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  • If higher megapixels don’t matter, shouldn’t we all petition the phone manufacturers to use 1 MP cameras, and use the manufacturing cost savings to upgrade other components?

    If everyone is going to say higher megapixels don’t matter, then tell me-what is the magic resolution at which it stopped being useful? 

  • Omg!!! Please let a real moto Razr come to the states with specs like that! I’d quickly say goodbye to a G-Nex! Im honestly having trouble choosing whats better with the current Razr… the only thing the nexus has going for it now is the screen, 4.0, and the first to be updated.. If another Razr comes out it will meet all of those standards.. !

  • Also I just looked at the leaked Droid 4 pictures and the onein the middle does kinda have a similar shape

  • I went and picked up a Razr yesterday. Making the wait foe the Nexus much easier. My Droid Charge just had too many little issues. The Razr is pretty nice though. Wonder how fast it will get updates when Google finally gets behind it. I love that $3.5 million back out clause. Insures that none of the shareholders will vote against. Oh well, will have Nexus soon enough. Great placeholder though.

  • haha this is funny. Moto is really frustrating a lot of customers with this crap. Everyone on here wants the latest and greatest, and I’m still rocking the OG even though I am due for an upgrade simply because I know that if I go buy the RAZR, then Moto will release a phone 2 days later that I will envy for ever. Rumored that such a phone will be called the “in your face ma’sucka.” I guess at the end of the day its still technology, and whether its a t.v. or a phone you cant keep up. Unless you have a decent bankroll. Im just gonna wait till q1 and make my decision and  hopefully I can be content. And on a side note, im kinda pissed that consumers of an American company are the last ones to see the products…

  • Not enough choices. Too many choices! New models released too slowly. Released too fast! My phone is better. No! Mine is! 4G is cool! It’s not real 4G! The only thing that everyone seems to agree on around is “I want everything for free.”
    Deal with it, people. The wonderful world of electronics has been the same for many years now. There will always be something newer and “better” around the corner. As technology advances the rate at which “newer” occurs will become more frequent.
    In regards to the article, adding more megapixels is useless unless the sensor’s physical size is increased as well. More (in this case) is not always better.

  • does this have LTE if not the better screen and camera must replace the the area the chip takes up

  • Soon as you buy a Droid 3, Droid Bionic, soon as you buy a Bionic, Droid RAZR, now this. SLOW THE F*CK DOWN! I hope they don’t come out for at least another year so that Droid RAZR and Galaxy Nexus buyers can enjoy their devices’ flagship status for a while.

  • So, we have a picture that for all we know could be photo shopped.  Maybe everyone should claim down until we get more proof that this is even real.

    Besides, the cell phone market is nothing but a hand held computer market now (and has been for the past few years), when you buy the latest and greatest, it  is obsolete with in a few weeks. It’s been that way for desktop/laptop computers for years.  When buying anything like a smart phone you have to make sure that the phone will meet your real needs for day to day use, and will last you for the term of your contract.  I know a lot of us still have that kid inside of us that wants to have the best phone out there, but if you get caught up in that though process your just going to be unhappy and either waste a lot of money getting a new phone each month, or won’t be able to pick out a new phone when it’s time to upgrade.

  • HOLY CRAP the Dinara actually exists?

    LOL DONT CARE
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  • And in another 2 months it will come to the US and replace the Razr. Reason I am going with nexus so atleast I know my phone will be supported.

  • The major thing here to me is the 720 screen and the fact that is it more rounded.  The VZW Razr is just to boxy and industrial.

  • Why do we Americans usually get phones later than and sometimes with lower specs than the rest of the world (except Canada, of course)?

    Is it truly the carriers that screw us?  Do they really have that much say in the phone specs?  I mean, why would they not want us to have HD screens for example?

    Or is it the manufacturers?  Do we not scream loud enough that we’d buy these phones if they offer them here?

