A good sequel is hard to pull off, as most film critics will agree, but with this version, the V8, Motorola has definitely come good.
The shape itself is well known to millions of users worldwide, although marginally thinner and with a bigger screen, but that familiar shell is now stuffed with great new technology.
The overall design and look of the RAZR2 V8, as you'd expect from a Motorola mobile, is very clean and sleek. You'll struggle to find a seam anywhere on the phone's surface, and being wrought from steel and toughened glass it's reassuringly solid too. The inside display is also polished with twice the resolution of the original.
The interface is a huge improvement and far better than the original's menu-heavy effort. Unfortunately there's still no card slot, but there's a choice of 512MB or 2GB internal memory which is certainly big enough for storing your music or other files.
This is the first phone to use a touchscreen with physical feedback. Tap the two-inch pad on the front and it vibrates, giving you a real feeling that the key you've touched is actually being responded to. You use it to read and reply to texts and to control the music player, which happily cosies up with Windows Media Player at one end and A2DP earphones at the other.
Music playback through the supplied headset is resonant, punchy and without distortion and offers a beefy bass response that few bundled earpieces deliver.
The speakerphone is not at all bad either if you want to share your sounds with others.
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