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Gallery: Droid RAZR vs. iPhone 4 and unboxing

By Jason D. O'Grady | November 11, 2011, 12:14pm PST

Summary: Photo gallery of the new Droid RAZR from Motorola and Verizon Wireless. It’s the thinnest phone to feature 4G/LTE support, but is it thinner than the iPhone 4S? It depends on where you measure.

I posted a quick photo gallery of photos showing the unboxing of the new Droid RAZR by Motorola which launched today (11.11.11) on Verizon Wireless.

Features:

Thinnest 4G LTE smartphone
Dual-core 1.2 GHz processor & 1 GB RAM
4.3″ super AMOLED advanced display
8 MP rear camera and front-facing HD webcam
KEVLAR fiber case
Corning Gorilla Glass
Water-repellent nanocoating

Most interesting is how the RAZR redux compares to the benchmark iPhone 4. At only 7.1mm thin it has the iPhone beat in that department. Even the lip that protrudes from the top of the RAZR (which houses its camera, flash, speaker and ports) is only 10.6mm, slightly thicker than the iPhone 4S (9.3mm).

Anyway, here’s the gallery.

Here are some of the first reviews of the new Droid RAZR from around the Web:

ZDNet’s James Kendrick - “Not quite thin enough to cut metal”
CNET’s Nicole Lee (video review) - “easily one of the year’s top Android smartphones”
Engadget’s Terrence O’Brien - “the handset is just physically stunning”
The Verge’s Nilay Patel - “a legitimate feat of hardware engineering”

Update: iFixIt has posted its teardown of the Droid RAZR.

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Jason O'Grady is a journalist and author specializing in mobile technology. He has published six books on Apple and mobile gadgets and his PowerPage blog has been publishing for over 15 years.