    Or is it the iPhone?  Do the manufacturers sell phones that are on par or slightly better spec’d than the iPhone for the same amount simply because they can get away with it?  In other words, they only try hard enough to beat the iPhone and that’s it because they know they’ll get their $300.00US?

    I believe that we had a summer relatively empty of new high end phones because the iPhone 4s was “delayed”.  This allowed the carriers and manufacturers to keep selling existing phones and maximizing the profits (not saying that’s bad, that’s business), because they didn’t have to compete with a new iPhone.

    Thoughts?

  • Keep the X, please. How many lines of phones does Motorola want to keep? I don’t care about their cheap phones, but keep the top-tier phone to just 2, please. With keyboard (ie, the Droid #) and without (ie, either Droid X# or RAZR.)

    Also, after Google completes the acquisition, please release stock Android phones ONLY.

  • Who cares anyways? A camera on a cell phone is much more limited by the lousy lens system (not to mention pocket dirt) than it is by the pixel count on the CCD.

    If you are using your phone camera to take pictures of anything you really care about, you deserve the quality you get.

    CCD pixel count on phones is all about marketing and nothing about quality.

  • nope i want to see this live, video showing screen res, hardware numbers or this is one hellva knock off!!

  • That looks like a MUCH better speaker set-up also. Still have a bad taste in my mouth from the Droid X’s less than stellar low volume speaker.

  • I think its crazy too, however, supply goes up and floods market. Suddenly Big Reds drowning in surplus phones. Hopefully it will drive down prices.

  • Thanks for that disclosure Moto. Fools.
    Had the Razr for 3 days now. This puppy will be going back right before my 14 days are up (restocking fee or not). Nexus here I come.

  • I don’t have a problem with motorola phones or anything.  I think they’re a good product, but seriously this is getting rediculous.  The RAZR just came out and already there is a better version.  Instead of rushing products out they could just make a phone the way they want it and push it out.  What they’re doing now is a good way to jilt they’re customers and possible create product confusion in the long run with the average consumer. I’m all for innovation and its a great thing to see, but they way they’re handling this now just seems crazy.

  • I’m starting to think the new strategy of Verizon is probably to have only Motorola phones become Droids. 

  • I think everyone is missing the big picture here.  The new one DOEST HAVE THE CAMERA HUMP!!!  That’s amazing.  It’s about time Motorola.

  • What the hell is Motorola doing with all of these phones one right after another? Seems like an insane business model. Especially considering that most of us held on to our OG Droids until they wouldn’t even hold a charge.
    Whatever to you Motorola. <——  isn't that what the kids are saying now?

  • To all those that are bitching about how Moto keep making new phones everiy 3 months needs to STFU, first off its call BUSINESS, and it’s not Moto fault if Verzon doesn’t release the phones on time. So just be ready when the nexus 2 comes out next year!

  • Ah, that’s awesome!  13MP!  I’ve always wanted to print billboards from the pictures I take on my phone. /sarcasm

    All the idiots that complained about 5MP on the GNex will be thrilled with 13MP cameras on phones though!

  • I know I said it before, but I will say it again… THIS is the kinda crap that pisses me off about android phones…  It use to be that you could buy a phone and be happy with it being a top phone for at least half a year… now that time frame has dropped to weeks.  Buy a top of the line phone now, a week later, 3 better phones come out to piss you off.

  • Exactly why I switched from Motorola to HTC and got the Rezound instead, for the 720p display. I knew those bastards would do this and I will not support it.

  • It’s stuff like this that has me so on the fence about getting a new phone. I’m still on my OG Droid and want to get a new phone. I played with the RAZR and really liked it, I love the specs on the Rezound, and I think the Nexus will bring that “new car” feeling. Then I see this phone pop up on Engadget and just want to tear into whatever idiot decided not to make this in the first place! Why isn’t this the phone they released here, and how long is it going to take them to release it here. I know a new phone is always around the corner, but can you at least make those corners at least 6 months apart?

