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Motorola’s Droid RAZR HD and RAZR MAXX HD will be available on Oct. 18th for Verizon for $200 and $300. [Verizon]

Motorola Droid RAZR M Review: The Best Non-Giant Android Phone

Android phones have been getting bigger and bigger, and that’s not everyone’s cup of tea. As Motorola said at unveiling of the Droid RAZR M, “Some people just want a smaller phone.” Does this phone, designed to fill that niche, still deliver on performance? What Is It? A relatively small, thin, $100 Android phone that…

Motorola Droid RAZR HD: Beauty in a Kevlar Coat

We haven’t seen a flagship device from Verizon and Motorola since the last Droid RAZR was announced nearly a year ago. A case could be made for the RAZR MAXX, announced at CES, but Moto needed something new and splashy to compete with the HTC One X and the Samsung Galaxy S III. https://gizmodo.com/motorola-droid-razr-lightning-review-faster-thinner-5856947 The…

Motorola’s Secret Weapon for Its Next Android Phone Is a Complete Edge-to-Edge Screen?

The Motorola phones that have leaked before its announcement event next week have mostly been varying degrees of meh. Droid Razr somethin’ or another who cares. How are they going to make some noise? How about a complete edge-to-edge screen, meaning the entire front of the device is the display? Whoa. https://gizmodo.com/new-motorola-droid-razr-hd-images-leaked-in-youtube-vid-5936159 Bloomberg is reporting…

New Motorola Droid Razr HD Images Leaked in YouTube Videos?

Is this the new phone Motorola is going to be showing off on September 5th? Maybe. The image above is taken from video tutorials that appeared on YouTube, showing what seems to be a new Motorola handset. The account, revowii, has been taken down in its entirety. That could mean a few things—like it belonged…

Do You Remember Your First Mobile Phone?

These were my dumb phones. In fact other than a short-lived Treo (returned!) this is every phone I owned prior to the first iPhone. I know, I know. I should have sent them to soldiers. But I didn’t. Earlier today, all of us from Gizmodo were talking about how much money we used to pay…

Why Is Verizon Advertising a Phone from 9 Years Ago?

Remember the original RAZR? It was super-thin, super-overpriced, and commanded the gadget-lust of a whole generation. It often shattered when dropped—a sort of proto-iPhone. That was nearly a decade ago. So why is Verizon still using the promotional envelopes? Brooke Hammerling spotted this bizarre choice of packaging today while checking her mail. Why is the…

New Google Maps Makes Taking the Bus Easier

Public transit riders used to have to just settle for the route that Google Maps dictated—no discussion, no sharing of feelings, nothing. But, the newest iteration of Maps will tailor the route to your preferences while looking gorgeous on Ice Cream Sandwich. With version 6.5, Maps now allows the user to select his preferred method…

The Full List of Verizon Phones Getting Ice Cream Sandwich

Verizon has finally let a bunch of smartphone and tablet owners exhale, giving up the full list of current devices that will be getting the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update. There’s 14 devices in all. See if yours made the cut. Currently the Galaxy Nexus is the only Verzion phone with Ice Creamy goodness,…

Motorola Droid 4 and RAZR MAXX Hands On: Two Giant Leaps for Droidkind

I just copped a major feel on the new Motorola Droid 4 and the Droid RAZR MAXX. I’m going to cut right to the chase: they both carry on the traditions of their ancestors, but improve on them in ways that actually matter. That the Droid 4 is the best of its lineage was probably…

Motorola Razr Maxx: An Android Phone With a Battery That Might Actually Last You a Whole Day

We really liked Motorola’s Droid RAZR. It was crazy-thin, water-tight, and had a form factor we’d never seen. Too bad its battery life was sub-awesome. The RAZR MAXX is a little thicker, but it should keep you untethered from outlets ’till bedtime. https://gizmodo.com/motorola-droid-razr-lightning-review-faster-thinner-5856947 21 hours on a single charge: That’s the promise of the Droid…

The Droid 4 Looks Like a Big RAZR and Will Be Here Soon

We’ve been expecting Motorola’s Droid 4 for a while, but now official images and specs have leaked into the wild. And it looks a lot like a bigger version of the recent RAZR. https://gizmodo.com/motorola-droid-razr-lightning-review-faster-thinner-5856947 In terms of specs, Droid Life report that we can expect: a 4-inch screen (though it’s not clear if it’s LCD…

Motorola Droid RAZR Is Already Rooted—With a How To

Day One for the new RAZR and it’s already been hacked to bits by the teardown junkies. Now it’s been rooted, too. https://gizmodo.com/motorola-razr-teardown-skinny-phone-meet-big-saw-5858716/ The crew over at the Droid Forums has a working root that’ll get you up and running on Android 2.3.5 Gingerbread, which is awesome. But it comes with some caveats: There’s no…

Motorola Droid RAZR Lightning Review: Faster, Thinner, Prettier—Like a Supermodel In a Rocket

Remember when the Droid Bionic was the best Android phone on Verizon? Poor Bionic: A month and a half goes by and here comes Droid RAZR, which is similar to the Bionic, but better in virtually every way. https://gizmodo.com/motorola-droid-bionic-review-its-superfast-but-5839466 Like When I said the RAZR was better than the Bionic in almost every way, I…

Motorola Droid RAZR: Thinnest of All. Kevlar. Splashproof. Yes.

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. https://gizmodo.com/oh-god-the-motorola-razr-is-back-with-android-on-board-5850594 The Droid RAZR is only 7.1mm thick (although it has significantly thicker bump at the bottom), making it the thinnest of its…

We’re Live at Motorola, Ready to Peep This New RAZR. And More???

Oh man oh man oh man, we’re live in Midtown Manhattan, waiting with bated breath, hoping to check out the new Motorola RAZR. Wait, why are we liveblogging this? A few reasons. https://gizmodo.com/oh-god-the-motorola-razr-is-back-with-android-on-board-5850594 1) If you’ll recall, the RAZR was one of the most successful cellphones of all time, selling more than 130 million handsets.…

Oh God the Motorola RAZR Is Back (with Android on Board)

This morning Motorola threw up a teaser page for a new phone being revealed tomorrow. Droid-Life did a little sleuth work and pieced together none other than the very svelte RAZR reboot with Droid branding. Looks sharp, indeed. We saw the first leaks of this sucker last month, and it sounds like a thinner, faster,…

iPhone, Meet Razr: The Ten Most Popular Phones in the Country

I have to admit I was surprised at the iPhone and BlackBerry 8300 series did so well here—the two most popular handsets in the country, going into 2010, are full-fledged smartphones. Also surprising: people still buy Razrs. Razrs! Motorola’s fall from grace started when they couldn’t come up with a serious successor to the megapopular…

First Smartphones, Now Feature Phones: Motorola Leaks More 2009 Handsets

Yesterday’s purported renders of Motorola’s 2009 smartphone line seemed plausible, but these less adventurous feature phone renders are almost too safe to be fake. Behold, the Son of Razr! https://gizmodo.com/motorola-2009-smartphones-leaked-looking-sharp-5112131 Obviously this slider, codenamed Niagra, is a pretty large departure from the Razr tradition—it’s a slider, after all. But its lineage would appear to be…

Moto RAZR Stops Bullet, Saves Man’s Life

This may be the first good news Motorola’s had in a long while: A feller named RJ Richard down in the New Orleans suburb of St. Tammany Parish was on his lawnmower in his backyard when something struck him hard on the chest. When he pulled his Moto RAZR out of his breast pocket to…