Live: Motorola and Verizon announcing new Android smartphone (possibly DROID RAZR HD)
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If you ask Motorola and Verizon, this is the day's main event! If you don't... well, we're sure it'll still be pretty interesting, because the duo is expected to announce the Motorola DROID RAZR HD smartphone.
The DROID RAZR HD is expected to close the gap between the DROID RAZR series and the competition by featuring a large, 4.6" screen with 720x1280 resolution, a dual-core Snapdragon S4 chipset and, of course, LTE connectivity. The handset looks quite promising, and we hope that Motorola will again use premium materials for the design, making the DROID RAZR HD an easily-recognizable product.
Stay tuned for our liveblog of the event, which will begin at: 2PM ET | 1PM CT | 11AM PT | 8PM Central European Time!
The DROID RAZR HD is expected to close the gap between the DROID RAZR series and the competition by featuring a large, 4.6" screen with 720x1280 resolution, a dual-core Snapdragon S4 chipset and, of course, LTE connectivity. The handset looks quite promising, and we hope that Motorola will again use premium materials for the design, making the DROID RAZR HD an easily-recognizable product.
Stay tuned for our liveblog of the event, which will begin at: 2PM ET | 1PM CT | 11AM PT | 8PM Central European Time!
Live event tracker
| 13:44 | But don't you leave PhoneArena.com, because a lot of great coverage is coming up, including our hands-ons with the new devices! |
| 13:44 | OK, this was Ray, doing this liveblog for you. Thanks for being with us today. |
| 13:42 | A short and efficient presentation. Just to summarize: three new devices - RAZR HD, RAZR MAXX HD and RAZR M. |
| 13:41 | "Welcome to the new Motorola!" And that's a wrap guys. |
| 13:40 | Everybody in attendance today gets a RAZR M! Wohoo! Thank you Moto (or should we say, Google?). |
| 13:40 | Dennis Woodside, Moto CEO, is back on stage. |
| 13:39 | Today they are over 600,000! |
| 13:38 | She's also appreciating the great number of apps available today for Android. When they first launched the DROID, there were only 12,000. |
| 13:37 | VZW's LTE network now covers about 75% of U.S. population. |
| 13:37 | "Each Droid smartphone today comes with mobile hotspot..." bringing you easy access to the network. |
| 13:35 |  |
| 13:35 | Tammy Erwin, CMO of Motorola is on stage to talk about the nation's largest LTE network. |
| 13:34 | All devices run on Jelly Bean. |
| 13:34 | RAZR M will be available for $99 with contract, starting next week, and pre-orders available today! |
| 13:33 | RAZR HD and RAZR MAXX HD will be available in time for the Holidays. |
| 13:33 | It also packs a 2000mAh battery. It's probably the first compact, no-compromise Android smartphone. |
| 13:32 | Motorola isn't going for lower specs with the RAZR M. It'll still pack a dual-core S4, LTE, 8GB storage + microSD, 1 gig of RAM |
| 13:31 | DROID RAZR M - small smartphone with 3.7" display. |
| 13:31 | DROID RAZR HD - most compact 4.7" LTE phone, and DROID RAZR MAXX HD - ridiculously long battery life. |
| 13:30 | Up to 27 hours of music streaming. Up to 10 hours of video. 21 hour talk time. |
| 13:29 | DROID RAZR MAXX HD!  |
| 13:29 |  |
| 13:29 | 16 hour talk-time, almost double the competiton. |
| 13:28 |  |
| 13:27 | He's trying to demo how fast Chrome is by loading an extremely light page - Google. FAIL. :D And now he's blaming the Wi-Fi network. |
| 13:26 | Dual-core processor, LTE connectivity, and Chrome pre-installed. |
| 13:25 | Color saturation should be about 85% better than that of the iPhone 4S. |
| 13:25 |  |
| 13:25 | The DROID RAZR HD is the most compact, big screened phone! 4.7" and about the same size as the RAZR! |
| 13:24 | Rick Osterloch, SVP of Product Management is on stage to announce the new devices. |
| 13:22 | Motorola will be launching developer editions of its phones in the future. It'll also make sure to provide timely Jelly Bean updates. |
| 13:19 | Some interesting graphics are being displayed:  |
| 13:17 | Today, 1/3 of all LTE devices in the U.S. are made by Motorola. Impressive! |
| 13:17 |  |
| 13:16 | Yep, it was a cool experience indeed. |
| 13:16 | "Do you remember what it felt like the first time you were able to download a video to your phone?" |
| 13:16 |  |
| 13:15 |  |
| 13:14 | Martin Cooper of Motorola, the inventor of the first cell phone, the Motorola Dynatac, is here in the room! :) |
| 13:14 | "Motorola has created the underlying technology for today's phones." |
| 13:13 | "There's a lot of debate out there about who invented what and when. There's one thing that's not debatable - |
| 13:13 | They will introduce a couple of new devices today.  |
| 13:12 | It's Eric's pleasure to instroduce Dennis Woodside, CEO of Motorola Mobility. |
| 13:11 |  |
| 13:11 | Eric is thankful to Moto's former CEO Sanjay Jha for going Android. |
| 13:11 | Google needed Motorola in order to take active part in the Android market... |
| 13:10 | "There are 1.3 million Android device activations daily." Out of that, 70 thousands are tablets. |
| 13:08 | Schmidt kicks it off by explaining how awesome it is that we now have smartphones. |
| 13:06 | The band's name is "The Kin", by the way... just a side note. |
| 13:06 |  |
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10 Comments
3. itiswhatitis posted on 05 Sep 2012, 12:46 1 0
Can't wait to check out that Sexy Kevlar Ass!!!
8. bolaG posted on 05 Sep 2012, 13:55 0 0
Thats my next choice, but nokia aint got nothing on the MAXX. 21hrs enough said.
6. XPERIA-KNIGHT posted on 05 Sep 2012, 13:40 0 0
So they are making a Razr Maxx HD! wow, motos line up is going to be huge no doubt!............but im still wanting an Xperia TX or V hahaha sony ftw again :)
9. Ray.S posted on 05 Sep 2012, 14:18 0 0
Sorry about a mistake I made in the liveblog - the RAZR M's screen isn't 3.7", it's 4.3"!
10. dragonscourgex posted on 05 Sep 2012, 14:21 0 0
If they are coming preloaded with JB....what's the whole up on the updates for Droid Razr and Razr maxx?
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