Which verizon lte phone?

[LwnmwnMan2]

Nope, GPS, WiFi are both toggled off, screen is on darkest setting, auto off when it goes into my pocket.

[DTro]

You should be able to see what is eating your battery through your settings.

[DTro]

Whaddya think is the white too metrosexual?

[Nick Kuhn]

They prefer the term hipster now...

[LwnmwnMan2]

I ran Tune In Radio today for my app. 100% to dead in about 3.5 hours. I had 3 phone calls and 4 texts. I also had it on 4g. Tomorrow I will turn off the 4g.

[LwnmwnMan2]

BTW, you don't know if the Razr is whitr or black in the Otterbox.

[LMITOUT]

Whaddya think is the white too metrosexual?

All you need then is a pair of white sunglasses and some Axe body spray and you'll be set.

[DTro]

If you got the phattest gear & no one can come into your atmosphere.. then you’re a part of t-shirt time & you will be until we yell CABS ARE HERE!

[LMITOUT]

DROID RAZR MAXX is designed for customers who spend their days and nights multi-tasking. This smartphone is a marathon runner with enough endurance to let customers talk on the phone for more than 21 hours straight on a single charge. It's the longest-lasting smartphone on the block, and at just 8.99 mm, the device is still impossibly thin. The DROID RAZR MAXX comes equipped with 32 GB of total memory and will be $299.99 with a new two-year customer agreement.

Oh, and the RAZR is now available in purple. Skol Vikings!

[DTro]

Well that's pretty cool!

Released "in coming weeks". I hate that

Why do all the reports say it will be $100 more than regular Razr at $199 yet everywhere I look the regular is $299?

[DTro]

Oh I see the price will drop.

Geez, the bigger battery and storage would be nice, but $100 nice? I might have to wait for the price drop now...

[delcecchi]

Just saw a guy from Sony on CNBC. They are just announcing several spiffy new products, including a folding tablet and a new very thin smartphone. They got divorced from Ericson a while back. Might be worth looking at.

[DTro]

Official release for Razr Maxx is 1/26.

I might wait for this one...

[CAMAN]

I'm lovin the LTE more and more everyday! Here's todays test, it looks like they sped up the tower by my house, last week I was maxing out at 7mbps download speeds. It has been a noticable difference the last couple days.

[DTro]

WOW!

And I thought my speed at home was pretty decent.

[LwnmwnMan2]

My Frontier DSL is 3806 mb download and .37 upload.

My Razr with 1/2 4g bars is 5994 download and 2.99 upload.

I should just use the phone all the time.

[A R Johnson]

You gota love the samsung screen's

[Northlander]

Im no phone geek by any means but my wife has the Bionic and loves it. I got the Samsung Navigator and its a ok phone but after using my wifes Bionic I wish I would have gotten one.

[Kyhl]

Official release for Razr Maxx is 1/26.

I might wait for this one...

Wife and I picked up Razrs two weeks ago and they are awesome. Fast, no data issues.

I'll have to look into the Maxx a little closer while we are still in our return period.

The Razr is running a 1Ghz chip overclocked from the factory at 1.2Ghz with 32GB memory.

I wonder if it's a different chip on the Maxx. If so, I might think about trading up.

For what it's worth, Cost Co has a 90 day return policy on all phones. And their phones usually come with a bundle bonus. The Razrs came with a docking station, back up power supply/charger, and an hdmi cord.

Plus the phone was on sale the day we picked them up. All that would have cost us $150 more per phone at a verizon store. We checked just to make sure.

[CigarGuy]

Was that price at C/C for a new account or upgrade/renewal?

[Kyhl]

Renewal. We stopped by a VZ store on the way to C/C and priced the phones with the bonus packs. VZ charges an extra $100 for the bonus pack. We happened to hit a special C/C 4 day sale on the Razr. I wasn't expecting that. It just worked out that way.

I should spell out the reasoning behind chosing the Razr.

I wanted a phone first, then a mini-tablet that would also replace my mp3 player.

Bionic was out, older, has numerous reports of dropped data issues that are not being resolved.

Nexus, I wanted a phone first. There were reports of bad call quality, dropped calls when out of the metro. I want my phone to work in the sticks. That is why I'm with VZ. Without that I might as well sign up with one of the T's.

Too bad too, because I was looking forward to a streamlined less bloatware phone designed for ICS.

Rezound was out because of the sound. I am streaming my home music server (PC) to my phone. Currently using AudioGalaxy to stream. Ditched a separate MP3 player.

I don't think Ray Charles, Monk, and Nirvana should all sound like Eminem and LMFAO. They should play back the way they were recorded. Everything should not sound like club music.

I also have better headphones than what come with the Rezound so that wasn't a plus. Something else to throw away.

The Razr scores faster than the Rezound in benchmark speed tests.

So I chose the Razr.

My only complaint may not even be related to the phone. When streaming in 4G mode my headphone amp picks up major distortion off the phone. This does not occur in 3G mode. I have isolated it to interference between the two devices.

It may be grounds to upgrade my headphone amp. Might as well get new cans too. Don't tell my wife.

[LMITOUT]

From what I understand about the Rezound, only music played through the Beats application gets the "club music" treatment. If you use any other audio player it is just the same as any other phone.

[Kyhl]

That's probably true.

See the next note about it scoring lower on benchmark test.

I attributed the lower score to the higher resolution screen eating up extra cpu cycles. Since I wasn't interested in HD video on a 4" screen I didn't really care about the Rezounds better screen.

Others may prefer it.

The best news I just learned is ICS is supposed to support audio out of it's USB port as a standard option. I may be shopping for a new headphone amp with built in DAC.

Score 1 for the Nexus because it should have that ability already while I will have to wait a few months.

[CAMAN]

The best news I just learned is ICS is supposed to support audio out of it's USB port as a standard option. I may be shopping for a new headphone amp with built in DAC.

Score 1 for the Nexus because it should have that ability already while I will have to wait a few months.

This is the first I have heard this. How would I test this?

[Kyhl]

I don't know how it will work since I don't have it on the Razr.

You would need a usb cable and an external DAC of some sort. Many higher end CD players have this option or if you have an external DAC for your home stereo.

I don't know how you make them talk though.

On another note.

I just found out Motocast that came preloaded on the Razr should also stream music like AudioGalaxy. I will have to look into it some more. Maybe it already has the option to output through the usb.

Doesn't matter though. I won't be making any more purchases for another month or so. My credit card is bleeding this month.