New RAZR

[Ofcrob2237]

Just a quick poll. Due for a upgrade since April. Should I take the chance on the new Razr or stay look elsewhere? Just looking for opinions. Thanks

[demmo86rt]

I'm personally looking forward to the HTC Rezound (Vigor), not that I'll have the money for one when it comes out, but the three best phones on VZW by the end of November should be the RAZR, Rezound and the Galaxy Nexus.  Really it comes down to personal preference.

[Wildman]

I agree it is personal prefrence because each user looks for diffrent things in a device, I am waiting to see what the HTC Vigor offers when it gets realease

[B33]

Morning all i'm back on after our system was down Via a Truck hitting a Pole an crippling the system for a few hours but on the Vigor i like it as well an it will i think it'll sport Beats Audio so that should make it sound good in the Music Dept. B33

[B33]

Old Post Hum.! Surfacing again Gremlins Maybe! And my Maxx's i like them allot So Mods do think we should Lock this one up.. might be time Too if those Gremlins keep bringing it Back.! or Maybe it's Count---> b33

[mortb]

One thing about the Droid Razr is that you can not remove the battery. At least this is what I was told. I do have to do a battery pull on occasion. However, there might be a workaround. The Bionic also sounds like a sweet phone. I still have a little while before I can upgrade and who knows what else will come tripping down the road between now and then. The only thing that I know for sure is that I am not interested in any eye phone.

[keiffers]

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Ofcrob2237 wrote:

Just a quick poll. Due for a upgrade since April. Should I take the chance on the new Razr or stay look elsewhere? Just looking for opinions. Thanks

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I would say no.....Motorola has not done very well with the Droid X updates and I personally would not want to deal with that all over again. Yeah all electronics have problems, but I have been completely put off of anything to do with Motorola. I had a Moto flip phone a few years back and that phone was so poorly put together that I swore off Moto back then cause you could barely drop that phone 2 inches and the casing would completely fall off (I take care of my phone and this was not because it had been previously dropped....just very poorly designed). I took another chance with the Droid X and while it is a great phone, the service behind it by Moto and VZW (with regards to the Gingerbread update) has been very very poor. After this phone I will never own another Moto product. They are not the quality of Moto radio side (I know Moto mobile is a seperate entity, now owned by Google) which is to me what made Moto a quality electronics player.

There are much better phones than the Razr out there or on the way. As much as I love Android, I think I will probably end up with another iPhone when the contract with the Droid X runs out out. I never had one single problem with my iPhone and it has finally reached the level of being equal to the Android OS. Unless something better is available when I am able to get another phone, unfortunately that is probably where I will end up, since by that time the iPhone 5 will probably be out

[Cody21]

Interesting comparison

http://www.gizmocrunch.com/android/8705-samsung-galaxy-nexus-prime-motorola-droid-razr

[mortb]

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Cody21 wrote:

Interesting comparison

http://www.gizmocrunch.com/android/8705-samsung-galaxy-nexus-prime-motorola-droid-razr

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Checked it out. Seems to be a nose-to-nose race, with the slight edge to Samsung's Galaxy Nexus. Is the battery removeable in the Galaxy Nexus. So far, nothing has been said about the cost. Will it be the same price as the Bionic? Time will tell. Thanks for the link, it was interesting.

[roadie]

Just got a razr and the screen cracked after a short 20 inch drop onto the floor.

Very disappointing.   Doesn't appear that durable despite having a kevlar case and gorilla glass.

Don't recommend this, but if you do get one make sure you get insurance.

[bearone21]

did you drop it as a test or an accident?

[bassplayrguy]

You can crack ANY phone with a 20" drop if it lands right. That's not bad craftsmanship, it's a clumsy phone owner.

[mortb]

Looking at all the communities, Razr has complaints, Bionic has complaints, etc. Yes, some of them are self-inflicted; but something interesting; as it stands right now, the HTC Rezound has no beefs. Hmmm! I'm going to look into this one and compare it with the Galaxy Nexus (which was my first choice) and the Razr (which was a distant second). Plus, all the 4G phones will be updated to Ice Cream Sandwich by February, or so I've heard.

[demmo86rt]

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mortb wrote:

Looking at all the communities, Razr has complaints, Bionic has complaints, etc. Yes, some of them are self-inflicted; but something interesting; as it stands right now, the HTC Rezound has no beefs. Hmmm! I'm going to look into this one and compare it with the Galaxy Nexus (which was my first choice) and the Razr (which was a distant second). Plus, all the 4G phones will be updated to Ice Cream Sandwich by February, or so I've heard.

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I LOVE my new Rezound.  As you put it, no beefs (well, actually, sometimes I have to hit the power button twice to get it to sleep, the first press sometimes takes me to the lockscreen).  

[mortb]

The Galaxy Nexus also sounds like a good one. It will have Ice Cream Sandwich right on it. From what I've seen, it almost completely changes the Android system. It has some really sweet features.

[DieAnne]

I believe that new razr is running gingerbread, and a someone else mentioned, you can't pull the battery on the phone. I dont know how that is going to work if that gingerbread runs the same as like mine on my x. Not too often, but I've had to pull the battery. I was eyeballing the bionic but decided against it because thats running gingerbread too.

[SteelerFan]

You can do a hard reset on the Razr. It is something like holding the power button and one of the volume buttons and it resets it like a battery pull.

[Ann154]

The battery is removable in the Galaxy Nexus destined for Verizon.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXrgIFMfsaQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player

[droidsw]

The TB was going to be "it". Then, the Bionic. Now, the Razr.

Seems like with each new highly anticipated phone release, there is unmitigated disappointment.

Wait, above all things, wait. Give the Razr, or any new phone, time to reveal its warts.

[Aleavitt630]

But it also is missing a lot of good features. I picked the htc rezound because all in all the features were better and it has ibeats. So i have no regrets about my purchase. Getting the rezound tuesday November 29th.