 This is Nilay Patel with The Verge and this is the Motorola Droid Razr. It's not only the thinnest 4G LTE phone on the market, it's the thinnest smartphone on the market at just.28 inches thick. Motorola made that happen with a stainless steel frame inside and a Kevlar backplate. It's really light but it's also really strong and there's no flex at all. You can tell on your hand that it's a pretty sturdy device. Design wise you can see it falls right in line with the Droid X2 and Droid Bionic. There's the classic Motorola hump at the top with the camera elements but it is very thin. It's just not that small. It's about as big as the Samsung Galaxy S2 on Sprint which is also a 4G device. The S2 is a little bit thicker but it has a bigger screen, a 4.5 inches versus the 4.3 inches on the Razr. The Razr's 4.3 inch screen and the huge bezel around it makes it hard to use one handed. Compared to the iPhone, it's a giant monster. The Razr uses the industry's first QHD Super AMOLED display but it's not as good in practice as it is on paper. You can definitely see jaggies in text and images kind of distort when you scroll around in the browser. Compared to the QHD LCD display on the Droid X2, the Razr is definitely one step behind and it's nowhere near the class of something like the Retina display on the iPhone 4S. One of the best features on the Razr is smart actions which monitor different settings and states on the phone and take action based on them. So here you can see I've set one up for when the battery level falls below 10%, the GPS and Wi-Fi and other sensors turn off. It's also really easy to create a new one. Let's add one here. I'm going to set one up so when I plug in the headphones, audio launches. That's the app I like to use so I just scroll down here, select audio and I think I also want a notification to let me know that it plugged in the headphones. So add it there, close it out, plug in the headphones and you can see audio launched and I got a little notification. You can see Motorola has also put the latest version of its Android skin on the Razr. It's getting increasingly overwrought with every release and the animations on the Razr are particularly slow and sort of boring. While the Droid Razr is an impressive piece of hardware engineering, with smartphones it's really the software that counts and so I'd wait for the Samsung Galaxy Nexus which will ship with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and arrive on Verizon probably in the coming weeks.
 This is Nilay Patel with The Verge and this is the Motorola Droid Razr.
 It's not only the thinnest 4G LTE phone on the market, it's the thinnest smartphone on
 the market at just.28 inches thick.
 Motorola made that happen with a stainless steel frame inside and a Kevlar backplate.
 It's really light but it's also really strong and there's no flex at all.
 You can tell on your hand that it's a pretty sturdy device.
 Design wise you can see it falls right in line with the Droid X2 and Droid Bionic.
 There's the classic Motorola hump at the top with the camera elements but it is very thin.
 It's just not that small.
 It's about as big as the Samsung Galaxy S2 on Sprint which is also a 4G device.
 The S2 is a little bit thicker but it has a bigger screen, a 4.5 inches versus the 4.3
 inches on the Razr.
 The Razr's 4.3 inch screen and the huge bezel around it makes it hard to use one handed.
 Compared to the iPhone, it's a giant monster.
 The Razr uses the industry's first QHD Super AMOLED display but it's not as good in practice
 as it is on paper.
 You can definitely see jaggies in text and images kind of distort when you scroll around
 in the browser.
 Compared to the QHD LCD display on the Droid X2, the Razr is definitely one step behind
 and it's nowhere near the class of something like the Retina display on the iPhone 4S.
 One of the best features on the Razr is smart actions which monitor different settings and
 states on the phone and take action based on them.
 So here you can see I've set one up for when the battery level falls below 10%, the GPS
 and Wi-Fi and other sensors turn off.
 It's also really easy to create a new one.
 Let's add one here.
 I'm going to set one up so when I plug in the headphones, audio launches.
 That's the app I like to use so I just scroll down here, select audio and I think I also
 want a notification to let me know that it plugged in the headphones.
 So add it there, close it out, plug in the headphones and you can see audio launched
 and I got a little notification.
 You can see Motorola has also put the latest version of its Android skin on the Razr.
 It's getting increasingly overwrought with every release and the animations on the Razr
 are particularly slow and sort of boring.
 While the Droid Razr is an impressive piece of hardware engineering, with smartphones
 it's really the software that counts and so I'd wait for the Samsung Galaxy Nexus which
 will ship with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and arrive on Verizon probably in the coming
 weeks.