Droid RAZR MAXX Is A Slap In Consumer Faces

When the original Droid RAZR was released, we were there at the launch event in New York City to see how serious both Motorola and Verizon were about bringing a new era to their combined forces for Droid – now that the next version is out not even a half a year later, I've got to question their logic. What sense did it make to release a device which was amongst the thinnest smartphones in the world if the battery inside it wasn't going to be equitable in excellence? Of course the answer is that there'd be a marketing scheme several months after the release in which the thinness was no longer the coolest factor, the RAZR MAXX having a battery that should very well blow consumers away.

But here's the problem: people purchased that original Droid RAZR, believe it or not, and in the several iterations that have come out since – purple, white, one pumped up by CeeLo in a Twitter campaign of sorts – there's been no giant lack of interest. But then there's a new version which costs the same price and has a much larger battery. How could a person who understands what's happened here after they laid down their $300 on the first version not be a little ticked off?

Then there's another version of the Droid RAZR out there as well which has a reduced price, $200, and the same set of specifications as the original, but this time with no 16GB microSD built in. So the separation of prices begins. Is this because Motorola and Verizon had this all planned well in advance, or is it because they wanted to see how well the original Droid RAZR did before they split the stock, so to speak, with prices and specifications? This situation doesn't seem fair to early adopters at all, and there's a lot of dissatisfied customers out there now as a results of it.