The Motorola Razr is back. The wildly popular super thin clam-shell of yesteryear has been transformed into one of the most souped up, insanely specced Android smartphones yet – as well as the thinnest.
Moto has just unveiled the new Motorola Razr: it’s a shapely super-phone that measures just 7.1mm thin (bar the trademark Moto hump at one end), with aluminium edges and a Kevlar (yes, the stuff in knife-proof jackets, Kevlar) back which should shrug off splash damage.
It’s powered by a dual-core 1.2GHz processor and 1GB of RAM, but it’s the screen that has us excited. The 4.3-inch qHD display is being touted as “Super AMOLED”, Samsung’s glorious screen technology used in its Samsung Galaxy S series phones. The Korean giant hasn’t sold its stunning displays to rivals for some years now, but it appears to have changed its mind.
On the service front, the Motorola Razr will join up to a laptop dock as the Motorola Atrix did previously, and the American firm also revealed it Smart Actions app, which automates tasks based on your preferences and usage – for instance, turning off Bluetooth and GPS when you’re at home to save on battery, and even slowing down the processor when battery is low. It’s similar to the popular but complicated Tasker app for Android, and it comes preloaded.
It’ll also integrate with Motorola’s new cloud service, MotoCast. Like iCloud or Dropbox, it syncs your files remotely so you can access them from multiple devices – although Moto CEO Sanjay Jha had some technical difficulties demonstrating it at the American press conference.
We’ll have more details on the Motorola Razr release date and UK availability as soon as we get them, but it’s already showing on the British site, so expect it to arrive here soon.
