The bottom of the home screen contains helpful shortcuts to the phone dialer, people (contacts), the apps menu, sms messaging and camera.
Swiping down from the top of the screen reveals a list of current notifications, which you can swipe away or tap on for more information, along with a button that takes you to settings. We wish that screen brightness appeared on this menu, but you can access display and all other settings by tapping through to the main settings menu.
Swiping to the right reveals a menu that lets you add additional home screens while swiping to the left launches a quick settings menu with options for Wi-Fi Bluetooth, GPS and Airplane mode, among others. Unlike standard Ice Cream Sandwich phones that can come with as many as seven home screens, the Droid RAZR M has only one by default, reducing the amount of confusion and clutter.
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We particularly like the weather circle, which shows the current conditions in your home city plus lets you flip through any additional world cities you add.
Swiping down on these circles flips them over to reveal different information on the "back" of the coin, while tapping on them takes you to another screen with more information. Plus, you can engage silent mode in the top right corner.Ĭlick to EnlargeBy default, a set of three attractive, coin-shaped widgets sits on top of the home screen, providing the time, the weather and battery status. Motorola includes its own lock screen that lets you swipe to one of four shortcuts: Phone, Camera, Text and Unlock. This menu shows a list of open tasks overlayed on top of the screen and lets you either switch apps or close an app simply by swiping it away. Those who have not used Ice Cream Sandwich before will appreciate the operating system's snappy performance and attractive widgets and icons, but especially the Recent Apps button.
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The Motorola Droid RAZR M runs Android 4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich, with a few added features. We particularly appreciated the "audio effects" control panel, which allows you to tweak the graphic equalizer or change between different sound profiles. Of course, the music sounded better when we plugged in a set of headphones. When we played both the bass-heavy Forget Me Nots and the guitar-centric "Wasted Years," audio was loud and accurate, without a hint of tin or distortion. Though Motorola doesn't tout its audio prowess or include any branded audio software, we found the RAZR M's rear-facing speaker surprisingly excellent. The 610-lux LG Lucid was brighter, though not as colorful. Even the default red wallpaper on the desktop, along with the weather and clock widgets, looked vibrant.Īt 469 lux on our light meter, the Droid RAZR M's screen is significantly brighter than the 296-lux smartphone category average, the 213-lux Samsung Galaxy S III and the 340-lux Samsung Galaxy Nexus. When we played a game of "Riptide," the blue water and bright green jetski seemed particularly luscious and inviting. When we watched a trailer for "The Avengers," colors like the red in Iron Man's armor or the blue in Captain America's suit really popped. However, we haven't seen many screens that are brighter or more colorful than this AMOLED display. You can review a list of the supported Motorola devices.Click to EnlargeThe RAZR M's 4.3-inch, 960 x 540 screen isn't as sharp as the higher-resolution display like the 1280 x 720 HTC Rezound. Verizon continues to offer support for other Motorola devices.
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