At a launch event in London, Motorola showed off the newest addition to its RAZR line: the Motorola RAZR i, which is the first Motorola device to run on the Intel Atom processor. Motorola is targeting the RAZR i at Europe and other markets, while saving its Motorola Droid RAZR M for the US.
Though similar to the ARM-based Droid RAZR M, the RAZR i has Intel’s 2.0GHz Intel Atom processor — making it the first single-core 2.0GHz Atom phone to actually hit the market. Engadget benchmarked the RAZR i and found it to be overall a bit slower than the US-bound Droid RAZR M with Qualcomm’s S4 processor, but faster than ZTE’s Grand X IN, running Intel’s 1.6MHz Medfield Z2460.
The RAZRi has a 4.3-inch AMOLED display with a narrow bezel, and a durable Kevlar frame. The smartphone has a 2000mAh battery, which Motorola promises will give you 40 per cent more battery than previous devices.
The RAZR i features an 8-megapixel camera with a dedicated camera button, with a fast burst capture option, also found in HTC’s recent ‘One’ phones. When using fast burst, you hold the camera button down to snap photos at a rate of over 10fps.
On the software side, the smartphone comes with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, but will be upgraded at some point, according to Motorola. It also includes near-field communications (NFC) for wireless file sharing, plus a related NFC application.
Motorola says the RAZR i will be available in the UK starting in October from Phones4U, Orange, Tesco, T-Mobile, and Virgin Media. UK-based Pocket-Lint was at the launch event with some hands-on photos.
