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After crashing and burning in a blaze of mediocrity, the once-legendary RAZR lineage has a new successor. The Droid RAZR is a 4G LTE, 1.2 GHz dual-core-CPU-powered, kevlar-constructed wafer of a phone that protects against water.
The Droid RAZR is only 7.1mm thick (although it has significantly thicker bump at the bottom), making it the thinnest of its kind. It also has 1GB RAM, 12.5 hours of talk time on thanks to an 1800 mAh battery, 8 megapixel camera (with 1080p recording), a 4.3-inch qHD Super AMOLED display strengthened with Gorilla Glass and Kevlar fiber, which makes it strong and light weight. But the real gem here is that all parts of the phone — even the electronics — have been coated in a water-resistant material, which will help guard against spills and the elements.
There’s also an added bonus for road warriors, as the Droid RAZR will dock with Moto’s webtop (just like the Atrix 4G), and the MOTOACTV, a smartwatch that can sync with the Droid RAZR for on-the-fly updates and functionality.
From what we can tell, the Droid RAZR like a faster version of the Droid Bionic. Sadly though, there’s no mention of Ice Cream Sandwich as the Android OS powering the Droid RAZR: it is instead running Gingerbread. [Moto Liveblog]
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If its made of Kevlar, does that make it Bulletproof!
I’m afraid the title of thinnest smartphone probably won’t hold up in the UK for the same reason Samsung’s claim did not. 7.1mm? Until you take into account the size of the chin (or is that the top, point remains the same) on this thing based on the pictures from yesterday. Samsung ran into the same problem with their thinnest claims.
Still looks / sounds impressive though, especially the spill resistant thing.
Nice to have a range of extras but when are we going to get a tablet dock. Much prefer that over a laptop dock. Considering tablets got the specs of a smartphone then just make me a dummy 10″ touch screen with extra battery to plug my phone seamlessly into.
I don’t care if it’s the thinnest smartphone ever, I don’t care if it has Kevlar, it’s splash proof and has gorilla glass or if it can gravitate and transform into a robot. It’s not the Razr. I’m extremely dissapointed.
“12.5 hours of talk time on the Verizon network” Remind us why we’re reading Gizmodo UK !
What Motorola didn’t announce was they are bringing the Verizon network to the UK only for this phone.
It’s a bit more of a bitch than that even. I can sort of understand why they don’t bother doing localisations, but what the really obvious missing thing is any sort of communication with the writer. Anything crossposted has a comments section completely disconnected with the writer, because I can’t imagine they’ll bother sitting in two comment threads. And given that the majority of articles are cross-posted, it’s a major problem with the site.
Apologies, that’s my fault — I was hurriedly trying to get this up as I was leaving the office, and didn’t read it closely enough. Am editing now