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Motorola Reinvents the RAZR

Posted by Soulskill on from the remember-when-clamshells-were-hip dept.

zacharye writes with news that Motorola has reinvented their popular RAZR clam-shell phone as an Android smartphone. The new device is 4G LTE-capable and 7.1mm thick, and it contains "a 1.2GHz dual-core TI OMAP processor, a 4.3-inch qHD Super AMOLED display, 1GB of RAM, an 8-megapixel camera with 1080p HD video capture, an LED flash, an HDMI-out port, noise cancellation capabilities, 16GB of built-in storage and a 16GB microSD card pre-installed." iFixit did a teardown of the phone, finding that the construction necessary for such thinness will make repairs problematic.

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  1. Repair a smartphone?? by John+Hasler · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Aren't they meant to be disposable? I thought you just threw them away when they became obsolete after six months.

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    1. Re:Repair a smartphone?? by Anonymus · · Score: 5, Insightful

      The RAZR was not even remotely a smart phone. In fact, if anything is deserving of the term dumb phone, it does. The original Razr was essentially one of the lowest quality cell phones you can imagine, with out-of-date technology and terrible software design, combined with a gargantuan marketing blitz (take a look at some movies and television shows, and even celebrity news articles, for the two years following its release).

      I actually owned one because, if nothing else, it was the nicest looking phone for the price. Using it was painful, though.

  2. Reinvented? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Seems a bit of an overstatement, how about slapped the Razr brand on a modern smartphone which isn't a clamshell.

  3. Re:HDMI? by friedman101 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Imagine a Beowulf cluster of them

  4. Re:One simple question... by MightyYar · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It's not as thin as the summary (or article) would imply - there is a big-ass bulge at the top of the device that apparently holds the speakers and camera. I don't know how they get away with selling as 7.1mm thick. They also made the unit wider than other phones with the same size screen, presumably because they needed the space. I haven't used one, but unless you have large hands, one-handed operation is supposedly difficult because of the width.

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