Motorola Razr HD
Introduction
The
Motorola Razr HD is an attractive well-built handset with a bright OLED screen,
excellent battery life and is a good all round performer.
Design & Build
It
has a glass front with a grey metal band around the edge and a Kevlar back
plate in a chevron pattern. It weighs 146g and measures 131.9 x 67.9 x 8.4mm.
It
runs on 4.1.2 Jelly Bean operating system, has a 1.5GHz processor, a 4.7 inch
display, 16GB of internal storage expandable up to 32GB, an 8MP camera and 1GB
of RAM. Connectivity includes Bluetooth, GPS, NFC and DLNA as well as having 4G
capabilities.
On
the front of the handset is a bright and clear 4.7” screen with three software
buttons for back, home and multitasking, an earpiece, an indicator light which
flashes when you receive an email, text or voicemail and a 1.3MP front facing
camera for video calling.
On
the right hand edge is the power button, volume rocker and 3.5mm headphone jack.
On the left the micro HDMI and micro USB port and the microSIM and microSD card
trays. On the back is the 8MP camera, a flash and speaker and inside a 2530mAh
battery.
At
the top of the lock screen is a bar showing the battery level, signal strength
and any active connections, underneath is a digital clock and a slider for
turning the sound on or off and shortcuts to your phonebook, text messages and
camera.
It
comes with two homescreen but you can have up seven to fill with apps and
widgets and you can make folders by dragging apps on top of each other. There
is a dock near the bottom of the homescreen with shortcuts to your App Drawer,
Phone, People, Text Messaging and Camera these can be customised to suit.
Press
the home button whilst on the homescreen and you will see a thumbnail view of all
your home screens. Just tap on one to go to it or touch and drag to reorder or
remove it. There are three
circles on your home screen showing the time, date and any alarms, the weather
and your battery level and by swiping across them brings up different
information.
Near
the top of each home screen there is a Google Now search bar in which you can
type or speak queries or commands into and it will use the internet and the
contents of your phone to come up with the best answer.
Contacts, Calling & Messaging
Contacts
are accessed from the Peoples App which has three tabs along the top for
Groups, People and Favourites and you can call from either the Peoples App or
from the Phone App. The Phone App is a dial pad that supports smart dialling
and at the bottom of the screen there is a magnifying glass to access your
phonebook and a microphone for use with voice commands for texting or calling.
You can go to your home screen and do anything else when you are on a call.
The
Messaging app shows on-going conversations with a snapshot of the last message
that was sent or received and your message appears in a grey box to the right
of the screen whilst the message from the person you are talking to gets a blue
box to the left of the screen. Tap
on the phone icon at the top of the screen to call the person or on the
paperclip to add pictures or a video.
At
the bottom of the screen is a text entry box that you can tap to bring up the keyboard
that will make suggestions and corrections as you type.
Camera
There
is a 1.3 megapixel front-facing camera and an easy to use 8 megapixel main
camera with flash and autofocus. You can tap to autofocus, adjust the exposure,
add location information and choose from a few different scene modes or
effects.
Photos
are accessed through the Gallery App and you can stream them over DLNA, share
them via Bluetooth, text, copy or add effects.
Video
The
Motorola Razr HD has a full HD 1080p video camera that can shoot at 30fps and you
can adjust the exposure, add an effect or choose from audio and visual modes, such as Slow Motion and Wind
Reduction.
The
handset comes with YouTube pre-installed and there is a video editor which
enables you to put together videos from either clips that you’ve filmed on the
phone or those that you’ve copied across to it and you can connect the handset
to a TV or monitor.
Music
Play
Music arranges music by album, genre, song or by recently played and you can
create playlists and upload up to 20,000 songs to the cloud and stream them on
the player.
Battery & Connectivity
The
2530mAh battery will last at least two days with 24 hours of talk time or 286
hours of standby.
Maps and App
There’s
Google Maps on board, Google Navigation and QuickOffice which can open, edit
and create text documents and spread sheets and can create things in various
Microsoft Word formats. It also comes with SmartAction which let you automate
certain actions in certain situations.
For example you could set it to automatically turn GPS on and open your
sat nav whenever you activate car mode, or launch a music player when you
connect a pair of headphones. There’s Google Plus and other apps available from
Google Play.
Verdict
The
Motorola Razr HD is a brilliant Android smartphone with 4G (LTE) capability, a
beautiful 4.7” display, impressively loud speakers and an
excellent battery life.
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