André L. S.

Recently released, the Motorola Droid Razr is the thinnest smartphone with 4G worldwide. With 7.1 mm thickness, it has a 4.3 inch Super AMOLED screen, 540 x 960 resolution and protected with Gorilla® Glass screen. Its 8MP camera, can record Full HD (1080p) videos, its front 1.3MP camera allow videos in HD resolution (720p).

More light and resistant, Motorola Razr is coated by Kevlar®, giving a more attractive finish.

Android Gingerbread (posteriorly Icecream Sandwich) is supported by your Dual-core processor 1.2 Ghz and 1GB RAM. Also can count with internal memory has 16 GB, more 16 GB (expansible to 32 GB) in MicroSD card that comes with it, EDGE, GPRS, 3G, Wi-FI and 4G, GPS and DLNA (Digital Living Network Alliance) protocol.

Talking about connectivity, the smartphone will comes with MotoCast pre-installed. This application allows you to share your files, videos and music between your device and your PC trough Wi-Fi, 3G or 4G, without USB cable.

As Motorola Atrix, Droid Razr also compatible with Webtop gadget.

The design of Motorola Droid Razr is based on his grandfather, Motorola Razr V3, wich sold 110 million units worldwide.

Motorola Razr V3x

Motorola Droid Razr

The release was on november 16, but still is not possible find the device in Brazil, where the suggested price for Motorola is R$ 1999.00 (US$ 1110.00).

You, that follows podcasts around the world and don’t have a computer all time to download them and copy them to your smartphone, can use Listen.

This application, developed by Google, allows you to find podcasts and subscribe to it. Podcast that aren’t found by search, can be subscribed manually in “My subscriptions” options.

Here, with brazilian 3G quality, you will get a continuous audio (without buffer pauses) using the wi-fi connection or hearing tracks with 96kbps or less.

The Listen allows you download audios to listen it after, when you want and without internet connection.

Link: Listen
Price: Free
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Rating*: 3,8/5

* Rating obtained until publication

I’m starting a new section called “Apps can’t miss in your Android“. This section will have reviews and tips for useful applications, that will help to extract all potentical from your Android.

I’ll start with RemoteControl for Earphones. It just cancel a vantage of iPhone over Android: to control media players using the earphones’s button.

The button’s behavior is to pause and start music. RemoteControl for Earphones allow you runs almost all commands of a media player. To play or pause, press button once, to skip forward, press button twice, to skip rewind, press four times…

App screen (Android Market)

This application is for free and don’t have advertisement.

Most players are incompatible, but it work very well in Morotola Droid’s player, Songbird, but not work in Winamp and players of Samsung Galaxy S and Motorola Atrix.

Link:  RemoteControl for Earphones
Price: Free
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Who, that lives in Brazil, thinks owns broadband internet?
Don’t have! We have a high speed modem connection.

While here, in Brazil, the most fast connection is 100Mbps, the japanese are testing 1Gbps connection speed. Realy, 1Gbps!!

I live in São Paulo and in my house there isn’t a quality connection, my 1Mpbs connection rarely reaches 600Kbps.

Youtube provides a comparative chart between your ISP connection, national and world connection average.

The yellow bar is my ISP, blue bar is the city from connection, green bar is state from connection, pink bar is the country and gray bar is world average.

This chart tells how our broadband are deprecated.

If you want to compare you broadband connection too, you can use this link http://www.testesuavelocidade.com.br. Has others tools to meter you speed connection in Internet.