RAZR/RAZR 2 comparison photos

Dusan Belic

Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.

• Selena

  Its bigger than the first one? Why?? The first one was HUGE and felt so awkward to hold…why make another one even bigger.. The features are great && the bigger external screen is awesome but the size needs some work..maybe if it was the size of the krazr?? idkk, but yeaaaa its just to big

• Hello There

  hi cool phone..bye

• ashley

  its too big!! thats the only problem with it. the features are great, but idk. its just too big. make it smaller, like the krzr. now that would be awesome.

• Duh

  Are you kidding? Too big? It is nice and thin, and wide enough to be able to touch one key at a time instead of 2 or 3. I got this phone last week and it is great, i never once though “oh man this super thin cell phone is way to big for my normal sized hand…

• Latios

  

• mando

  its a beauty

• concon

  i wnat that thing! except, does it have a thing to hang a cellphone strap?

• adron

  It is a large phone, but that’s only really regarding the width. I actually DON’T like the KRZR because it’s TOO SKINNY in my opinion…ie hard to see such a small screen. I prefer a larger screen. More real estate. More to see when browsing the web, etc. When I held this phone at Verizon, it felt SOLID. It said, “buy me”. It is VERY slick. Too bad Verizon KILLS its phones. Unfortunately I’m in a rural location and they have the best reception around, so I have to live with every Verzion corporate executive building ANOTHER vacation home this year to add to their collection of 20+ because they nickle and dime us TO DEATH (5 dollars a month to HAVE mobile web and the usage comes out of OUR MINUTES…disabling GPS on phones. Crooks ). The “wow” factor sells…and it is nice! VX8700 or Razr2 V9m? Hmmm. 8700 is sweet, but the Razr2 is SEXY. And you can get this phone for free .

• Russ

  I purchased a Sprint Motorola RAZR 2 and the very first one had to be replaced. The second one has the same problems as the first and Motorola has not even tried to help me. They ignored my BBB complaint. So I am posting the problems with this phone here, in the hopes everyone stays away from this phone.

  1. Does not support any of Motorola Bluetooth headset and headphones that I own. Even my new Moto stereo headphones that came out before the RAZR 2 even came out, don’t even work.
  2. Daily White-Screen freeze errors.
  3. Text input in third-party app’s in annoying. the “1″ key cycles though characters that you will never use just to get to a period aor @ sign. the “0″ key is used to cycle though the rest and again goes though characters that you will rarely use just to get one you will use a lot.
  4. The touch-screen is way too sensitive. If you don’t have a key-lock set, you will find that the TV app will load in your pocket and turn to a channel. Or it will just load the app and waste the already pathetic battery life. Even if the key-lock is on, the vibrate feature will go off so many times that when you goto use the phone, you will end up having 1 bar, maybe 2.
  5. Horrible battery life. Unlike the A900, Katana, and pretty much all other slim-phones, the RAZR 2 gets really hot when using it. Heat means wasted energy, thus making the battery life the worst I have ever seen. If you are using bluetooth, and/or the TV app, or in an area with a weak signal, battery life can be as low as 40 minutes.
  6. The UI is SLOW! I mean as slow as slow can get. This comes to it’s full power of annoyance when you end up loading an application that you didn’t mean to, and closing it down takes 5 to 10 seconds to close down. This will happen a lot, because the buttons are so close together, that you will end up loading the music or TV app without even trying. Scrolling through you content is horrible. Images take what seems like months to switch to the next.
  7. No real media player. You can not fast forward or rewind video clips. So those days of watching movies and shows on your phone are over. Unless you want to sit and watch it from the beginning.
  8. You can not hear the volume when setting the level for the ringer, alarm, ect. This most basic of features shows how low Moto has come when making phones.
  9. The lower set of speaks has a groove where overtime it will cut into your fingers when holding the phone to watch TV.
  10. The inner display has the typical data and time features, but with the RAZR 2 you can not get rid of the date. So if you have a cool screen saver, you will see “00/00/000 Day” on the screen. So if you have a cool pic of a Cele you are into, their face will be blocked.
  11. The web browser is HTML, but it renders the site into pages. So a normal sized site will be cut into many pages. Some sites are cut into 10+ pages. Unlike Opera mini which can render the entire page in one window. You will be scrolling page to page just to see the content you like.
  12. Since the browser is HTML, WAP sites can’t be loaded very well if at all. So if you want to download a Java app through a WAP site, you might not be able to at all.
  13. Third party apps can easily cause the phone to lock-up. Basic app’s that load on even the most simple phone will cause the phone to lock in a white screen and you will have to pull the battery to get out.
  14. Alarm doesn’t always go off. This has happen to me a lot.
  15. When you use the speaker-phone or use the speakers with Telenav, the sound quality is horrible. On the other end my friends make me repeat what I am saying. The speaker-phone has been known in the past to be one of the best features found in Moto phones; this is not the case with the V9m.
  16. Buttons on the side are tiny. With a plastic snap-on case they are very difficult to press.
  17. The phone doesn’t even have a headphone port. So you can not use it as a portable music player without playing the content through the speakers, or a Bluetooth headset, which most likely will not work.
  18. You can not set images from your memory card to display as wallpaper.
  19. Music playback is dependent on using Sprint’s Music Player, which crashes a lot.
  20. The Music Player no longer works, so I can’t even use the phone as an MP3 player.

• Sanvaia

  I have it its awesome

• Tom

  I really like my new Razr2, very classy looking phone the signal strength and call clairity are great but I agree with some of the points that Russ makes! (2, 4, 5, 8, 10, 13, 16 and 18)

• Sarah

  i love this phone. classy look and everything, but i find it quite hard to use. before my razr 2, i had the krzr. they have almost the same settings, except the new razr’s screen is bigger and there’s those new touch screen features on the front. but i NEEED help on getting the front screen unlocked… like the front of the phone, NOT the inside. HELPPPP

• shani

  i really want this phone but i dnt knw if i want it now because i have heard alot of bad things about it…:(

• colb

  my razr2 is awsome i have had no problems. i got it a long time ago and the thing is if u have problems just trade it in for a new one because it is the just somthing malfuctioning. shani i say don’t worry get one and if you don’t like it get trade it for a different one.

• bpphantom

  No problems with it overall. It does many things well enough, though nothing great. Works fine for MP3 playback which is really the only reason I snagged it when my Fido contract renewed.

• Melissa

  This phone is, HANDS DOWN, the worst phone I’ve ever had. Not only did I pay the outragous price for it when it came out but since than I’ve had to replace it 3 times! 3 times in a matter of 10 months! Now the count has going up to four. Does sprint or motorola want to help? No, that’s what the warranty is for. Only problem is that your dishing $50 bucks a pop for ANOTHER CRAP PHONE with the same problems! The screen will just black out. Can hear notifications but can’t check them. GRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!

• Chris

  I have the same problem with my razor 2..My screen just blacked out on me both the inside one and the out. I still get texts and calls because it vibrates but i cannot check them!