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Motorola RAZR to get ICS in early 2012

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Motorola RAZR to get ICS in early 2012
There seems to be a debate over whether the Motorola RAZR or the Samsung Galaxy Nexus is the better phone. As we covered in our breakdown of the two, the only real differences are in the screen, the camera, a slight difference in weight, the availability of an SD card slot, and of course in the Android version loaded. The first bunch of points will just have to be personal preference, but the last one is something that will be changing, and sooner than you might have expected. 

The Motorola senior vice president of portfolio and product management, Alain Mutricy has said that although the RAZR was designed for Gingerbread, it will get the Ice Cream Sandwich update at the "start of 2012". This is an extremely fast update given that the first ICS phone, the Galaxy Nexus, won't be on the market until next month. 

Some may say the speed of this update could be due to the increasingly close relationship between Google and Motorola. But, of course, we know that Google has been seeding hardware partners with ICS for months now. Motorola must have had early builds of ICS, and that is certainly helping with the speed of this update. Although, assuming Motorola had ICS builds, it seems strange that Mutricy would explicitly say that the RAZR was designed for Gingerbread. Perhaps the statement was simply in regards to the device having physical buttons.

source: Pocket-lint

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1. arcq12 posted on 19 Oct 2011, 11:27 4 5

that's what I'm talking about.. so let's forget about the galaxy nexus then..

2. corporateJP posted on 19 Oct 2011, 11:29 5 2

I tend to easily forget about alot of things that say "Samsung" on them.

But, that's just me.

4. arcq12 posted on 19 Oct 2011, 11:35 6 2

haha.. same here sir, I'm just not into Samsung products..

14. Synack posted on 19 Oct 2011, 12:32 4 4

And why are none of you into Samsung? Have you actually owned any of the Galaxy 1 or 2 devices? They are the best phones out there and until now with the RAZR no Moto phone could even compete. But of course now that a Moto phone has a SAMOLED display then it can compete. Except Motorola's UI completely blows.

19. arcq12 posted on 19 Oct 2011, 12:40 5 2

never owned one but most of my friends has samsung. all of them are having troubles as far as the receptions, hardware wearing out, and long array of software issues.

I also work for a major carrier and we receive countless complaints about their samsung device.

And personally, I don't like the designs and feel of any of the Galaxy products I've handed so far. And TouchWiz is crap.

40. bossmt_2 posted on 19 Oct 2011, 15:26 4 1

Synack I disagree, I don't think that the new Motoblur is bad at all. From the X on it got better. I actually hate Samsung's UI personally, especially when it's on Verizon with their crappy Bing add ons.

32. BWAAAHAHA posted on 19 Oct 2011, 14:03 4

Yeah I bet you "easily" forget about everything else in life too MORON!

39. arcq12 posted on 19 Oct 2011, 15:20 1 1

your comment is non sense. it shows how much space left in your brain.

31. BWAAAHAHA posted on 19 Oct 2011, 14:02 1 5

More like your poor a$$ can't afford samsung products so you just had to bash.

37. arcq12 posted on 19 Oct 2011, 15:18 5 2

you're kidding right? when I bought my HTC Desire HD it was more expensive than the Galaxy S.. Crapsungs are cheap as sh*t and you should know that..

3. ayephoner posted on 19 Oct 2011, 11:31 1

dont the physical buttons obviously point to it being developed for gingerbread?

i would think motorola will have a phone w/o buttons coming down the pike. ICS might make it quickly to the RAZR, but future updates will see it on the back burner to phones designed for the OS.

16. Synack posted on 19 Oct 2011, 12:33 1

You can program the capacitative buttons to work instead of the OS buttons for phones with real buttons. All they have to do is remove the bottom navigation buttons from ICS for the particular type of phone.

5. remixfa posted on 19 Oct 2011, 11:50 1

he probably just means "designed for gingerbread" as in it has physical capacitive buttons instead of the all onscreen nature of the Nexus.

6. c.hack posted on 19 Oct 2011, 11:51 3

Lame. I wouldn't buy this phone anymore then getting a new PC with Windows Vista.

7. kshell1 posted on 19 Oct 2011, 11:59 4

FU this is the greatest phone build wise, spec wise (except for screen), and durability wise that has been released in a long time look for this thing to be a big seller

18. c.hack posted on 19 Oct 2011, 12:39 2 4

Its a POS, a-hole. Overpriced DX2 with a different case. BS Moto-blur. This phone's for losers.

24. kshell1 posted on 19 Oct 2011, 12:50 5 1

lets see 1.2ghz dual core processor 7.1 mm thin super amo qhd screen, water spash screen, kevlar, steel core, best android phone yet

23. arcq12 posted on 19 Oct 2011, 12:49 1

doesnt mean it has kevlar it will survive a 5 foot drop.

50. mobileuser posted on 25 Jan 2012, 16:59

Neither will any samsung product like the SGS II nor the Nexus can survice a 5 foot frop either. your comment is nonsense.

8. Droid_X_Doug posted on 19 Oct 2011, 11:59 1

@c - Not sure what to make of your comment. Are you equating the RAZR to Vista? Or, Android v. 2.3? Spec-wise the phone hardware that counts (CPU, RAM, GPU) is identical between the two phones.

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