  • What the hell 13MP Camera man I know the “US RAZR owners are “PISSED” At This News Development” that’s messed up Moto!!  Take care of your home team!!!

  • GSM variant for the states would be cool. I’d still rather have a GSM variant of the Nexus, but who knows if/when that will be available

  • iPhone 5 might be coming out first quarter of next year rocking a quad core processor, now i’m not one to jump ship, but Android better have something major in the works for early next year to rival the competition.  I would hate to see the iPhone be ahead of Android in hardware.

  • Cant understand how people want 4.5 inch phones, a phone is too big once you cant use 1 hand/thumb to navigate the whole screen

  • It’s bullshit how they knowingly release phones that don’t have the very latest features, only so they can release another phone shortly thereafter. 

  • 13mp in a cell phone camera? No thanks. When will sheeple learn that stuffing massive amounts of megapixels on a small crappy sensor DEGRADES image quality, resulting in more noise. And given Motorola’s recent garbage cameras, this should be a total turd. I’ll stick with my 5mp Galaxy Nexus. kthxbye

    • What’s funny is I’m willing to bet all of you Nexus fanboys would be trashing Moto if they used a 5 megapixel camera with the best possible photo quality if the Nexus had an 8-13 megapixel camera with mediocre quality.

  • How bout some more DROID4 news.  I am just about dead set on the G-Nex, but a DROID4 with 13mp cam, 720p screen, a gig of RAM, an OMAP4460 at 1.2ghz or higher, and that fantastic keyboard would be a tough cookie to bypass.  

    • You must be confusing those specs with the Droid 5, which will probably be released sometime in January.  😛

  • I saw these pics the other day on phoinearena and saw the 13MP but didn’t think anything of it – oh well – as long as the camera is decent and works I don’t care if it is 8MP or 13MP

  • as a Bionic owner, i’d like to show my support here for you RAZR owners.  welcome to the club.

  • The rounded edges of the Chinese RAZR are much sexier than the hard edges of the American version. And with that screen, the Galaxy Nexus would lose 1 of its 2 major selling points to the RAZR, the second being stock ICS. Why couldn’t that be the US Version.

  • Can the GPU handle 720p gaming?  13mp camera is likely to just end up with gigantic, space-hogging pictures full of noise.   I’d take a good 5mp sensor and optics over 13mp crap any day. 

    And until we see a next-gen Moto with ICS pre-loaded and the killer combo of a removable battery and a microSD slot, I’m going to pass.

    • Agreed. Nobody needs 13MP. I find it usually hard to resist better stats but in this case, no problem at all passing up HUUUUGE pix. Sure there’s probably a setting to decrease the quality, but then why have the extra megapixels? 

  • Who cares? Again it’s the circle of consumer electronics, users adopt an electronic device, something better comes out immediately after. Nothing new.

    • (says a Bionic owner) – sorry, couldn’t resist.  🙂

      But you have to admit this is getting a bit out of hand. especially when they JUST released the Razr four days ago.

      • it is getting out of hand, it’s a little ridiculous, but there’s nothing we can do about it, no matter what choice we make with what’s out now, we will have a great device in our hands.

      • There’s nothing here saying that these phones are even coming to the U.S.  They’re just China’s Razr variants.

  • Verizon continues to plunder and rape the uninformed consumer. Thanks DroidLife for informing your readers and making us informed consumers. I’ll pass on the RAZR now. Thanks!

  • i don’t care how many phones they release, but they should maybe do a release of phones once or twice a year. then give advanced notice of what the phones are. that way you can make at least some informed decision on what to buy.

    technology moves fast and they have to put it out fast to keep up or be cutting edge, but this is ridiculous. they know a vast majority of people are locked into contracts, and can’t just buy phone after phone.

    their motivation is definitely money, but does this an anyway also control the devs somewhat? Put so much product out there, thin the resources, slow the hacking and keep the control?

