Official Droid Razr Thread

[darth maul]

I came looking for a official thread couldn't find it, so here it is!!!!

Launches Nov. 10th, 2011
Pre Orders ($299 with 2yr) are being taken at VerizonWireless and Radio Shack and ???

Ultra-slim Design
Reinforced Case
Verizon 4G LTE Network
Dual-core 1.2 GHz processor
1 Gigabyte of DDR2 RAM
4.3" Super AMOLED Advanced Display
HDMI/Mirror Mode
Remote Access
16GB internal memory + 16GB microSD card preinstalled
Battery: 1780 mAH Li–Ion

http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/...t&action=viewPhoneDetail&selectedPhoneId=5791

Lapdock 500, 14" screen/keyboard dock for the Droid Razr and future phones:
http://www.theverge.com/products/lapdock-500-pro/3599


http://www.droiddoes.com/#/droidrazr
http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23DROIDRAZR

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIH771kftXQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvyXIt2qf5Y


Updates to this thread/post are coming, hold on...

 

[darth maul]

Being a OG Droid user for almost 2years now, I see I can get any phone from VW, for $30off making the Razr $269. If I wait longer does that discount grow? And if I wait long enough maybe I will get the G Nex...

Anyways voice your opinions here peeps, and for sure when/if you get the Droid Razr.

 

[WelshBloke]

There was this thread link, that's close to what you were looking for.

Poll in post 2 is quite funny.

 

[postmortemIA]

but galaxy nexus is better (bigger) ...


seriously, just this make galaxy more desirable: resolution
pixels: 1280 width vs. 960 width
4.65" vs 4.3"
With 1280 you can see any website without scrolling to the right. and you can zoom many without scrolling to the right.

 

[slayer202]

I'm going to try and stay patient and wait until the nexus is out to make a decision. Seeing them both in person, plus seeing battery benchmarks of them will probably be the deciding factor for me.

 

[Red Storm]

There was this thread link, that's close to what you were looking for.

Poll in post 2 is quite funny.

Looks like the RAZR finally got one vote at least.

Verizon finally getting a Nexus has made it the phone to get for Big Red (IMHO). I'm sure a few ATers will get the RAZR, maybe more.

 

[tedrodai]

I'm going to try and stay patient and wait until the nexus is out to make a decision. Seeing them both in person, plus seeing battery benchmarks of them will probably be the deciding factor for me.

Yeah, me too. Comparing just the hardware/software specs on paper, I think I will like the Nexus better (though I've gone back and forth), but I just can't choose til I see 'em in action.

 

[dguy6789]

In terms of internals the Galaxy Nexus is better but it is made of plastic and doesn't have gorilla glass. I have become pretty tired of plastic phones over the last year or so.

 

[destrekor]

In terms of internals the Galaxy Nexus is better but it is made of plastic and doesn't have gorilla glass. I have become pretty tired of plastic phones over the last year or so.

IIRC, the Droid RAZR is mostly plastic - the kevlar reinforcement is only on the rear (again, iirc).

The Galaxy Nexus has a reinforced screen, it's just not the Gorilla Glass brand (Corning). Samsung confirmed they are using a similar type of glass, but haven't mentioned where it is sourced from (could they have made it themselves?).

I used to think Gorilla Glass was awesome, because my OG Droid survived so much abuse and ended up only received a tiny hairline-style scratch (almost unnoticeable) and a pixel-sized mark, throughout the nearly two years of owning it.
My Droid Bionic, otoh, already looked more beat up after a single drop on day 2 of ownership. My OG Droid was dropped far more often.
So much for GG not requiring a screen protector. The GG in the OG Droid must have been one of the best GG displays ever produced, or I got lucky based on angles of drops or whatnot.

I'll definitely miss metal bodies on phones, because it seems to be a dying trend even in the top-spec market.

I'm still debating whether I want to sell my Bionic and get the Nexus. I didn't want to gamble on Verizon getting an un-gimped Nexus and was fed up with my OG Droid, so I settled on the Bionic. But if the Nexus is worthy, I might go for it. The RAZR looks awesome (the new angled corners as standard in Motorola top-end portables is an annoying look, but whatever) and the thinness is great (will Nexus LTE be thicker than the GSM model? I hope not).... but the battery can't be removed. bah
Yet I still stand behind Motorola as having the best "phones". There might be other issues, but the call quality (speakers, voice compression, etc) is almost always the best among the other brands, and cell reception tends to also rank at the top. And Samsung, I've had problems with before. But I want a pure Google phone!

decisions decisions

 

[tedrodai]

Yeah build quality is one of those things that keeps me interested in the Razr...cause it *sounds* like it has that aspect won pretty easily. Again, gotta see 'em (and battery info) first.

