Motorola Droid RAZR M

Overview

TechSpot Metascore

Based on 13 expert reviews

Excellent:

4
Good:

6
Average:

3
Bad:

0

Pros:

Highperformance components that match some of today's top phones, Excellent battery life, Great small, thin, light design that is good in the hand and pocket, Display is brilliant and sharp
Relatively clean Android OS, very hand and pocket friendly.
Nice compact formfactor, great performance, LTE support, NFC, now available in white too, good battery life, good pricing, The

Cons:

Default keyboard is awful; switching to Swype is challenging, Camera quality is mediocre
QHD display and plastics won't impress those looking for highest end stuff (we're not complaining for the price).

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Last revision on March 30, 2015

Reviewers Liked

Highperformance components that match some of today's top phones, Excellent battery life, Great small, thin, light design that is good in the hand and pocket, Display is brilliant and sharp
Relatively clean Android OS, very hand and pocket friendly
Nice compact formfactor, great performance, LTE support, NFC, now available in white too, good battery life, good pricing, The
Compact design, Good specs, Great price
Feels great to hold, Feisty Snapdragon S4 processor, Clean version of Android 4.0, Good battery life, microSD
Rock solid build quality and awesome materials. The textured aluminum ring around the screen feels great, so does the rubbery Kevlar back. You can feel the quality construction the second this thing hits your hands. The textured rim, screw heads, and powe
Solid build quality, Perfect size for onehanded use, Snappy performance
Snappy dualcore S4 processor, Lightly skinned Ice Cream Sandwich, Exceptional camera performance, Longlasting battery, Comfortable inhand fit
Killer $99.99 price point, Remarkable compact size, thanks to the almost bezelless display, Fast processing performance
Surprisingly compact for large display; Bright and colorful AMOLED screen; Strong battery life; Blazing LTE downloads; Fantastic sound
Small form factor with large display. Fast performance and LTE speeds. Good call quality. Relatively inexpensive

Reviewers Didn't Like

Default keyboard is awful; switching to Swype is challenging, Camera quality is mediocre
QHD display and plastics won't impress those looking for highest end stuff (we're not complaining for the price)
Camera performs poorly in lowlight and display is PenTile
Erratic signal strength, Nonremovable battery
Camera isn't great, UI can get jittery at times, Screen isn't quite HD
The screen. It's Pentile. It's grainy. It's really, really oversaturated, The skin is ugly and pointlessly change things, usually for the worse. It doesn't break anything though
Loads of bloatware, Mediocre camera performance, Boring, ugly design
PenTile display shows some jagged edges
Mediocre camera quality, Still short battery life with LTE
Not an HD display; Camera could be better
Doesn't run Android 4.1 "Jelly Bean." Bloatware

Expert reviews and ratings

If there's one phone that starts at the low end but provides the quality of higher-end devices, it's the Droid Razr M from Motorola. It's the best Android phone you can get if it's your first smartphone because it does nearly everything that a smartphone...

By GadgetReview on December 06, 2012

twitter: @lisagade) (This is a video review) The Motorola Droid RAZR M is everything that the Motorola Droid RAZR was, but less. It's smaller and much less expensive than the RAZR was at launch. Despite the price, you get most everything that was...

By MobileTechReview on November 16, 2012

The DRM is packed with the latest and greatest specs including: a 4.3" Super AMOLED Advanced qHD display, dual-core 1.5GHz processor, 8 GB internal storage (expandable to 32GB) and NFC. You get all of this, in a nice tight package. The size of this...

By examiner.com on October 27, 2012

The Motorola Droid RAZR M might not be the “top offering” from Motorola, but it is a decent-sized phone with an attractive design that is certainly worth checking out. For those of you looking for a phone that isn’t a pushover but still manages a...

By Mobile Magazine on October 16, 2012

Despite some eccentricities, the RAZR M supplies a good user experience for a remarkably reasonable...

By Brighthand on October 04, 2012

The Razr M is one of the nicest handsets to hit Verizon in some time. It doesn't have the flash of the iPhone 5 or Galaxy S3, but at half the price — $100 on a two-year contract – it's more than worth the savings. The only weak points here are the...

By Digital Trends on October 03, 2012

Motorola did a bang-up job with the Droid RAZR M. It hits the mark on nearly every feature. It's small, light, and easy to use; offers an excellent display; excels at communications features; and even has a good camera. The Android 4.0 software and...

By Phone Scoop on September 14, 2012

The Droid RAZR M should look familiar. Motorola's been using the same design language in many of its smartphones since the Droid RAZR's launch last year, and the RAZR M doesn't deviate in the least. Motorola did soften the corners on the RAZR M compared...

By The Verge on September 13, 2012

Motorola's Droid RAZR M is a refresh of the best kind, packing S4 power, consistent performance and considerable battery life into an aggressively priced...

By Engadget on September 12, 2012

It’s not the fastest, the most chiseled, or most cutting-edge DROID we’ve seen to date. However, when you’re getting an equipped smartphone that’s packing the same processing power as some of its esteemed colleagues there’s plenty to like about the...

By Phone Arena on September 10, 2012

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