SO many of these posts are dead on. I don't think any of these three phones are a home run for everyone and surely not solid enough for me to preorder one. I want to see the two side by side and play with both. I fall somewhere in the middle where if the Razr and Gnex were combined, it would be a no brainer. As it stands I can only lean towards one or the other.
Hardware and reliability is what sold me on the RAZR. Had an OG Droid and have been rocking my Droid X since launch. Both trouble free.
I don't trust HTC after their security fiasco and they are famous for miserable batter life.
Don't really care for Sammy hardware and I still think first gen ICS is gonna be buggy for a while.
Lack of vanilla Android doesn't bother me because I will run GO Launcher and bloat can be frozen.
RAZR it is.
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Is blur even on the razr?
I've seen a review that said it wasn't on this phone.
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Was the same, but dealing with my Pos thunderbolt and its terrible radios, causing missed calls, dropped data connection,etc made me really look at the fundamentals.
Doesn't matter software wise, I need a smartphone that can reliably make and receive calls.
And an internet connected phone means nothing if the data signal constantly goes out leaving you stuck a 1x or worse.
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Was the same, but dealing with my Pos thunderbolt and its terrible radios, causing missed calls, dropped data connection,etc made me really look at the fundamentals.
Doesn't matter software wise, I need a smartphone that can reliably make and receive calls.
And an internet connected phone means nothing if the data signal constantly goes out leaving you stuck a 1x or worse.
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The thing that makes me smile about your post is the question: why did you buy a smart phone? Case in point was that about two years ago, my Wife and I took advantage of the D1 bogo deal. Mine was fine, hers made absolutely horrible connections. When she spoke to me it sounded like she was in a rock slide!!! So we took it back to the VZW phone store and asked for a replacement (this was after one week btw), and rep tried to tell me: "... well, the phone's primary function is data, not phone calls..."!!! I said, "excuse me, this is a phone right? Sold at the Verizon PHONE store, right?" After 30 minutes of this nonsense, they finally gave my wife a new phone.
Is the Droid RAZR really global? On the Verizon Wireless page, it lists just LTE and CDMA. In other countries, the RAZR is quad-band GSM, but do we know the Verizon Droid RAZR is?Several things brought me to the RAZR.
Global = Travel to Europe several times a year. This is a definite plus.
The thing that makes me smile about your post is the question: why did you buy a smart phone? Case in point was that about two years ago, my Wife and I took advantage of the D1 bogo deal. Mine was fine, hers made absolutely horrible connections. When she spoke to me it sounded like she was in a rock slide!!! So we took it back to the VZW phone store and asked for a replacement (this was after one week btw), and rep tried to tell me: "... well, the phone's primary function is data, not phone calls..."!!! I said, "excuse me, this is a phone right? Sold at the Verizon PHONE store, right?" After 30 minutes of this nonsense, they finally gave my wife a new phone.
Agreed. Loved my OG Droid and the sole problem I had with it were the headphone jacks on the first ones tended to get loose, which they fixed by the D2. I was fortunate enough to get a rep who let me swap out an OG for a Droid 2 after being able to successfully convince him that, while I loved my OG, it didn't have the oomph to handle Froyo once it was pushed to it. Been thrilled with my D2 ever since. Loved the build quality on both and my Bionic during my brief time with it. It looks like the tradition will continue with the leaked images of the Droid 4 recently shown. Glad to see they greatly improved the physical keyboard. Anyway, in the end, much as I use my phone for various data (thank goodness for unlimited data grandfathering), it's a phone first and needs to be a great phone for making and receiving calls clearly first and foremost. I've always been impressed with that aspect from Motorola.
