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Motorola RAZR Review
Ah! The name RAZR. It takes us back to the sunny days of 2004 and the original iconic RAZR phone. Bliss was it in that dawn to be thin, but to be the thinnest phone in the world was very heaven! But in 2011, when phones like the Galaxy Nexus and the HTC Sensation XL prove that big is the new small, what place is there for a new RAZR phone? Motorola have moved with the times of course, and the new RAZR is not just the thinnest smartphone in town, but it's also one of the most highly powered ones. In fact, when you compare the RAZR with other phones in the same price bracket, it's hard to find any feature that's been missed. The RAZR excels in all departments. But we're getting a little ahead of ourselves. Let's pause for a moment to admire the hardware. Pick up the phone. Feel its weight in your hand. It's not a lightweight phone; it's not a small one either. It feels purposeful and powerful. Yet the thinness - it's so thin, even allowing for the fact that the camera projects beyond the official 7.1mm you'll read in the specs. The phone is constructed from Kevlar fibre with diamond-cut accents and Gorilla Glass to protect the screen. What's Kevlar, you ask? It's a synthetic material used in body armour that's 5 times stronger than steel. Impressed yet? The RAZR isn't just about looks. It's about power. Running Android 2.3.5 (Gingerbread) and powered by a dual-core 1.2GHz processor and a massive 1GB of RAM, it's more powerful than most laptops were at the time of the original RAZR phone. That makes the user interface respond pretty instantaneously to the touch, and it runs apps without a hitch. The user interface is built on standard Android plus Motorola's customisations. These may not be in the same league as HTC Sense, but they're an improvement on raw Android. The virtual keyboards available include a standard multi-touch keyboard and a Swype-enabled one. The screen on the RAZR is pretty big by any standards. Sized at 4.3 inches with an incredible 540 x 960 pixel resolution, it uses Super AMOLED technology to give a very bright, pinsharp display. The camera is excellent too. With 8 megapixels, autofocus and an LED flash, it's a match for most camera phones. The autofocus is fast, but exposure settings don't always give perfect colour balance. Video is above average, recording at full HD (1080p) resolution, without too much jerkiness being apparent. The RAZR has GPS of course, powered by Google Maps, with Street View and Navigation included. The media player is a little different from most Android phones. Motorola have customised it, giving easy access to internet radio as well as to your own music collection. Connectivity options are all present, including Wi-Fi and Bluetooth for wireless connections, USB for those who prefer wires, and a 3.5mm headphone jack and a HDMI port for connecting to media devices. DLNA is supported. The phone handles quadband GSM and 3G connections, making it a global phone, and HSDPA handles data at up to 14.4Mbps download. The web browser supports Flash and is very fast at rendering web pages. There are a few other points worth noting. The quality of voice calls is above average, thanks to a noise-cancelling second microphone. And the phone seems to hold a signal very well too. Battery life is always a challenge on Android smartphones, but the Droid RAZR comes with a monster 1780mAh battery to help it get through the day. This is significantly larger than most comparable phones, so even though the RAZR is power-hungry, it should still last a minimum of a day between charges, and careful users should be able to get a lot more. The Motorola RAZR is an outstanding phone in so many ways, even if there are a few minor idiosyncrasies, like the projecting bulge of the camera. It seems to us that Motorola is working really hard to reinvent itself after an absence of several years as a serious mobile phone manufacturer. The new Google involvement is no doubt driving this. It realises that it has to over-deliver in order to win back users' confidence, and that this process may take some time. Not many buyers are yet ready to risk a Motorola, so there won't be many of these new Droid RAZR phones in evidence, but if you're prepared to take a risk, you'll probably be blown away in the same way that we've been. And you'll be grabbing yourself a bargain too if you can find it cheaper than the rival Samsung Galaxy S2.
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