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Motorola DROID RAZR cracked open to expose the making of an engineering marvel

0. phoneArena posted on 14 Nov 2011, 03:37

The Motorola DROID RAZR is the thinnest LTE smartphone out there, and the thinnest Android device overall, if we don't count the camera hump. iFixit has disassembled a unit and exposed how has Motorola reclaimed its manufacturing prowess...

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1. hawk62 posted on 14 Nov 2011, 06:16 3 7

Measure it at the thickest part not the thinnest. Idiots!

2. clevername posted on 14 Nov 2011, 07:10 1 3

That's how I feel. This seems to be a cheap wap way to steal bragging rights. I don't care how thin something is at the thinnest part. My pocket its gonna feel the thickest part.

3. bobfreking55 posted on 14 Nov 2011, 07:34 8 1

only 10% of the phone is thicker than the s2, the iphone, etc.

the 90% is thinner.

Therefore: the other phones are 90% thicker.

Still the thinnest.

8. cfprelude posted on 14 Nov 2011, 08:46 1 3

actually you are very incorrect.... your pocket is going to fill the thickness of the majority of the phone. and i keep hearing that its thicker than the iphone at the thickest point but when i lay it down next to my wife's iphone they are the same thickness for about 7% of the phone.... and then WAAAAYYYY thinner for the rest. And from a usability standpoint, i'm not even saying the razr thin is the easiest thing to hang on to BUT the very slight bump on top is the perfect place to help you hold it.

11. bolaG posted on 14 Nov 2011, 11:40 3

My pocket dosent feel the thickest point what so ever. It's like having a little thing chapstic on the bottom of my pocket while I have a bad ass thin phone in there as well. I almost forget I have the phone on me at times.

9. iamcc posted on 14 Nov 2011, 09:39 2

Haven't seen you in awhile. I would agree with you if most of the phone was thicker and they had a slight portion that was the "thinnest".

The reality is, as mentioned above about 90% of the phone IS the thinnest phone on the market, by quite a bit.

Get over it.

12. protozeloz posted on 14 Nov 2011, 13:40 1 1

Poor you. When you planing on getting 4-5 razr? I mean you need to keep your record. Now seriously the phone is super thin and doesn't sacrifice anything but the removable battery it looks amazing

4. ivanko34 posted on 14 Nov 2011, 07:37 1 2

Apple can slavishly copy the solutions found by Motorola and put a patent on them

5. Droid_X_Doug posted on 14 Nov 2011, 07:41 2

Moto/VZW can spin the phone how ever they want to spin it. Regardless, it is one amazing example of engineering.

6. Droid_X_Doug posted on 14 Nov 2011, 07:42 1

I am curious what the projected cost to produce the RAZR is going to come in at.

7. PhoneLuver posted on 14 Nov 2011, 07:43 2

Wow! Impressive how they managed to get everything in there!

10. jdrevolution posted on 14 Nov 2011, 11:37 1

That's a pretty nifty breakdown, but did they really open it up with a saw?! Ahahaha, ah, new technology, meet you're exposure at the hands of old technology.

13. emburybrett posted on 19 Feb 2012, 22:35

If this COULD work on GSM why don't they push an update so when I go outside the USA I can use my phone without paying an arm and a leg! They know that they could do this because why would they put the GSM with the HSPA+ chip? HSPA+ is 14.4 so why not push a simple update like you are to stop us from rooting...?

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