The Motorola Droid Razr HD Android smartphone began shipping on October 12 in the United States. The handset runs on the speedy Verizon Wireless 4G LTE network in that country, and is offered in your choice of black or white. Near Field Communications (NFC) support is offered out-of-the-box for wireless applications like the retail payment processing Google Wallet, and the Google Chrome for Android web browser has been pre-installed. The handset also delivers Android’s 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) operating system out-of-the-box.
Keeping in the slim design motif of previous Droid Razr models, the handset is ultra-slim at 0.33 inches (8.4 mm). The same waterproof splash resistance returns with a nanocoating protecting both the exterior, as well as interior electrical components. A layer of Corning Gorilla Glass has been added for display protection, and the rugged DuPont Kevlar back plate of previous models is present as well. The handset delivers the largest Motorola 4G smartphone display at 4.70 inches, and pixel density runs to the high-end of the smartphone marketplace at 312 pixels per inch.
That gives the display an overall resolution of 720 x 1,280 pixels,and visuals are created using more than 16 million separate colors. Light and proximity sensors have been built-in, and video out is offered through both DLNA wireless and microHDMI wired options. Talk time from a single charge of the oversized 2,530 mA battery on board the handset is delivered at 16.00 hours, roughly twice what the average 4G smartphone offers.
The hardware package on board the Motorola Droid Razr HD 4G includes an accelerometer, compass and barometer, and the handset is powered by a dual core 1.5 GHz Krait central processor. All graphics processing is the responsibility of an Adreno 225 GPU, and 1.0 GB of RAM system memory is on board. The handset delivers 16 GB of built-in storage and a microSD slot for storage expansion capabilities.
The previous camera combo from other Droid Razr models has returned, pairing a rear facing 8.0 megapixel camcorder with a front facing 1.3 megapixel chat cam. That front snapper can capture portrait snapshots, and also provides video call support. The high-resolution camcorder provides video capture at 1,080P HD resolution and 30 frames per second, and offers touch to focus, autofocus, an LED flash, geo-tagging, face detection and image stabilization features. A built-in music player offers filtering by album, artist and play list, and joins a proprietary YouTube video player in the multimedia package on board the Motorola Droid Razr HD.
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