Last week Verizon Wireless and Motorola Mobility held an event in New York City – where they announced three new Android smartphones. These phones were to be part of Motorola’s DROID lineup (no surprise there) and brought some welcome Google inspired concepts.The announced phones were of course the Motorola DROID RAZR HD, the Motorola DROID RAZR HD… Read more
Motorola’s keynote today was quite eventful, though nothing we didn’t know was announced. The first of the new announced phones is the DROID RAZR HD. It sports a 4.7″ 720p display, a dual core Snapdragon S4 at 1.5 GHz, 1GB of RAM, 32GB of storage, an 8MP rear camera, NFC and a 2,500 mAh battery. That battery is very impressive for a phone of its… Read more
If your RAZR, RAZR MAXX, or DROID 4 has received the Ice Cream Sandwich update, you might be in for a nasty surprise. Motorola has included a new root check system in their software that goes beyond your ROM. It is build into the boot and recovery .img files. At the bottom of your recovery, you’ll see one of three things: “qe 0/0″ means you’ve never… Read more
The wait is over for Canadian Razr owners as Rogers has decided to begin rolling out Ice Cream Sandwich a full week earlier than the expected September launch date. The update bumps the version to Android 4.0.4 and brings along the usual array of new features. If you’re not seeing the update notification, you can manually check for it by going to… Read more
It’s been quite a while since the US DROID RAZR and RAZR MAXX got their updates to Ice Cream Sandwich. The European models have seen little action since then, with a limited soak test rolling out. However, it was successful, so the update is now rolling out to everyone. The update for both phones is version 672.180.41 and is 375.8MB, since the MAXX is… Read more
Since the Verizon DROID RAZR has gotten its Ice Cream Sandwich a while ago, GSM RAZR users are waiting patiently for their fix. Thankfully, Motorola used their European Facebook page to announce that there will be a very limited ICS rollout to “select users,” similar to a soak test. There will be a broader rollout a few weeks later. The 4.0.4 update… Read more
Motorola asked people to “guess the smartphone” with clues they gave us. Everyone assumed this was a game Moto was playing to unveil a new phone. They said “Let’s play a game, Guess the Smartphone. We’ll give a clue each day all week and make the big reveal on Friday. I have the power of 4G LTE. Which smartphone am I?” and it sounded like that’s… Read more
If you’re ever stuck with a soft bricked RAZR or RAZR MAXX on ICS, now you can fix it with the newly released fastboot files. With these files and a program called RSDLite, you can flash your phone to stock software. It’s the Odin of Motorola phones, except nowhere near as open. Either way, it can be a life saver when you’ve accidentally screwed… Read more
We have some new images of what looks like a new Verizon Motorola RAZR variant hopefully coming out soon. Its model number is XT907, and compared to the RAZR (XT912) and RAZR HD (XT926), it seems to be a lower end model. Unfortunately, we have no further details, only speculation. It looks to be a smaller device, possibly 4″ or 4.3″ at a probable qHD… Read more
The Droid RAZR and RAZR MAXX phones recently start receiving the Android 4.0 update, and while it’s been well received by many, there are some users experiencing issues with their phone after the update. Several users have mentioned that the battery life on their phone has decreased dramatically as well as new issues of lagging. Additionally, there… Read more
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