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Posted: 2011-10-19 01:42

The Motorola Droid Razr / Motorola Razr is very thin Android smartphone with a 4.3 inch touch display. With only 7.1 mm depth, it is one of the thinnest smartphones available regardless of display size. The RAZR will be called DROID RAZR when sold by Verizon in the US and the network bands are CDMA800, CDMA900, CDMA2000, LTE 700. The GSM version named Motorola RAZR will have GSM network bands 850/900/1800/1900, 3G 900/2100, UMTS, HSDPA. Motorola claims that the RAZR is the "world's thinnest 4G LTE smartphone". Technically LTE is not 4G which makes the claim is easy to dispute.

A 7.1 mm depth would have been very, very thin if that was the case. As a comparison, the popular Samsung Galaxy S II has a depth of 8.49mm. As you can see from the product images, the thickest part of the phone is on top where the camera are located. On the other side, other companies do the same. Sony Ericsson claims the Xperia Arc is only 8.7 mm thick but forget to menation that these measurements are done where the phone is at its thinnest. Motorola are most likely doing the same thing. As we often do when the specifications seems to be good to be true, we validate them by calculate the dimension based on the official product images. That is easy to do. If 239 pixels is the same as the width 68.9 mm and 448 pixel height is the same as the 130.7 mm height, our measurement of 37 and 25 pixels tells us that the smallest part is 7.1 mm thin and the thickest part is approximately 10.8 mm. In our opinion, it will be wrong to advertise the Motorola Razr as the worlds thinnest 4G LTE phone when for example the Samsung Galaxy S II LTE is thinner. 

Wrong dimentions aside. Motorola are highlighting some of the nice features of the RAZR by mentioning a 1.2 GHz dual core processor, Corning Gorilla Glass, Kevlar Strong, Super AMOLED Advanced display, water-repellent nanocoating and a Smart Actions App which helps you save battery by changing phone settings during time intervals or based on current location. What's interesting with these specs are the Kevlar material used on the back cover and the nanocoating. The Motorola RAZR is "armed with Kevlar for extreme strength". Our guess is that Kevlar is used on the back side of the phone only. Kevlar is often used in places where extreme strength and low weight is required. It is 5 times stronger than steel on an equal weight basis. The nanocoating makes the RAZR water repellent and it even protect internal electronics against everyday spills. RAZR has not got an official IP code so we would not want to test the protection by pooring water over the phone.

Motorola RAZR highlights

• Size: 130.7 x 68.9 x 7.1 (10. mm
• Weight: 127 gram
• 4.3 inch display, 540 x 960 pixel resolution, 16 million colours, Super AMOLED Advanced
• Networks
  • DROID RAZR: CDMA 800/1900, 1xEV-DO rev. A, LTE
  • RAZR: GSM 850/900/1800/1900, WCDMA 900/2100, HSPA
• Wi-Fi b/g/n
• 8 megapixel camera
• 1080p HD video capture main camera, 720p HD front camera
• A-GPS
• 1.2 GHz dual core processor
• 1780 mAh battery
• Talk time: 12.5 hours (DROID RAZR), 9 hours (RAZR)
• Standby time: 8.5 days (DROID RAZR), 11 days (RAZR)
• DLNA, HDMI, USB 2
• 3.5 mm audio jack
• Android 2.3.5 Gingerbread
• 1 GB RAM. 16 GB internal storage plus an included 16 GB microSD card

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