Engadget Mobile gets hands-on with Motorola Canary!

We've seen Motorola's RAZR sequel, the Canary, pop up here and there, but it took our boys at Engadget Mobile, with a little help from Boy Genius, to do it up right and get some serious shots of all that shiny blueness. Head on over for a whole slew of pics, but try not to get too jealous -- they too put their shiny-blue-pants on one leg at a time.

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 14th 2006 6:31PM]

This phone is FUGLY! The fingerprint-prone casing as opposed to the metal makes it look cheap. It doesn't even look that much smaller than the current RAZR. In fact, it seems disproportionate in legnth to its width. Paint it yellow and call it a mini-banana phone!

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 14th 2006 7:18PM]

Wow, that's quite a phone to get a hard-on for! Oooh, you meant haaands... I see..

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 14th 2006 7:29PM]

Can you get turn-by-turn directions on here like Garmin Mobile that I keep seeing on their blog -- www.garmin.blogs.com?

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 14th 2006 7:54PM]

Gloss is the new black

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 14th 2006 8:18PM]

Well I hope fingerprints and scratches becomes the new black soon thereafter.

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 14th 2006 11:23PM]

I got enough of Motorola and all the variations of the RAZRs. My next cellphone will be either an Imported NEC or Philips. So Bye Bye Moto.

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 15th 2006 12:11AM]

Brushed metal was one of the things I liked best about the RAZR. Same with the iPod mini. I don't know why it isn't used in more products, it looks nice *and* it's durable.

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 15th 2006 12:33AM]

I've worked with this phone. It's narrower but is actually fatter than the V3C (by fat I mean height if you laid it down on a table). So actually the amount of space this phone takes up is almost equal to the V3C plus it has a smaller screen...and it's plastic. The number buttons are also not as cool as the RAZR and it seems to waste some button area around the outside of the keypad...

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 15th 2006 1:23AM]

Motorolla should focus less on fancy materials and size and write some halfway decent software. The softwar on the RAZR is a useability nightmare... The phone book is crap and the rest of the mess is just laughable...

Sigh.

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 15th 2006 5:30AM]

SPECULATION: Yes, the RAZR 2 is made of cheaper materials, for a reason...

...the production budget is for the entire RAZR/SLVR/SCPL line, so in order to have enough money to make a titanium housing for the SCPL, less costly materials have to be used for RAZR.

The SCPL will be the premium priced model ( where the RAZR sits now on most carriers product lines ) and this new plastic RAZR being moved down to entry level.

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 18th 2006 7:19AM]

Why not a size comparison to something it actually compares with, like a plain old dumbphone?

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 16th 2006 11:46AM]

Any plans for a CDMA version.