Motorola Droid Razr Discounted to $199.99 From Amazon

Amazon
(NASDAQ:AMZN) Wireless is now charity a Motorola Droid Razr for $199.99—one
day after charity a phone for $111.11 with a Verizon Wireless contract.

The $111.11 deal,
which has lapsed, commenced on Nov. 11, 2011. Still, a $199.99 cost is $100
less than Verizon and a associate retailers are offered it for, putting it on
par with a normal costs of a reward Android smartphone.

Amazon passes
along a bonus if consumers determine to turn a new wireless subscriber, or
renew their existent conduit contracts and keep a use for during least181
consecutive days. Amazon Wireless will assign consumers $250 early termination
fees for violation their contracts.

As eWEEK remarkable in a examination of a Android 2.3.5
“Gingerbread” phone, a Razr is as good an Android handset at
Motorola Mobility (NYSE:MMI) has done to date.

The Razr is usually 0.28 inches thin, has a 1.2GHz
processor and a special new Smart Actions battery saver and charge automation
application.

Verizon‘s 4G Long
Term Evolution (LTE) record fuels applications good on a Razr, though it
does bake a battery down utterly a bit. And as we noted, $299.99 is a lot of
money for a phone, even subsidized from a $799.99 seeking price. Amazon’s
discount to $199.99 should make it some-more savoury to some consumers this
holiday season.

Amazon
Wireless, that is also discounting Android handsets such as Verizon‘s HTC
Droid Incredible 2 to as low as 1 cent on contract, has also kicked off a
“hotspot
holidays” promotion.

Consumers can
purchase a hotspot-ready smartphone—which will capacitate users to bond anywhere
from 5 to 8 inclination around WiFi from a phone—and they will get a $100
Amazon.com present card.

These include
such handsets as a Droid Razr and Droid Bionic 4G from Verizon, a Samsung
Galaxy S II, a Epic Touch 4G handset from Sprint and a Galaxy S II 4G from
ATT.

Alternatively,
shoppers can buy a mobile hotspot device to accept a $50 Amazon.com present card.
The inclination embody a Novatel MiFi 3G/4G Mobile Hotspot, a Sierra Wireless
Overdrive Pro 3G/4G, T-Mobile’s 4G HotSpot and Verizon‘s Samsung SCH-LC11 4G
Mobile Hotspot.

“With a
hotspot-ready smartphone, we can entrance a Internet on your Kindle Fire or
other WiFi inclination anywhere,” pronounced Amazon, that is rising its
WiFi-based Kindle Fire inscription Nov. 15 for $199.

Amazon expects to boat as many as 5 million Android-based
Kindle Fire slates by a rest of a year.