Good news for all you RAZR 2 fans out there. Motorola have announced that the RAZR2 will be available on every major cell network in the US, so no carrier hopping for the RAZR junkies wanting to get their mits on this little sucker.

It looks like Verizon will be one of the first to make the RAZR2 available with a launch date expected to be prior to August 24th, a mere two weeks away. Other carriers will include Alltel, AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile USA and US Cellular.

Just to re-cap spec wise the RAZR2 incorporates “hauptics” technology allowing the user to receive tactile feedback through the external screen, up to 2 GB of memory, a 2 MP camera and dual 240×320 displays. For more details check out a video review.

There’s no confirmed prices from the carriers yet although there is an expectation of a $300 price tag combined with a two year contract.

Rather than read me banging on about the various features of the Motorola RAZR 2 check out this video from Shinymedia. Two lasses show off the new features on the RAZR re-incarnation although as they point out the vibrating touch screen feature - hauptics - is a bit difficult to demo in a video! A warning about the video is that your eye will be drawn away from the RAZR 2 by the garish ‘rose ring’ worn by the faceless presenter. Apart from the ring, enjoy!

With much fanfare across the tech and gadget blog world, the Motorola RAZR 2 was launched on Tuesday. The new version of the incredibly popular (almost 100 million sold worldwide) yet highly criticized RAZR has had a complete redesign of its UI and has slimmed down a further 2mm (GSM and CDMA versions). It can handle up to 2GB of memory to hold your tunes and the touchscreen UI incorporates ‘haptics’ technology - the internal display vibrates in response to finger taps.

The RAZR 2 boasts two displays, a 2 inch external and a 2.2 inch internal, operates Motorola’s Linux-based platform JUIX and will sync with Windows Media Player. All in all a smart little cookie. But how much of a dent will it make in your wallet? Motorola decided to keep quiet on that statistic but the rumors are around $500. If that’s true it’s probably not a iPhone beater but it’ll still sell well on the back of the original’s reputation alone. As an aside Motorola shares closed down at $17.92 a drop of 1.3 percent after the launch.

Source: engadget