One of the two big contenders in the contemporary mobile OS space – iOS and Android – you will probably be facing a tough choice this holiday season whether to snatch the Motorola DROID RAZR or the Apple iPhone 4S.
The Motorola RAZR is the GSM version of the DROID RAZR, which proved that the company can still make sexy handsets, since it came as the thinnest smartphone around if we don't count the camera part. Kevlar, steel and aluminum accents fuse to create a handset that is a worthy successor to the extremely popular RAZR line. Add a 4.3" qHD Super AMOLED Advanced screen and a powerful dual-core chipset, and the Motorola DROID RAZR has successfully taken the RAZR paradigm to the new Android smartphone realities.
The iPhone 4S is a gradual step over the iPhone 4 improving the internals, but keeping the look and feel. At the same time, though, it brings a reworked iOS 5 and introduces Siri, a personal voice assistant allowing you to vocally communicate with the iPhone. It comes with a 3.5" screen with a resolution of 640 x 960 pixels, but on the inside there's a twice more powerful dual-core A5 processor. It also improves connectivity a notch, bringing 14.4Mbps HSPA download speeds. The back is where an 8-megapixel camera resides and it's capable of recording 1080p videos.
iPhone interface got an active lockscreen and a pull-down notification bar with stocks and weather widgets floating there. The execution is flawless, but if you are you used to getting almost all of your info directly from homescreens, instead of firing up separate apps for everything, you’d have to side with the Android handset.
Motorola DROID RAZR's interface doesn’t go into Android as deep as some other overlays like HTC Sense or TouchWiz 4.0, but it offers features like resizable widgets, too, of which there are plenty. Icons, buttons and other interface elements are way less refined than the rounded, polished bits in iOS 5. The RAZR doesn't lag or anything, but the responsiveness of the UI still lacks in comparison with the iPhone 4S, which is powered by a custom-made dual-core A5 chip with a nifty SGX543 MP2 GPU, while the RAZR sports a dual-core TI OMAP 4430 processor with the previous-gen SGX540.
Both smartphones have excellent browsers, too, with the more fluid navigation packed with Safari, which gives way to the Motorola DROID RAZR when it comes to Adobe Flash support and a larger screen real estate to enjoy your websites. The potency of Safari in iOS 5 coupled with the powerful A5 chip is shown in the synthetic benchmarks – it scored about 90 000 in BrowserMark, which is almost twice the 48 000 number of the RAZR, for instance. These scores don't reflect Adobe Flash performance, of course, which will remain relevant at least for a while . For now, there are some pages you can't use properly with the iPhone 4S.
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