 

[tedrodai]

IIRC, the Droid RAZR is mostly plastic - the kevlar reinforcement is only on the rear (again, iirc).

Reviewers say it uses a stainless steel internal frame along with aluminum accents and kevlar on the back, for whatever that's worth. I usually take fancy words to be purely non-fuctional marketing devices til I get some real-world info though .

 

[bonkers325]

no removable battery = no thanks. it is a nightmare for anyone who roots their phone and installs custom roms. and even if you dont root or hack your phone, you do get random freeze-ups and crashes due to poorly coded programs that may force you to pull the battery.

 

[poofyhairguy]

no removable battery = no thanks. it is a nightmare for anyone who roots their phone and installs custom roms. and even if you dont root or hack your phone, you do get random freeze-ups and crashes due to poorly coded programs that may force you to pull the battery.

This

I got spoiled by the nice battery life of an iPhone, so with my SGS2 I don't even charge anymore. I bought a battery charger with a spare, and I flip batteries when I run out of juice.

 

[you2]

well I'm mix. the nexus doesn't take sd; and the razr battery is not removable. On sprint the nexus has horrible reception relative to the sg2 (nexus). So I think I will wait for the reviews and see if samsung fixes the reception or the razr lives up to expectation. The main reason I did not go with the photon was the thickness (i was going to get the samsung but then it had a ton of reception issues). Now you might ask why am I posting this as those are sprint phones and you are talking abuot verizon phoens. Well - I'm still shopping for a smart phone and my contract is up later this month so I'm free to swithc. Unfortunately I would not be grandfather into unilmited data on verizon which is a huge negative but still if the razr has everythign I dreamed of then I'll go with it; else I will wait for the nexus (nexus 2? for sprint?) comes to sprint.

 

[darth maul]

Razr, has now been rooted.

 

[destrekor]

Razr, has now been rooted.

Get back to me when the bootloader is unlocked.

Without that, no custom kernels and no custom clockspeed governors.

With a custom ROM, AND a custom kernel with great clockspeed governor, I had better battery life on my overclocked OG Droid (OC at 1.2ghz when stock was 550mhz) than I had when either the kernel or ROM was stock.
Stock ROM and stock kernel = meh battery life
Custom ROM and stock kernel = slightly better battery life
Stock ROM and custom kernel (with OC and governor) = even better battery life
Custom and custom = significantly improved battery life*

* with limitations... regular usage, it was great. If you used it non-stop (and I pretty much mean this literally) running high-performance applications, it had far worse battery life.
Low-voltage kernels (with overclock) performed awesome on my Droid. Even abusing the phone with an all-out assault of high-performance apps, I could still typically have great battery life. (for an old-gen Android phone)
Of course, not all phones were capable of the same thing. Voltages required to run at a certain speed varied across the OG Droids, which is the same with all processors.

And then there's the Droid Bionic. With LTE on, it has a devastatingly short battery life if used extensively. Powering on 2 data radios is very demanding. Some future LTE phones will have all the modems in the SoC, versus having LTE off-package, drawing power, plus the SoC (and the other modems in it)... and I can barely wait for those.

 

[_Aurel_]

no removable battery = no thanks. it is a nightmare for anyone who roots their phone and installs custom roms. and even if you dont root or hack your phone, you do get random freeze-ups and crashes due to poorly coded programs that may force you to pull the battery.

Pretty sure they've included a fail-safe method to force-restart it like the iPhone 4.

 

[lothar]

What's the difference between this and the Droid Bionic again?
I haven't really kept up with new phones from Moto or HTC since I got my Galaxy S2 in September.

 

[alent1234]

this one has kevlar

 

[sgrinavi]

Pretty decent review on techcrunch.com


Sorry if this has been pointed out before, but there's NO motoblur on the Razr?

As you should already know, the Motorola Droid RAZR runs Android 2.3.5 Gingerbread and (thank the heavens!) without MotoBLUR in the way. There is still some form of a manufacturer skin running over Android, but it’s not nearly as heavy and annoying as Blur, by any stretch of the imagination.

 

[Red Storm]

I believe it's the new version of Blur.

 

[Anubis]

It has motos crap still they just don't call it blur anymore

 

[Demo24]

The verge wasn't overly thrilled with it, 7.0

http://www.theverge.com/2011/11/7/2543626/motorola-droid-razr-review

I'd like that level of build quality, on a Samsung phone. Really seems like build is the biggest thing it has going for it at the moment. Display is 'ok', camera is 'mediocre', and performance is on average.

 

[slayer202]

It has it's high points but overall I don't think it's enough to beat the nexus. Wonder how long it will take for something else to be top dog

 

[lothar]

this one has kevlar

That's it?