Verizon Droid RAZR review roundup




The originally RAZR was a massive hit for Motorola – a slim and snappy flip phone, with plenty of battery life, good voice connectivity, and a pleasing design, to boot. Seven years after the original RAZR hit the market, Motorola has returned with the Droid RAZR, allegedly the slimmest smartphone on the planet. The Droid RAZR is available on the Verizon Wireless network, for $299.99, provided that you sign up for a two-year data plan. 

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Is the RAZR worth it? Let’s go to the reviews. 

The design 

“[T]his is the first Droid in a while whose build quality is really worth getting excited about,” writes Brent Rose of Gizmodo. “It is insanely thin (7.1mm), which makes the iPhone 4S and Droid Bionic run crying to Jenny Craig. It’s the world’s thinnest smartphone, and I’d bet that it will actually retain that title for a while. For all that thinness, though, it’s not flimsy. Just the opposite, actually. The back is Kevlar (no word yet on bulletproofness, but this thing is just begging to be a viral video superstar), the screen is Gorilla Glass, and the whole thing is splash-proof. So it probably won’t die in the rain or after an accidental drop in the toilet… it feels great to hold, and is just simply killer hardware.” 

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The display

“While its slim profile is certainly stunning, the Droid RAZR’s 4.3-inch Super AMOLED Advanced display is nothing to sneeze at, either,” says Nicole Lee of CNET, in a review that places the RAZR in the pantheon of CNET editor’s choice products. “It’s simply gorgeous, with vibrant and rich colors plus tack sharp details; it reminds us a lot of the AMOLED screens we’ve seen on Samsung handsets. The Droid RAZR does use a Pentile matrix display that reduces the sharpness a tad, but the qHD 960-by-540-pixel resolution reduces that effect considerably. The display is also visible under bright sunlight. We were very impressed by the responsiveness of the display. Overall navigation felt seamless and snappy thanks to the phone’s 1.2GHz dual-core Qualcomm S3 processor. There was virtually no lag when multitasking between different apps.”

The phone

“Voice calling on this phone is excellent, with calls coming through loud with good low end and clarity. Signal reception was also excellent and I almost always got 4G LTE signal in my home or around town in New York City and parts of Connecticut. Callers could hear me loud and clear,” writes Jonathan S. Geller of Boy Genius Report. “As far as the speakerphone performance, it was sometimes hard to hear the other party in a conversation. Audio was choppy and I wish the speaker could get louder. Music playback on the speaker was hollow, tinny and distorted, but oddly, it seemed to get louder than it could during a voice call. All in all, the Droid RAZR is a solid phone for voice calling, though the speakerphone performance fell short.”

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Article source: http://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation/Horizons/2011/1107/Verizon-Droid-RAZR-review-roundup

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