Motorola DROID RAZR Review

The Motorola RAZR is back in DROID form! Measuring only 0.28" thick with a 4.3" super AMOLED screen, The DROID RAZR is the brightest and thinnest smartphone on the market. Kevin Pereira and Candace Bailey take a look at the new $300 phone on Verizon's 4G LTE network for Gadget Pr0n.

What You Need To Know

• The new Droid RAZR is super thin like the original phone from 2004.
• The phone measures only 0.28" thick but still feels very solid.
• It's almost 3" wide so it is bound to feel big if you have smaller hands.
• The back of the phone is coated in Kevlar, which feels great.
• It's nice to see other materials being used in phones.
• The Droid RAZR is super light and weighs only 4.5 ounces.
• There's no removable battery so for those who like to burn through batteries so much you need to remove them, better luck next time.
• The generous 4.3" super AMOLED screen looks great with a gorilla glass panel that's pretty strong.
• The resolution is great with vivid and accurate colors.
• The touch screen was also one of the most responsive yet, but it still has a little of that Android lag.
• The 8 megapixel camera wasn't as good as we hoped.
• After seeing the Samsung Galaxy SII and the iPhone 4S, we were expecting Motorola to step their game up.
• The colors were mostly good although sometimes they were a little washed out.
• Photos taken in low light showed a lot of noise; outside photos were much better as far as image noise was concerned.
• The phone shoots 1080p video but we found it tracking colors when you first start.
• Overall, the video looked a little washed out.
• The 1.2 GHz dual core processor and Verizon's 4G LTE network made the RAZR as fast as we hoped.
• The phone comes with Android's Gingerbread OS with Motorola's UI on top.
• We did enjoy little things like the sleep animation, which goes off like an old CRT television.
• The dual core processor was noticeable when opening apps and switching between tasks.
• During our traditional Angry Birds test, the Droid RAZR routinely launched the game faster than the iPhone 4S.
• With the 4G LTE network, download speeds were pretty great, hitting upwards of 30 megs down.
• The Droid RAZR is as fast as phones come.

Price

• $300 with a Verizon Wireless contract.

Rating

• 4 Seals of Approval out of 5. (How do we rate gadgets?)
• It's super fast with a great screen.
• We really wish the camera was better.

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