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RAZR2 Phone Now Available for All U.S. Carriers

by Tim Stevens on August 13, 2007 at 09:17 AM

RAZR2 Finally Hitting US CarriersMotorola's RAZR redefined how thin a cell phone could be when it launched in 2004, but in the years that followed, the iconic slim phone was so mass produced that it turned from trendy to tired.

Now, with the competition regularly releasing phones that are as thin or thinner, Motorola is finally updating the RAZR with the RAZR2. The phone was announced back in May to much fanfare, and has since been released in South Korea and reviewed in detail. All nice, but it doesn't compare to actually buying the phone, which Motorola says you should be able to do any day now.

The company has announced that the the RAZR2 will be available at nearly all domestic mobile carriers (AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon, and Alltel are mentioned) very shortly. Of those AT&T, Verizon, and Sprint have announced pricing. The first two will be charging $299, while Sprint will come in slightly cheaper at $249. Sprint will also be selling the phone first, available starting August 22, while AT&T and Verizon subscribers will have to wait until sometime in September.

We expect sales to be brisk, given the RAZR2's new, sleeker design, larger screen, and two-gigabytes of internal memory for music and video playback.

You can get the full specs from our earlier coverage of the phone's announcement.

It's great that this phone will be available to all phone-carrying Americans, but we're wondering just how long it'll be before this next-gen iconic device will lose its new-gadget cool -- probably not too long....

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