Deciding on a Smartphone Is No Easy Task

Deciding that smartphone to squeeze can be a daunting endeavor.

I know, since we have spent a final few months determining that phone we should squeeze for my personal use.

Since we examination cellphones, we have a smashing advantage. we indeed get to use many of a many stream phones and to consider their special features. This, however, can also be a waste since any phone is singular and there is no one phone that has each underline we prolonged for.

The foe was prohibited and heavy. we unequivocally favourite many facilities of a iPhone, including a clarity of a arrangement and one of a best cameras that I’ve seen in a cellphone.

Yet since of a smaller 3.5-inch screen, miss of 4G connectivity and miss of removable memory, a iPhone 4S mislaid a competition.

I also unequivocally favourite a Droid Bionic. With a twin core 1 GHz processor, it is copiousness fast. It has a good 4.3-inch display, has removable memory, and runs on Verizon’s quick 4G LTE network. Other smartphones like a Galaxy Nexus were also in a running. The Nexus has a super pointy 4.65-inch screen, even bigger than a Bionic, and also has a special somewhat contoured display.

In a end, however, a Motorola Droid Razr won my heart. Its ultra-thin pattern is intensely attractive. The 4.3-inch shade distance creates it easy to see, while still easy to reason and to carry. The super AMOLED shade is one of a best on a market.

The backplate is done of Kevlar (think bulletproof vest), while a face is Corning Gorilla glass. The device has copiousness of steel inside and it sports a water-repellent nano-coating, so it should be means to get me by any clumsy days that we encounter.

The twin core 1.2 GHz processor creates it altogether a rapid small device and with a 4G LTE capabilities, it also speeds by Web pages and handles videos including Flash with aplomb.

The Razr comes with 16 GB of built-in memory and also comes with a 16 GB removable storage label that can be upgraded to a incomparable distance during any time.

As an Android phone, this Droid is intensely customizable and can hoop all from voice commands to navigation. One of a best facilities is a Motorola underline called Smart Actions. These concede we to set adult triggers that tell a phone how we wish it to act in certain circumstances.

Once a trigger is activated, a phone automatically performs a movement that we specified. The triggers can be anything from a time of day to a plcae of a phone. You can use these Smart Actions for a vast accumulation of functions.

For instance, we can set adult a Smart Action that automatically turns a phone to quiver when we enter a church each week. Or we can set it adult to automatically bond to Wi-Fi when we are during home. Or have it remind we to collect adult some divert when we are nearby a dilemma grocery store. Smart Actions can be simply used to save battery life and to perform many other programmed tasks.

Although winning my heart was important, like many normal cellphone purchasers, we also shopped for a best deal.

The Droid Razr was introduced final Nov during $299 with a two-year contract. Motorola has already introduced a successor, a Droid Razr Maxx, that is a same phone with a bigger battery.

As a three-month-old phone with a somewhat improved chronicle already in place, Verizon has started to bonus a Droid Razr. So this was a good time to buy. All of a facilities of a phone are utterly up-to-date, though a phone itself now has a reduce price. we took advantage of a understanding during Best Buy for $149 with a two-year contract.

I was means to use a Best Buy present certificate that we had perceived over a holidays, creation it a unequivocally good deal. This week Verizon is charity dual Droid Razrs for $199.

The Droid Razr isn’t perfect. It came with a Gingerbread Android handling system, and it substantially won’t be upgraded to a latest (Ice Cream Sandwich) Android handling complement for during slightest a few months.

Because it is so skinny and light, a battery is not user-replaceable. But after a few weeks of regulating my Razr, we didn’t find any other drawbacks, and we can overtly contend that we adore it.

There is no doubt that in a brief time there will be another phone to squeeze my courtesy with some fantastic new features. Right now, however, we am happy with my Droid Razr. In it, we have a fast, thin, and really able smartphone to keep me association on my daily adventures.

Contact Sandy Berger during sandy@compukiss.com.