The Motorola Droid RAZR for Verizon Wireless is arguably one of the prettiest smartphones on the market right now. If it weren’t for the terrible AMOLED screen and the questionable battery life, then this writer would have a hard time resisting the urge to pick one up this holiday shopping season. So last month when rumors started floating around the internet that Verizon would be introducing a white variant of the Droid RAZR, you can understand that many Android fans started foaming from the mouth with anticipation. Well now it’s official, and … meh, it’s actually not what we were expecting. In fact, it shouldn’t even be called white. It’s basically the same black Droid RAZR we’ve already reviewed, but the steel frame around the device has been changed to white. We thought the Kevlar back would be dyed white, the front of the device would be white, basically the whole thing would be white. Nope.
What’s the deal with white anyway, why is it such a popular color? Call it the urge to be “different”. Nearly every smartphone on the market now is a black brick of glass and plastic, or in a few rare cases glass and metal. When something comes out that doesn’t fall in line with that stereotypical look, it gets noticed. Just wait until Nokia starts shipping their Windows Phones in North America. People are going to be doing backflips at the blue and pink color options. And don’t forget that Nokia also has green, orange, pink, silver, and bronze color options for their Symbian devices in Europe, so there’s a high probability that some of those are going to cross the pond.
What say you: Color isn’t important and it’s all about what your phone can do or style is the most important thing about a device, spec sheet and feature set be dammed?