21.05.12
Motorola Droid RAZR Study
Recently Motorola unleashed a bunch of devices it was keeping up its sleeve, and the latest for Verizon is the Motorola Droid RAZR. A while ago we reviewed the Bionic, which was the first days we got to see 4G LTE connectivity (courtesy of a Motorola Wrigley LTE baseband) alongside a dual pith OMAP4430 SoC. The RAZR continues with those two components and brings a new industrial sketch out, a different display, and revival of the RAZR brand itself.

It’s protected to say that both elements of the tech press and a large demographic of end users are starting to wake up to something we’ve known and been talking about for a while now: that unsurpassed combinations of SoC and cellular baseband (what I call a hardware platform) define devices, and that often new devices are unbiased iterations of those existing hardware platforms with tweaks to accommodate sole carrier customers (different cellular frequency bands, other aesthetics, different software preloads, etc.). A shaky analogy is to be it to putting a different case on the same computer or how PC ODMs shop around reference designs. The supernumerary component in the smartphone world is of course carriers, (and the endless variants of tools platforms that result as a consequence) but there are really only a few different unique tools platforms that emerge each year.
Source: AnandTech