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All the reviews I've been reading have been pretty impressive. Might have to stop in vzw this weekend to get some hands on....
 
He mentions it's "...one of the thinnest smartphones, period." Does anyone know examples of phones that are thinner???
 
I just played for it for an hour.

Love the feel, very light.

Screen compared to the Bionic blows it away. The color and detail are WAY better. My one fault with the RAZR is that the automatic brightness is too low. In order to read white easily you need to push it up. When I pushed it up the screen was fantastic.

The speakers were what you could expect from a device that thin. Very clear but not as much base as the Bionic.

Haptic feedback is the same - better on the Bionic because of it's size - but you had no problem feeling it. It was just softer.

It was FAST. I think faster response time than the Bionic but still not a major difference. I did side by side web browsing and you couldn't tell much of a difference except for the color.

It comes with Madden which I've never played - I should have bought it - fantastic and when you are playing with it the colors and sound are great.

How is the battery? No way to know since they have it hooked to power all the time. I could have unhooked it but I may have set off the alarms.

I think the people complaining of the screen door effect on the display need to have their eyes checked.

No it's not too big - about the same size as the Bionic.

Basically it's a better Bionic.
 
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aweber1nj said:
He mentions it's "...one of the thinnest smartphones, period." Does anyone know examples of phones that are thinner???
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I think it is the thick hump part at the top that stops it from making the claim "thinnest smartphone". The SGS II is thinner than the RAZR, if you look at both phones thickest section.
 
DanH said:
I think it is the thick hump part at the top that stops it from making the claim "thinnest smartphone". The SGS II is thinner than the RAZR, if you look at both phones thickest section.
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Yes but the "hump" is only about the top 10% of the phone and the remaining 90% of the phone is 7.1 mm. So if you take the weighted average thickness between the hump and the thin part, it's still the thinnest smartphone.

So, taking the hump thickness to be 11 mm and the thin part to be 7.1 mm, the weighted average thickness is still about 7.5 mm.
 
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The only life wallpaper I'd use would be the Beautiful Weather one.

Otherwise they are boring.
 
AeroEngi said:
Yes but the "hump" is only about the top 10% of the phone and the remaining 90% of the phone is 7.1 mm. So if you take the weighted average thickness between the hump and the thin part, it's still the thinnest smartphone.

So, taking the hump thickness to be 11 mm and the thin part to be 7.1 mm, the weighted average thickness is still about 7.5 mm.
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Yeah, but it doesn't work like that...LOL.

I guess it could if anyone talked about "average thickness", but I have yet to hear that term used when describing a cell phone.

What matters is the phone is damn thin, even with the "hump".
 
SSHGuru said:
I just played for it for an hour.

Love the feel, very light.

Screen compared to the Bionic blows it away. The color and detail are WAY better. My one fault with the RAZR is that the automatic brightness is too low. In order to read white easily you need to push it up. When I pushed it up the screen was fantastic.

The speakers were what you could expect from a device that thin. Very clear but not as much base as the Bionic.

Haptic feedback is the same - better on the Bionic because of it's size - but you had no problem feeling it. It was just softer.

It was FAST. I think faster response time than the Bionic but still not a major difference. I did side by side web browsing and you couldn't tell much of a difference except for the color.

It comes with Madden which I've never played - I should have bought it - fantastic and when you are playing with it the colors and sound are great.

How is the battery? No way to know since they have it hooked to power all the time. I could have unhooked it but I may have set off the alarms.

I think the people complaining of the screen door effect on the display need to have their eyes checked.

No it's not too big - about the same size as the Bionic.

Basically it's a better Bionic.
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My thoughts pretty much are the same as yours. I just went into my local Verizon store and played with the RAZR. Makes me wish I would have known it was coming so soon after the Bionic and I would have gotten the RAZR instead. Oh well, first world problems.
 
I like how he says it is best he has used and better than sgs2. That is a good sign coming from a pro apple site who usually hates anything non apple.
 
I found the haptic feedback which is basically the same as the vibration weak.

You could go and test the vibration by setting an alarm at the store if you really want to know but even before it came out I felt it was so thin it would have a weaker haptic feedback and I was right.
 
SSHGuru said:
I found the haptic feedback which is basically the same as the vibration weak.

You could go and test the vibration by setting an alarm at the store if you really want to know but even before it came out I felt it was so thin it would have a weaker haptic feedback and I was right.
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Being thin has nothing to do with Haptic feedback. Have you actually used one or are you just trying to hate on it because you have a bionic?
 
Everything guru has been saying the last few weeks has ben pretty unbiased. he clearly states he played with one recently and he does not come off as a biased bionic owner. Was that really called for? I think someone ate a wee bit too many cranky cupcakes..
 
I'm not trying to hate on it at all - I'm going to swap my Bionic for either the RAZR or the Nexus.

I know quite alot about smartphones and so when I spent an hour with it today I did put it through it's paces. The bionic haptic feedback when pressing a key is at least twice as strong as the RAZR. I looked into the RAZR settings to see if it could be adjusted and did not see an option for it.

Same as the sound. I pushed the bass all the way up on the RAZR and it didn't come that close to the Bionic. However it was better in that the sound was more clear and loud.

I already said the screen on the RAZR was way better. I like the build way better also.

So I will choose one when we see how badly Samsung can mess up the Nexus.
 
Well hopefully they will do a better job with the Nexus than Sprint did with the Epic Touch, excellent phone totally crippled by horrible reception issues. (That's what I had before the Razr)

Sent from my DROID RAZR using Tapatalk
 
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