 This is Dan with The Verge and we're looking at the Motorola Droid Razer HD and Max HD which are now available from Verizon Wireless. The new phones look really familiar, they're very similar in appearance to last year's Razer and Razer Max, right down to their sharp rectangular corners and excessive border around the new 720p display. As you can see the Razer HD and the Max are really similar to each other. The Max is slightly heavier and even more slightly thicker, but it still provides a 33% larger battery and double the internal storage of the standard Razer HD. Overall the hardware is slightly less impressive than last year's Razers. The general shape of the phone doesn't mask its large size as well as phones from HTC and Samsung do, which makes the Razer HD feel noticeably larger than the competition. And the angular edges and abundance of Kevlar on the back of the phone aren't very attractive. But what is new and improved here is the display, which has been upgraded from an unimpressive 4.3 inch QHD Super AMOLED unit to a new 4.7 inch 720p HD Super AMOLED screen. The new display is much sharper than before, it's really bright and it has great viewing angles, but once you dig a bit deeper into it the cracks start to show. Like other Motorola displays the Razer HD's screen is extremely saturated and it also carries a very blueish cast which makes whites look really inaccurate. Software wise the Razer HD is unfortunately launching with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, though both Motorola and Verizon have promised that an upgrade to 4.1 Jelly Bean will be available before the end of this year. The Razer HD features the same minimal modifications to Ice Cream Sandwich that we saw on the Razer M and they are pretty much limited to new icons, a modified launcher with quick settings available to the left of the home screen, and a revised lock screen with shortcuts for camera, phone, and messages. Inside the Razer HD we find a dual core 1.5GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 processor and it performs just as well here as we've seen in other smartphones. For the most part day to day activities are fast and responsive, apps open quickly and switching between them is very easy and it has no trouble running even 3D games. But at the end of the day the Razer HD and Razer HD Max don't really bring anything new to the table that we haven't seen from other Android manufacturers already. If Motorola's design is your cup of tea we'd strongly recommend just going with the Max version since it provides significantly longer battery life than the regular model without a huge difference in size or weight. You can pick up the Razer HD from Verizon Wireless right now for $199 on contract and you can also get the Razer Max HD for $299 on contract. Of course with Google expected to announce a number of new Nexus smartphones in the very near future it might be best to just wait a few weeks if you possibly can.