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RAZR MAXX Available Now at Verizon

Finally the Droid RAZR MAXX is available now at Verizon Wireless for $299 when you sign a two year contract. We are ready to see how the 3300 mAh battery compares to the originals 1780 mAh battery. We should be able to get our hands on one shortly and let everyone know how the MAXX stacks up against the original.

Motorola Droid RAZR MAXX Features:

Those of you that plan on purchasing the RAZR MAXX please let us know what you think. Those of you that plan on upgrading from the original RAZR please let us know what your reasons are.

Motorola Droid RAZR

The Android 2.3.6 Gingerbread update for the Motorola Droid RAZR has been leaked and is available to users here. The update includes a few upgrades like enhanced LTE radio, Blur upgrades, bloatware like Moto Car Finder.  This is the method to install the Android 2.3.6 update to rooted Motorola Droid RAZR’s.

Update instructions for Rooted Droid RAZR’s:

  1. Make sure you have charged your device at least 50%
  2. Make sure you have MD5 of update package (Blur_Version.6.11.748.XT912.Verizon.en.US.zip) should be aa7fe6290c0d3a60253922bac413da02
  3. Disable Safestrap from the app (don’t remove it)
  4. Install Voodoo OTA Rootkeeper (available on market)
  5. Open and press protect (all should be green)
  6. Download the update file (Download Link)
  7. Place the update file on your RAZR’s External SD card
  8. Turn off your phone
  9. Hold “power + vol up + vol down” and wait for a menu
  10. Select recovery from the menu (use vol down to scroll and vol up to select)
  11. Press vol up and down at the same time to get an on screen menu
  12. Install the update file on you SD card … be patient
  13. When done Choose “reboot system now”
  14. after reboot open voodoo again and hit restore su
  15. Open safestrap and enable it again
  16. Congrats your on the new Build!

As always let us know if you have any issues and how you like the update. Those of you worried about the process can wait if you like as the official update shouldn’t be far out.

Motorola Droid RAZR

The Android 2.3.6 Gingerbread update for the Motorola Droid RAZR has been leaked and is available to users here. The update includes a few upgrades like enhanced LTE radio, Blur upgrades, bloatware like Moto Car Finder. Best of all you don’t need root access to install the update. Those of you with root access on the device may have issues with this method as it requires all stock system files to get past step 7.

Update instructions for non rooted Droid RAZR’s:

  1. Download the update file (Download Link)
  2. Place the update file on your RAZR’s External SD card
  3. Turn off your phone
  4. Hold “power + vol up + vol down” and wait for a menu
  5. Select recovery from the menu (use vol down to scroll and vol up to select)
  6. Press vol up and down at the same time to get an on screen menu
  7. Install the update file on you SD card … be patient
  8. When done Choose “reboot system now”
  9. Congrats your on the new Build!

As always let us know if you have any issues and how you like the update. Those of you worried about the process can wait if you like as the official update shouldn’t be far out.

Motorola has promised that they would be releasing Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich updates to many of their devices and the Droid RAZR is one of them. There is no ETA from Motorola or Verizon on the official OTA (over the air update) although as you can see above the update is pretty sweet. Since there has been no ETA on the update to the RAZR we have see developers take on the challenge and create their own update to the device in the form of a custom ROM. The version see above is not publicly available yet but at least we can see the progress and know there will be a release in the near future.

It looks like a Spanish commercial seen above outs the release date of the Droid RAZR as November 11th officially. We found this video on AndroidGuys website and thank them for posting it. Its actually a pretty impressive video, while never really showing the device it doesn’t matter with all of the images and specs you can find online. Give it a look and let us know what you think.

Motorola Droid RAZR

In Germany Alan Mutricy announced that while the RAZR was designed for Android 2.3 Gingerbread that they are already working on the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update. While there was no set date stated there was a broad “Start of 2012″.

If the Motorola RAZR is the first device to receive the OTA (over the air) update to Ice Cream Sandwich it means that the Galaxy Nexus will have the spotlight for some time.

Motorola Droid RAZR

The Motorola Droid RAZR has been officially announced today. This is a very high end Android phone with the thinnest body i’ve seen yet. The RAZR is so thin at 7.1 mm that its the thinnest Android device on the market to date.

Motorola Droid RAZR Features:

The Motorola Droid RAZR is currently a very expensive device at $299 with a Verizon contract and will be available for pre-order October 27th. We expected no less due to the fact that its Verizon selling the device.