So, an interesting thing happened last week: I changed phones, again! In early September, I upgraded from the Droid Thunderbolt to the Droid Bionic. After just one week of use I decided to move back to the Thunderbolt and give the Bionic to a son who was moving from a dumb phone to a smartphone. It wasn’t that the phone was BAD, it was just that it really wasn’t all that different from the Thunderbolt and why waste an upgrade? In early November, after waiting forever, I finally had choices: either the Droid RAZR or the HTC Rezound. I actually played with both and although either would have been fine, I chose the Rezound because of the outstanding sound quality. And then last Thursday, I saw the launch announcement for the Galaxy Nexus.
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AT&T is making their push for a true 4G network as they rollout a 4G LTE service to rival the speeds Verizon customers have enjoyed for over a year. The LG Nitro HD is the third device in the AT&T lineup to support the super-fast LTE Network. The Nitro HD, known in other parts as the Optimus LTE, is a fantastic piece of hardware with a 4.5-inch 1280 x 720 AH-IPS display, dual-core 1.5 GHz processor, 1.3-megapixel front camera, and 8-megapixel-1080p rear camera. The biggest challenge for the LG Nitro will be the $250 price tag with a 2-year contract considering other LTE devices on AT&T can be purchased for under $200.
The Samsung Galaxy S2 has been making the headlines for the last several months. AT&T’s latest variant, the Samsung Galaxy S2 Skyrocket, is now available, and is one of AT&T’s first 4G LTE capable phones. Does it live up to its predecessor’s hype? Find out in the full review below.
By way of full disclosure, this is the first Galaxy S2 (GS2) variant that I have tested. The folks at AT&T were kind enough to send this to us and I have been using it over the holiday break, and my experience thus far has been favorable. Let’s get down to it then.
OK, let’s get this out of the way right up front: This phone is so thin it could almost double for a letter-opener. I have to admit that I had my worries that I would break the device in half, but nothing could be further from the truth. This was a fun review for me because I knew that I would be purchasing one of the two phones review by SMR this week. In the end, I did not chose this phone, but had it been the only choice, I believe I would have been very happy indeed with the results. The Motorola Droid RAZR is an amazing piece of technology and it speaks very well for the future of Motorola in the Android ecosystem.
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Well after my wife dropped enough hints weeks ago, she will be happy to know her Kindle Fire has arrived. Unfortunitely, I get to do the unboxing before her. While we will certainly have a more in depth review of the Amazon Kindle Fire, we wanted to put up some shots of the unboxing and some quick initial impressions of Amazon’s new tablet.
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There are many new phones coming out over the next few weeks however, we wanted to peek at two of the hottest Smartphones on different platforms.
For Android users the Motorola Droid Razr is definite the phone to get while on Windows Phone 7 the HTC Titan seems to be the choice phone for many people.
Looking at the hardware alone the Droid Razr clearly is the better device. While the HTC Titan is bigger, the Razr has a higher screen resolution, faster processor, and LTE support you just have to give that to the RAZR. On the other hand, when we include the operating systems, I believe it evens the phones up a bit, because Windows Phone 7 is one of the smoothest and fastest mobile operating systems and I also don’t believe that the Android OS and the apps that run on it are completely optimized to use multi-cores.
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If you’ve been following phones at all recently, then you know that Verizon is releasing a trifecta of amazing Android phones in November with the Motorola Droid Razr, HTC Rezound, and Samsung Galaxy Nexus. The folks at Verizon were kind enough to send us the HTC Rezound before its release on Monday, and I’ve had it to play with all weekend. Follow along for the full review, but let me give you just one spoiler; this phone is awesome!
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Verizon is really playing up the marketing of the Motorola Droid Razr with today’s date. At 11:11 today 11/11/11 the highly anticipated Droid Razr goes on sale. If you look past all the silliness of the marketing the phone is actually an awesome piece of hardware however being biased towards Windows Phone I cannot say much about the OS. The Razr’s dimensions are 5.15(h) x 2.71(w) x 0.28(d) inches making it one of the thinnest phones out. The dual core processor, water repellent board and the 4G LTE radio make it an attractive phone for power users. This device will be running Android 2.3.5 (Gingerbread) which you can bet will be updated to Ice Cream Sandwich as soon as possible.
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When the Motorola Droid Razr was announced last month, we learned the specs for this amazing phone, a pre-order date, but were not given a hard release date. I don’t know about you, but I think that there are few things worse than pre-ordering something without knowing when I’m going to actually have it in my hands.
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The HTC Rezound (Vigor) is a hot new phone being released soon on Verizon. There have been quite a few leaks claiming different specs for the powerhouse phone, but nothing has yet been confirmed. While far from official, a hands-on video of a pre-production model of the Rezound confirms the majority of the previously leaked specs.
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