Motorola Droid RAZR (Verizon Wireless)

Too fast, Motorola! Too fast! The Motorola Droid RAZR ($299 with contract) very, very quickly replaces the Droid Bionic ($249, 4.5 stars) as the most powerful smartphone on Verizon Wireless. That $50 premium gets you a slimmer, faster, more rugged phone with the RAZR. And even though it takes the Editors' Choice crown, more threatening adversaries loom just around the corner: The HTC Rezound and Samsung Galaxy Nexus promise to give the Droid RAZR a serious run.

Physical Details, Screen and Call Quality
At 5.2 by 2.7 by a shockingly thin 0.3 inches (HWD), the Motorola Droid RAZR is unique and striking. There have been other very thin phones?the Samsung Galaxy S II ($199.99, 4.5 stars) for AT&T comes to mind?but the Droid RAZR feels much more solid and classier than other super-thin devices, thanks to Motorola's Gorilla Glass screen, Kevlar back panel and stainless-steel core. At 4.5 ounces, it's light, but "space-age material" light, not "flimsy plastic" light. This phone will not snap if you sit down with it in your back pocket, though it may actually tear your pocket.

The price for thin is that you're carrying the biggest phone in America. It's longer and wider than the Droid Bionic, and it's even longer than the T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II ($229.99, 4.5 stars), which has a 4.5-inch screen. It's almost the size of the forthcoming HTC Titan, which is very close to being too big to be a handset. The phone is a borderline hand-buster.

This huge phone features a big 4.3-inch, 960-by-540,?Super AMOLED Advanced?display that uses a new variant on the PenTile pixel layout. Motorola's PenTile screens are extremely controversial, because they introduce fringing that can make solid lines or areas look stippled. Anti-PenTile zealots will still get up in arms against the Droid RAZR, but this display is significantly better looking than the Droid Bionic's PenTile screen. Blue and green regions look genuinely fuzzy on the Bionic; that isn't the case here. I couldn't see any stippling effects. The screen is considerably less bright than the Bionic's LCD screen, but blacks are much blacker, an advantage of the Super AMOLED technology used on the RAZR. Overall, I found the RAZR's images much more pleasing.

The thin design doesn't affect reception or call quality. Held side by side with a Droid Bionic, I got pretty much the same reception, and the phone was able to trade between 3G and 4G networks when necessary. LTE download results as measured by Speedtest.net also averaged out similarly to the Bionic, with (network-dependent) speeds anywhere from 3 to 16Mbps down.

Call quality is fine, and a little better than the Bionic. The earpiece is loud without distortion, and with a pleasant amount of side-tone. Noise cancellation isn't perfect?a bit of background noise came through?but it was sufficiently muffled as not to matter. The RAZR falls a bit short on speakerphone performance, with decent volume, but not up to the Bionic's level.

The Droid RAZR works as a Wi-Fi hotspot, and the phone connected easily to our Aliph Jawbone Icon Bluetooth headset for voice dialing, and to an Altec Lansing BackBeat headset for clear music and video sound.

The Droid RAZR had very good 3G talk time at 8 hours, 42 minutes, although that isn't as long as the ten hours we got with the Droid Bionic. Motorola has improved LTE power efficiency, though: I was able to eke out 3 hours, 40 minutes of pure 4G streaming, longer than on the Bionic or earlier 4G phones. Motorola's Smart Actions (see below) will help extend battery life, too.?

Apps and Webtop
When it comes to speed, the phone's 1.2GHz, dual-core TI OMAP4 chip benchmarked faster than any other handset we've seen before. Although the RAZR is running Android 2.3.5, I got stunning Browsermark and Sunspider Web browsing scores that looked more like the dual-core-accelerated browser in Android Honeycomb. The Antutu system benchmark outpaced other dual-core devices, including 1.5GHz units like the HTC Jetstream tablet?($849, 3 stars). Rest assured, this phone is smokin'.

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