    • “i don’t care how many phones they release, but they should maybe do a release of phones once or twice a year”

      Soooooooooo, you actually do care?  If not, considered me confused.

    • There’s such a large demand for phones- most teenages are getting into smartphones nowadays too. How do you expect a business to be profitable if they can’t get people to buy their products more than twice a year? Their motivation is money? No kidding it is. It’s a business, thats what it’s about. There’s not a messiah cell phone company out there trying to stop other phone makers from flooding the market. People are crying that there are too many phones out there but this thread is full of “When is my gnex coming out ohhh man I want it now!”.

  • Its probably just the a converson depending on the current exchange rate of  us MP to china MP.

    • not the bootloader, unlocked to work on different cell frequencies. Unless that’s what you already meant, in that case sorry.

      • The non-US versions of the Razr have unlocked bootloaders, it was Verizon that requested they be locked – so why would these be any different?

  • Ok…Nothing besids the nexus has grabbed my attention for a while untill you mentions the droid XXX.  I’m an OGX owner and can’t help feel a little loyalty right now.  Give me more info on that plzzz

  • Dear Motorola,
    Thanks for a year of face slapping disappointment.

    Sincerely,
    A Soon-To-Be-Samsung-Phone Owner

  • why are all these so called american companies so eager to please foreign countries before their own? first google shafted us (indirectly) and now Motorola.

  • I love you Motorola, but you gotta stop shooting yourself in the foot. 
    Actually more like shooting your customers in the foot. 

    perhaps these pictures could be of concept prototypes from before the RAZR launch…?

  • Dear Moto,
    Kiss my ass.

    Seriously, what the hell? I was THIS CLOSE to ordering the Razr yesterday (I saw this on Engadget first).
    Bad enough the Bionic owners get shafted, now the Razr owners get shafted, soon followed by the Droid 3 owners.
    I know planned obsolescence exists, but Motorola is throwing it in our face every chance it gets.

    EDIT: Yes, I mad.

  • What the crap …. I have wanted a 4.5″ phone since the rumors of the bionic said that’s what it would have …. a razr that size would have been an instant in my pocket choice

    • What G-Nex delay are you referring to?  When Samsung announced the Nexus it announced it would be announcing on the 17th.   Is that date even here yet?  Did you go back to the future and find out when it will be replaced or just basing your comment on all the unfounded internet rumors?  just curious.

      • The 17th is release day for many non US countries…. It’s always an AUTOmatic delay with Verizon. Since it “WON”T be here on the 17th

      • You ok? BC you you sound a bit upset at what I said lol it’s just a comment dude. chill out hahaha My point is that everybody in the world knows when theyre getting their G-Nex. Everyone except Verizon that is. Sure you can call rumors… “rumors”, but on these tech sites, rumors turn factual and if anybody knows Verizon, then you know this phone is delayed. I mean c’mon..even the announcement of the G-Nex itself was delayed.

  • Well crap do I wait for this or the Galaxy Nexus???  My Droid X is already on it’s 4th last refurbished leg. lol

      • I would think they would lose money relative to development costs with all these devices cannibalizing sales from each other. I would prefer fewer devices with more substantial upgrades. 

        • except lately their phones look like they’re pushed out the door way too early.  like they “come up with a testing schedule and then chop off the last half of it” too early.so they’re saving money on development right there.

    • It’s called marketing. Somebody will buy one of them, somebody will buy all of them and the ones who don’t buy any of them, will either buy what they think is the next, next, big thing or they’re not a demographic possibility anyway.

    • I personally think it’s fake, just like EVERYTHING ELSE in China.  The “iPhone 5” has been available in China for months.

      • Saw these a few days ago. Much like other phones such as the Motorola XT720 these RAZR-like phones will likely never see the American market. Foreign markets always get phones with crazy megapixel numbers, etc.

  • the g nex is the only love in my life, no matter how much bigger the boobies are on all the new beasts coming soon

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