Motorola Droid Razr
If you like your phones thin and good looking, the Motorola Droid Razr might be your next smartphone. At just a quarter of an inch thick through most of its length, the phone is remarkably thin. The design brings in a non-removable battery, a Gorilla Glass screen and a woven Kevlar back. Together, they look great and make a package that slips into a pocket pretty easily, even if it’s a bit wide. It’s wide because they haven’t yet figured out how to fold a 4.3” super AMOLED display in half. It is bright and beautiful, though. Wallpapers, photos and videos display crisply and quickly thanks to 4G LTE network speeds. My tech friends express concern about the non-removable status of the battery. I get that. My experiments with battery life have been left me with a positive impression, though, due to the effect of the battery extender app loaded on the phone. Activate the app and enable the rules and your phone will largely go to sleep when you are not using it. An app like this does not help anyone who uses their phone all the time. If you are using the phone a lot, you’ll see that battery life is measured in just hours. If, however, you are more typical, the battery extender app keeps the phone from going dead when you are not actually using it. I like that. The camera is is 8MP and shoots HD video, although it doesn’t seem to do a stellar job of shooting either. Photos were disappointingly muddy and the camera response was slow to find focus and fire. As a smart phone, it does seem to do a good job of making phone calls. I never found it difficult to get a signal and either make or receive calls and they sounded good. I’ll attribute that to the 4G chip set. as I spend most of my time in areas with good 4G coverage and it seems to do a great job of getting into buildings I sometimes have trouble with on 3G.