With a unique aluminum, steel and Kevlar clipped-corner design, the ultra-thin Motorola Droid RAZR arrived on the smartphone landscape as the thinnest 4G smartphone ever designed. And at a wafer thin 7.1 mm (0.28 inches), it truly does offer a skimpy profile. Aside from that super-thin measurement, the handset is average in size and weight when compared to other 4G smartphones. Out-of-the-box, the Motorola Droid RAZR delivers Android’s 2.3.5 Gingerbread operating system, but is one of the few lucky smartphones to be shortlisted for the much-anticipated and highly touted Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich OS.
Powered by a Texas Instruments OMAP 4430 chip set which is comprised of a dual core 1.2 GHz Cortex A9 central processor and PowerVR SGX540 graphics processor, the Motorola Droid RAZR also delivers 1.0 GB of RAM system memory and 16 GB of built-in storage in its hardware package. Total storage can be improved to 32 GB via the built-in microSD port, and a microUSB port is also on board.
The display offered by the skinny Motorola Droid RAZR 4G is 4.30 inches, and Super AMOLED technology is employed to deliver 540 x 960 pixel resolution and 16 million color representation. The display uses standard multitouch capacitive gestures to navigate the device, built-in light and proximity sensors provide auto brightness and auto shut off adjustments, and the screen is protected by a layer of Corning Gorilla Glass which offers glare reduction and scratch resistance.
Many times with skinny phones, battery life is at a premium. That is not the case with the Droid RAZR 4G, which delivers 50% better talk time from a single battery charge than the typical 4G smartphone, at 12.50 hours. The camera package on board the Motorola Droid RAZR includes a front facing 1.3 megapixel chat cam which also provides video call capabilities, and a rear mounted 8.0 megapixel camcorder. That rear device provides autofocus and image stabilizing features, comes equipped with an LED flash, and is capable of video capture at 1080P HD resolution.
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In the multimedia package, a proprietary YouTube player is pre-installed, and the on board music player supports all major audio file formats, filters by artist, album and play lists, and provides background playback and album art cover features. The onboard web browser supports both Flash and HTML browsing, and wireless connectivity is offered by both Wi-Fi 802.11 b, g, n channels and Bluetooth 4.0 EDR support. Video out is offered through microHDMI (Type D) wired and DLNA wireless technologies.
