To Limitless Libraries
• Network Speed: Be Ferociously Fast
• Processor: Dual-Core To Do More
• Display: Be Detail Oriented
• Camera: Never Miss A Moment
• Smart Actions: Unload Your Workload
• Security: Your Secrets Are Safe
• Webtop: Command More
• Audio: Hear And Be Heard
• Music Player: Do More Than Just Listen
• Gallery: Every Photo In One Spot
• Netflix: Watch Wherever
• Video Capture: See It (And Hear It) To Believe It
• Google Navigation: With You Every Step Of The Way
• Video Chat: See Things Eye To Eye
• Mirror Mode: Make Your Phone A Tv Star

The good: The Motorola Droid Razr has an attractive, slim, and lightweight design that is also water repellent and scratch resistant. It has a fantastic 4.3-inch Super AMOLED Advanced display, a 1.2GHz dual-core processor, Verizon's 4G/LTE speeds, plenty of multimedia features, corporate and government grade security, Webtop functionality, and decent battery life.

The bad: The Motorola Droid Razr's large size might feel awkward in small hands; we expected better picture quality from its 8-megapixel camera; and the battery is not removable.

The bottom line: With its razor-thin design, jam-packed features, and blazing speed, the Motorola Droid Razr is easily one of the year's top Android smartphones.

We've also updated the display portion of the review after closer comparison with competing handsets.

When the Motorola Razr first debuted in 2004, it made headlines for its stunningly thin profile. Indeed, the Razr was the impetus behind the slim phone trend that dominated the industry for years. In 2009, Motorola came back swinging when it embraced the Android OS and launched the Motorola Droid. The Droid became the ultimate anti-iPhone with its "Droid Does" advertising campaign, and catapulted Android to the masses. Enter the Droid Razr. The Droid Razr is just as its name suggests: a powerful Droid smartphone packaged in the superskinny Razr design. Design

Motorola claims that the Droid Razr is the thinnest phone in the world, and while we can't prove that, we're inclined to believe it's true. The Kevlar backing won't make the phone bullet-resistant, but Motorola did seek to make the Droid Razr as durable as it could. The Droid Razr does use a Pentile matrix display, so images are not as smooth as on those same Samsung phones. Overall navigation felt seamless and snappy thanks to the phone's 1.2GHz dual-core TI OMAP 4430 processor. On the right spine are two skinny volume controls plus a silver power/screen lock key. On the top of the phone are the 3.5mm headset port and the Micro-USB and Micro-HDMI ports. Sitting above the display is a front-facing 1.3-megapixel camera with 720p HD video capability.

The Motorola Droid Razr ships with Android 2.3.5 Gingerbread and a refined and lightweight version of MotoBlur that we've already seen in other Motorola handsets like the Atrix 2 and the Droid Bionic. It has up to five customizable home screens, and at the bottom row of the home screen are shortcuts to the phone dialer, the messaging inbox, the camera app, and the main menu. Features

As you might expect, the Droid Razr supports all of Google's apps and services, and most of them come preinstalled: Gmail, Google Talk, Google Search with Voice, Google Maps with Navigation, Google Books, Places, Latitude, and YouTube. Motorola really packed the Droid Razr to the gills with plenty of additional apps to enrich your smartphone experience. Motorola is aiming right at the BlackBerry when it claims that the Droid Razr is ready for both corporate and government usage. Other security features include remote wipe, PIN lock, SD card and device encryption, remote enable/disable of camera and Wi-Fi, and more.

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