Kudos for Motorola’s KRAZR and RIZR

By NewsFactor Network | December 27, 2006

Motorola continues to drop its vowels–and pick up plaudits. Its new cell phones, the KRAZR and the RIZR (that’s “k-razor” and “riser” if you’re not familiar with the naming convention), continue the tradition of small, sleek designs that Motorola began with its widely successful RAZR. Initial reviews have been largely good.

First up, the KRAZR. Slightly thicker but not as wide as the RAZR, the KRAZR comes in two colors for the fashion conscious: a dark grey and a cosmic blue. Its case is made of chrome, magnesium, and a well-buffed glass. And while it’s small, it offers all the features you’d expect to find on a solid midrange handset, including a digital camera with video capture, Bluetooth, a WAP browser, EDGE data connectivity, a speakerphone, a music player, and 20 MB of internal memory that you can expand to 1 GB with a MicroSD card.

Of course, it’s not without its flaws, though reviewers seem to find them minor. The MicroSD card, for one, sits inside the battery cover, which makes it hard to insert and remove. And the phone’s on-board “imager” (Motorola’s new term for a camera) is only 1.3 megapixels when other phones have made the jump to 2.0 megapixels.

From RAZR to RIZR

Next up is the RIZR, so named because it’s a slider phone in which one element rises out of the other, as opposed to folding clamshell designs which tend to fit the curvature of the face and jaw slightly better.

The RIZR offers all the goodies and gadgets the KRAZR does, including the on-board camera (with 2 megapixels, not 1.3), Bluetooth, a WAP browser, EDGE, a speakerphone, and a music player. And like its brother the KRAZR, the RIZR has a flew minor flaws. For instance, its power, mini-USB, and headset jacks all use the same port, meaning…

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