[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
'Eloh Mate! You are not actually complaining, Baldy. And neither is Bobcus, Welder, Tigger, or anyone else. All of us here are actually "friends" and most do not "hit and run" with a fast question, although that is one of the things this thread is for. Everyone agrees that the Razr is not only "dated", but is pretty much EOL(End Of the LIne). The Razr, although it may work, is not "fun to use anymore". Tap and wait, tap and wait. The specs are out of date by over 3 years.

Since I do not read "Cellphone Magazines" and most of us don't, many of us really have no idea of what new phone to get. Which phone is good, powerful, and nice? Can this phone be rooted? Is the bootloader locked? Is it tied to a particular carrier? Is it global and could be used anywhere in the world?

I don't remember seeing you here, Baldy, when Verizon sprung a trap on it's customers in an effort to sweep as many rooted phones as they could, off the street and replaced with something you cannot root, the Turbo, There was a big buzz over it here and a flurry of activity because Verizon was offering this Turbo, a $699 Retail phone, for $200 to it's customers with financing, IF, you turned in your existing smartphone to get it. There was something else really good about the offer, I think that my2cents and his wife both got Turbos and they had their plan changed to a much, much cheaper plan that came with the phone. The offer was limited and would time out if you did not take the offer quickly. I remember reading the specs, being VERY impressed, and yes, I wanted this phone because it was more than twice and powerful as the Razr I had. The thread members were tripping over each other in a rush to get one of these "fantastic Turbo Phones" before the deal ran out. I was ready within 24 hours of hearing this to turn in my Razr and take the Turbo, then, I thought of one more thing to check out...

...is there a root for the Turbo, can it be rooted and rommed? And the answer was a big, fat, NO. So you have a rooted smartphone, the Razr, and you had to turn it in to get the Turbo. I pulled out at the last minute. Those that had to take the deal were now sitting on the bleachers, watching the rest of us "Play ROM", and they could not play anymore. They were screwed. And make no mistake about it, Verizon and now AT&T are on a mission to put an end to customers rooting their phones. ANY phone you get from Verizon now cannot be rooted and has some new Knox Security hard wired into the device. If you root it, the screen will never light again.

I need a new phone, I had no idea of what to get and after a trip to the Verizon store, I knew I could not take a phone from them. I would have to buy my own phone and in no way have $700 to spend on it. Thanks to [MENTION=6309629]dtiger1138[/MENTION] I found out about the Moto-X Pure Edition. Wow, what a nice phone! It had everything I could possibly want, could be unlocked, could be rooted and recovery installed, and it could be rommed. Verizon even started offering it but they now called it The Moto-X 2nd Gen. What a piece of crap! That phone does not even deserve the name "Moto-X", it is a disgrace to even call it one. The horsepower was reduced, the external sdcard was a thing of the past, it came with a built in 16 Gb sdcard like the Razr and half of that is not available and is used by the system. And the final insult, they cut ½" off the beautiful screen size from 5.7" to 5.2" screen.

So, IMHO, this kind of discussion is *very* welcome, else I would not have this new and very wonderful phone. My intentions are not to "brag" about the phone, it is to educate the members of what good phones are out there and would be great candidates for an upgrade. I got the Moto-X Pure Edition for $400, make that $450 for the 32 GB internal sdcard. Now the details are here for anyone to read and learn a bit about what kind of upgrade phone to get. I was originally hooked on the Samsung Galaxy because it was the first time I saw a cellphone with such a big, gorgeous screen, with LOTS of horsepower. And for sure I doubt I could get that nice, new, big Galaxy for $400.

So, I hope that more people talk about what phone they got, what phone they plan to upgrade to, and ask questions so they can get something really good. The Razr help desk is always open, but with it going EOL, it is time to start finding a good replacement.

Thanks for all of your help and support, [MENTION=3305649]OldBaldy[/MENTION], I do appreciate it. :)