Difference Between LG Spectrum and Motorola Droid Razr

LG and Motorola are rivals of the same caliber in just about anything mobile. They normally come up with the same kinds of product for the same niche markets at the same time. It’s not a matter of replicating one’s technology, but the strength of their marketing research teams. They constantly thrive to provide the best facilities to consumers that add value to their handsets. As we are aware, a mobile phone is not a device that one uses to make calls anymore. Instead, making a call has become and added function and the core functions have been replaced by network connectivity, processing power and superior graphic usage. It is in this arena modern vendors dwell.

One such widely known arena for the mobile phone vendors to dwell is CES; International Consumer Electronic Show organized at Las Vegas, which gave a field day for US tech savvy editors with the manufacturers. We have been bringing news from CES continuously and here comes another update on LG Spectrum. We are going to compare the handset with Motorola Droid Razr, which falls in the same caliber as Spectrum.

LG Spectrum

LG is a mature vendor in the mobile phone arena with a lot of experience in identifying the trends of the market and going along with them to maximize their penetration. The buzz words in the industry nowadays are 4G connectivity, true HD screen panels, high end cameras with 1080p HD capturing etc. Although it’s not a surprise, we are glad to say that LG has captured all of these under the hood of LG Spectrum.

We’ll start the comparison by mentioning that LG Spectrum is not a GSM device; thus, it would only work in CDMA network, which makes it different from all the GSM devices, and we’d have preferred if LG released a more popular GSM version of this handset too. Nonetheless, it comes with the blazing fast LTE 700 connectivity for internet browsing. The Spectrum features 1.5GHz Scorpion S3 dual core processor on top of Qualcomm Snapdragon chipset and Adreno 220 GPU. This combination is boosted by 1GB RAM and controlled by Android OS v2.3 Gingerbread with the promise to provide an upgrade to v4.0 IceCreamSandwich. It has 4.5 inches of gigantic HD-IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen, featuring true HD resolution of 720 x 1280 pixels and a pixel density of 326ppi. In layman’s terms, what this means is that, you get crystal clear images in extreme conditions like direct sunlight, wonderful color reproduction, crisp and clear text down to the smallest details, utilizing less amounts of power. The availability of high speed internet connection would mean seamless browsing through your mails, light browsing and social networks. The ultimate power of the processor enables you to multi task in such a way that you can still browse, play games and enjoy media content while you’re on a voice call.

LG has included 8MP camera in Spectrum, which has autofocus and LED flash with geo tagging enabled. It can capture 1080p HD videos @ 30 frames per second with LED video light included, and the 1.3MP front camera certainly is good for video conferences. It also has Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, and Spectrum can also act as a Wi-fi hotspot, which would be an ideal way for the user to share his super-fast LTE connectivity with friends easily. The built in DLNA functionality means that Spectrum can wirelessly stream rich media content to smart TVs. A special feature of LG spectrum is that it comes with ESPN’s ScoreCenter app that enables you to enjoy sports in HD on your screen.

LG spectrum is somewhat big, obviously because of the gigantic screen, but it’s somewhat heftier as well scoring a weight of 141.5g and a thickness of 10.4mm. It has an expensive and elegant look with pleasing ergonomics. We gathered that the 1830mAh battery would work for 8 hours after full charge, which is admirable for a smartphone with a gigantic screen like this. 

Motorola Droid Razr

You think you have seen thin phones; I beg to differ, for we are going to talk about the thinnest 4G LTE smartphone. Motorola Droid Razr features a thickness of 7.1 mm, which is unbeatable. Razr measures 130.7 x 68.9 mm, and has a 4.3 inches Super AMOLED Advanced Capacitive Touchscreen, featuring a resolution of 540 x 960 pixels. It has comparatively low pixel density than the HTC Rezound, but it sure scores good compared to other smartphones in the market due to its brightness with vivid colors. Droid Razr boasts a heavy build; ‘Built to take a Beating’ is how they put it. Razr is shielded with KEVLAR strong back plate, to suppress onslaught scratches and scrapes. The screen is made up of Corning Gorilla glass that defends the screen, and a water-repellent force field of nano particles are used to shield the phone against water attacks. Feeling impressed? Well I sure am, for this is military standard safety for a smartphone.

It doesn’t matter how much it’s reinforced outside, if it’s not reconciled inside. But Motorola has delicately undertaken that responsibility and come up with a set of high-end hardware to match the outside. It has a 1.2GHz dual-core Cortex-A9 processor with a PowerVR SGX540 GPU on top of TI OMAP 4430 chipset. The 1GB RAM boosts its performance and enables the smoothness of operation. Android Gingerbread v2.3.5 takes the full throttle of the hardware offered by the smartphone and binds the user to an awesome user experience. Razr has an 8MP camera with auto focus and LED flash, touch focus, face detection and image stabilization. Geo-tagging is also enabled with assisted GPS functionality available in the phone. The camera can record 1080p HD videos @ 30 frames per second, which is great. It also accommodates smooth video calling with the 2MP camera and Bluetooth v4.0 with LE+EDR.

Motorola Droid Razr enjoys ferociously fast network speeds using Verizon’s turbo-boosted 4G LTE speeds. It also facilitates the Wi-Fi connectivity with the built in Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n module, and can act as a hotspot too. Razor has an active noise cancellation with dedicated mic and a digital compass. It also has a HDMI port which is a very valuable edition as a multimedia device. It does not boats of completely redesigned sound system like that of Rezound, but Razr does not fail to exceed expectations in that too, only not as much as HTC Rezound for obvious reasons. But Motorola has promised an amazing talk time of 12 hours 30 mins with a 1780mAh battery for Razr and that certainly exceeds expectations in any case for a large phone like this.

Conclusion

We have been comparing two of the best handsets in the 4G enabled spectrums so far. The beauty of this comparison lies in the fact that while LG Spectrum was only just announced, we are comparing it with a handset that was released two months back in November. This certainly would explain certain features that seems lagging in Droid Razr. Let us look into these one by one and find out whether LG has done a great job in outbidding Droid Razr. The 1.5GHz scorpion dual core processor is a welcome addition to the Spectrum and in this aspect, we don’t reckon Droid Razr to fall far behind for both handsets would perform equally well in almost all the configurations except very high computational intensive processes. Both of them have the same built quality for the camera and can capture 1080p HD videos, but LG Spectrum features a better screen panel and better resolution. The HD-IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen is bigger than that of Razr and features a higher resolution, preserving the quality of the image at the same time by keeping the pixel density extremely higher. This would simply mean that LG Spectrum would produce crisp images and text to the finest detail. Apart from these, there’s hardly no differentiating feature in these two handsets for us to pick one up. People who would prefer to have the handset with the better resolution can go for LG Spectrum without hesitation, but we can say that it’s going to be pretty expensive. On the other hand, Motorola Droid Razr doesn’t really sacrifice a lot of pixels in terms of resolution and would have a lower price tag by now, so it’ll be an ideal candidate for a 4G phone as well. It certainly helps the investment decision that Motorola Droid Razr is the thinnest smartphone with LTE connectivity and it is heavy built for rough usage.