Motorola's 5G Razr Is Better Than the Original In Almost Every Way (engadget.com) 29
According to Engadget, Motorola's brand-new Razr sports an improved design, support for 5G, and corrects many of the issues the first model was notorious for. Chris Velazco writes: Motorola was always clear that the Razr is a "design-first" device, and it went to great lengths to recreate the visual vibe that its classic flip phones ran with for its first foldable. To pack some much-needed extras into this new model, though, Motorola had to make some changes: The new Razr is a little chubbier, and a features a "chin" that's a bit less prominent than the original's. Personally, these changes are enough to make the Razr just a little less visually striking, but they're worth it when you consider what Motorola could pack in here as a result.
For one, Motorola squeezed a better camera into the Razr's top half. My biggest gripe with the original Razr's 16-megapixel rear shooter wasn't that it was bad, per se -- it just wasn't great compared to every other camera you'd find in a similarly priced phone. In response, Motorola chose a 48-megapixel camera for this new model, which should improve photo quality substantially. The somewhat pokey Snapdragon 710 found in the first Razr also is gone, replaced here by a more modern Snapdragon 765G and 8GB of RAM. As I said, we're not working with flagship power here, but the new Razr has everything it needs to run much more smoothly this time around.
By now, it might sound like Motorola has improved this new Razr on all fronts, and that's very nearly true. There are only a few things Motorola didn't change here, like its 6.2-inch flexible internal display. It's the exact same panel they used last time, and while that's not necessarily a bad thing, I was still hoping a second-gen Razr screen would run at a resolution higher than 876 x 2,142. Maybe more curious is the fact that, in the United States anyway, Motorola just plans to call this phone the "Razr," and doesn't plan to differentiate it from the Verizon-only model it released earlier this year. "[I]t's still not a flagship phone, and at $1400 we're not sure it's a great deal either," Velazco says. "But for people who want an extremely pocket-friendly foldable that's also usable while closed, Motorola just might be on the right track."
For one, Motorola squeezed a better camera into the Razr's top half. My biggest gripe with the original Razr's 16-megapixel rear shooter wasn't that it was bad, per se -- it just wasn't great compared to every other camera you'd find in a similarly priced phone. In response, Motorola chose a 48-megapixel camera for this new model, which should improve photo quality substantially. The somewhat pokey Snapdragon 710 found in the first Razr also is gone, replaced here by a more modern Snapdragon 765G and 8GB of RAM. As I said, we're not working with flagship power here, but the new Razr has everything it needs to run much more smoothly this time around.
By now, it might sound like Motorola has improved this new Razr on all fronts, and that's very nearly true. There are only a few things Motorola didn't change here, like its 6.2-inch flexible internal display. It's the exact same panel they used last time, and while that's not necessarily a bad thing, I was still hoping a second-gen Razr screen would run at a resolution higher than 876 x 2,142. Maybe more curious is the fact that, in the United States anyway, Motorola just plans to call this phone the "Razr," and doesn't plan to differentiate it from the Verizon-only model it released earlier this year. "[I]t's still not a flagship phone, and at $1400 we're not sure it's a great deal either," Velazco says. "But for people who want an extremely pocket-friendly foldable that's also usable while closed, Motorola just might be on the right track."
Re: Gay filler. BeauHD, please drink HEMLOCK. (Score:1)
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Say what?
I call bullshit on your hokum.
So qualified since I'm an electrical engineer specializing in wireless systems, worked for Moto at one time, have dozens of old Moto two-way radios, and especially since I just finished the book "Calling Bullshit".
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A charitable view would be that they're talking about the first cop-only radios, the encrypted digital ones that you probably know more about than I do. The ones that they deploy so that The People can't keep tabs on the misdeeds of the cops. The ones where they give a radio only to trusted "journalists" who have a hard-on for law and order uber alles.
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how do state secret patents actually.. you know.. I dunno. BE FUCKING PATENTS? HOW DOES THAT EVEN FUCKING WORK? I mean they can't tell that you're infringing them and neither does it provide the functionality of a patent required for a patent which is to tell how it operates.
and first cop radios didn't have any channel hopping or whatever anyways, so what exactly would have been in those patents anyhow?
also to be relevant, the razr is D.O.A everywhere but usa, it's just too expensive and nowhere else in th
Re: Chim Chim Is Dialing India as You Post (Score:1)
...how do state secret patents actually.. you know.. I dunno. BE FUCKING PATENTS? HOW DOES THAT EVEN FUCKING WORK? I
This [slate.com] took me all of ten seconds to dredge up and post.
Say whaaaat? Comparing to the 2004 Razr? (Score:4, Insightful)
I had the original 2004 Razr V3i, and can confirm that pretty much every smartphone currently on the market is better than it in "almost every way." Stop making these clickbait headlines!
Re:Say whaaaat? Comparing to the 2004 Razr? (Score:5, Informative)
The author is calling last year's model "the original". I'm just as dumbfounded as you are.
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The author is calling last year's model "the original". I'm just as dumbfounded as you are.
It's such a telling, consistent and incongruous view that it suggests that the author wasn't alive in 2004, or at very least, is too young to ever have touched a true, original Razr.
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I also came here to complain about the young people.
Really? (Score:2)
"Motorola's 5G Razr Is Better Than the Original In Almost Every Way"
No shit, for $1400 it should damn well be "better than the original in almost every way".
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In this article, "the original" is not the Razr from a decade and a half ago that we all loved. Here, "the original" is last year's overpriced, underperforming flip phone of the same name. Now they took last year's model, added a faster processor, redesigned the microphone ledge, and MOAR PIXLESES and want $1400 for it.
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+1
For 1400 smackers, this puppy better do any possible thing imaginable, even acting as a razor when necessary. I have a 2004 Razr, somewhere in storage right now, still in the original box, never activated. Such a sweet-looking, stylish phone. And, in fact, I have the parts of two of the original Star Trek communicators, complete with gold plated screens. Dunno where they're at right now, but I'm sure I'll find them one of these days.
Crease (Score:2)
All the reviews I've seen show a crease forming within a week. So no thanks. All the folding phones suck until some future Nobel laureate figures out how to make it on a fabric-like or elastic material that acts like glass but doesn't crease.
it's running android, isn't it? (Score:2, Insightful)
no thanks
if i wanted to cripple decent hardware i'd set it on fire before running android on it.
"android go 11 will be 20 % faster!"
i don't know if i should laugh or cry. A quadcore OOE 64bit cpu with embedded gpu and 3+ GB of ram should fucking FLY. Instead it struggles keeping two browser pages up.
Imagine being presented with a car with 8000cc worth of engine making 0.8 Hp. That, is the best analogy i can make right now.
I'm literally throwing away this s7 and buying the cheapest dumbphone i can find.
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Re: it's running android, isn't it? (Score:1)
if i wanted to cripple decent hardware i'd set it on fire before running android on it.
I'm not exactly sure what you're bitching about but I'll assume your use of the word "cripple" to be literal, and point out that Moto's one of the better ones where bootloader-locking is concerned, although ATT and VZN are the real source of that problem - TMO variants of Moto - and Samsung - phones are usually your friends.
Re: it's running android, isn't it? (Score:2)
Better Than the Original In Almost Every Way (Score:2)
Almost. In the original, the screen didn't break in the middle.
1400 bucks for a Moto phone HA (Score:1)