Why this Phone? Besides the good price, the Razer M has some very good features (and a couple of clunkers, but nothing is perfect). Here are the specs: It weighs in at an impressive 4.44 ounces, is water (splash) proof, has a 4.3" edge to edge screen with 540x960 pixels. It uses the latest Super AMOLED advanced graphics on the Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 plus 1.5MHz Dual Core processor. It has scratch resistant Gorrilla glass screen with a back made of Kevlar fiber. The Razr M gets a great 20 hours of talk time (you don't have to charge it every night!) It has 1GB System memory and 8GB of storage for your pictures, apps, music, video etc. It has a micro SD card slot so you can store up to an additional 32GB (we put a 8GB card in ours - dirt cheap at $10). The camera is an 8 Megapixal autofocus with LED flash (the least impressive item). It has a small 0.3 Megapixel front facing camera (real poor resolution!) It came out in September so it is a relatively new phone that won't be outdated as fast. The size is also very nice. We looked at the Razr HD and Razer Maxx, but honestly they were too big for the pocket. They did have great screens.
Testing it out we've found the voice quality to be excellent and the battery as good as advertised. There are aspects of the Jelly Bean operating system that are infuriating, but that's not Motorola's (or Verizon's) fault. For some reason Google got rid of the speed dialing feature in the default dialer app. Easily taken care of by downloading a free dialer app (we use Dialer One). That's the great thing about smart android phones: Don't like something I'm absolutely sure that there is an app for that! The screen is very nice looking and doesn't bleed out in sunlight as bad as my old PRO, but it still a bit hard to read in direct sun situations. I do like the new 3 circle system info (see it in the picture above) that lets you know the time, any voicemail, emails, temperature and battery life at a glance. I moved all my apps from my Droid Pro to the new phone using the MyBackup Pro app ($2.99). It works slick and saved me tons of time. I also now have a backup of all my apps and data on my SD card.
We briefly thought about iPhones, but my invested time in droids (and gmail stuff) made that a non starter. Like most apple products they are pricey and not very flexible (the opposite of what we purchased). I have my outlook calendar/contacts/tasks going to my gmail stuff and thus to my phone. That is VERY important to my business. This can be done on an iPhone, but it would require more work and some expense. Set up on the Razer M was a breeze. I put in my account info for email and then used MyBackup Pro for apps. It took less then an hour and was fairly painless. The phone's camera is just as bad as that in my Droid Pro. I'm not sure why Motorola doesn't make a good camera, but they don't. iPhones certainly win that contest. On every other front, I've found the Droids from Motorola to be as good as, or even superior to the iPhone.
As we learn more and try out more items on our phones we'll keep you up to date!
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