Motorola bundle a USB data cable with the V9, so you should be able to transfer directly to your PC.

[quote comment="29472"]I think that something that needs to be addressed in reviews is durability. [/quote]

Thanks for the feedback, Dunc. Unfortunately durability is one of those tricky things to address, since we generally don’t live with the handset long enough prior to writing the review itself to find out if there are any inherent weak points in the design. Obviously we could delay the review until we’ve lived with it for a number of months, but then by that time the market has usually changed and people are interested in the next “big thing”. And often the phone company wants their handset back before then anyway!

What we do try to give is a reasonable first-impression of durability, based on having handled a whole lot of phones and so comparing, say, a plastic body to a metal one. If we manage to keep the handset long enough and come across issues – whether in build quality, software or anything else – you can be sure we’ll revisit the review and update it.

I agree, however, that Moto need to not rest on past success but continue to innovate. I beleive that they have achieved this with the V9, but the camera really does need improvement. As a flagship product it should really have features such as auto focus and flash.

All up though, I think that the V9 is GORGEOUS. It is very user friendly and sits comfortably in my pocket – I love it!

So let’s say I snap a couple pictures and record a couple videos. How do I get them off the phone? Do I have to send them through Sprint’s server and get charged for the data transfer, or can I connect a USB cable straight to my computer and do a quick & simple transfer?

As for the 2-megapixel camera, yes, there are competing products out there with the same or worse quality, but this is meant to be Motorola’s new flagship clamshell. They really need to step up their game if they want to win back the users they lost from rolling out the same old mediocre hardware just in different coloured casings.

I don’t mean to sound hard – in fact I have something of a soft spot for Moto; my first phone in fact was a 1st-gen StarTAC – I just want them to get back to innovating rather than relying on old achievements.

I picked up a blackberry 8830 from Verizon, and It didn’t come with a card and it was $50 more after rebated. Granted the markup on a BB probably isn’t as much as a Razr. From previous experience I was shocked the BB came with the data cable, VZW likes to bilk you out of $20 usually. I know they tried to get me to buy a case. good thing we opened it up, and it came with one.

Seems to me all the stuff you don’t like it is fairly acceptable for the price point. A mere 2 megapixel camera? the lack of a wired hands free kit? Does anybody use those? I’m not being sarcastic, I haven’t seen anyone use those since the “cellphones cause brain cancer” scare of the early 2000′s.

You guys know more about Razr’s than me, so compared to what it’s predecessors you may be right about it lacking some features or coming up short. But for the price point and the feature list it seems fairly acceptable to me. It won’t make me jump networks or switch phones, but there is a world of difference between a BB and a Razr, so that’s not exactly a fair comparison for me to make.

It’s a good point to make about freshening the Razr, they seemingly have(had) become far to ubiquitous around here to be viewed anything other than a really thin phone.