[Motorola Droid RAZR] newowner:
I've only had the RAZR for 3 days - 2 of which it's been on the Verizon network.

Looks - what's to be said the thing looks great.... I bought the drab black silicone skin (msrp 19.99) from Verizon and it comes off to easily - returned!

The Otterbox Verizon sells makes the phone look like any other cellphone - the box is humongous – don’t get it (DefenderSeries). Get the CommuterSeries (SIC) from Radio Shack or the Otterbox website (msrp 34.99) it still fits in the car adaptor (its just a tiny bit bigger than the pure silicone skin – which brings me to the next point – everyone on the Motorola website is saying their phone won’t fit in the car kit… Maybe they aren’t taking out the insert?! The Motorola car kit I got from Verizon works great.

Data

I switched to Verizon for better 4G, and the 4G is way faster than TMobile, but from what I read and from what my friend says about his HTC AMAZE (Tmo) it looks like the new processors have a lot to do with web browsing.

I notice that the 4G and 3G tend to take turns every once in a while, but the 4G speed is insane.

The WIFI wasn’t working on the 1st night but was working earlier… Problem solved by reboot – for some reason the WIFI couldn’t connect to my router (after checking wireless on other devices and rebooting the router, I rebooted the phone).

APPS

NFL 12 is about 214MEGS! I think I’m going to uninstall it! Other than that, the “Bloatware” seems to serve a good purpose – I like MOTOCAST – it allows you to access folders you select, in your PC, from your phone.

The bTTY app I purchased for my other phone only goes in 10% increments on the RAZR…. Publisher says it’s a Motorola thing.

Apps / OS run fast.

Hardware

No FM radio – fine never used it on the G1, HD2, and MTG4.

Bluetooth is fast.

The RAZR reeks of style – too bad the battery can’t come out… Not a big deal for me. I play grave defense for about 30 – 45 min in the morning, download a bunch of programs (LTE), surf the net, and just keep the display going, and the battery lasts me about 12 hours. Look, at the end of my work day, I get in my car and hook up the phone to power… I have an home OUTLET-TO-USB thingy that I got from my Amazon Kindle – DON’T USE IT WITH THE RAZR – it overheated! I used it with the MTG4 and it never got that hot! Sorry too lazy to check the specs. I’m not sure why people are complaining the RAZR takes longer to charge than other phones (it comes with a larger btty ) because I haven’t noticed it takes longer, but then again I haven’t formally timed it.

Haven’t tried the durability of the glass.

CAMERA SUXS and the video is better but not much better (IMHO). Maybe I don’t know how to use it, but if your hand isn’t absolutely steady, your shot is going to look blurry! - this is the only reason why I’d consider getting another phone – its almost a deal breaker for me because I like to take pictures of my family and don’t want to carry around another device.

Call quality is ok – I think that TMO offers (at least on the MTG4) better call quality – I have no idea why, because Verizon seems to have better coverage.

I was a little worried with the signal strength, but it looks like Motorola is more conservative with their graphic depictions… I used WIFI Analyzer to check the WIFI signal strength and it looked like the MTG4 and the RAZR had almost the same db levels, but the stock signal strength indicators looked lower than the MTG4's.

I also wanted NFC, but figure it won’t become popular for another 2 years – at which point my btty will die and it will be time for a new phone anyway…. Plus I’ll let all the hackers work out the security bugs before I use NFC…

Speaker phone is loud and clear , for what I use it for; voice. I can’t see using my phone speakers for music! No phone gives good quality music unless you’re using headsets – yes even apples suck (IMHO).

Buttonology is weird – the power button is on my right side with the volume button right below – guess I’ll get used to it. The softkeys work great.

The USB and HDMI out are on the top of the phone and I’m not sure why they made that decision… Unless it’s because they couldn’t fit them anywhere else.

Think I’m keeping this phone despite the camera.

Hope this helps

UPDATE 20111213

Betty drops to about 70 range from 100 when playing sentinel3 and listing to internet radio. Also I have brightness @ 0.