There seems to be a debate over whether the Motorola RAZR or the Samsung Galaxy Nexus is the better phone. As we covered in our breakdown of the two, the only real differences are in the screen, the camera, a slight difference in weight, the availability of an SD card slot, and of course in the Android version loaded. The first bunch of points will just have to be personal preference, but the last one is something that will be changing, and sooner than you might have expected.
The
Motorola senior vice president of portfolio and product
management, Alain Mutricy has said that although the RAZR was designed
for Gingerbread, it will get the Ice Cream Sandwich update at the "start
of 2012". This is an extremely fast update given that the first ICS
phone, the Galaxy Nexus, won't be on the market until next month.
Some
may say the speed of this update could be due to the increasingly close
relationship between Google and Motorola. But, of course, we know that
Google has been seeding hardware partners with ICS
for months now. Motorola must have had early builds of ICS, and that is
certainly helping with the speed of this update. Although, assuming
Motorola had ICS builds, it seems strange that Mutricy would explicitly
say that the RAZR was designed for Gingerbread. Perhaps the statement
was simply in regards to the device having physical buttons.
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