By The Motorola Droid RAZR officially goes on sale today at Verizon Wireless for $299.99 on a 2-year contract. But if you’re not already a Verizon customer and plan on snagging the RAZR, I suggest you head over to Amazon where it’s just $111.11 for today only.
A huge lot of Android enthusiasts (as you’ll likely notice by the comments), are supressing all interest of the Droid RAZR in favor of the Galaxy Nexus- the world’s first Android 4.0 phone with Ice Cream Sandwich. The release date of that phone has yet to be announced and consumers would be foolish to not give the RAZR a thought at the very least. While the Galaxy Nexus bests the Droid RAZR in a bunch of key categories, you’ve got to hold the RAZR in you hands to truly appreciate it.
Complaints have included a sealed battery door (iPhone seems to do okay?) and locked bootloader, but barring any total battery blunders, the typical consumer isn’t likely to notice these complaints and the first of those contribute to a rather striking design.
In fact, the more novice smartphone user may prefer the Droid RAZR: Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich will definitely have more of a learning curve whereas the version found on the RAZR is much more obvious “here-is-the-icon-please-press-it” mentality. Plus it’s a Droid and it’s a RAZR. That alone is pretty cool.
If you take advantage of this offer, let us know how it goes!
I still prefer the Galaxy Nexus, because GN will be a pure Android device. It’ll have no bloatware, timely and current updates, direct support from Google, etc. It’ll be supported and up to date for two or more years, just as the previous Nexus devices. After having an Android device for about three years now, to me, the biggest problem were and still are the updates. Motorola stated that the RAZR will be updated to ICS in early 2012, but I highly doubt that. Maybe during Spring of next year?
+1 “timely and current updates, direct support from Google…” That is a big factor for me.
what really pisses me off is that I, as a loyal Verizon customer for over 10 years, am not eligible for such an offer. Loyalty gets you NOWHERE with VZW. makes me sick.
have you tried calling them? sometimes if they cannot give you a deal on a phone, they might cut you a break somewhere else…(possible free trial of hotspot). just know this from doing it myself.
I totally concur. I’m sure Verizon’s thought process on it is this; screw retaining current customers, just try to steal as many people away from other carriers as possible.
Still doesn’t make much sense to me though.
Activate with the mobile hotspot feature and get a $100 amazon gift card – brings the price down to $11.11
I noticed that too! Was coming here to post the same thing.